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

[skuldarin]

I just tried some low CPU voltage testing, my CPU is stable at 3.8 Ghz @ 1.225v, but its still pure crappage at 4.0 or 4.2 Ghz (needs 1.3375, and 1.3875v for those).

I'm gonna leave it at 3.8 Ghz while I wait for the I7 970 price to reduce some more.

i thought there was something funky about that... i got 4.27ghz to be stable at 1.28 for like a day... and then it never happened again... and i'm on a 980x and i'm getting the same thing. totally stable at 3.8 with roughly 1.225-1.23 vcore but as soon as i touch 4ghz i need atleast 1.33-1.34 and 4.27ghz at 1.375-1.38. that's a pretty stupid power to voltage ratio there and it was like this on both my 980x chips.

Uhh, I have got a bit of reading in this thread from the beginning . However I might still ask if not already asked several times: I'm using 3-way SLI (3xGTX580) and would like to buy an Asus Xonar Essence STX (or similar) audio card. Can I just plug it in the bottom red slot without issues with the 3-way SLI? Wouldn't that at least hurt my performance?

depends on the card's PCIE speed requirements. if i remember correctly, the last channel (when using 3-way sli) is turned into a 8x PCIE lane instead of 16. so currently you're running 8x / 8x / 16x with your 3-way sli (according to the owner manual). your last slot will be 8x by default.