***ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Owners Thread***

[abeeftec]

very nice clock loud
my 3960X is able to post at 56X but stuck at win logon screen, under water.
do u think it can boot into windows with extreme cooling like phase change?

On my UD7 board I was only able to get 5.0ghz at 1.49 volts. And 4.9 @ 1.48v. Then I tried for 5.1ghz and could not even hit it with 1.64v. Then I hooked up SS and ran it up to 5.5ghz at 1.59 and ran vantage only. I hit 5.6ghz @ 1.64 but only for a few seconds and then I went to sleep for the evening and in the middle of that night my board blew up from condensation. I am fairly sure the reason was a thermal one why there seem to be a limit on liquid and air at 5.0 or 5.1 on these chips even though it doesnt look to be too hot. I have a friend who is running a bunch of boards and chips too and he had the same issues. Not many people were hitting over 5.2Ghz on Liquid. My board constantly posted all the way to the "starting windows" screen but no logo spins once it hits that wall. Funny because if I downed the voltage tp 1.49 it would spin and almost go in. But once I was over 1.52v it was the same lock up at the same spot starting windows.

Now with this R4E and a different CPU I should be able to go higher on phase since it requires less voltage then my other chip did