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

[phsinc1]

Hello there to all.
Is it ok to have this setup for 24/7 or i have to low vcore/qpi to avoid degrate my i7-960.

Thanks in advance.

DDR 3 2000 really doesn't worth for 24/7, it offers really minimal performance increase and take a huge QPI voltage, I would keep it @ 1600MHz 7-7-7 with 1.3x QPI for 24/7

[donmarkoni]

DDR 3 2000 really doesn't worth for 24/7, it offers really minimal performance increase and take a huge QPI voltage, I would keep it @ 1600MHz 7-7-7 with 1.3x QPI for 24/7

Depends on what you use your rig for.
4200/4000/3600/2000@7-9-7-21-1T (Core/UnCore/QPI/RAM) proved faster for Folding@home then 4306/3690/3690/1640@6-7-6-18-1T and it required less vCore which produced less heat, although VTT was higher.

[kurumi_Japan]

Any feedback on the new bios versions and LN2? I've been rockin 704 and I love it, so no need to change unless you guys think its better in some way.

I think 9124 & 0901 improve 3D bench score than 0704.
Today, I tested new chip on LN2 what I used 9124 BIOS.
I got my best score about Super PI 1M / 32M / PiFast / 3D03 / 3D05 & AM3!!
Try new BIOS, next your attack.

[kurumi_Japan]

Its probably not your chip, these boards are no better than average at best for bloomfield (welcome to the "I just wasted $400.00" club) unless you use slowmode.

[OC Nub]

Whoa there. What board are you claiming?

The R3E.

If you are looking for a 4.2-4.5ghz stable systems it will do that, but there are other boards available for a lot less money that will do the same and some much better. I think for anyone running bloomfield it is a waste of $ to get this board, if you plan to upgrade to gulftown then it is worth the money. I have no plans to leave bloomfield in the near future so for me it was a total waste.

[zsamz_]

The R3E.

If you are looking for a 4.2-4.5ghz stable systems it will do that, but there are other boards available for a lot less money that will do the same and some much better. I think for anyone running bloomfield it is a waste of $ to get this board, if you plan to upgrade to gulftown then it is worth the money. I have no plans to leave bloomfield in the near future so for me it was a total waste.

board is great on gulftown
i had a 980x got bored outa my mind with it lol

[Bodar]

Is it normal for this board to have IOH Temps from 70 when doing absolutely nothing?!

Should I take the Chipset cooler of and re-apply a new layer of artic silver 5 instead of the Factory compound?

or just rma the board?

I also installed the optional little cooling block with the fan but it doesn't help....

I had that same problem a couple days ago... Took me forever to get the yellow crap off, but after I cleaned it 3 times and replaced everything, the temps were at 35c on bootup.. Max was 49c at 1.36v on the IOH. 42c average on the ioh for 1.25v. That's what I normally use while overclocking..

[Bodar]

I think 9124 & 0901 improve 3D bench score than 0704.
Today, I tested new chip on LN2 what I used 9124 BIOS.
I got my best score about Super PI 1M / 32M / PiFast / 3D03 / 3D05 & AM3!!
Try new BIOS, next your attack.

Thanks!! I'm going to try 901 now

[skuldarin]

I may try 901 my self to see if its better on voltages compared to 860. I did find 860 required more VTT compared to 802 even on my Dominator-GTs with the same 12gb setup... still less than the G.Skills but Hehe difference is still noticeable

802 - 1.27v
860 - 1.33v
Speed at 1866 compared to 1600 on the G.Skills.

[playground]

What board guarantee higher blck on blooms under water cooling than r3e? I mean over 230?
cause it's seems to be an average blck for this board.

[zsamz_]

What board guarantee higher blck on blooms under water cooling than r3e? I mean over 230?
cause it's seems to be an average blck for this board.

no garantees for 230blk
i bought 2 760 classy boards this month
1 i'm stuk @ 229 on my 760 but i only put in a few hours no time
next week i will receive my second 1
on rexIII no hope in hell unless you go subzero
even my rexII was good for 229 lol

[skuldarin]

no garantees for 230blk
i bought 2 760 classy boards this month
1 i'm stuk @ 229 on my 760 but i only put in a few hours no time
next week i will receive my second 1
on rexIII no hope in hell unless you go subzero
even my rexII was good for 229 lol

no you can go higher for the R3E just fine but it requires you to increase PCIE speed to do so. i've seem some get upto 250-ish with PCIE around 115-130 range. you don't need to go subzero unless you intend on speeds over 4.5 to be honest.

[Nostromo]

hmm, with 901 no matter what i did after flash, the board would not boot into windows, and did not seem to want to save any changes in bios. ( yes checked drive boot order)
went back to 860 and all is good, hmm..

nostromo

edit : screen keeps popping f1, or f2, hit f2 to continue, will boot into windows, but all stock, bios will not save any changes. all ok with 860

edit2: bios will not save any changes, so proper boot order not being saved. I thought it was at least saving that, but it saves nothing.

[skuldarin]

Hello there to all.
Is it ok to have this setup for 24/7 or i have to low vcore/qpi to avoid degrate my i7-960.

Thanks in advance.

that QPI voltage is a bit high for 24/7 use... you shouldn't even need anywhere near that high of voltage to begin with with only 6gb of memory. i would bring that down to 1.28-1.31-ish if not lower even at the speed your memory is at, you shouldn't need 1.51v that's breaking the degration zone.

[zsamz_]

no you can go higher for the R3E just fine but it requires you to increase PCIE speed to do so. i've seem some get upto 250-ish with PCIE around 115-130 range. you don't need to go subzero unless you intend on speeds over 4.5 to be honest.

how long will the board even last @ with pci-e@ 125+
btw i did bump pci-e to 125
n i dont need higher than 235blk
and runnin on slow more is freakin bs
aimin for 4.8+

[spoolindsm127]

I am having the SAME issue as Nostromo. Tried flashing from 0860 and same thing happens each time. Made a post in Asus forums also ftw..

[spoolindsm127]

I had that same problem a couple days ago... Took me forever to get the yellow crap off, but after I cleaned it 3 times and replaced everything, the temps were at 35c on bootup.. Max was 49c at 1.36v on the IOH. 42c average on the ioh for 1.25v. That's what I normally use while overclocking..

Wow that's really low. What are your ambient room temps? Sounds like someone's cheating with AC or i did a crappy job of replacing the TIM.

I had to replace that yellow crap also, and yea it takes time to remove. Since I never ran it stock can't really tell the difference, but my IOH never goes above 55 at 1.113v, w/o AC (~70F). Plus this is also with the board in a closed case on air

[kurumi_Japan]

hmm, with 901 no matter what i did after flash, the board would not boot into windows, and did not seem to want to save any changes in bios. ( yes checked drive boot order)
went back to 860 and all is good, hmm..

nostromo

edit : screen keeps popping f1, or f2, hit f2 to continue, will boot into windows, but all stock, bios will not save any changes. all ok with 860

edit2: bios will not save any changes, so proper boot order not being saved. I thought it was at least saving that, but it saves nothing.

Try as follow flash process.

From 9124 BIOS to 0901 BIOS.
As above flashing process, mine is no problems & works fine!!

I found some bugs about 0860 BIOS, so I never use 0860 BIOS.
When I tested 0860 BIOS, I can not shut-down Windows Vista.
If I shut-down Windows Vista from start menu shut-down buttom, my REX3 locked & can not finish shut-down process.
0802, 9124 & 0901 never happen that shut-down problems.

[Nostromo]

will try it kurumi, thank you.

[kurumi_Japan]

What board guarantee higher blck on blooms under water cooling than r3e? I mean over 230?
cause it's seems to be an average blck for this board.

The mobo can High BCLK w/o slow mode, it depend on X58 chip, not mobo.
So you need over 230 BCLK with HIHG QPI, You buy some mobo & select good X58 chip one.
I bought 3 REX3, the best one is over BCLK 245MHz with QPI link speed over 8.8TB.


Same as classy E760, P6T WS pro & UT X58, I need select good one.
When I used these mobo, I selected good one from 5 or more mobo.

[kurumi_Japan]

Is it normal for this board to have IOH Temps from 70 when doing absolutely nothing?!

Should I take the Chipset cooler of and re-apply a new layer of artic silver 5 instead of the Factory compound?

or just rma the board?

I also installed the optional little cooling block with the fan but it doesn't help....

Remove original thermal past from heat sink & re-apply good thermal compound.
My REX3 had same problem before re-applying Scythe "Thermal Elixer".
Chipset & heat sink had good contact, perhaps your mobo temp will go down as normal.

After re-apply good thermal compound, temps does not change, just RMA.

[skuldarin]

i seem to be having issues with a 4.5ghz setup again...

BIOS - 0860 (will be tryinng 901 in a bit)

CPU ratio - (34x133) *yes i understand that even multies have issues from time to time but i've been luckier with evens than with odds*
Vcore - 1.43v *have tried between 1.41-1.49v*
PLL - 1.62v *have tried between 1.6 to stock 1.8*
QPI - 1.39v *have tried from 1.31 to 1.48*
DRAM - 1.65v *no need to increase as i'm only using CPU multiplier for higher speeds BUT! i have tried frrom 1.65 to 1.7*
IOH - 1.31v *i have tried from 1.11 to 1.33*

Extreme OV - disabled
Extreme OC - Auto

Digi PWR mode - X-power
PWM volt control - auto
LLC - full calibration
CPU voltage OCP - enabled
CPU PWN Frequency - auto

CPU differential Amplitude - auto
CPU clock skew - auto
IOH clock skew - auto

PICE freq - 100
DRAM freq - 1866
UCLK - 3733 *will not post unless at 3733 or auto which ends up being 2800 something somehow even though mem is 1866*
QPI link - 6400 *will not post unless on 6400 or auto which goes into slow mode automatically*

CPU Turbo Power Limit - disabled
C1E support - disabled
Hardware Prefetcher - enabled
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch - enabled
Intel Virtualization Tech - disabled
CPU TM Function - disabled
Execute Disable Bit - enabled
Intel HTT - enabled
Active cores - all
A20M - disabled
Intel SpeedStep Tech - enabled
Intel C-STATE tech - disabled

this is i can boot into windows but i constantly BSOD when trying to LinX test for stability about 30-45 seconds into the first round.

[OC Nub]

no you can go higher for the R3E just fine but it requires you to increase PCIE speed to do so. i've seem some get upto 250-ish with PCIE around 115-130 range. you don't need to go subzero unless you intend on speeds over 4.5 to be honest.

Are they using slow mode? That is useless for 3d benches and 24/7 use. My board tops out at 118 or around 237 with slow mode, but i could care less about spi runs. My UD7 so far has maxed out at 231 and without having to use slow mode or 115-130 pcie, 107-109 is all that is needed.

[skuldarin]

^^ different board though and probably better X58 chip than what's on your R3E

[OC Nub]

Yes probably so, however for the premium price they are getting for this board shouldnt they be more consistent? Eventully I will let this go and move on but hope I can prevent someone else from making a bad choice and blowing extra $$$.