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

[jacek]

@donmarkoni

yes, but I have 3T in the bios.
it seems that cpuz displays incorrectly.

[NathObeaN]

(NEW GUY!)

Something is not right. You said to set DRAM Timing Mode to 3T, but your screenshot shows 1T.

@donmarkoni

yes, but I have 3T in the bios.
it seems that cpuz displays incorrectly.

3N, not 3T. 3N is the timing mode, 3T is the command rate . Or am I wrong in thinking they are seperate things?

i'm stumped
why so low bandwidth

What speed is your QPI at?

[zsamz_]

(NEW GUY!
What speed is your QPI at?

as high as it will go
3500ish


i figured it out
higher the ulk frequency = better bandwidth
so i got 1.4v qpi vtt to play with lol

[NathObeaN]

as high as it will go
3500ish


i figured it out
higher the ulk frequency = better bandwidth
so i got 1.4v qpi vtt to play with lol

Aye I knew it would be one of them as I was having a play with it last night, trying out Slow Mode on the QPI etc. Quite supprising the difference QPI speed makes both to the CPU and RAM performance.

[donmarkoni]

@donmarkoni

yes, but I have 3T in the bios.
it seems that cpuz displays incorrectly.

Interesting. Check with CPU Tweaker, Everest and/or some other. I'll check mine when I come home from work.

3N, not 3T. 3N is the timing mode, 3T is the command rate . Or am I wrong in thinking they are seperate things?

You are wrong and I am right! Just kidding! I'm not sure, but I think it's the same thing.

[NathObeaN]

3003B is good

beautiful chip paill 53k is great! what vtt you at 1.5?

I'm confused... You have a 6 core at 5.84GHz, I have a 4 core at 4.02GHz and I get more CPU points than you...



EDIT: You kick my CPU's arse on CPU test 1, but one CPU test 2 you are worse than me for some reason?

[WaterFlex]

Excellent board. Best of the best

[donmarkoni]

Excellent board. Best of the best

Are you going to join the club?!

[DuraN]

I'm confused... You have a 6 core at 5.84GHz, I have a 4 core at 4.02GHz and I get more CPU points than you...

EDIT: You kick my CPU's arse on CPU test 1, but one CPU test 2 you are worse than me for some reason?

Do you happen to be running an nVidia card by any chance

Turn off PhysX

[NathObeaN]

Do you happen to be running an nVidia card by any chance

Turn off PhysX

I thought it may be PhysX but being that it is a "CPU" test I would have thought it was for the "CPU", bit of a gimmik really .

Thanks for the heads up anyway, makes sense now.

EDIT: 25K How shameful! That totally shows how bias Futuremark is towards Nvidia .

[DuraN]

It's because the PhysX on the GPU is much better than a CPU at calculating physics. But yeah, gimmick

[Kilyin]

So I flashed from 0402 to 0602. My northbridge temps have dropped about 6-7 degrees celsius... or Asus mangled the software reading to make me feel better.

Also fixed the bug with TurboV displaying the wrong PLL voltage.

[Kensek]

So I flashed from 0402 to 0602. My northbridge temps have dropped about 6-7 degrees celsius... or Asus mangled the software reading to make me feel better.

Also fixed the bug with TurboV displaying the wrong PLL voltage.

Just imagine a few more degree drop when using 0702!

[zsamz_]

so you finally ditchin that mfII board lol

Excellent board. Best of the best

[SkOrPn]

Just imagine a few more degree drop when using 0702!

Where can one download 702 from? I dont see it on FTP site...

EDIT: Even with 0602 my IOH and ICH temps are rediculous and I never checked the temps with 0402 so I have no reference to check to see if my temps went down or not. This board is most definitely going to get a full cover block that is for sure.

[paill]

beautiful chip paill 53k is great! what vtt you at 1.5?

yes VTT 1.5V

[Net]

I like RIIIE

[TheHardCase]

Got a little problem, when system is cool & you start up for the first time the memory only shows 4gig of the 6gig.
If you enter bios shows 4gig & then turn off computer & re-enter bios it shows 6gig, noproblem after that.
Tested different memory slots ect & shows 0 errors on memory test.

Any one have an idea whats going on?

[ToMeGuN]

Got a little problem, when system is cool & you start up for the first time the memory only shows 4gig of the 6gig.
If you enter bios shows 4gig & then turn off computer & re-enter bios it shows 6gig, noproblem after that.
Tested different memory slots ect & shows 0 errors on memory test.

Any one have an idea whats going on?

A lot of people are having problems with ram showing 2 gigs or more missing.. i would try and reset the ram with stock timings and if that doesnt work bump qpi up a notch or two. Also it can be the Heatsink is tightened down to tight. Eva2000 posted a thread on this on http://i4memory.com/f54/asus-x58-6-1...stalled-19200/ Hope this helps.

[SkOrPn]

I also noticed that my memory which is set at stock of 1600 shows as 1066 when cold booting, but if I re-boot it immediately it then shows the proper 1600 during post. Seems this board has problems with memory, so hopefully it is just bugs that need to be worked out of the bios....

[zsamz_]

i had serious problems i'm sure others are having
i couldnt overclock as soon as it booted in memtest or windows pc would
reboot even at a low overclock
i thought my memory was failing then another set then another set i went nuts
then i set memory @ 1333mhz and overclocked the cpu cause memory was stable @ stock n boom error


if you cant overclock the board reflash bios

i recreated problem 3 times
every time was solved by reflashin bios
bios is gettin corrupt
i think its either the board or some bad bios chips
i will contact asus to send me some new bios chips

[DuraN]

I had 2 gigs missing for a while, and reseating my VenX about 3 times loosening up each time I got it back.

[turtletrax]

i had serious problems i'm sure others are having
i couldnt overclock as soon as it booted in memtest or windows pc would
reboot even at a low overclock
i thought my memory was failing then another set then another set i went nuts
then i set memory @ 1333mhz and overclocked the cpu cause memory was stable @ stock n boom error


if you cant overclock the board reflash bios

i recreated problem 3 times
every time was solved by reflashin bios
bios is gettin corrupt
i think its either the board or some bad bios chips
i will contact asus to send me some new bios chips

I had the EXACT same problem as zsamz_. Complete corruption of bios but still pass POST. Thought I borked my memory and even tried second bios chip. Second chip worked better but not normal. Only solution was a reflash.

Now back to 2000+ CAS 7 with ease.

[zsamz_]

I had the EXACT same problem as zsamz_. Complete corruption of bios but still pass POST. Thought I borked my memory and even tried second bios chip. Second chip worked better but not normal. Only solution was a reflash.

Now back to 2000+ CAS 7 with ease.

you lucky you didnt go throught what i went through to discover this
took 4 hours

[needforspeed]

While I am not at Cas 7.. I am really happy with this combo.. RIIIE , Patriot 2kLL, & W3570
This looks promising for a 24/7 set up..
I could not get the Ram to goto 2k without raising the QPI/VTT to 1.58/1.6 with both my 930 & 920..

I finally have some good luck.. only need 1.41 VTT with this set up. and lower dimm v