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

[Reflex1]

Quick question, does the REX3 support Raid (0,1) on the 2 red SATA 6G ports?

Officially on the website, it says that the marvell controller doesnt support raid, also some reviews state it doesnt support it. But ive read that asus has since released a bios so that it now supports raid 0, 1? can someone who has actually tried using raid with the 2 red ports confirm that it does indeed support raid?

I have 2x ssds that i want to raid 0, and 3x hdds that i want to raid 5.

[Stelios]

You can create raid arrays on Marvell controller , but you should know that this controller is slow compared to the Intel one .

[Reflex1]

You can create raid arrays on Marvell controller , but you should know that this controller is slow compared to the Intel one .

Thanks. is it much slower or will i barely notice it?

i plan to run my 2 ssds in raid 0 on the marvell and 3 hdds in raid 5 on the ich10r. would this be a good idea or should i just put the ssds on the intel for my os?

[Mafio]

use the SSDs on intel, marvell is pure crap.

[OC Nub]

If it would get you to stop whining

[Stelios]

use the SSDs on intel, marvell is pure crap.

That's the right thing to do !

[lowfat]

Thanks. is it much slower or will i barely notice it?

i plan to run my 2 ssds in raid 0 on the marvell and 3 hdds in raid 5 on the ich10r. would this be a good idea or should i just put the ssds on the intel for my os?

The Marvell is good for a single 6Gbps SATA SSD. Otherwise I would not use it.

[jacek]

BIOS 901 - can not save the settings in the BIOS. after a reboot everything returns to default values. Has anyone noticed this?

bios 0009 - now I can set TIMING MODE = 1N, seems that everything works properly.

[Delly]

BIOS 901 - can not save the settings in the BIOS. after a reboot everything returns to default values. Has anyone noticed this?

before 0901 flash the 9124...It worked

[kaka_89]

is it safe to run 3600 uncore with 1.475 cpu/vtt..??..can i know what is the highest and safest cpu/vtt..??

[donmarkoni]

is it safe to run 3600 uncore with 1.475 cpu/vtt..??..can i know what is the highest and safest cpu/vtt..??

IMO, it's too much even for C0 revision of CPU (i7 965, right?).
I had i7 920 C0 and it needed 1.34V max for 3600MHz UnCore and 1.44V for 4000MHz UnCore.
By Intel's specs max safe VTT is 1.35V, but by OC'ers' specs it's the voltage you feel comfortable with.
BTW, if you seek for the opinion, I wouldn't use more then 1.45V for 24/7.

[fmsam]

Im running 2 C 300s on the marvell



I dont think 250 writes and 450 reads is pure crap at all, unless youre going for top bench scores this is top notch for gaming and they get better as the new marvell drivers come out !

[TheHardCase]

My 2 new Mushkin SSD's using Intel Raid 0
WOW...

[lowfat]

Im running 2 C 300s on the marvell



I dont think 250 writes and 450 reads is pure crap at all, unless youre going for top bench scores this is top notch for gaming and they get better as the new marvell drivers come out !

You will get higher an ICH10R. 2 C300s should be pulling over 600MB reads on a good 6Gbps controller.

[SkOrPn]

Im running 2 C 300s on the marvell



I dont think 250 writes and 450 reads is pure crap at all, unless youre going for top bench scores this is top notch for gaming and they get better as the new marvell drivers come out !

Thats not to far off from what one C300 can do. On a good 6 Gbps controller you should be getting at least 600 or more. Your scores are the same as 2 of my old Vertex's on ICH10R, lol. More than good enough for what your using it for though.

[kill_a_wat]

Recently got hold of a 950 to play with. Revised my cooling to cater for the high leakage chip. Will play tonight and see how this BF fares on the R3E

[fmsam]

ok I stand corrected !
I guess I might as well use the ICH10R after all then.

[Reflex1]

My gosh, Marvell need to improve their drivers . I guess i will be putting my 2 ssds in raid 0 on the ich10r. And then have 2 hdds in raid 1 for storage and have 1 hdd as a spare hot swappable drive. shame, i got 3x 2tb hdds that i wanted to put in raid 5 but the marvell is just too poor.

[turtletrax]

ok I stand corrected !
I guess I might as well use the ICH10R after all then.

Have you done any testing with 2 C300's on the Marvell non RAID? I am thinking of getting another 256G for non RAID and want to know if there is a loss in perf putting two drives on the controller.

I just want it for super fast transcoding from drive to drive. If there is a loss I will just get a Sandforce based drive for ICH10R and use it for booting and source location of the file to be crushed.

[fmsam]

This was the frist test on the marvell when I had just the one drive

[turtletrax]

This was the frist test on the marvell when I had just the one drive

Yup, thats about what I am getting

I wonder if the Marvell has enough jam to run that speed across two drives in non-RAID?

I really dont want to run a PCI-E controller in my MurderMod build so if it cant I will have to grab a Sandforce drive and run ICH10R.

Anyone have two drives they can test on Marvell non-RAID?

[kill_a_wat]

Ran linx...such a big difference in heat output vs 32nm lol



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[angel_dust]

Hi

I've just got this board up and running last night and I've noticed that the North Bridge temps are about 50C at idle and go over 60C at load which seems high.
Is this normal??

[fmsam]

Ok so I swapped to the ICH10R,
due to the system config change my back ups are usless so I gotta do the reinstall dance :-(
the drives do seem happier / quicker on the intel.

[KanGaXx]

I have a strange problem with this board under LN2:

after boot at over 1,75 vcore when i run the 3dm06(cpu test) the vcore drops to 1,55-1,65v permanently causing freezees.
(i use a multimeter for check voltages)
After freezee i go into bios and shows 1,55-1,65v on cpu voltages....noway to pull it up, i have to clear cmos all and restart it
i use bios 0901 now...

what can be ?

i use those settings :

Target CPU Frequency 5600-5800MHz
Target DRAM Frequency 1700-1800MHz

LN2 jumper ON

Sync Mode [disable]
AI Overclock Tuner [manual]
CPU Ratio Setting [33]
CPU Turbo Power Limit [disable]

>CPU Configuration----------------------------
CPU Ratio Setting [33]
C1E Support [disable]
Hardware Prefetcher [enable]
Adjacent Cache Line Prefetcher [enable]
Intel(R) Virtualiyation Tech [disable]
CPU TM Function [disable]
Execute Disable Bit [disable]
Intel(R) HT Technology [enable]
Active Processor Cores [all]
A20M [disable]
Intel(R) SpeedStep(TM) Tech [disable]
Intel(R) C-STATE Tech [disable]
C State package limit setting [disable]
----------------------------------------------

BCLK Frequency [170-180]
PCIE Frequency [105]
DRAM Frequency [2:10]
UCLK Frequency [40XX]
QPI Link Data Rate [4800Gts]

CPU Differential Amplitude [1000mV]
CPU Clock Skew [auto]
IOH Clock Skew [auto]
------------ Extreme Engine Digi+ ------------
Digi+ PWR Mode [X-POWER]
PWR Volt. Control []AUTO
Load-Line Calibration [full 100%]
CPU Voltege OCP [disable]
CPU PWM Frequency [1000KHz]

Extreme OV [enable]
Extreme OC [mode 1]

CPU Voltage [1,75v]
CPU PLL Voltage [1,65v]
QPI/DRAM Core Voltage [1,50v]
DRAM Bus Voltage [1,70v]

IOH Voltage [1,35v]
IOH PCIE Voltage [auto]

ICH Voltage [1,20v]
ICH PCIE Voltage [auto]

---------- Spread Spectrum Control -----------
CPU Spread Spectrum [disable]
DRAM Spread Spectrum [disable]