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

[CryptiK]

There are several tests that prefer HT on, 3D Mark 06 CPU test is another.

[fl0w3n]

of course 259 bclk was on slow mode, I hit 4100MHz qpi link with slow mode on that bclk, without it will be around 5000+MHz qpi link and that is impossible.

I cant go over 234 on air cooled CPU and motherboard because it starts throttling over 4200MHz qpi link speed. I think with better cooling on the CPU and board it will go higher easy.

Slow mode is ok for 2D benching and I get similar scores with slow mode and without. But for 3D slow mode is useless.

Is there such thing as a QPI speed WR or such?

What do you mean it starts throttling over 4.2ghz?

I did some testing of 4.4 HT On vs 4.5 HT Off in wPrime 1024M and Vantage CPU test to confirm my findings which I saw when running Vantage with HT On vs HT Off. Here are the results which show a big difference favoring the lower clock speed with HT ON.

4523Mhz HT OFF wPrime 1024M

[IMG]http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss250/q9650/4523Mhz_HTOFF_wPrime1024M.jpg/IMG]

4438Mhz HT ON wPrime 1024M

[IMG]http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss250/q9650/4438Mhz_HTON_wPrime1024M.jpg/IMG]

4523Mhz HT OFF Vantage

[IMG]http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss250/q9650/4523Mhz_HTOFF_Vantage.jpg/IMG]


4438Mhz HT ON Vantage

[IMG]http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss250/q9650/4438Mhz_HTON_Vantage.jpg/IMG]

Thanks for that quick test. I'll be sticking to HT on for sure, because if it helps with 3d then that is mainly all I care about..gaming performance. Benching is 2nd priority in that sense lol.

[deachus]

My testing was for video encoding performance and not gaming performance but noticed the big difference in CPU score in Vantage when doing some benching one night a few weeks back. That led me to do the testing posted above. Now if only I could get that magical 4.5 HT ON LinX stable.

[jurky]

Is there such thing as a QPI speed WR or such?

What do you mean it starts throttling over 4.2ghz?

I dont think that competition for QPI speed WR exists. But higher stable Qpi link speed means little more performance in 3D benching.

Throttling means that CPU speed start to go up and down by itself, rapidly changing CPU multiplayer or bclk when you pushed over the limit. In my situation 4200MHz on qpi link speed is the limit on air cooled CPU and the board.

[AceBaran]

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[Ian[Frozen]]

Throttling means that CPU speed start to go up and down by itself, rapidly changing CPU multiplayer or bclk when you pushed over the limit. In my situation 4200MHz on qpi link speed is the limit on air cooled CPU and the board.

Whaaaat!!! Really???? No Way!!!

[jurky]

Whaaaat!!! Really???? No Way!!!

I probably use the wrong word (throthlig), but it is close enough to describe the problem.

sorry but my english is little bit limited.....

[fl0w3n]

My testing was for video encoding performance and not gaming performance but noticed the big difference in CPU score in Vantage when doing some benching one night a few weeks back. That led me to do the testing posted above. Now if only I could get that magical 4.5 HT ON LinX stable.

Oh I see. Ill be resetting-up my loop and giving the old cold weather oc runs a go again to get some ideas of whether my setup can do 4.5 ht on or not.

I dont think that competition for QPI speed WR exists. But higher stable Qpi link speed means little more performance in 3D benching.

Throttling means that CPU speed start to go up and down by itself, rapidly changing CPU multiplayer or bclk when you pushed over the limit. In my situation 4200MHz on qpi link speed is the limit on air cooled CPU and the board.

Okay. Thanks for clarifying. Great results on air none the less.

[Andreezy]

[zoson]

Question:
Is increasing PCIE freq for preventing GPU driver crashes?

I have a problem where my GPU driver crashes under heavy load(prime + furmark) and sometimes in long gaming sessions. The PC doesn't crash and prime never errors out. LinX can also some times cause a GPU driver crash, but not always.

[Andreezy]

Question:
Is increasing PCIE freq for preventing GPU driver crashes?

I have a problem where my GPU driver crashes under heavy load(prime + furmark) and sometimes in long gaming sessions. The PC doesn't crash and prime never errors out. LinX can also some times cause a GPU driver crash, but not always.

in my case, i believe i increased to 105Mhz PCI Freq to make my board
boot on (Bclk) 215x21 and i brought it back to 200x21 and i didnt change
it back.


i too had gpu driver crashes, but i think i fixed it with more cpu power.

[zoson]

in my case, i believe i increased to 105Mhz PCI Freq to make my board
boot on (Bclk) 215x21 and i brought it back to 200x21 and i didnt change
it back.


i too had gpu driver crashes, but i think i fixed it with more cpu power.

I just bumped my PCIE freq to 102mhz, my CPU voltage up one notch from 1.325 to 1.33125v, and my qpi up to 1.33125 from 1.325v.
I'll report back if it stops my gpu driver crashes. I'll also try slightly higher settings if it doesn't.

[Andreezy]

I just bumped my PCIE freq to 102mhz, my CPU voltage up one notch from 1.325 to 1.33125v, and my qpi up to 1.33125 from 1.325v.
I'll report back if it stops my gpu driver crashes. I'll also try slightly higher settings if it doesn't.

good luck
when testing in LinX, what i have learned to do is try and set the lowest
stable point for QPI, then i run LinX/IBT all threads and i begin with lets say 128Mb---> then i increase to 256MB--->512MB so on and on untill system
start crashing or stops on error, depending on the crash (BSOD) 124/101 i
adjust untill i make it all the way to lets say 4GB, after i can run 10/20 passes
on 4GB then i try and go for testing under full stress.

P.S.
i have a i7 970 coming in the mail, should be here tom.

[DOM.]

anyone test if the ln2 jumper if it helps any on ln2?

[zoson]

good luck
when testing in LinX, what i have learned to do is try and set the lowest
stable point for QPI, then i run LinX/IBT all threads and i begin with lets say 128Mb---> then i increase to 256MB--->512MB so on and on untill system
start crashing or stops on error, depending on the crash (BSOD) 124/101 i
adjust untill i make it all the way to lets say 4GB, after i can run 10/20 passes
on 4GB then i try and go for testing under full stress.

P.S.
i have a i7 970 coming in the mail, should be here tom.

I don't get a bsod or cpu crash. It is only a gpu driver crash. Screen goes black for 1 sec, then comes back and a little message says that my gpu driver was restarted because it had a problem. It doesn't cause any problems with linx - I am linx 200 loops stable.

[Andreezy]

I don't get a bsod or cpu crash. It is only a gpu driver crash. Screen goes black for 1 sec, then comes back and a little message says that my gpu driver was restarted because it had a problem. It doesn't cause any problems with linx - I am linx 200 loops stable.

i did a lot of trial and error and not in the safest way, i too remember myself going through this where my screen would dim then driver crash and recover.

dont remember if it had something to do with bad voltages or more Vcore needed.
in your case you dont seem to need more volt to cpu.
try a clean install of the drivers and update what you can/have not updated.

i was also crashing some drivers before and i believe it was related to IOH Voltage.
try and check your settings with other similar setups..

[dejanbinladen]

anyone test if the ln2 jumper if it helps any on ln2?

didnt help me at all, i wonder does it do anything

[fmsam]

Zoson which driver are you using

[zoson]

Zoson which driver are you using

Whatever the latest driver is I updated recently. I've been updating each time hoping that it would solve the problem. I started at 176.xx series and I think i'm on like 250.xx now. None of them make any difference.

[soulblade]

Hey ,
got my RE3 a while ago and followed this thread ( thanks god for this awesome thread) but now i got som problems... with my past mainboard Evga Sli Le 20x200 24/7 on 1.28Vcore 1.45 qpi 1.8pll
now to my 2 real questions, 1. i have problem with getting a stable 24/7 clock at even 3.3ghz ... so i go with stock and xmp profile for memory that´s all and im not very statisfyed with it
and for some reason its more stable when i go higher and bench, BUT voltages are to high to run on 24/7
so what is recomended voltages for a 24/7 setup 20x200? (Vcore-Qpi-Pll-?) using bios 1102

question 2 . when i oc my max stable clock is 4388mhz, 1.5Vcore~ 1.82pll ~ qpi 1.45 and just raising ioh/ or ich to what feels fine . thats max what i can get stable . read lots about pll on 1.4-1.6? and Vcores around 1.38v?
what is your´s opinion on voltage on oc? ( i read about ppl having problems with "higher" clocks on W3540? any ideas?) oc bios 0099 ( most stable i have found yet, need other ?)

setup: RE3-W3540 D0,Gskill Trident 2000mhz cl8 1.6v,5970, corsair 1kw , cpu and gpu watercooled by 3x120 and 2x120mm thermochill rads

Greatfull for help!

[Andreezy]

soulblade
Registered User

Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 1 <---------wow how did you manage to stay
to get back on topic, i too have a xeon on this board and only thing i can tell you is, be carefull when using T-Balance/X-Power distribution profiles if you dont have your MOLEX CPU Cable plugged in..
i O'C to 4.2Ghz and then was trying to up it and while doing that i changed the profile from T-Balance to X-Power and it brought nothing but headaches for me since i dont have that Molex plugged in. if you do good for you.

[Dahaka]

RIIIE w/ Bloomfield = sucks

RIIIE w/ Gulfy = rulz

[soulblade]

soulblade
Registered User

Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 1 <---------wow how did you manage to stay
to get back on topic, i too have a xeon on this board and only thing i can tell you is, be carefull when using T-Balance/X-Power distribution profiles if you dont have your MOLEX CPU Cable plugged in..
i O'C to 4.2Ghz and then was trying to up it and while doing that i changed the profile from T-Balance to X-Power and it brought nothing but headaches for me since i dont have that Molex plugged in. if you do good for you.

haha i don´t know really ! on XS 90% of your diffirent problems are found out in a thread and dont really need an reply

just wounder, molex? ain´t that just for making pci-e lines more stable when doing CFX or sli setups?
can´t really see why is should help but ofcourse i will give it a try, i been using both T-Balance/X-Power and i don´t really feel any diffirent on oc.
what bios are you using at 24/7 and oc bios ?

but thanks for a fast answering

and for other reply , yes i would like to own a Gulftown to but my wallet aint that big at the moment bloomfield have to last a little while more and i problebly get a 980x when ppl uppgrade to sandy bridge Ty anyway

[Andreezy]

i am using the 1102 bios, and i meant the molex plug called "EZ Plug" which i
believe supplies power to cpu.

but if its no difference for you between T/X power balance then good.
in my case if i go from T_Balance to X_Power i would get bad memory residuals in Linx no matter what qpi/dram voltage used, if i set it to T balance then everything is good.....
maybe i should just plug that darn ez_plug myself...
i cant hump over 4333mhz.....bad memory residuals if i go over that

[Andreezy]

RIIIE w/ Bloomfield = sucks

RIIIE w/ Gulfy = rulz

i would be more awed to see your 980X ES moving 85-->93 GFlops in LinX
which it can do very well, you seem to have enough hardware to pull it off.
good luck on tuning that chip.