***Asus Rampage III Extreme Owners Thread***

[MFM]

Anyone can tell me what's the best bios for this mobo by now (Stable)? 534 or 602?!

Thx

[Splave]

534 is my Fav havent tryed any newer though

[systemviper]

3x2gb Corsair CMGTX2 WOW those must be crazy, i almost couldn't be;l;ieve they are being sold as single sticks...


me want some CMGTX2

all i can say isWOW

[donmarkoni]

Anyone can tell me what's the best bios for this mobo by now (Stable)? 534 or 602?!

Thx

My favorite is 0602. Dropped VTT a little from 0601 (which is more stable then 0534 IMO) and still stable.

0601: , 0602:

[dionysus]

Finished my build added an Intel 80gb SSD and an Asus Blu Ray very happy with this build.

[Loque]

^

the northbridge will get very hot, mine even with a 60mm fan on it with the bigger cooler and mx3 thermal paste reaches around 57ºc maximum temps.. :\

[jacek]

For NB I have small water block from EK.

[fmsam]

jacek
I should see the full board block in the next few days, but for future reference can you plz advise the EK part number for the small block you have on the nb heat pipe

cheers

[usz]

I should see the full board block in the next few days, but for future reference can you plz advise the EK part number for the small block you have on the nb heat pipe

It's http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/shop/ek...hp-acetal.html. Also if you don't go for the full board block, MIPS will have fusion block designed specially to match the R3E out soon.

[fmsam]

thanx for that :-)

[Ghostleader]

I have put a link to the official 0602 bios version in OP (Opening Post = first post ).

Have put a bios template in the 3rd post for those of you that what to use it to show others your bios setting.


Courtesy of donmarkoni for the template



@dionysus

Nice rig you got there

[bito]

Why are the northbridge temps so bad.....my old R2E was never this hot. Is it because of the new heatsink design or poor tim application ?

[Nostromo]

my board is missing one of the NB screws on the back of the board, anyone know what screw I could use as replacement?

[usz]

my board is missing one of the NB screws on the back of the board, anyone know what screw I could use as replacement?

I don't know the size of the screw, but I believe I was missing one screw, as when I was mounting EK full board block, I had to place 1 screw near the NB, which was absent in stock cooler. Anyway this seems like it was by design and is not an accident in your case.

[fmsam]

You beat me to it usz,
As I will be fitting the same block in a day or 2, I thought I would wip the stock cooler off and clean down ready, well I also have 1 postion where a screw would fit but it isnt there !
On closer inspection I saw there ist actually any thread in the hole, so 2 options 1, its meant to be like that. 2, its a miss build.
For me Im not to bothered s Im fitting the block but is it not a coincedence that many ppl are reporting high n/b temps ??

Also worth a mention, the heat pipe on the RE2 was a bugger to get off the paste used was like "hard blue tak", the stuff on the RE3 is different again like a hard wax is the only way I can describe it, a real pain to clean down as well !

see this link, look closely at the holes, the one on the bottom right has never had a screw in it, this is not my RE3 btw

http://picasaweb.google.com/11249622...67713720541522

[SkOrPn]

I too am finding my NB temps high, in the neighborhood of 58-59c for the ICH and 62-63c for the IOH at stock settings just idling. Looks like I will be ordering a full block. Just wondering which block I will go with.

[DuraN]

What prog do you use to measure the temps? ASUS Probe-It or Everest?

[SkOrPn]

What prog do you use to measure the temps? ASUS Probe-It or Everest?

I just used Asus PC Probe II, but now that you mention it I might as well fire up Everest to see if there are any discrepancies between the two, lol...

[DuraN]

Yeah I'll do the same. I've only used Everest and it reads 51-52c for the NB and 42-43 for the SB... Installing Probe now.

EDIT: Probe shows the same.

[fmsam]

dont foget go old cpuid hw monitor, I ve been using it for a while now, a recent update gives nb sb, power consumption, and much more, see this page and just grab the 32 or 64 bit setup.

http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

in this most recent update Asus rog monitoring is listed as additional functionality, its almost as if it was written for RE2 RE3 !!

[DBoone]

Here's where I'm at with a mild overclock and with the SMP folding client running. The ICH temp is always ~51 C. The IOH temp is always ~57 C.

Please disregard the CPU/CPUTIN temp as it is bogus.

My CPU and GPU are water cooled and I have installed the optional NB heat sink with fan.

By the way, if you seen any issues with my settings please let me know. This is my first overclocking effort and though I'm having fun I don't want to screw things up too badly.

[KaRLiToS]

How cant we see your overclock and what CPU you have ? and how cant we see if you are stress testing?

[zsamz_]

Dboone
you set nb to 1.8v?
or is that auto
my rexII is 1.5 auto

[DBoone]

zsamz - IOH voltage is on manual and set for 1.16600.

KaRLiToS - here's a screen shot of CPU-Z

[dionysus]

I have a couple of question I need help in finding a solution please.

This is my first time using an SSD drive the install went (Intel 80GB) fine and it seems all is well did a quick CrystalMark and my result are in line.

I installed the Intel toolbox and I get an error not connecting to drive the unusually part is it was working fine for a day or so now its not.

The other think that seems a little strange is in the Intel Rapid storage software that is included with the driver if I look at the status screen it shows my CD BD rom drives but it does not show my SSD drive.

Thanks in advance.