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

[kurumi_Japan]

Hey there, does anyone have any pointers or good starting points on the 980x(my first extreme chip) or just a nice R3E bios template (other than the one on the first page) to start out at I'm all ears.
also what is the max safe long term vcore for the 980-x? I thought I saw some people in the R3E thread saying over 1.4 was highly dangerous where on my old i7-920 over 1.5 was dangerous.

It's depend on the chip what CPU V is safe or not.
Air or water cooling, it will be change, too.
The first, you start 4.0GHz stable setting.
I think it's very esay to make it.
And step up 4.2GHz / 4.4GHz.....

This is my opinion, QPI & DRAM V is more dangerous than CPU V.
When I tested new chip, I set QPI V @ 1.45v & check uncore mem limit.
If CPU is not so hot, I step up QPI V 0.025V & check uncore mem clock, again.
If your chip uncore is good, you can use high DRAM & uncore (1:2 or more) setting.
But it's not so good, you had better choice 2:3 DRAM/uncore setting nor 1:2 setting.

Enjoy your new chip.