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

[NathObeaN]

Does stock Asus R3E suck for NB/SB cooling ?

I ask this because with the old Gigabyte EX58-Extreme I was getting very good NB/SB temps (lower than R3E in 15-20 C range !!!) , so should we all buy blocks for R3E to keep the temps in an acceptable range ?

I somehow find that hard to believe, so you are saying that your NB/SB chipset ran at equal to or lower than ambient temperature? Either you live inside a fridge or your temp probes didn't work properly lol.

[minaelromany]

I somehow find that hard to believe, so you are saying that your NB/SB chipset ran at equal to or lower than ambient temperature? Either you live inside a fridge or your temp probes didn't work properly lol.

I meant that Gigabyte Extreme had 15-20 lower temps for NB/SB than R3E

Gigabyte : 40-45 (Max ~50 C) with QPI ~1.575v

Asus R3E : 55-65 (Max ~70 C) with QPI ~ 1.488v

Even my old Asus P6T never had those horrible R3E NB/SB temps !

BTW : I've removed the stock heat pipe block before installing the Noctua NH-D14 and that "ear wax" was a nightmare to remove , then applied some AC MX-2 and temps went down by 8-10 degrees but it is still very high for my liking

Unfortunately the optional HS with fan would not go along with the Noctua , so I put the fan om the shorter HS :

[Jeff Flowerday]

I meant that Gigabyte Extreme had 15-20 lower temps for NB/SB than R3E

Gigabyte : 40-45 (Max ~50 C) with QPI ~1.575v

Asus R3E : 55-65 (Max ~70 C) with QPI ~ 1.488v

Even my old Asus P6T never had those horrible R3E NB/SB temps !

BTW : I've removed the stock heat pipe block before installing the Noctua NH-D14 and that "ear wax" was a nightmare to remove , then applied some AC MX-2 and temps went down by 8-10 degrees but it is still very high for my liking

Unfortunately the optional HS with fan would not go along with the Noctua , so I put the fan om the shorter HS :

That little fan isn't going to help much. You need to point a 120mm fan between your GPU and CPU cooler and push some cool air there, along with moving the hot air towards to your exhaust fan.

I don't get above 52-55 full load and idle just below 50 with this config. Nothing but the short stock NB heatsync.

[dazboots]

Well the rampage 3 6gb sata is a pile of crap.
formatted again and used normal sata not 6gb and get this.



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[_AntLionBR_]

The R3E would be better than Giga UD7? Thanks!

[Linuxfan]

The R3E would be better than Giga UD7? Thanks!

What are you going to use it for and with what hardware?

[_AntLionBR_]

What are you going to use it for and with what hardware?

Core i7 960 ES
3x2GB Team Xtreem DDR3-1600
Zotac GTX 470

Rest of the system, the signature below.

[OC Nub]

The R3E would be better than Giga UD7? Thanks!

So far I havent been able to get stable with similar voltages on this board as I was on the UD7, still tweaking though. For 24/7 Stability I think the Giga UD7 is hard to beat, this RIIE may be a better overclockers board though for the extreme user.

My Linx Run failed at 9 passes, now I have gone up on voltages and is still failing. There are some settings in the bios I need to play around with that may help stability.

[Linuxfan]

So far I havent been able to get stable with similar voltages on this board as I was on the UD7, still tweaking though. For 24/7 Stability I think the Giga UD7 is hard to beat, this RIIE may be a better overclockers board though for the extreme user.

My Linx Run failed at 9 passes, now I have gone up on voltages and is still failing. There are some settings in the bios I need to play around with that may help stability.

The Gigabyte UD7 was very solid in my testing as well.
Should be a good 24/7 board.

[kill_a_wat]

So far I havent been able to get stable with similar voltages on this board as I was on the UD7, still tweaking though. For 24/7 Stability I think the Giga UD7 is hard to beat, this RIIE may be a better overclockers board though for the extreme user.

My Linx Run failed at 9 passes, now I have gone up on voltages and is still failing. There are some settings in the bios I need to play around with that may help stability.

yes that is my suspicion aswell. can run same clocks at a notch or two lower volts, for 24/7 clocks...when i get some spare cash i'll grab a Giga board and check for myself. But overall i'm happy with the board, particularly the ROG Connect feature its just plain sick...btw is there a way I can use my Macbook with ROG Connect?

and don't mind CPUz its reporting incorrect vCore at present. best to rely on ROG Connect/ProbeIT or DMM for now

[Jor3lBR]

So far I havent been able to get stable with similar voltages on this board as I was on the UD7, still tweaking though. For 24/7 Stability I think the Giga UD7 is hard to beat, this RIIE may be a better overclockers board though for the extreme user.

My Linx Run failed at 9 passes, now I have gone up on voltages and is still failing. There are some settings in the bios I need to play around with that may help stability.

OC Nub is the GUY to test stuff for stability just look at his impressive Linx4.5Ghz thread stats!

I believe you're right on the money OC Nub, the R3X is turning out to be a great board for 980x benching and that's it, for 24/7 that's a different story. Thanks for testing this board my friend.

[NathObeaN]

I meant that Gigabyte Extreme had 15-20 lower temps for NB/SB than R3E

Gigabyte : 40-45 (Max ~50 C) with QPI ~1.575v

Asus R3E : 55-65 (Max ~70 C) with QPI ~ 1.488v

Even my old Asus P6T never had those horrible R3E NB/SB temps !

BTW : I've removed the stock heat pipe block before installing the Noctua NH-D14 and that "ear wax" was a nightmare to remove , then applied some AC MX-2 and temps went down by 8-10 degrees but it is still very high for my liking

Things to take into account:

The Giga has much bigger heatinks

The QPI doesn't really effect the NB, the QPI is a direct link between the CPU and RAM, the NB isn't used. The IOH voltages are what will effect the temperature of the NB, so you may well have higher IOH voltages on your R3E as well.

The thermal shutdown for the IOH/ICH is 100C, if yours isn't breaking past 70C, that isn't exactly a "horrible" temperature. Depends on what voltages you are using though.