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

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Hmmm... seems like I need to wait for my GB board to get back then RMA this thing.

I am glad I still have my UD7

[bassplayer]

I am glad I still have my UD7

I wonder if anyone wants to trade a 4-way for a RIIIE? This can get higher 2D scores, the 4-way can get higher 3D scores. Seems like a good trade for a bit.

EDIT: Working on trading my RIIIE for a UD7 for a bit.

[Phatonian71]

I may have a similar issue here
I recently changed my ram to Dom GTs CL7,
Running a o/c @ 4.1 to start with,

ratio 21
bclk 195
Dram 1563 ( 1600 kit)
uclk 3127
qpi link 7038 mt/s
50% llc
cpu voltage 1.39
pll auto
qpi / dram auto
dram v 1.65625
ioh auto 1.64
ioh pcie auto 1.508
ich auto 1.11

the issue is random blue screen on re-start / shut down when windows closes
seems to be prime / game stable otherwise



any ideas folks

Hi Mate.

In my experience BSOD 3b has been a result of the RAM timings being too fast.

Good luck.

[tistou77]

in the bios if you enable the Extreme OV, it appears more options

QPI Voltage OCP
OCP Voltage IOH
DRAM Voltage OCP
QPI PWM Frequency
IOH PWM Frequency
DRAM PWM Frequency

is that with OC h24 is better to enable this option or not?

thank you

[fmsam]

Hi Mate.

In my experience BSOD 3b has been a result of the RAM timings being too fast.

Good luck.

cheers 4 the reply
the issue seems ok right now I completly re did my o/c settings
still testing

[Benton]

Thats good to know. I used iso alcohol and it wouldnt budge it. I had never seen TIM that hard to this point. I had to use an old bank card to scrape it off.

I got lucky with the tim. I only had one tiny patch on the IOH and thats it. I just scraped it off with a piece of plastic, took me 10sec. I really dislike the EK standoffs, they use them for everything. It makes it so much more difficult lining them up and getting them to stay there while you put the block in place. I which they would just machine them as part of the block itself. They really like their standoffs. My temps are an average of 25C lower now.The block looks great too. I will take some photos and post them soon.

[turtletrax]

I got lucky with the tim. I only had one tiny patch on the IOH and thats it. I just scraped it off with a piece of plastic, took me 10sec. I really dislike the EK standoffs, they use them for everything. It makes it so much more difficult lining them up and getting them to stay there while you put the block in place. I which they would just machine them as part of the block itself. They really like their standoffs. My temps are an average of 25C lower now.The block looks great too. I will take some photos and post them soon.

I dont mind the stand-offs as they can be made to fit perfectly if you have the time to sand them down if needed. If they are built onto the block and they are wrong = buggered.

I find using a tiny (and I mean tiny) blob of AS5 gets the stand-offs to stay perfectly in pace. You really need to screw up before they are in the wrong spot.

[lowfat]

I got lucky with the tim. I only had one tiny patch on the IOH and thats it. I just scraped it off with a piece of plastic, took me 10sec. I really dislike the EK standoffs, they use them for everything. It makes it so much more difficult lining them up and getting them to stay there while you put the block in place. I which they would just machine them as part of the block itself. They really like their standoffs. My temps are an average of 25C lower now.The block looks great too. I will take some photos and post them soon.

I can agree w/ this. Can get rather annoying.

[DOM.]

my temps on the stock tim are like high 30's low 40's

i heard of ppl with it was in 90's on first boot, thats crazy but seen most are hotter then mine here

[Zaxis01]

Most arent doing what you would consider good because the board combined with bloomfield for many=fail at anything over 215-220bclk without the use of slowmode. Higher bclk for most users I have seen requires slowmode to be enabled, which for a 24/7 rig and any 3D sucks. People still post about how great it is but everytime I read to catch up on whats going on in the thread I leave thinking "WTF am I missing, why are they still praising this pathetic board"? Im not knocking anyone that has 4500stable, thats a very good 24/7 oc by anyones standard but I would give more credit to the chip and the guy clocking it than to this board. That can be accomplished on many lower priced boards.

I have my R3E running fine at 222 BCLK without slowmode enabled.

[bassplayer]

Is this with Gulftown? If so, that's two reports of Gulftown not having this issue.

Doesn't help me though

What I need is for my Gigabyte board to come back from RMA so I can verify again that it is not the processor.

I've had this issue with all 4 chips I've tested with on the RIIIE (920, W3520, two 950's).

I have a ten minute video of me trying to boot at 224 BCLK. It took around 3 minutes to boot. I switched the BCLK down to 220 and it took the usual ~30 seconds. Once it boots I try to run Vantage. It's kinda funny to see that at ~1-20 fps.

I'll upload it when I publish my stuff this weekend.

[zsamz_]

Is this with Gulftown? If so, that's two reports of Gulftown not having this issue.

Doesn't help me though

What I need is for my Gigabyte board to come back from RMA so I can verify again that it is not the processor.

I've had this issue with all 4 chips I've tested with on the RIIIE (920, W3520, two 950's).

I have a ten minute video of me trying to boot at 224 BCLK. It took around 3 minutes to boot. I switched the BCLK down to 220 and it took the usual ~30 seconds. Once it boots I try to run Vantage. It's kinda funny to see that at ~1-20 fps.

I'll upload it when I publish my stuff this weekend.

my board had no problems with 980x @ 220 blk lol
with any of my 920s i cant go over 114 lol
my IOH sucks lol
i guess most of em do lol

[Fire4Wire]

today i got Beta Bios 1102 for Rampage 3 Extreme
The bios is dated on 23.09.2010

The Bios fixes following


1.Patch CPU temperature may display 0 degree issue
2.Updated CPU micro code(s) for Gulftown i7-980X B-1 CPU


i will flash the bios tonight and report back



regards

[Brama]

today i got Beta Bios 1102 for Rampage 3 Extreme
The bios is dated on 23.09.2010

The Bios fixes following


1.Patch CPU temperature may display 0 degree issue
2.Updated CPU micro code(s) for Gulftown i7-980X B-1 CPU


i will flash the bios tonight and report back



regards

Good, we are waiting for your first impression.
As soon as you can share, we are all anxious to test it, thanks.

[DOM.]

Is this with Gulftown? If so, that's two reports of Gulftown not having this issue.

Doesn't help me though

What I need is for my Gigabyte board to come back from RMA so I can verify again that it is not the processor.

I've had this issue with all 4 chips I've tested with on the RIIIE (920, W3520, two 950's).

I have a ten minute video of me trying to boot at 224 BCLK. It took around 3 minutes to boot. I switched the BCLK down to 220 and it took the usual ~30 seconds. Once it boots I try to run Vantage. It's kinda funny to see that at ~1-20 fps.

I'll upload it when I publish my stuff this weekend.

i sold my 920 like 2 weeks before i got this R3E, but i could only get it to run 225X21 was the highest for 3D then i needed to use slowmode, i might try the other MB its a P6X58D Premium i never tryed to see the max bclk on the 980 on it

how high do you go on your pci-e mhz ?

[Zaxis01]

What's the highest BCLK achieved without SM enabled?

[lowfat]

My R3E has a strange problem.
When I go to shut it down, windows goes through the normal shutdown, then the screen goes blank and all my fans spin up to 100%. It then hangs like that indefinitely. Hitting the Power button and holding it does not force a shutdown. Hitting reset does not reset my machine... The only way to shut it off or restart it is using the switch on my PSU.
'

Mine has started doing something similar. I hit shut down it shuts down windows. Screen goes blank, then it just sits there for eternity. Although I can still hit the reset button to get it to reboot.

First Asus board I've bought in 4 years, already had to RMA it once. Not looking forward to RMA'ing a month old board again.

[bro20000]

today i got Beta Bios 1102 for Rampage 3 Extreme
The bios is dated on 23.09.2010

The Bios fixes following


1.Patch CPU temperature may display 0 degree issue
2.Updated CPU micro code(s) for Gulftown i7-980X B-1 CPU


i will flash the bios tonight and report back



regards

Any links to new bios!

[bassplayer]

i sold my 920 like 2 weeks before i got this R3E, but i could only get it to run 225X21 was the highest for 3D then i needed to use slowmode, i might try the other MB its a P6X58D Premium i never tryed to see the max bclk on the 980 on it

how high do you go on your pci-e mhz ?

PCI-E ranges from 100 to 116 before my GPU turns off.

For 2D it's up to 137 with my PCI card

[Fire4Wire]

i flashed bios 1102

the bootblock is grown from 43 to 45

after flash to 1102 my gulftown stuck at 3333mhz

after cleacmos all is fine





test now (NO oc)

[tistou77]

the bootblock is grown from 43 to 45

What is it? I didn't understand

thanks

[Fire4Wire]

BBB=Bios Boot Block

[Thanh55]

Hi Everyone,
I just got the board and i7 950, just wonder do I have to use 2x8 pin EATX12V for the board? What if I just use 1? Any stable problem with that? Many thanks for your help

[GanJahMan]

You only have to use one. I have this board with a i7-950 running on a Corsair TX 750w. Currently running the CPU at 3.8GHz (166 bclk) with all stock voltages and temps never exceeding 55c on everyday use stuff. Im positive I could hit 4GHz with a small increase to voltage.

[VoXPCS]

i flashed bios 1102

the bootblock is grown from 43 to 45

after flash to 1102 my gulftown stuck at 3333mhz

after cleacmos all is fine





test now (NO oc)

Where can I download this BIOS? Please?