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

[p3gaz_001]

do any one have any template for an i7 970? i've got a new toy to play with i've already seen that the locked multy is such a limitation to the overclock it self...

and the saddest thing is that... something went burn in my mainboard, i think is the transistor which operate on OPT_FAN2 .... btw the mainboard is however fully working.

[cx-ray]

Now my vertex 3 is like vertex 2?
I have i7 4,2. Asus rampage 3 extreme, 6gbs 1600 6-6-8-20 gskill, msi 580gtx. I dont upgrade to sandy bridge, my pc is very good...
Asus will upgrade the bios to fix this problem? or dont have solution...

Vertex 3 on Sandy Bridge is about 500 MB/s sequential read and 220 MB/s write after it's been used. That's the nature of the Sandforce controller. Don't fall for the crazy never used benchmark speeds.

Yeah, the Marvell controller isn't all that good. You're better off with the Intel even if the sequential is lower. Alternatively you could get two smaller SSD drives and RAID 0 them on the Intel ports. For that I recommend the Crucial C300 due to the excellent native garbage collection.

[Pickles24]

I got this board a few days ago. It clocks better then my Gigabyte ud7. My question.. is the usb on the bottom of the board the only onboard 2.0/1.0 usb? I have 2 usb needs in the front of my 800d(one being a fan controller for LC) and there is a lot of real estate between the front and back. If that's it, either they ran out of room or a design flaw? The Ud7 has 3 or 4 for this reason.

[zinsco]

I got this board a few days ago. It clocks better then my Gigabyte ud7. My question.. is the usb on the bottom of the board the only onboard 2.0/1.0 usb? I have 2 usb needs in the front of my 800d(one being a fan controller for LC) and there is a lot of real estate between the front and back. If that's it, either they ran out of room or a design flaw? The Ud7 has 3 or 4 for this reason.

You need this.

[Sylver123]

Hello guys,

Thanks for responding to my raid questions earlier in the thread.

I now have my second RealSSD C300 256GB drive and i'll be trying out raid sometime later on.

At the moment i'll be keeping both my RealSSD C300 drives as non raid but the thing I was wondering, you guys said that I would not get full performance from these drives raiding them together on the marvel controller but as i`m going to use them as normal non raid drives at the moment on the marvel controller, will I still get the full performance from each drive with both marvel ports being populated or will both drives performance suffer because of the two drives being connected at the same time and because you have said the marvel controller share a pcie lane?

Thanks for responding.

Sylver123.

[zinsco]

Hello guys,

Thanks for responding to my raid questions earlier in the thread.

I now have my second RealSSD C300 256GB drive and i'll be trying out raid sometime later on.

At the moment i'll be keeping both my RealSSD C300 drives as non raid but the thing I was wondering, you guys said that I would not get full performance from these drives raiding them together on the marvel controller but as i`m going to use them as normal non raid drives at the moment on the marvel controller, will I still get the full performance from each drive with both marvel ports being populated or will both drives performance suffer because of the two drives being connected at the same time and because you have said the marvel controller share a pcie lane?

Thanks for responding.

Sylver123.

I would think you would be fine because you won't be accessing them at the same time.

[Darknight]

hello

I wonder what the bios more stable / better to R3E and a 980X

board is currently with the 0901

thanks

[Sylver123]

I would think you would be fine because you won't be accessing them at the same time.

Thanks a lot mate for responding.

I thought that would be the case but I was unsure.

Can anyone else please confirm that both drives should work at their full performance on the marvel controller even when the two drives are connected on the marvel ports at the same time and used as normal non raid?

[zoson]

Thanks a lot mate for responding.

I thought that would be the case but I was unsure.

Can anyone else please confirm that both drives should work at their full performance on the marvel controller even when the two drives are connected on the marvel ports at the same time and used as normal non raid?

i get very close to 500mb/sec reads on marvell with my two 80gb g2's in raid0.

Remember, PCIe x1 is still 5Gbps... (~640MB/sec)

[Pickles24]

You need this.

Thank you.

[p3gaz_001]

... is something wrong in here?



why i'm getting so low gflops?

[zinsco]

why i'm getting so low gflops?

Hyperthreading

[tistou77]

for me, it's 82 Gflops with my 970 @4.25GhZ and HT

[p3gaz_001]

for me, it's 82 Gflops with my 970 @4.25GhZ and HT

what is your max overclock ? (and offcourse benchable)

[Cookiesowns]

You need the updated LinPack files.

[p3gaz_001]

You need the updated LinPack files.

can you help me out? i'm not that "linx guru" .....

[tistou77]

what is your max overclock ? (and offcourse benchable)

is the max I've tested yet

can you help me out? i'm not that "linx guru" .....

here for the Linpack files

[p3gaz_001]

thanks!

[p3gaz_001]

quite good result for now ...

[zinsco]

Still having trouble with coming out of sleep. Had to uncheck using usb to come out of sleep because it wouldn't go to sleep with the usb enabled to do that. Now I just use the power button to come out of sleep. That works but not if I go any higher than 4.0GHz cpu and like 1333 ram. I can go 2000 on the ram with the cpu at stock speed but as soon as I start bringing the cpu back up I have to bring the ram down.

I can pass prime95, I can run over 20 loops with linx and everything runs just fine at much higher speeds like 4.5GHz with 2000 ram and vcore / vtt voltages in the 1.4 ranges all day long, but as soon as it goes to sleep I can't bring it out of sleep. The fans and everything will run but thats it, I have to turn the power off and reboot.

Any ideas. Do you guys use the sleep mode, or is that normal with higher clock speeds and having ssd's in raid 0?

My goodness, all I had to do was clear cmos and now sleep works like a charm with or without usb.

I'm running 24/7 at 4.3GHz with ram at 2000 for now. I might go up to 4.5 max 24/7 but I'll have to
raise vcore to 1.45 maybe even a little higher. What do you guys think about the difference between
4.5 and 4.3? I'm thinking not much and keeping my vcore at 1.4 is probably better. Do you guys agree or not?

[spoolindsm127]

Kinda late to the party but I just re-did my loop and added in the EK-FB block Enjoying sub 30c temps on IOH/ICH

With the stock air cooling the IOH was always warmer than the ICH. But now with the water block, and I guess because of it's design, the IOH is now cooler than the ICH! 2-in-1 improvement

[p3gaz_001]

welcome to the ek'd rIIIe

[skuldarin]

My goodness, all I had to do was clear cmos and now sleep works like a charm with or without usb.

I'm running 24/7 at 4.3GHz with ram at 2000 for now. I might go up to 4.5 max 24/7 but I'll have to
raise vcore to 1.45 maybe even a little higher. What do you guys think about the difference between
4.5 and 4.3? I'm thinking not much and keeping my vcore at 1.4 is probably better. Do you guys agree or not?

i use 1.45 vcore for 4.5 daily now without issue. as long as your VTT is within spec and you have decent cooling (running 4.5 at 80*c max load or lower) i personally think you'd be fine. mine runs at about 68-70*c at full load with 4.5 and 1.45vcore.

though there really isn't that much of a difference betwen 4.3 and 4.5 so it's up to you really. if you run 4.3 at 1.4 that's perfectly fine too, though you might be able to get away with 1.38-1.39 range. out of the chips i've had (2 980's and 2 930's) all needed 1.41825vcore to be stable at 4.4ghz so... it's up to you if you really want to run that extra voltage for the 100mhz and are capable of dealing with the heat.

[zinsco]

i use 1.45 vcore for 4.5 daily now without issue. as long as your VTT is within spec and you have decent cooling (running 4.5 at 80*c max load or lower) i personally think you'd be fine. mine runs at about 68-70*c at full load with 4.5 and 1.45vcore.

though there really isn't that much of a difference betwen 4.3 and 4.5 so it's up to you really. if you run 4.3 at 1.4 that's perfectly fine too, though you might be able to get away with 1.38-1.39 range. out of the chips i've had (2 980's and 2 930's) all needed 1.41825vcore to be stable at 4.4ghz so... it's up to you if you really want to run that extra voltage for the 100mhz and are capable of dealing with the heat.

What are you running your ram, uclk and vtt 24/7?

[angel_dust]

Hi all

Any of you using the Sata 3 Marvell 9128 controller.
I'm wondering if you can help me out with what drivers give the best performance and are most stable on that Marvell. Ive heard there have been mixed results. I'll be using a OCZ Vertex 3 ssd and I'm still using BIOS version 1005 on the R3E.