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

[zoson]

Dunno UK, but i got it here

http://www.highflow.nl/water-blocks/...-mb-asr3e.html

There are so many things wrong with that block that it makes me want to vomit. Just like 90% of koolance products I see.

GREAT SPOT for the barb... BLOCKING A PCI-E x16 slot.

Not only that... It's obvious they ripped off the EK design.

[AceBaran]

There are so many things wrong with that block that it makes me want to vomit. Just like 90% of koolance products I see.

GREAT SPOT for the barb... BLOCKING A PCI-E x16 slot.

Not only that... It's obvious they ripped off the EK design.

I disagree ! And more

this one is on the 3rd slot



and this one on the 4th



Also the placement of the barbs on this block gives a better flow then the EK one.

[SkOrPn]

There are so many things wrong with that block that it makes me want to vomit.

Not only that... It's obvious they ripped off the EK design.

So your saying the EK has so many things wrong with it as well? If they ripped off the design from EK yet so many things are wrong with it and everyone likes the EK design, than by your reasoning I can only conclude that both are excellent blocks OR terrible blocks....

[DOM.]

@ AceBaran

a card on the 3rd slot well be block the barb with a card with a rear exhast cooler

[zoson]

So your saying the EK has so many things wrong with it as well? If they ripped off the design from EK yet so many things are wrong with it and everyone likes the EK design, than by your reasoning I can only conclude that both are excellent blocks OR terrible blocks....

@SkOrPn: Way to be contrarian.
They ripped off the design from the first pci-e socket up, and moved the barb from the logical spot to the bottom, where it makes no sense. As others illustrated to me here, flowrate is really overrated and in a compelx loop no single 'high flow' component is going to make or break your temps.

@Ace: Any card with a stock heatsink that exhausts with a blower will block the barb. Also, any card with a swiftech unisink, like my GTX275's would block it.

[lowfat]

There are so many things wrong with that block that it makes me want to vomit. Just like 90% of koolance products I see.

GREAT SPOT for the barb... BLOCKING A PCI-E x16 slot.

Not only that... It's obvious they ripped off the EK design.

Damn near all full cover water blocks are the same. Hardly call it 'ripped off.' Plus the fact that the Koolance block was actually released before the EK.

While I personally do not like the barb at the bottom, it does have its benefits.

[fmsam]

Guys some advice plz
we all know the issues with the Marvell controller, I have now purchased a C300 64 gb that I intend to use Non raid as a Win 7 boot drive.
Question do I put it on the Marvell or the ICH10R.
I will be running my other 2 C300s on the ICH10R

cheers
Rick

[lowfat]

So you already have two C300's that you aren't using on a 6Gbps controller? And you bought another one as well? If you can afford to I would invest in an LSI 9211-4i controller http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-114-_-Product. The Marvell controller isn't bad for a single drive. But having two C300's on ICH10R is severly bottlenecking them.

[AceBaran]

@ AceBaran

a card on the 3rd slot well be block the barb with a card with a rear exhast cooler

Then waterblock on all cards !!

Lower barb also makes bleeding very easy !

[fmsam]

I am currently running my C300s on the Marvell with no issues but keep being told ICH10R is the way to go,windows is sitting on a 45 gb partition that is part of the raid array, I wanted to put windows on its own drive, so the 65 gb idea seemed the way to go, some ppl have said in the past that the throughput using a single ssd on the marvell is very good.
First time anyone ever mentioned they would bottleneck on the Intel !!

thanx for the suggestion lowfat, but I have no space left to for an addin card



Still unsure what to do ... any other suggestions would be appreciated.

[lowfat]

I am currently running my C300s on the Marvell with no issues but keep being told ICH10R is the way to go,
first time anyone ever mentioned they would bottleneck on the Intel !!
Still unsure what to do ... any other suggestions would be appreciated.

ICH10R is only a Sata 3Gbps controller. Try to take a single drive and run AS SSD on both ICH10R and the Marvell controller and run AS SSD on them. The difference should be large difference between then. A good 25%. However the Marvell controller can't handle the bandwidth of more than one drive. So if you were to install your two current RAIDed SSDs on to a good 6Gbps capable controller like the LSI 9211-4i I mentioned above, you would gain a good 150MB/s in sequential read speeds.

[Malik]

I have question abotu two ez-plug connector on mobo - when i must use them ? I have two 470's.

[lowfat]

I have question abotu two ez-plug connector on mobo - when i must use them ? I have two 470's.

They are to prevent too much current being pulled through the 24 pin atx connector like done here

Not sure if two GTX470's can pull that much current but I would definitely suggest using the 4 pin connectors if at all possible.

and fmsam, get a single slot pci adapter for your 2nd videocard. Throw the RAID card in the x4 slot. x4 should still easily provide enough bandwidth for 2-3 SSD's.

[Johnmark]

Gday peeps been searching this thread for a 4k-4.2k 24/7 setup using the REIII and 980x. I've found one or two people are asking help on and lots for other chips.

Can someone please post BIOS template for a nice working system.

Finally had time to move parts around so that that I have the reIII/980x water cooled, nice to see those lowww temps. Using the EK FC block so the nb/sb temps are staying around 35c at full load.

Oh and don't forget to install that BT board before you install the mobo, cause she ain't fitting in after the fact

[Utnorris]

The big thing to do on the 980x is to reduce the voltage on the CPU PLL from 1.8v to 1.45v. I couldn't get my 980x to do 4Ghz before I did that, then I was able to do 4.2Ghz pretty easy.

[SkOrPn]

Damn near all full cover water blocks are the same. Hardly call it 'ripped off.' Plus the fact that the Koolance block was actually released before the EK.

While I personally do not like the barb at the bottom, it does have its benefits.

I was going to mention that Koolance's RIIIE block was released weeks before anyone else's, but I figured he would have had an excuse for that as well... Just another case of a brand hating without any hard evidence brought to the table. At this point they could release the best block on earth but it will always be flawed just because its labeled Koolance...

[lowfat]

I was going to mention that Koolance's RIIIE block was released weeks before anyone else's, but I figured he would have had an excuse for that as well... Just another case of a brand hating without any hard evidence brought to the table. At this point they could release the best block on earth but it will always be flawed just because its labeled Koolance...

A few years ago Koolance hate could have been justified. Not so much anymore. My Koolance GTX460 blocks I have are the best blocks I have ever owned.

[RoydRage]

Guys...

Running 2 Corsair SSD in Raid 0, on Intel Controller... Windows 7 Pro installed like a Breeze... No Problems... BUT

I have installed a WD Raptor 600gb on the Marvell Controller running Sata3 I shows in the BIOS, but NOT in Windows... I have tried both AHCI, and IDE, and no go...

Any suggestions?

RoydRage

[fmsam]

Hi RoydRage
In the bios under tools, did you check the driver expert page ?, with just 1 drive it needs to be set to normal mode, not super speed or ez-back up.
hopefully this will fix your issue

[Malik]

Not sure if two GTX470's can pull that much current but I would definitely suggest using the 4 pin connectors if at all possible.

i can use only one - this one on the top, near pcie nr 1. The second one, on the bottom is blocked by the psu. So i will try with only one ez-plug. What do you think ? This is good idea ?

[lowfat]

i can use only one - this one on the top, near pcie nr 1. The second one, on the bottom is blocked by the psu. So i will try with only one ez-plug. What do you think ? This is good idea ?

I only use one w/ my system at the moment.

One is better than none.

[RoydRage]

Hi RoydRage
In the bios under tools, did you check the driver expert page ?, with just 1 drive it needs to be set to normal mode, not super speed or ez-back up.
hopefully this will fix your issue

Wow.. I got excited for a second...

One problem was I had to initialize it in windows disk management.

I set it to MBR partition... and assigned a drive letter... But for some reason Windows cannot format it! unable to use drive...

I tried this in both IDE, and AHCI mode in Bios.

Any other ideas Please!

Royd Rage

[borntowin]

Sorry if this has been answer before. When boot it shown 6136mb ram, i thought it supposed to be 6144? But what CPUz report was 6144. Both my Corsair Dominator GT and G.Skill Ripjaw having the same result. Any advise? Thank you.

[spoolindsm127]

Sorry if this has been answer before. When boot it shown 6136mb ram, i thought it supposed to be 6144? But what CPUz report was 6144. Both my Corsair Dominator GT and G.Skill Ripjaw having the same result. Any advise? Thank you.

Are you serious?? There's people having problems when a entire stick (that's 2GB!) isn't read resulting in only 4GB (4088MB~) of ram...or when people install 12GB and get only 6GB or 8GB to show. You're worried about 8MB?? You're fine man

[borntowin]

Are you serious?? There's people having problems when a entire stick (that's 2GB!) isn't read resulting in only 4GB (4088MB~) of ram...or when people install 12GB and get only 6GB or 8GB to show. You're worried about 8MB?? You're fine man

just curious who stole my precious 8MB