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

[spoolindsm127]

Just an observation..

'Sync Mode' is missing in bios 1207.

Build dates:

Bios 1207: 3/14/2011

Bios 0003: 3/18/2011

[donmarkoni]

So far positive results with 1207 for me. Exact 1005 settings were stable.
Now testing at 21x205. I want the extra 100mhz!
More bclk needs so much more IOH! 200 I only need 1.2 IOH, 205 I need 1.272.
Edit:
I tested CPU PLL 1.2 and it seems better than 1.55v!

Nice finding. Try different CPU PLL voltages, you might be surprised with the difference in stability.

Just an observation..
'Sync Mode' is missing in bios 1207.

Build dates:
Bios 1207: 3/14/2011
Bios 0003: 3/18/2011

Hmm... Does that mean it's always on? Can you check if it works, as I'm currently testing 0003.

[tistou77]

What is the changelog of 0003?

[donmarkoni]

What is the changelog of 0003?

tRL timing for each chanel in dram timings

[tistou77]

ok thanks

I'll stick with the 1207 yet, I have no problem with my memory (Elpida Hyper)
TRL are in AUTO for my memory

[sprayingmango]

Does anyone know if it's possible to run the SATA 6 controller in RAID while using a RevoDrive X2 with the 1207 bios?

[spoolindsm127]

Hmm... Does that mean it's always on? Can you check if it works, as I'm currently testing 0003.

Ok just checked out the Sync Mode feature with bios 1207. Asus has changed things up a bit. Surprised it wasn't mentioned in the changelog..

So to answer your question Don, yes, it seems Sync Mode is always on with bios 1207. BUT...

TurboV Evo has a new feature now that I have not seen before. Did you guys ever have a 'Save to BIOS' button? It seems as if due to the problems in the past with hardware failure using TurboV Evo, Asus has seperated the Sync Mode to just Windows or to the BIOS.

TurboV Evo reads all my manually set voltage settings properly. And if I change any voltage and hit 'apply' it works. Confirmed with CPU-Z. But hitting 'Apply' only changes it in windows. If you restart, BIOS will still have previous voltage settings. If you click 'Save to BIOS', then the voltage changes in Windows AND the BIOS. I confirmed this by raising VCore and saving to bios, then re-entering the BIOS to see if it changed. It did

P.S. Also ICH PCIE and IOH PCIE voltage show as 1.51106v in TurboVEvo. That is the lowest setting.

[donmarkoni]

Ok just checked out the Sync Mode feature with bios 1207. Asus has changed things up a bit. Surprised it wasn't mentioned in the changelog..

So to answer your question Don, yes, it seems Sync Mode is always on with bios 1207. BUT...

TurboV Evo has a new feature now that I have not seen before. Did you guys ever have a 'Save to BIOS' button? It seems as if due to the problems in the past with hardware failure using TurboV Evo, Asus has seperated the Sync Mode to just Windows or to the BIOS.

TurboV Evo reads all my manually set voltage settings properly. And if I change any voltage and hit 'apply' it works. Confirmed with CPU-Z. But hitting 'Apply' only changes it in windows. If you restart, BIOS will still have previous voltage settings. If you click 'Save to BIOS', then the voltage changes in Windows AND the BIOS. I confirmed this by raising VCore and saving to bios, then re-entering the BIOS to see if it changed. It did

P.S. Also ICH PCIE and IOH PCIE voltage show as 1.51106v in TurboVEvo. That is the lowest setting.

Thanks mate for detailed test and explanation!
Can I quote you on another forum?
This is how it should worked from the first day, but nonetheless big plus for Asus.

[spoolindsm127]

Thanks mate for detailed test and explanation!
Can I quote you on another forum?
This is how it should worked from the first day, but nonetheless big plus for Asus.

Yes definitely props to Asus for actually making a useful improvement.

And no problem Don the pleasure is all mine . And yes you can quote me this is something R3E owners should know.

Does 0003 have this feature? I haven't gotten the opportunity to flash to it yet.

[zoson]

Thanks mate for detailed test and explanation!
Can I quote you on another forum?
This is how it should worked from the first day, but nonetheless big plus for Asus.

Yes definitely props to Asus for actually making a useful improvement.

And no problem Don the pleasure is all mine . And yes you can quote me this is something R3E owners should know.

Does 0003 have this feature? I haven't gotten the opportunity to flash to it yet.

I stopped using turbo-v evo because it would save some settings that i did not want it to save! RTL value would go from Auto to whatever turbo-v evo detected as auto... Fine if that's stable settings, but then I would change my ram freq and be left wondering why my previous oc was unstable!!!

Will it leave settings alone that are set to auto if you save to bios now?

[zoson]

Has anyone else noticed that with 12gb ram you get way higher temps on your cpu with Linx if you test with 8GB instead of ALL memory?

Also way higher GFlops with 8GB instead of all.

[theseeker]

Just when I thought I was about to hit the home stretch, I noticed this....



Yep, the molex connector is blocked by the MB tray brace. Once again, take it apart, mod and repaint!
This MB has 2-8 pins and 2-4 pins and of course the 24 pin. Really, how much power does this MB need?
Looking for Donmarkoni............

[zoson]

Just when I thought I was about to hit the home stretch, I noticed this....



Yep, the molex connector is blocked by the MB tray brace. Once again, take it apart, mod and repaint!
This MB has 2-8 pins and 2-4 pins and of course the 24 pin. Really, how much power does this MB need?
Looking for Donmarkoni............

You only need the 4 pin connectors if you are running triple or quad SLI.

[theseeker]

You only need the 4 pin connectors if you are running triple or quad SLI.

I will be running 2 580's and a RAID card. It would be nice if ASUS gave a little more detailed information in their manual.
Many thanks for the info!

[wtfdc]

Does this Asus Rampage board support Intel Xeon W3670 ?

[zoson]

I will be running 2 580's and a RAID card. It would be nice if ASUS gave a little more detailed information in their manual.
Many thanks for the info!

No problem. I'm running 2x 560's in SLI without the 4 pin connectors. It's to make sure that you don't burn the atx24 pin if there is high load. If you're worried, you can plug one in. You don't need to have both for sure.

Does this Asus Rampage board support Intel Xeon W3670 ?

I don't see why not. It is the same as a 970.

Also, RC Tweakit no longer saves to bios. There is no option like turbo v evo. I have been using RC Tweakit via usb from my laptop for overclocking.

[Toritechie]

@ Donkarkoni and anyone else that could help?

I bought a 980x from ebay, 2nd hand - DOA. The seller and I communicated, and I decided to do an RMA here in Australia, since he had posted the HSF etc.

Today, a BRAND NEW 980x turned up, and it's currently running in my system.

My problem is - I'm only getting 4GB of my 6GB Gskill Tridents. I've tried a ton of variations in BIOS settings, default, different RAM speeds/voltages/everything I can think of.

Still - all my system sees and can use is dual channel 4GB.

What has happened to the other 2GB? I put my old i7 930 back in, to see if I had somehow damaged a stick in the CPU swap over - and voila - I'm seeing 6GB again.

Then, put the 980x in, and bam ... 4GB. It's frustrating as hell.

If anyone can help, I'm at my wits end ..... /beg

[CryptiK]

Oh dear, sounds like you have a similar issue to me with my Trident 2000C9's/Corsair 2000C8's. Seems there is really weird CPU/Ram interactions with this board.

My tridents drop a channel and/or cold boot with my 920 and W3570, and my Corsair 2000C8 kit just has cold boot issues with both my CPU's, but with the 950 at the shop I took it back to get tested at, the kits are both fine. Details of my issue are scattered over the last few pages here. Essentially with either kit, if I just run 2 sticks, I have no issues at all. It's just when I drop in that 3rd stick that all hell breaks loose.

There are reports of people not being able to POST with a certain ram kit and a bloomfield, then they changed to a Gulftown and bam, POST and stable.

May be worth trying different BIOS if you haven't already. Check you CPU socket pincs, CPU pads and ram slots and ram contacts too just to be sure it's not something simple.

If you figure it out let me know!

[Toritechie]

Oh dear, sounds like you have a similar issue to me with my Trident 2000C9's/Corsair 2000C8's. Seems there is really weird CPU/Ram interactions with this board.

My tridents drop a channel and/or cold boot with my 920 and W3570, and my Corsair 2000C8 kit just has cold boot issues with both my CPU's, but with the 950 at the shop I took it back to get tested at, the kits are both fine.

If you figure it out let me know!

I'm just about to flash the new bios 1207 ... it's really frustrating to hear you have this problem too - with no possible solution. I really need that 3rd channel; I've moved from a 930 to a 980 ... and I'm running 3 x 580's - if I hand wanted a dual channel board I'd have switched to Sandy.

Anyway; do you think a different brand of RAM would help things? Can detection of channels vary so much from CPU to CPU - ie the bloomfield is fine but the gulftown is a no go>!?

/stressed

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

I'm just about to flash the new bios 1207 ... it's really frustrating to hear you have this problem too - with no possible solution. I really need that 3rd channel; I've moved from a 930 to a 980 ... and I'm running 3 x 580's - if I hand wanted a dual channel board I'd have switched to Sandy.

Anyway; do you think a different brand of RAM would help things? Can detection of channels vary so much from CPU to CPU - ie the bloomfield is fine but the gulftown is a no go>!?

/stressed

no I believe Cryptik is having problems with both his bloomfield cpu's so it is not isolated to gulftown. I would drop a channel whenever my oc was unstable but to be getting this all the time is ridiculous

[zoson]

I'm just about to flash the new bios 1207 ... it's really frustrating to hear you have this problem too - with no possible solution. I really need that 3rd channel; I've moved from a 930 to a 980 ... and I'm running 3 x 580's - if I hand wanted a dual channel board I'd have switched to Sandy.

Anyway; do you think a different brand of RAM would help things? Can detection of channels vary so much from CPU to CPU - ie the bloomfield is fine but the gulftown is a no go>!?

/stressed

How much QPI? Try also increasing the value of Round Trip Latency for your modules by 1 or 2.

[CryptiK]

It makes no sense to me I've never seen anything like this issue. The CPU is known and supported, the ram I see other people using without an issue. I had my problems 'resolved' y dropping in some random 950 the guys used to test with! So thats just a different bloomfield, not even a Gulfie.

Other guys cant restart without a full power off, I can only restart if I don't power off the PSU or wall socket! This board seems really picky about what you can and can't combine on it from what I can see. Some people get lucky.

You can try a ram kit that is on the QVL and see how you go. However I don't think its a guarantee it will work as you'll notice the GSkill Tridents are on there, but only certain Trident variants in 3x2GB, others are 2x2GB kits but the QVL says it can handle 3 dimms (which it can't it seems, as mine has issues with them too).

As sugegsted try adjusting RTL's, and maybe try BIOS 00003 or whatever Shamino posted, and set the tRL's a bit looser.

[MrTOOSHORT]

You only need the 4 pin connectors if you are running triple or quad SLI.

I noticed the molex 4 pin connectors help give stable power to your cards too, even if you're running just one high powered one.

I have one GTX570 running and with the 4 pin connected to the corresponding PCI-E lanes, I can get a better OC on my card with lesser volts.

[Toritechie]

How much QPI? Try also increasing the value of Round Trip Latency for your modules by 1 or 2.

Even though my BIOS only sees 2 sticks?

Surely, with a brand new 980x installed today; it can't be a CPU issue?

I'm tempted to just pick up a different brand of RAM and sell on these Tridents. They work flawlessly with the 930.

I'll try some different settings, but I've already set a variety of QPI's and other RAM setting,s and am now using BIOS 1207. All to no avail.

Would 0003 be any different?

[CryptiK]

I think 0003 is 1207 but with tRL option added for each channel. tRL being too tight (or set wrong) can cause channels to be dropped.

I think our issues are similar in that its not a CPU alone issue, it's not a ram alone issue and its not a board alone issue. Combine all three though and there's a problem.