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

[abeeftec]

Hello,
In everyones opinion,
What is the best Bios for clocking the R4E?

I noticed people were achieving much higher clocks with 2 cores instead of all cores. SO, I tried it! And my results were, I couldnt get nearly as high on 2 as i could on all 6!!
I dont get it, I am speaking of just liquid cooling. I am 8th on HWbot ranking just the 3930k but i noticed the highest guys are using 2 cores. I am wondering if I am missing some setting when you use 2 cores.
I could hit 5.125@ 1.49v with all cores and at 1.51v with just 2 cores at 5.0 was failed boot.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Hello,
In everyones opinion,
What is the best Bios for clocking the R4E?

I noticed people were achieving much higher clocks with 2 cores instead of all cores. SO, I tried it! And my results were, I couldnt get nearly as high on 2 as i could on all 6!!
I dont get it, I am speaking of just liquid cooling. I am 8th on HWbot ranking just the 3930k but i noticed the highest guys are using 2 cores. I am wondering if I am missing some setting when you use 2 cores.
I could hit 5.125@ 1.49v with all cores and at 1.51v with just 2 cores at 5.0 was failed boot.

try playing with vccsa and vtt, for me the extreme oc profile was a bit high for ambient cooling, also raise cpu pll to 1.7 and make sure to leave pch at auto.

[OC Nub]

try playing with vccsa and vtt, for me the extreme oc profile was a bit high for ambient cooling, also raise cpu pll to 1.7 and make sure to leave pch at auto.

Are you using any of the oc profiles? I havent used them, the board seems to clock good so far without using them, but may be worth a shot.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Are you using any of the oc profiles? I havent used them, the board seems to clock good so far without using them, but may be worth a shot.

if benching cold then I usually always use the low current extreme oc, for ambient just plug and play voltages with no profile selected.

less vtt and vccsa helped out a lot.

less is more sometimes

[OC Nub]

if benching cold then I usually always use the low current extreme oc, for ambient just plug and play voltages with no profile selected.

less vtt and vccsa helped out a lot.

less is more sometimes

I have dropped vccsa to 1.05 and seems to do better, but I have been using 1.2vVTT for pretty much evrything, it seemed to work + I thought I read to keep vtt within 300mv of vcore or maybe I read that wrong . Ill try dropping and see if it helps.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

I have dropped vccsa to 1.05 and seems to do better, but I have been using 1.2vVTT for pretty much evrything, it seemed to work + I thought I read to keep vtt within 300mv of vcore or maybe I read that wrong . Ill try dropping and see if it helps.

your numbers look good my friend, 1.2 vtt is great for ambient cooling, and vccsa is spot on, especially if you can 2400 memory stable on it

[abeeftec]

try playing with vccsa and vtt, for me the extreme oc profile was a bit high for ambient cooling, also raise cpu pll to 1.7 and make sure to leave pch at auto.

Very strangely when I leave PLL on auto it sets at 1.9v...



I have pretty much been running VTT at 1.2 -1.25 for everything.
I am about to put this on the cooler express as soon as I get the nerve up again.

I have tried raising my vcore to 1.56 to run 5.25ghz and it is very unstable but 5.1 seems stable just running wPrime and vantage with 1.48v.
I had a similar issue with the UD7. It would not go over 5.0ghz on liquid even with 1.50- 1.64v on the H100 and the temps were fine. Then on phase it went well over with way less voltage.

Why would that run at 1.9v on auto? and is this normal? In the Bios it runs 1.76 or in that areas on auto.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

Very strangely when I leave PLL on auto it sets at 1.9v...



I have pretty much been running VTT at 1.2 -1.25 for everything.
I am about to put this on the cooler express as soon as I get the nerve up again.

I have tried raising my vcore to 1.56 to run 5.25ghz and it is very unstable but 5.1 seems stable just running wPrime and vantage with 1.48v.
I had a similar issue with the UD7. It would not go over 5.0ghz on liquid even with 1.50- 1.64v on the H100 and the temps were fine. Then on phase it went well over with way less voltage.

Why would that run at 1.9v on auto? and is this normal? In the Bios it runs 1.76 or in that areas on auto.

I believe mine auto sets 1.8 on default, but I still lower it to 1.7 with no problems, most importantly lower vtt and vccsa.

maybe try 1.2 vtt and 1.05 vccsa and work your way up from there on vccsa.

you should not need more than 1.25-1.3 vtt under cold for most clocks unless you have a really voltage hungry chip.