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

[zoson]

just so you know zoson, my 6gb kit, performs with no problems on bloomfield, the problem is only gulftown hexa chip.
so, i assume your result will most likely be similar to mine.

on a side note, how do you rma memory which only problem is not being able
to scale with O'C Speeds??

Cryptic, thats just amazing how this memory sticks are not scaling proper.

My 6gb kit works fine with my Gulftown, the 12GB kit works fine up until 9gb or so. I haven't done any synthetics to see if my bandwidth is fine... If the results arn't conclusive I'll pop my chip and take it to my friend's place to test on his board(at least I'm pretty sure he'd allow me).

Not sure if you are describing the same issue - when using 6GB, my GFLOPS are as normal. When using 12GB (of the same model ram) the GFLOPS are at a lower level.

You seem to be saying you have a single 6GB kit that when used alone is coinciding with low GFLOPS.

In all honesty I dont care what LinX says, it isnt coded the best and has always had problems with hexacore, also HT, now this weird lower GFLOPS issue some are seeing when using 12GB. I am almost 100% certain its just buggy software, and proper apps can and do make use of 12GB when its installed. Im only focused on real world performance I just use some synthetic tests to verify stability under high stress.

Verify your bandwidth with AIDA64 or everest, do some SPI32M runs, some Prime and some LinX (no matter how poorly the latter works) and you'll notice everything is fine except LinX. That doesnt indicate a problem with hardware - just that program. My bandwidth is good with 12GB, and everything else runs beautifully.

The reason why I'm concerned about this is several people are not having the problem with 12GB! I agree it might be a software issue, but we can't be sure since some people don't have the problem...

forget the post above, i turned HT OFF,ram set @ 1694mhz, uncore 2x @3388.
im getting 89GFlops

I'll try turning off HT tonight and testing to see if it helps. I'm currently running all 18GB at 1833mhz with uncore x2.

[Sylver123]

New Intel Rapid Storage Technology 10.5.0.1015 WHQL now out.

http://www.station-drivers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3074

[Andreezy]

The reason why I'm concerned about this is several people are not having the problem with 12GB! I agree it might be a software issue, but we can't be sure since some people don't have the problem...

i have no problems with kit of Patriot 12GB 3x 4gb 2000mhz @ 1.5x Uncore.
also no problem with kit of Patriot Viper II Extreme 12GB 3x 4gb 1600Mhz @ 2x Uncore.

I'll try turning off HT tonight and testing to see if it helps. I'm currently running all 18GB at 1833mhz with uncore x2.

it will be very interesting to see all 18GB of ram since all you have to do is turn HT off, good luck

[tistou77]

New Intel Rapid Storage Technology 10.5.0.1015 WHQL now out.

http://www.station-drivers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3074

no WHQL

[zoson]

i have no problems with kit of Patriot 12GB 3x 4gb 2000mhz @ 1.5x Uncore.
also no problem with kit of Patriot Viper II Extreme 12GB 3x 4gb 1600Mhz @ 2x Uncore.


it will be very interesting to see all 18GB of ram since all you have to do is turn HT off, good luck

!!!!
You are 100% right!!! 10240mb with ht off:

91gflops.
I'm running a test with 16gb now.

HT off feels like cheating to me though.

All mem 88Gflop:

[skuldarin]

!!!!
You are 100% right!!! 10240mb with ht off:

91gflops.
I'm running a test with 16gb now.

HT off feels like cheating to me though.

All mem 88Gflop:

^^^
i told ya man, don't mean to ride back on rough waters, but i did mention this a while ago... as i followed. the HT seems to be either -1- overloading the ICM with the extra threads going at those speeds or -2- something to do with LinX not running all 12 threads properly which has been prooven with results shown between HT on and HT off situations.

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on another note...

seems i've finally prooven the whole "intel uses bad sensors" theory that i've read else where and also i my self posted here earlier. people should just probably stop doing the cake technique for applying their thermal compound...
redid my thermal compound with the X pattern, smooshed it down and torqued down my water block bolts down pretty tight this time around... thankfully it seems Koolance's compression fittings, the outter tube part of the fitting was the perfect tool to ensure perfect equal torque all around based on it's highth (made it so the springs holding the water block down all go to the same compression length for equal pressure).

anyway... after all this, all temps are just about dead even with only 2-3*c varience. i suggest doing the same for anything else having the same issues as i noticed.

i also swaped all my mem chips around to see if i could get lucky with better full mem stability. running at 1866 CL9 (9-9-9-24-110) and 2x uncore at 3733 with CPU at stock 3.33ghz and i just ran 10 rounds full mem (11,200 out of total 12gb) and did 75gflops average and stable. i'm gonna try bumping it further to 2000 mem and 4000 uncore and see if it'll break 80gflops. also, VTT is now stable at 1.36 now down from 1.41 and mem voltage at 1.68 down from 1.7. i previously thought swapping mem sticks around really didn't show much improovement most of the time and didn't think to do so much until now and it's seemed to pay off.

[Xel_NaGa]

I just got my 930 up to 4.5. I have the volts at 1.41 it's the lowest I could go to keep it stable. My temps after full load for 3 hours or so get to 77c . What you guys think? back it off a little or rock on?

Nice OC what's your mem and unicore speeds at?

[skuldarin]

^^^
nice VengeancE! when i ran my 930 a while back it was TOOAAASSTY at that speed (though with HT on, never tried off).

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so i still can't get 2000mhz to go on my mem... channel B drops alot and i can never get more than 8gigs to show and this is the same results i encountered before swapping my mem around... so i'm thinkin it's coming back to my MOBO again being the main issue and my IOH just not being the greatest or something. i've gotten upto 1970... after that channel B it's self drops 50% of the time and i've tried all sorts of timings, voltages, reference voltages, data links and so on... just doesn't want to do it and it's always channel B droping every time.

BUT! right now, sitting at 4.64ghz (136x34) with 1909 on mem and uncore at 2x (3822). vcore at 1.46875v, VTT at 1.375, Dram at 1.6695v, IOH at 1.166v. passed 5 rounds with 8gigs in LinX at 103gflops and 77-78*c average core temps. i'll throw it on full mem tomorrow for full stability but for now it's well within 24/7 temp ranges for my system.

[Malik]

Guys help me, i cant hit 4.4Ghz on my brand new i7 960. Earlier i work on 920, and he worked with no problem on 4.4Ghz - 1.4V

I try with voltages, bclk, ratio and nothing

R3E bios: 1208

Here some shots:

[Shiranui Gen-An]

Guys help me, i cant hit 4.4Ghz on my brand new i7 960. Earlier i work on 920, and he worked with no problem on 4.4Ghz - 1.4V

I try with voltages, bclk, ratio and nothing

R3E bios: 1208

http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/...l#post10703917

That STOP error indicates you need to increase vcore. Your 920 was obviously a better overclocker.

[zoson]

I dun it.
4.5GHZ 6/6 with 2166mhz mem.
So close to 100GFlops.

[Andreezy]

congrats, your chip is just as bad as mine, same voltage and almost same problems...........intel you better get your together.....this cpu batch crap sucks.

by the way i need like 1.43v qpi to be stable @4.5Ghz......wayyyy beyond 32nm tolerance.............



really dont care to hear much crap about voltage/tolerances etc.......
this is extreme R&D

[zoson]

congrats, your chip is just as bad as mine, same voltage and almost same problems...........intel you better get your together.....this cpu batch crap sucks.

by the way i need like 1.43v qpi to be stable @4.5Ghz......wayyyy beyond 32nm tolerance.............



really dont care to hear much crap about voltage/tolerances etc.......
this is extreme R&D

Yeah, it's not very good, but it gets there! I only needed 1.35v QPI for 4.5GHz(180bclk 3.6ghz uncore)

[Oráculo®]

I upgrade my motherboard with bios 1208, masi not have these options in my bios here ...

someone here has the same problem? there these options in the bios of your computers with rampage 3 extreme?

[Malik]

I upgrade my motherboard with bios 1208, masi not have these options in my bios here ...

someone here has the same problem? there these options in the bios of your computers with rampage 3 extreme?

Yes, this options are in my pc which have r3e mobo.

[tistou77]

it's necessary to activate an option in the bios if you want to see these additional options

[Oráculo®]

which enabled these

[tistou77]

which enabled these

is a question?

the option is CPU Voltage OCP if I remember

[Malik]

For now, this is max.

[CryptiK]

Hmm 960s have a terrible reputation for being terrible. Sounds like your 920 was much better!

[Malik]

Hmm 960s have a terrible reputation for being terrible. Sounds like your 920 was much better!

This cpu have one place ... trash. I hope they send me brand new i920 from RMA.

[Rasmus66]

This cpu have one place ... trash. I hope they send me brand new i920 from RMA.

You cant get a new I7 920 any more.

You will get a I7 930 instead and a 930 dont overclock better then the 960 you have now.

[Malik]

So plan B - sell all and go for SB

[Rasmus66]

So plan B - sell all and go for SB

Or find a second hand I7 920 maybe even a I7 970

[CryptiK]

You are right into photography right? Why not get yourself a hexcore, its cut down my processing time a lot when converting raw to jpeg for example.

SB is a mid range platform and I just personally dont like it, give me proven X58 + hexcore power any day.

You could pickup a nice 970 pretty cheap and 4.2 should be a walk in the park for it, and with 2 extra physical cores it will increase the power of your rig. SB and 4.5GHz+ is for people who game etc and want high FPS. I wasnt 4-4.5GHz and raw power without blasting my chip with vcore and degrading it in 6 months like all the guys with SB are doing. I'm sick of all the hey look 5GHz threads, seriously if I wanted to abuse my 990X as much as they are abusing their cpu's I could get damn close if not nail 5GHz but with 6c/12t.

I work for hours editing and converting, I need reliability and power without abusing it, and if have the same goal, hexcore + X58 is the way to go until perhaps IVY but I wont be upgrading till I need to.