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

[PytonOrm]

nice pics dude !! respect !

[AceBaran]

nice pics dude !! respect !

Tnx buddy

[Expat GriZ]

Putting my original RE III out to pasture (ripped the CpuV read point off the board) so it becomes a home rig with the first 980X I bought months ago.....degraded on top end.....turns out not too bad for home RiG!


This is all on water...CPU on Feser 360 with HK 3.0 & EK full Chipset WB on 120.2 (thanks Zeus) ...all going through Koolance 450X Res, 2 pumps, 5 Gt 1450's, 800D.



Flops much lower with 12 gb....but have all this "dog" mem laying around so figured I'd use it up.

[owikh84]

The GFlops drops so much, what about upping the QPI/RAM volt?

[fl0w3n]

I think that DD is not pretty at all. But its a taste issue

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Imo looks much better and cools good too

*Posted some pics before sorry for that

That indeed is a great looking block, especially when considered alone. But what popped for me about the DD block was it matching the board so well, and including the ROG light up logo. That block you posted is quite good looking, but it doesn't match the board in any way.

To each his own, like you said

Putting my original RE III out to pasture (ripped the CpuV read point off the board) so it becomes a home rig with the first 980X I bought months ago.....degraded on top end.....turns out not too bad for home RiG!


This is all on water...CPU on Feser 360 with HK 3.0 & EK full Chipset WB on 120.2 (thanks Zeus) ...all going through Koolance 450X Res, 2 pumps, 5 Gt 1450's, 800D.



Flops much lower with 12 gb....but have all this "dog" mem laying around so figured I'd use it up.

Man, great temps with those volts! That makes me real excited for when I get my 480/360/240 setup!

Try pushing that QPI further!! With that low of a BCLK, you should be able to really open it up?

[Cookiesowns]

I'm getting extremely pissed at asus recently. What happened to updating their cream of the crop edition boards with new features as they are developed... Right now whats on my mind is AI Suite II, yes II, the new one, that looks awesome. The R3E is their most expensive board on the line right now, and I dont understand why they couldn't get it to work with the R3E officially, since it works on R3F and C4E....

Asus, I'm targeting this at you!!

Rant over:
Anyone able to get it to work on the R3E?

[deachus]

I'm getting extremely pissed at asus recently. What happened to updating their cream of the crop edition boards with new features as they are developed... Right now whats on my mind is AI Suite II, yes II, the new one, that looks awesome. The R3E is their most expensive board on the line right now, and I dont understand why they couldn't get it to work with the R3E officially, since it works on R3F and C4E....

Asus, I'm targeting this at you!!

Rant over:
Anyone able to get it to work on the R3E?

I am also waiting as well but I am more angry with the bios support/releases. It has been posted in this thread that people are using multiple new bioses but can't share them. All I want is QPI PLL setting in bios.

I have to blame myself a little bit for this because I should have researched further and if I had done that I would have found QPI PLL was missing on R3E and would have went with Classified 3. But come on Asus, your flagship board and you can't provide this one setting that both Gigabyte and EVGA have in their bios. I have NEVER owned a Board other than Asus starting with A7N8X Deluxe for my personal rigs but it might be time to look elsewhere.

[AceBaran]

+1 to that

[Cookiesowns]

I am also waiting as well but I am more angry with the bios support/releases. It has been posted in this thread that people are using multiple new bioses but can't share them. All I want is QPI PLL setting in bios.

I have to blame myself a little bit for this because I should have researched further and if I had done that I would have found QPI PLL was missing on R3E and would have went with Classified 3. But come on Asus, your flagship board and you can't provide this one setting that both Gigabyte and EVGA have in their bios. I have NEVER owned a Board other than Asus starting with A7N8X Deluxe for my personal rigs but it might be time to look elsewhere.

Yeah I'm seriously starting to move away from Asus.... Of all the recent customer builds I've done, I've only used asus in one of them...

Well, Looks like I can hop aboard the EVGA train now

[dejanbinladen]

master shamino is asus now so lets hope everything gets into place, i also hate their support

[deachus]

master shamino is asus now so lets hope everything gets into place, i also hate their support

I did not know Shamino was with Asus now. It may be worth the wait to see if everything gets in line. Hopefully sooner than later.

[Brama]

I did not know Shamino was with Asus now. It may be worth the wait to see if everything gets in line. Hopefully sooner than later.

I hope too.
After the summer (in north hemisphere) the quality of Asus support went down to hell.

[donmarkoni]

Done with 0095. Very good BIOS, but needs RTL's raised by one from 51-53-55.

[dejanbinladen]

hm is it better than 0096 ion your opinion

[deachus]

hm is it better than 0096 ion your opinion

I started testing 0095 briefly last night and was finding it more stable at higher bclk with Hyper threading on which was my goal for 24/7 settings. I will perform some more in depth testing over the weekend and report back. I like this bios better than 1203. Neither 1203 or 0095 have QPI PLL setting

[PytonOrm]

Done with 0095. Very good BIOS, but needs RTL's raised by one from 51-53-55.

Yoo ! dude gotta love your Vcore wtf !!! change cpu-z to 1.55 instead.

[donmarkoni]

hm is it better than 0096 ion your opinion

Yep. Same settings, same stability, but GFLOPS in LinX went up from under 88 to over 89. It is not that significant, but it qualifies it as better.

Yoo ! dude gotta love your Vcore wtf !!! change cpu-z to 1.55 instead.

I got one even better

[spoolindsm127]

Yoo ! dude gotta love your Vcore wtf !!! change cpu-z to 1.55 instead.

Or use the ROG version (1.55.2)



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@donmarkoni

Sweet clocks there friend

The RTLs were looser compared to which bios? 0011?

[donmarkoni]

Or use the ROG version (1.55.2)



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@donmarkoni

Sweet clocks there friend

The RTLs were looser compared to which bios? 0011?

Nice looking CPU-Z! Thanks!

RTL's looser compared to both 0011/0096.

BTW, I see you running 3DM11... I have a problem with it, just won't start, just shows (or not) for a split of a second in taskman and then disappears.
Tried reinstalling 3DM, directx, vcredist2005, 2008, 2010, 32bit, 64bit, dotnet 4.0 32bit, 64bit.
Reinstalled W7 after all (cause of some issues and cause I wanted fresh OS on my new SSD) but it didn't help either.
If anyone has any idea, I'll appreciate help.

[spoolindsm127]

Nice looking CPU-Z! Thanks!

RTL's looser compared to both 0011/0096.

BTW, I see you running 3DM11... I have a problem with it, just won't start, just shows (or not) for a split of a second in taskman and then disappears.
Tried reinstalling 3DM, directx, vcredist2005, 2008, 2010, 32bit, 64bit, dotnet 4.0 32bit, 64bit.
Reinstalled W7 after all (cause of some issues and cause I wanted fresh OS on my new SSD) but it didn't help either.
If anyone has any idea, I'll appreciate help.

No prob

Hmm interesting about the RTLs. I gave up on that for now until I go water or get the OCing itch again

I didn't encounter such a problem

Do you have the latest DirectX End-User Runtime?

EDIT: Oops I missed that you already did that

Maybe it needs the Flash plugin, or some other one? I can't remember which one it was but I would get a error in 3DMark Vantage. And after installing either the Flash (or maybe Java, Acrobat, Shockwave ) plugin 3DMark Vantage started to work properly.

[zoson]

I'm getting an i7 970! woohoo!

[SOYLINDA]

Done with 0095. Very good BIOS, but needs RTL's raised by one from 51-53-55.

Where I can find bios 0095 ?

Thanks.

[Kensek]

Just put in Beta Bios 1204 in the R3E, dated 11/19, and played with the new HD6970.

Ran the HD6970 950/1450, which is the current limit in CCC.

[AceBaran]

Nice one Don !

+1 to where is 0095 ?

[SOYLINDA]

Just air on MB and water on CPU for me. It's not so bad, but there are better ones, so got a little lucky I guess.
BIOS 0011 (7zip) is available for some time and 0096 (7zip) also, which I'm using right now.

About that issue with powering on then off in a split of a second, I had it too, but can't remember why it happened (twice). It has a cause, that's for sure.
My solution was to hold a button for 2-3 (but not 4) seconds and the system would remain powered on. Don't go in BIOS, let it boot, then turn restart and go in BIOS. That's it IIRC.

Here is 0096... ¿and 0095?