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

[SkOrPn]

Both 0402 and 0602 had my 930 set at 21 by default. Only did it change to 22 after flashing to beta 0702. So now if I set everything to default it really wont be default. The 930 runs at 2800 Mhz by default not 2935, like it is now. Im not complaining just curious if that seems like a normal thing for a new BIOS to do. Should I flash again just in case its corrupted?

[zsamz_]

anyone wanna share the 702 beta

[Leeghoofd]

Both 0402 and 0602 had my 930 set at 21 by default. Only did it change to 22 after flashing to beta 0702. So now if I set everything to default it really wont be default. The 930 runs at 2800 Mhz by default not 2935, like it is now. Im not complaining just curious if that seems like a normal thing for a new BIOS to do. Should I flash again just in case its corrupted?

Turbo mode ?

[NathObeaN]

Turbo mode ?

As has been said before a few times now, it's turbo mode. Tubro mode on the i7 930 IS default. Just disable C-State and Speedstep and it will stay at 2.8GHz.

[NathObeaN]

anyone wanna share the 702 beta

Why the rush? You don't even know what is in it yet might just be a fix for the startup logo or something, not worth risking your board just yet .

EDIT: Sorry for double post.

[Hondacity]

Why the rush? You don't even know what is in it yet might just be a fix for the startup logo or something, not worth risking your board just yet .

EDIT: Sorry for double post.

we overclock around here..latest bios means something changed...

0702 is dated 05/31/2010 ...we wanna try it

[kortas]

anyone else having bios corruption issues?

Just flashed to BIOS 0602, All seemed fine until complete power off over night.

• Woke up to bad overclock, weird as it was working the night before,
• Reset to default and machine wont boot or post.
• Reset BIOS again and settings are corrupt
• Reset BIOS again and finally I can post, however my RAID array was missing

Just repaired Windows 7 and all seems stable, but I'm running at default settings will try some OC again tonight.

Anyone else here care to share bios settings for specs same as mine? must be someone.

[turtletrax]

Just flashed to BIOS 0602, All seemed fine until complete power off over night.

• Woke up to bad overclock, weird as it was working the night before,
• Reset to default and machine wont boot or post.
• Reset BIOS again and settings are corrupt
• Reset BIOS again and finally I can post, however my RAID array was missing

Just repaired Windows 7 and all seems stable, but I'm running at default settings will try some OC again tonight.

Anyone else here care to share bios settings for specs same as mine? must be someone.

I am starting to think there is something wrong with the 602 bios. Having instability problems at the weirdest times. Others seem to be having the same probs. I think I am gonna move off of 602 and see if it helps. Dont want to worry about stupid quirks when trying to nail down the OC on my 980x when it gets here

[DuraN]

I had something wierd happen to me on 0602. I was going to sell my HD5870, but it was flashed with an Asus BIOS so I had to flash back to the original XFX one. So I removed my OC'd settings and set it to default, flashed the card and the comp would not boot up at all. So I moved the HD5870 to a different PCIe slot, and it booted, but the bootup said "Overclock failed! Press F1 to enter setup" or something like that. The thing was, I was running default. So I went to the BIOS and set default again, moved the HD5870 back and no boot again. I was running out of time, so I just left it whilst I went to sell my HD5870 to a local guy, picked up my GTX470 and popped it in the rig. Worked straight off the bat, but again it said "Overclock failed". I went into the BIOS, set my normal overclocked settings and it worked. It's been running like in my sig for about 1 week now, not one single error/BSOD. No idea what the overclock failed-thing was about.

[frontrow86]

Sorry if I am stealing the thread or not posting in the right forum.
Just got my Rampage III and setting it up with 2 x GTX480 in SLI.
I know the ideal is to use PCIe slots 1 & 3 to get the full x16 but I have a sound blaster card that is PCi and placing a GTX480 in the 3rd PCIe covers the PCi slot.
I could get to the PCi slot for the sound card if I used PCIe slots 2 & 4 for the GTX480's but I believe this will only give me x8 instead of x16 for them.
Is someone able to tell me if this correct and/or is there a work around for this?
Or am I stuck with having to use the onboard sound (is anyone else using the onboard sound? is it good quality?) or do I need to buy a PCIe sound card?
thanks for any help

[kortas]

I had something wierd happen to me on 0602. I was going to sell my HD5870, but it was flashed with an Asus BIOS so I had to flash back to the original XFX one. So I removed my OC'd settings and set it to default, flashed the card and the comp would not boot up at all. So I moved the HD5870 to a different PCIe slot, and it booted, but the bootup said "Overclock failed! Press F1 to enter setup" or something like that. The thing was, I was running default. So I went to the BIOS and set default again, moved the HD5870 back and no boot again. I was running out of time, so I just left it whilst I went to sell my HD5870 to a local guy, picked up my GTX470 and popped it in the rig. Worked straight off the bat, but again it said "Overclock failed". I went into the BIOS, set my normal overclocked settings and it worked. It's been running like in my sig for about 1 week now, not one single error/BSOD. No idea what the overclock failed-thing was about.

Starting to think this bios is seriously flawed, can anyone confirm these problems. My bios is again now corrupt just by rebooting the computer.

Also my voltage and multiplier settings and showing different in bios to those in windows.

Any reports on beta bios?

[Jeff Flowerday]

If someone has a minute or two could you please run DPC Latency checker and report the results. I'm looking at the board to handle my crossfire gaming but I also use it as a DAW.

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

Thanks in advance,
Jeff

[donmarkoni]

Is there really no one willing to share new BIOS 0702 ???

If someone has a minute or two could you please run DPC Latency checker and report the results. I'm looking at the board to handle my crossfire gaming but I also use it as a DAW.

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

Thanks in advance,
Jeff

Here you go

[Jeff Flowerday]

Is there really no one willing to share new BIOS 0702 ???



Here you go

Thanks, I really appreciate it. I was hoping for much better numbers, my P6X58 Premium averages 60, and the Gigabyte EX85A-UD5 does 5-10 with HPET disabled.

Do you have ACPI 2.0 support enabled in the bios?

[dionysus]

My O/C I7-930 is working great at 4ghz with the Bios that the MB shipped .0402 So I wont be moving off this one unitl I really see a compelling reason.

[donmarkoni]

Thanks, I really appreciate it. I was hoping for much better numbers, my P6X58 Premium averages 60, and the Gigabyte EX85A-UD5 does 5-10 with HPET disabled.

Do you have ACPI 2.0 support enabled in the bios?

Yes. Maybe I should have stopped folding in backgroung...
I'll be right back...
EDIT: No. It becomes worse. Probably cause my multi drops on idle, or something, right? What should I do to make it better?

[Jeff Flowerday]

Yes. Maybe I should have stopped folding in backgroung...
I'll be right back...
EDIT: No. It becomes worse. Probably cause my multi drops on idle, or something, right? What should I do to make it better?

To get lower numbers:

Disable C1E
Disable all C State
Disable Turbo
Some say to disable speedstep, but I notice no change on doing that. Plus I don't like my CPU being pinned 24/7

Ultimately to get it lower you need to disable HPET (High Precision Event Timer), but Asus doesn't give us that option. Though I've read that disabling ACPI 2.0 support is the equivalent on a Asus board, but from the description I doubt that.

If you don't mind, disable ACPI 2.0 support and see if that does anything for the numbers.

Again, I really appreciate your time on this. I don't want to spend $400 CDN and not know exactly what I'm getting into.

[NathObeaN]

we overclock around here..latest bios means something changed...

0702 is dated 05/31/2010 ...we wanna try it

I understand that, all I am saying is no one even knows if the new 702 BIOS has anything related to overclocking/performance tweaks, some BIOSs are simply released to fix misspelled words in the BIOS, hardly worth risking a top end board using a BETA BIOS for a spelling mistake . Anyone with a brain would at least wait to see what the release log is and/or the source of the BIOS before flashing their board with a BIOS that no one knows anything about.

Sorry if I am stealing the thread or not posting in the right forum.
Just got my Rampage III and setting it up with 2 x GTX480 in SLI.
I know the ideal is to use PCIe slots 1 & 3 to get the full x16 but I have a sound blaster card that is PCi and placing a GTX480 in the 3rd PCIe covers the PCi slot.
I could get to the PCi slot for the sound card if I used PCIe slots 2 & 4 for the GTX480's but I believe this will only give me x8 instead of x16 for them.
Is someone able to tell me if this correct and/or is there a work around for this?
Or am I stuck with having to use the onboard sound (is anyone else using the onboard sound? is it good quality?) or do I need to buy a PCIe sound card?
thanks for any help

If your sound card is PCI-E then you can put it in any of the slots as PCI-E is backwards compatible. If however, it is PCI then you will either have to use the onboard sound for 2x PCI-E x16 graphics cards, or use your PCI sound card along with 2x PCI-E GFX cards with a x8/x16 combo (could be x8/x8 I'm not sure - either way you won't notice much difference tbh but it's up to you), maybe invest in a PCI-E sound card?.

[NathObeaN]

To get lower numbers:

Disable C1E
Disable all C State
Disable Turbo
Some say to disable speedstep, but I notice no change on doing that. Plus I don't like my CPU being pinned 24/7

Ultimately to get it lower you need to disable HPET (High Precision Event Timer), but Asus doesn't give us that option. Though I've read that disabling ACPI 2.0 support is the equivalent on a Asus board, but from the description I doubt that.

If you don't mind, disable ACPI 2.0 support and see if that does anything for the numbers.

Again, I really appreciate your time on this. I don't want to spend $400 CDN and not know exactly what I'm getting into.

As far as I am aware, disabling ACPI 2.0 will result in the system being unable to boot? It is a core system feature that is installed when you install the OS for the first time, a bit like AHCI for SATA HDDs (I think).

[Jeff Flowerday]

As far as I am aware, disabling ACPI 2.0 will result in the system being unable to boot? It is a core system feature that is installed when you install the OS for the first time, a bit like AHCI for SATA HDDs (I think).

If you disable ACPI APIC support it won't boot. But you can disable ACPI 2.0 support and have it boot.

[Ghostleader]

Here´s the 0702 beta for those who want it, I have added it in the OP also.

[NathObeaN]

Right I am looking for a bit of advice!

I have my i7 930 overclocked with a 212BCLK - 100% Prime95/LinX stable.

Increase the BCLK to 213 and the BIOS is slightly laggy (If I bring the multi down to 12x however, it doesn’t lag at all).

Increase the BCLK to 214+ and it just refuses to post.

I have played around with almost every setting, the only one that got me anywhere yesterday was the CPU/IOH clock skew. I somehow got 215BCLK to post.

It's really bugging me because my temps and volts are fine atm (1.28V for 212/4.03GHz - max 70C~)

When the board posts the voltage LED things get stuck on DRAM. However even when loosening the timings to CAS9 and downclocking to the lowest available DRAM multi it doesn't make any difference.

Atm the board just halts on the DRAM post, and the GFX fan goes crazy. By putting the PWM frequency on 750KHz the GPU fan stops going crazy but it still won't post.

So far the only settings that have made ANY difference are:

IOH clock skew
CPU clock skew
PWM frequency


Also adding to this mystery, putting any of the IOH/ICH volts above default fails the post above 212BCLK(213 won’t work either), along with putting the QPI above 1.35V~.

Confused.com

[DuraN]

Here´s the 0702 beta for those who want it, I have added it in the OP also.

Cheers Ghostleader

[SkOrPn]

Heres another link for 0702 that I uploaded yesterday if anyone is interested...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ULW4OB1P

[dazboots]

Can some1 help me here.
if my memory voltage is set @ 1.65v and if i set my qpi/dram 2.00v is this classed as safe as its within half a volt of each other. even @ 4 ghz