X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[JohnZS]

I'm curious as to if anyone here is running a GTX 295 (single PCB) on an X48 ASUS motherboard?
If so, please could you take the time to upload a CUDA-Z Screenshot of your Performance tab
I have a feeling that PCI-E 2.0 is running a bit slow on my ASUS motherboard, (~4600MB/s as opposed to 5000MB/s as tested on CUDA-Z on another board).
Thanks
John

[SoLoR]

I'm curious as to if anyone here is running a GTX 295 (single PCB) on an X48 ASUS motherboard?
If so, please could you take the time to upload a CUDA-Z Screenshot of your Performance tab
I have a feeling that PCI-E 2.0 is running a bit slow on my ASUS motherboard, (~4600MB/s as opposed to 5000MB/s as tested on CUDA-Z on another board).
Thanks
John

I do...

[SoLoR]

So maybe I understood that wrong, anyway it works now. But the EAX things from creative panel doesn't work.

6620 drivers? aperantly they dont work on its own, but they need to be upgraded from 6600 version.

[kuebk]

6620 drivers? aperantly they dont work on its own, but they need to be upgraded from 6600 version.

Yea, where can I get 6600 version. Asus site is ok?

[SoLoR]

Yea, where can I get 6600 version. Asus site is ok?

ofc not, since they need to be moded as well...

http://solor.wtf.la/Asus.Rampage.For...rivers/BACKUP/

[kuebk]

So now I need to uninstall everything, then install 6600, upgrade to 6620 and then install creative + licenses. Right?

[leo27]

@kuebk if you do that you should be good, one thing i do is that i install the licence before i install the creative x-fi mb software

[kuebk]

Does that make any difference?

[JohnZS]

Thank you very much for the screenshot SoLoR
Is your PCI-E bus running @ 100Mhz?
and do you have PCI-E Spread Spectrum disabled?
If so.... I will yet again send another bug report to ASUS as 4600MB/s (2700MB/s on a cold boot) is not good enough for a GTX 295 Single PCB
John

[SoLoR]

PCIE is on 110 spread spectrum is in auto... also that 5300 number was high point on "idle" on desktop it was jumping between ~5150 and that number.

[JohnZS]

Thank you once again SoloR
By any chance are you able to re-run with PCI-E set to 100Mhz?
Thank you
John

[JohnZS]

Thank you once again SoloR
By any chance are you able to re-run with PCI-E set to 100Mhz?
Thank you
John

[m4gg0t]

Mine CUDA-Z is 4500 - 4900MHz on my GTX 285

[SoLoR]

Thank you once again SoloR
By any chance are you able to re-run with PCI-E set to 100Mhz?
Thank you
John

it gets lowered: 4700-4900

[papatsonis]

i think 4600/2700 even a hair lower than what you expect.. is totally normal though.. and cant imagine a RMA request for that...

[JohnZS]

Thank you very much for your constructive input guys
My guess is we are duped by the usual "metric" conversions. ie. 5Gt/s = 4800 MB/s or something like that, either that or losses due to IRQ allocation and the DMI.
My P5E3 cannot handle raising the PCI-E frequency at all, rock solid stable @ 100Mhz, some minor and rare artefacting @ 101Mhz and then a lot of weird behaviour @ 102Mhz, have not tried any higher as my guess is it will become more unstable.
Got to love X38 and it's flawed implementation of PCI-E 2.0!
John

[Giaki]

Thank you Solor I've been able to install succesfully the new drivers for my SupremeFX II with EAX till 4.

There is any way to enable DDL or DTS Connect encoder? I use the spdif optical output and can hear games only in stereo.

I had DTS Connect enabled until the SoundMAX_Audio_61026270_vista64bit driver. With the next version of soundmax drivers it stops working

Thank you for your effort

[SoLoR]

There is any way to enable DDL or DTS Connect encoder? I use the spdif optical output and can hear games only in stereo.

didnt find any yet... and i tryed to enable creative ddl/dts

[Giaki]

didnt find any yet... and i tryed to enable creative ddl/dts

Too bad.

Thank you anyway for trying

[papatsonis]

totally unstable... :p but just wanted to break 11k in at least one of 3

[AMDnord]

Hey guys, nice to see a lot of traffic still in rampage formula thread! i bought an open box mobo and there's no sound card of course. Is there any way to make the optical output work without the card? If so with which driver, cause from asus site it says it doesn't support my hardware or smth like that.. I was reading the thread and saw Solor's posts about some modded drivers and weird things and got lost

[SoLoR]

Hey guys, nice to see a lot of traffic still in rampage formula thread! i bought an open box mobo and there's no sound card of course. Is there any way to make the optical output work without the card? If so with which driver, cause from asus site it says it doesn't support my hardware or smth like that.. I was reading the thread and saw Solor's posts about some modded drivers and weird things and got lost

Tecnicaly should be possible, but dont think its supported.

[AMDnord]

so only solution is buying a new soundcard?? :// and s****d seller was 100% sure optical works even without card

thanks for reply man!

[papatsonis]

has anyone tried to undervolt a cpu with rmclock/crystalcpuid etc. sucessfully? with my previous x38-dq6 i set in bios normal vcore, and the rest was handled by rmclock... with RF, even setting multi auto and vcore auto... multi changes.. but vcore doesnt..

[SoLoR]

so only solution is buying a new soundcard?? :// and s****d seller was 100% sure optical works even without card

thanks for reply man!

Well look i dont know, i just suspect its not supported

anyway enable soundcard in bios (even if you dont have) and check if you get some soft new device about soundcard...