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

[nowakjan2000]

BIOS 1401 is out:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...-ASUS-1401.zip
Don't know what's been changed.

[CryptiK]

Gotta love Asus and their detailed release notes

[zoson]

Here's to hoping for a bios that has updated raid firmware and tRL control...

[tistou77]

On the Asus forum, the changelog will

- Support new CPUs

[Leeghoofd]

Intel's new Gufltown 980

[AceBaran]

Guys want to say bye bye, selling my Whole setup... Tired of Windows and bios, driver, compatability, norton, and you name it .. Im moving to the light, away from the Darkside.

Take care

[donmarkoni]

You underestimate the power of the Dark Side.

[playground]

any1 tested new bios allready?

[Mekar]

Guys want to say bye bye, selling my Whole setup... Tired of Windows and bios, driver, compatability, norton, and you name it .. Im moving to the light, away from the Darkside.

Take care

u know the dark side have cookies devil.gif

[CryptiK]

Enjoy your Macbook air Ace, does it come with a free snob pack or do you have to purchase that now?

New BIOS will probably be exactly the same as the old one, but support the new CPU from intel. No new BIOS will suddenly allow 300 BCLK, DDR3-3000 or QPI datal link rate of 9000. It is how it is, which is how it's always been.

[zoson]

Enjoy your Macbook air Ace, does it come with a free snob pack or do you have to purchase that now?

New BIOS will probably be exactly the same as the old one, but support the new CPU from intel. No new BIOS will suddenly allow 300 BCLK, DDR3-3000 or QPI datal link rate of 9000. It is how it is, which is how it's always been.

The difference between 1301 and 0003 is DDR3-0 and DDR3-2166...

[idahosurge]

Went ahead and jumped my QPI Link Data Rate up to 7233 in my 1301 BIOS today. Ran two runs of SuperPI @ 32M and one run of OCCT CPU Auto test. So far no stability problems.

[Nunzi]

install 600g v-raptors on the intel conrtoller or the marvell? this is going to be raid0 setup

i have 2 150's v-raptors on the intel controller now Thanks

[SkOrPn]

Gotta love Asus and their detailed release notes

I look at it this way, at least we are still getting new bios releases. But I do agree, they should have listed what new CPU's are now supported, lol...

SkOrPn

[donmarkoni]

Went ahead and jumped my QPI Link Data Rate up to 7233 in my 1301 BIOS today. Ran two runs of SuperPI @ 32M and one run of OCCT CPU Auto test. So far no stability problems.

There should be no problems at all. I ran QPI at 7370 (167.5x22x2) for different CPU clocks, days at a time with no need to increase vIOH.

I look at it this way, at least we are still getting new bios releases. But I do agree, they should have listed what new CPU's are now supported, lol...

SkOrPn

Thy did. Just check CPU Support List at R3E page and you'll see i7-980 supported since 1401.

[gotendbz1]

for some reason i can only get my gtx 580 to run at 8x, i have tried all the pcie slot with the same problem. any ideas?

[cx-ray]

Have you checked that the PCIE stays at 8x during load as well? I faintly remember that my old GTX 480 would drop down the PCIE to 1.x during idle. Results appear to vary depending on mobo BIOS and video driver version.

Otherwise, I can only suggest the obvious trial and error. Reset CMOS, flash new mobo BIOS, try video card on another mobo that's verified to work properly, try another PCIE 2.x video card on current mobo.

[KILLER_K]

@ gotendbz1, what pci-express slot are you using?

[gotendbz1]

@ gotendbz1, what pci-express slot are you using?

yea killer_k, i'm a idiot, i thought i tried all the slots. it seems that only slots 1-3 are 16x 2-4 are only 8x. changed to slot 3 and problem is now fixed.

[p3gaz_001]

for some reason i can only get my gtx 580 to run at 8x, i have tried all the pcie slot with the same problem. any ideas?

this happens to me when i was using an old card on slot 3, while a 580 was running on slot 1, once i've pulled out that 8600GS the pci speed went back to x16

[Sanousie]

Does anyone have a issue with the bios displaying the ICH PCIe 1.5v? option is there to change it, but there is no value read out near it like the IOH PCIe 1.5v.

Never did that before, only started doing it.

Very weird problem.

[Sanousie]

Double post sorry.

[zoson]

Does anyone have a issue with the bios displaying the ICH PCIe 1.5v? option is there to change it, but there is no value read out near it like the IOH PCIe 1.5v.

Never did that before, only started doing it.

Very weird problem.

I don't think ICH PCIe is readable. Mine doesn't display either, and HWMonitor displays the CPU PLL voltage where it says ICH PCIe.

[Sanousie]

I don't think ICH PCIe is readable. Mine doesn't display either, and HWMonitor displays the CPU PLL voltage where it says ICH PCIe.

Funny thing is, it displayed before as 1.51v right near the changeable field, i then upgraded my psu from a seasonic 700watt to a ax850 and now the value is gone? lols beats the crap outa me, system is stable thats all that matters.

The only thing i can think off is, with the seasonic i had the 12v 4pin plugged in and the EPS12 8pin, but with the ax850 its only the EPS12v.

[zoson]

Funny thing is, it displayed before as 1.51v right near the changeable field, i then upgraded my psu from a seasonic 700watt to a ax850 and now the value is gone? lols beats the crap outa me, system is stable thats all that matters.

The only thing i can think off is, with the seasonic i had the 12v 4pin plugged in and the EPS12 8pin, but with the ax850 its only the EPS12v.

I think you're mistaken... Neither of my two R3E's have ever shown this voltage on any BIOS. I have both 8pin's connected, and for awhile had one of the EZ_PLUGS also connected. If you look in the voltage monitor, it is not listed either.

Go ahead and google reviews that have bios screenshots like this one:
http://www.overclockersclub.com/revi..._extreme/5.htm
None of them ever show a voltage for ICH PCIe.