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

[claydough]

Does anyone know what the changes are in 1208 yet?

bios is up...

Update to Intel Raid Option ROM

[zoson]

and you're missing what i'm trying to get across as i meant earlier that your higher speeds would be difficult to stabilize with the higher amount of memory IE your 18gigs. the lower gflops with 9+gigs shows that there's an instability somewhere otherwise your cpu should be platuing at a certain point and keeping that rate as you go higher in tested mem. you shouldn't be loosing gflops...

so i just wont help you with MY particular experience in trying to get that issue fixed. your speeds your stable at are with your 6gigs installed, not your 18... and i know that. i was trying to help you with your 18 but it's whatever. sorry for trying to help you get higher gflops... done with you.

Welcome to the discussion from two weeks ago. This is what I've been saying all along. You don't know what's going on so you're repeating information that everyone has been over already.

You're annoying and useless...

[Mungri]

I went mad and ordered two of these to play with:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/12gb-...-9-24-xmp-150v

They were on a today only offer for £119 per 12 Gb, so thats why I ordered them. My current ram looks fugly next to my new CPU cooler, and clashes too much with the mobo:



I'll either keep both sets, or sell one if they dont do so well together.

I also installed the 1208 bios, its working fine though I'm not sure what the difference is, but I'm using Raid and it says it does something for raid :p

[Andreezy]

Welcome to the discussion from two weeks ago. This is what I've been saying all along. You don't know what's going on so you're repeating information that everyone has been over already.

You're annoying and useless...

whats is the p/n of your 12gb ram, is it 998953?
find out if others have same problem as you, if not i'd rma.
if the problem is <9GB then i'd run stock timings @ 10-10-10-27 and see if the problem is there.
if it is still low GFlops, then i'd rma the 12GB now that you have a 6gb set which is stable.
good luck.

[zoson]

whats is the p/n of your 12gb ram, is it 998953?
find out if others have same problem as you, if not i'd rma.
if the problem is <9GB then i'd run stock timings @ 10-10-10-27 and see if the problem is there.
if it is still low GFlops, then i'd rma the 12GB now that you have a 6gb set which is stable.
good luck.

Yeah, it's 998953.
I've tried running all the stock timings, including running the cpu at as close to stock as possible(24x143)...

The whole thing is I feel like before I can RMA the 12GB kit, I need to get another 12GB kit to verify that it's in fact the kit and not the board or cpu... or get another cpu and verify the reverse...

The 12GB kit performs just as well as the 6GB kit for any capacity 9GB or lower(I don't know exactly where the problem occurs, 9216 is fine, 10240 is not). So the fact that the 6GB is stable doesn't really prove much...

I'm going to try each stick individually in each socket and see what happens... Might be able to expose a problem with one of the sticks that way... But that's for tomorrow or tuesday night.

[Cornel]

Mounted my noctua nh-d14 on my Asus R3E a few days ago.
It was a tight fit, but it worked fine after removing 2 headspreaders on my Corsair memory.
I also moved one fan a littlebit higher up.

all water is now gone from my system. I've had GFX, Chipset and CPU cooling in the past 6 years, but now it's air again!

[spoolindsm127]

Mounted my noctua nh-d14 on my Asus R3E a few days ago.
It was a tight fit, but it worked fine after removing 2 headspreaders on my Corsair memory.
I also moved one fan a littlebit higher up.

all water is now gone from my system. I've had GFX, Chipset and CPU cooling in the past 6 years, but now it's air again!

Man those are some high def pictures! Looking good

If you don't mind me asking, why'd you switch from water to air after 6 years?!

[BobyTT]

I have question, anyone here using RIIIE with Vertex 3?

[CryptiK]

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

hypers piss excellence on the X58

enjoy the memory

[CryptiK]

Yeah I just love Hypers. I will enjoy for sure

[skuldarin]

You're annoying and useless...

really not needed. i gave ideas that didn't seem to pop up from what i saw so thanks for being a douche. some people have dyslexia like my self, simply saying "tried that already but didn't work" works just fine. no need to be unecessarily rude.

ON TOPIC:

curious as i HAVE gone back to check if you had tried it or not. but did you see if 9+ would stabilize with windows in diagnostics mode? again, i'm trying to trouble shoot with you because i'm having the same issue with completely different memory but with similar settings for speed and timings.

[Cornel]

Man those are some high def pictures! Looking good

If you don't mind me asking, why'd you switch from water to air after 6 years?!

I had external watercooling (Zalman Reserator 1)
So i bet the Noctua is cooling better than the Reserator 1 did.

I just wanted back on air. Now i can move my computer around more too... was just to much work before!







And a few more here if you want...

I like to take some good pictures of my motherboards before i put them inside my case, becouse it's always dark in there, and not good space...
So when im wondering about something, i just open my flickr account and view them there.

[spoolindsm127]

I had external watercooling (Zalman Reserator 1)
So i bet the Noctua is cooling better than the Reserator 1 did.

I just wanted back on air. Now i can move my computer around more too... was just to much work before!

I get where you're coming from. I also recently upgraded to water cooling and sometimes wish I was still on air. But since I made the switch already I'm learning to live with it . So far so good *knock on wood*

BTW those pictures you and Cryptik posted were straight pr0n. It makes me so giddy inside to know I own a set as well

@Crpytik did you end up buying all the stock they had? lol I would do the same honestly. Will you be using all of it or are you binning them? It seemed like you had at least 8 sticks in that shot! Very nice you're going to love them

[skuldarin]

I also installed the 1208 bios, its working fine though I'm not sure what the difference is, but I'm using Raid and it says it does something for raid :p

it's apparently just the same as 1207... difference is, is that it's got the same build date of 0003 but 1208 still doesn't have tRL controls.

[spoolindsm127]

I had external watercooling (Zalman Reserator 1)
So i bet the Noctua is cooling better than the Reserator 1 did.

I just wanted back on air. Now i can move my computer around more too... was just to much work before!







And a few more here if you want...

I like to take some good pictures of my motherboards before i put them inside my case, becouse it's always dark in there, and not good space...
So when im wondering about something, i just open my flickr account and view them there.

Just as a friendly suggestion I would say you try the 'pea drop' or 'rice grain' method when applying thermal paste. And use Shin-Etsu X23-7783D for paste. I always get great results.

[spoolindsm127]

it's apparently just the same as 1207... difference is, is that it's got the same build date of 0003 but 1208 still doesn't have tRL controls.

And don't forget the Intel RAID ROM has been updated to 10.1.0.1008

[Cornel]

Just as a friendly suggestion I would say you try the 'pea drop' or 'rice grain' method when applying thermal paste. And use Shin-Etsu X23-7783D for paste. I always get great results.

Hm yes i know...
I just the noctua nt-h1 that came with the headsink.
I also use my finger inside a plastic bag to move the goop around, so when im done, some of it is still on the plastic bag.

I looked at some TomsHardware videos before, they just pooped out some thermal paste and slapped the cooler on the cpu and that was it...

I did it more like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5O_I...tailpage#t=77s

[zoson]

Called a friend whose computer I built last year. He's got an i7 950 on a Gigabyte x58a-ud3r. I'm gonna swing by his place this weekend to test my 12gb kit on his hardware.
If it works fine, well, the kit is obviously fine and I've gotta troubleshoot the CPU/Motherboard...
I'm really hoping it's not the cpu since I no longer have a spare sitting around...

[CryptiK]

There's 3 triple kits there (9 sticks). I am in the process of binning now, will make 3 as close to matched as I can get triads.

Got some other kits in my sights too.

I get where you're coming from. I also recently upgraded to water cooling and sometimes wish I was still on air. But since I made the switch already I'm learning to live with it . So far so good *knock on wood*

BTW those pictures you and Cryptik posted were straight pr0n. It makes me so giddy inside to know I own a set as well

@Crpytik did you end up buying all the stock they had? lol I would do the same honestly. Will you be using all of it or are you binning them? It seemed like you had at least 8 sticks in that shot! Very nice you're going to love them

[Oráculo®]

could someone add the upgrade intel sata bios version 10.1.0.1008 in 1005, have a temperature problem where the bios 1005 is the one that solves my problem!

[CryptiK]

EDIT - DMM readings incorrect, battery was dying. I apologize for the insinuation that it was intentional to get better ram clocks for review purposes. Erroneous readings removed.

Also been doing some memory testing. Put the best 3 (at CL6) sticks together out of the 9 I'm testing and using 1.61v did some stability testing. They may go further, DDR3-1732 errored after 30% or so.

DDR3-1704 MHz | 6-6-6-18 1T | 1.61v

[Raja@ASUS]

Were these voltages measured under full multi-threaded load?

If not run Hyper Pi 32M for VTT and VDIMM - this will put a heavy load on the IMC AND the DIMMs.

Measuring VDimm at the slot you will find some drift from one side of the power plane to the other because of resistive losses, hence various VDD pins across each slot will have higher or lower voltage.

[CryptiK]

Yes, vdimm and Vtt measured under load with HyperPi 32M 12 threads, also HCI Memtest using all memory and LinX/Prime all load IMC and memory the same and give the same load vdimm. Also running ram at different speeds (DDR3-1600 vs DDR3-1866) made no difference.

What were your measurements of vdimm?

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Yes, vdimm and Vtt measured under load with HyperPi 32M 12 threads, also HCI Memtest using all memory and LinX/Prime all load IMC and memory the same and give the same load vdimm. Also running ram at different speeds (DDR3-1600 vs DDR3-1866) made no difference.

What were your measurements of vdimm?

all the sticks I sold you can run 1720 6-6-6-18 at 1.65v, it is great to see that you are almost there with less volts, great job