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

[DOM.]

no freeze anymore but keep getting bsod's 124 en 101.... got up to 1.55 vcore en 1.75 qpi.. Im scared >_<

is that the bsod code ? idk nothing about bsod codes

but 1.75qpi is way to much try a lower volts and mem divider

[AceBaran]

Nice clocks Chri$ch !

Ill try tommorow with higher IOH..

[AceBaran]

is that the bsod code ? idk nothing about bsod codes

but 1.75qpi is way to much try a lower volts and mem divider

I cant go lower qpi with my uncore that high... guesse i need to lower my uncore freq which means lower memory :/

bsod 101 is vcore
bsod 124 is qpi

http://www.evga.com/forumsarchive/tm...09&mpage=1&key

[egandt]

I thought the website would be a good place to go for drivers, but it will not even load on Linux with Firefox or Chrome, in windows it wants me to install an Akamai downloader (which is not going to happen). I never would have thought that a company could have such a slow and down right crappy site! If you did not know the products you'd think it was a fly by night company.

The download FTP site on the first page has an incomplete list of drivers.


Just makes me sick,
ERIC

[lowfat]

I thought the website would be a good place to go for drivers, but it will not even load on Linux with Firefox or Chrome, in windows it wants me to install an Akamai downloader (which is not going to happen). I never would have thought that a company could have such a slow and down right crappy site! If you did not know the products you'd think it was a fly by night company.

The download FTP site on the first page has an incomplete list of drivers.


Just makes me sick,
ERIC

The website works flawlessly and fast for me w/ Firefox. And if you don't to use a download manager then select the other download link instead. They offer both.

[egandt]

The website works flawlessly and fast for me w/ Firefox. And if you don't to use a download manager then select the other download link instead. They offer both.

Access the global site 8.7K a second avg. the china site 1.7K a second, neither of these seem professional to me. Time to download the bluetooth driver 2 hours 17 minutes.

[facboy]

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I'll share settings once I finish testing.
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also interested in your 24/7 settings. i have a 3016 and it does not seem as good as my previous two (which were a 3003 and a 3013, from memory). unfortunately both of those died a premature death, never did work out why. both were overclocked by my supplier as part of a bundle, with fairly conservative settings (4.2G, 1.35 Vcore/Vtt). both rebooted suddenly (first one after about 6 weeks, second after about 6 hours!) and completely refused to post after that, appeared to take the mobo with them as well as supplier had to replace mobo and cpu first time, and mobo/cpu/ram the second time. the supplier had to set higher VCore for the newer one to run it at 4.2 (1.36 i think), i run it dumbed down to 4.0 at 1.30, though lately i did a windows 7 reinstall and it had some issues (windows update seemed to be corrupted somehow). having said that, that could just be windows 7 being rubbish, at those settings the cpu has passed 500+ runs of linx and days worth of prime 95.

[hotshot100]

just a quick question I cant find the awnser anywhere .

Im running two 6870 in crossfire and I want to buy a Pci-e sound card .

do you know if I add a sound card if all the pci-e slot speed will go to 8x instead of 16x ?

Thanks
Martin

[lowfat]

just a quick question I cant find the awnser anywhere .

Im running two 6870 in crossfire and I want to buy a Pci-e sound card .

do you know if I add a sound card if all the pci-e slot speed will go to 8x instead of 16x ?

Thanks
Martin

I am pretty sure they will drop to x8. Although I have my doubts that will make any noticable difference in performance. One of my GTX460s is pooched and runs @ x4 and I causes me no grief.

[DOM.]

just a quick question I cant find the awnser anywhere .

Im running two 6870 in crossfire and I want to buy a Pci-e sound card .

do you know if I add a sound card if all the pci-e slot speed will go to 8x instead of 16x ?

Thanks
Martin

if you run the 6870's in pci-e 1,3 slot and sound card 2 slot they should run all at x16

[lowfat]

if you run the 6870's in pci-e 1,3 slot and sound card 2 slot they should run all at x16

X58 only has 36 PCIe lanes. So unlesss slot 2 runs @ 4x then I don't think that will work.

[OC Nub]

just a quick question I cant find the awnser anywhere .

Im running two 6870 in crossfire and I want to buy a Pci-e sound card .

do you know if I add a sound card if all the pci-e slot speed will go to 8x instead of 16x ?

Thanks
Martin

just use the x1 slot for the sound card, you will still have 16x for both gfx cards.

[tsan]

test

[lowfat]

just use the x1 slot for the sound card, you will still have 16x for both gfx cards.

There is no x1 slot on the R3E. There is a x4 slot but I have no idea if it will cause the other cards to drop to x8 or not. You also need a single slot videocard cooler in PCIe x16 slot 2 in order to use it.

[bassplayer]

wow 4.3 i'm impressed

n why cas8 lol you should be doin cas5-6

my 9 year old has his i7 @ 4.3 also

Why so rude?

Just recently upgraded from my trusty q6600 and an old 780i mobo, I have to say I love this board already,
Only third time to boot since install and the 930 fires right up to a 4.5Ghz clock and stayed there solid for best part of the day.
Later while exploring the bios I accidentally rebooted to a 4.7Ghz clock no wonder it felt snappy, neither cooling or vcore or any other v! was not ready for that so fixed it quick.
Cooling wasn't tuned for 4.5 / LinX heat either. Fairly soon after 100% LinX load at anything above 4.2 with 1.35v cpu & 1.4 QPI or above the cooling collapsed and the test aborted,
need to work on getting more gas.

All the great things of this board that i just can't get over, yet the bluetooth needs ditching lol

I have a similar issue with my SS. It just isn't tuned for the load. I tried LinX at 4.6GHz with 1.4V and it was able to hold the load for 3 or 4 minutes, then it crashed because temperatures became positive

It was able to 4.7GHz for Vantage and '06, though.

I was booting at 5GHz for my 2D benches as well. This was on my UD9, though.

[Splave]

test

Beautiful TSAN!

I got to have some fun tonight too

[zsamz_]

Why so rude?

i was being sarcastic lol
the rexIII did not impress me what so ever as it impressed lowfat
i sold my rexIII n bought a rexII and its much better i can finally do 4.6 on my secondary rig
not as good as my classy @ 4.8 but better than my rexIII 4 sure

[lowfat]

i was being sarcastic lol
the rexIII did not impress me what so ever as it impressed lowfat
i sold my rexIII n bought a rexII and its much better i can finally do 4.6 on my secondary rig
not as good as my classy @ 4.8 but better than my rexIII 4 sure

Well I have not tried phase w/ the board yet. Ruffus is taking his time w/ my cascade. So I really don't know how well it really can go.

I needed a standard atx board that I could use 4 PCIe x16 slots and a PCI slot. It is the only one AFAIK that can, which is the main reason why I bought the board.

[zsamz_]

Well I have not tried phase w/ the board yet. Ruffus is taking his time w/ my cascade. So I really don't know how well it really can go.

I needed a standard atx board that I could use 4 PCIe x16 slots and a PCI slot. It is the only one AFAIK that can, which is the main reason why I bought the board.

well i do hope your board will clock under phase
anything under 220blk is not impressive in my view i did 228 with slow mode but that dont count since performance is crippled
my board maxed out @ 215 and doing 230 was a breeze on e760 with the same cpu

[MrTOOSHORT]

just a quick question I cant find the awnser anywhere .

Im running two 6870 in crossfire and I want to buy a Pci-e sound card .

do you know if I add a sound card if all the pci-e slot speed will go to 8x instead of 16x ?

Thanks
Martin

I have the set up you are talking about, both my cards are running 16x with my pci-E soundcard at the very bottom red pci-E slot.

You are good to go

[hotshot100]

I have the set up you are talking about, both my cards are running 16x with my pci-E soundcard at the very bottom red pci-E slot.

You are good to go

Thanks

[Kappy]

So we just got a test-computer to my work, and i've built it and now i was thinking about trying to overclock it a bit. It was very long time since i last was doing this (the time with the Opteron 144/146's)

The setup is:

mobo: Asus Rampage III Extreme (duh!)
cpu: i7 980x
ram: "CORSAIR 12GB DDR3 XMS3 INTEL I7 9XX PC12800 1600MHZ (6X2GB)"


So basically what i've done was i tried the standard modes in Rampage III bios, "Crazy 4.00" and "Crazy 4.20" and they booted and worked quite alright.

(Bear in mind that i haven't done any hardcore stability tests, just a fast test in the program we are using).

So i went into the bios and was thinking that i should try to tweak the setup a bit, as i absolutely not would like to hurt the cpu in any way.

So what i've done is that i resetted the bios, then i've made myself a small setup that im running now that looks like this:

CPU Frequency: 4200MHz
DRAM Frequency: 1503MHz

CPU Ratio setting (mutliplier eh?): 28
BCLK Frequency: 150

CPU Voltage: auto
CPU PLL voltage: 1.45 (standard was around 1.8 which seemed very high, and i read some on in this thread were people recommended to lower it a bit.
QPI/DRAM Core Voltage: Auto
DRAM Bus Voltage 1.6

These are the values that i've changed. (of course the auto values are standard).

What do you guys think? Would you like to see something more? How could i try to tweak my system even more, without risking anything? I haven't looked anything at memory timings etc, and i don't know if its necessary, worth etc.

And by the way, what kind of stability tests are there that i should run? As i said, long time ago i did this..

edit: Downloaded a pi-program from the forums, "y-cruncher" , when i run it the cpu goes to ~84 degrees celcius quite damn fast. I don't think this seems to be healthy at all, agreed? I run the standard cpu-fan.
edit2: LinX seems to be another good test, but i don't feel like running it if i hit these high temps!?

[Hazzan]

test test

should be under 2.6 result... something wrong with your result ...but still nice your chip...

[tsan]

pci x8

[OC Nub]

There is no x1 slot on the R3E. There is a x4 slot but I have no idea if it will cause the other cards to drop to x8 or not. You also need a single slot videocard cooler in PCIe x16 slot 2 in order to use it.

Sorry I was wrong there, the 4x slot. I run my x-fi in it and it does allow you to run both cards at 16x, using slots 1&3.