Need a Gigabyte latest BIOS?
Z370 AORUS Gaming 7,
GA-Z97X-SOC Force ,Core i7-4790K @ 4.9 GHz
GA-Z87X-UD3H ,Core i7-4770K @ 4.65 GHz
G.Skill F3-2933C12D-8GTXDG @ 3100 (12-15-14-35-CR1) @1.66V
2xSSD Corsair Force GS 128 (RAID 0), WD Caviar Black SATA3 1TB HDD,
Evga GTS 450 SC, Gigabyte Superb 720W
XSPC RayStorm D5 EX240 (Liquid Ultra)
NZXT Phantom 630 Ultra Tower
Win 7 SP1 x64;Win 10 x64
STILL no BIOS for the ASUS Rampage Extreme to resolve the QX9xx0 series Extreme Edition CPU manual multiplier issue AND to add the "Refresh Period" settings to the BIOS
Come on ASUS, please release one last BIOS with the above and updated RAID Option ROMs... PLEASE!
Thanks
John
Stop looking at the walls, look out the window
Asus Rampage III Formula Bios v 0505
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...e_III_Formula/
Updated 11/10/2010 -
Sabertooth X58 -
BIOS 0603 -
1. Opened Memory Timing Selections for Additional Tweaking
2. General Performance Enhancements for Overclocking
3. Improved Voltage Controls
4. Improved Auto Tuning Rules
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...-ASUS-0603.zip
bingo13,
Could you give up some detail on what exactly has changed in the bios releases Asus has done for all the LGA1366 boards in the last couple days?
I've been have CPU temp issues, as outlined here: https://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...Language=en-us
And all Asus support does is tell me to RMA the board. I bought 2 brand new Rampage III Gene's. And they replies was to RMA, so I got board #2.. same problem. Was told to RMA again, that board #3 will do the trick.
To me it seems there is a big communication problem between Asus support techs, and the engineers, and what they may be working on and/or fixing. It seems they don't even inquire anything about your particular board.. and just give you general things to try, and assume there are no issues with anything.
The lates bios fixed my problems of having malfunction cpu temp readings. Now they are just off by 20c (20c lower then core temp), rather then getting stuck at 0, negative numbers, or just plain getting stuck. What bothers me so much is the Asus techs that tell me to keep RMAing boards, when it's obvious they didn't look into anything with the engineers. If they had, they'd know they were working on fixes for CPU temp issues.
edit: if you have any connections with the bios engineers, what about asking them to add a field in the bios for CPU temp offset. make it so people can offset their readings +/-30c or something like that. then they don't need to worry about deltas too much.
Last edited by Diverge; 11-10-2010 at 06:33 PM.
Desktop
[Asus Rampage III Gene] [i7 920 D0] [12GB OCZ3B2000C9LV6GK] [HIS HD 5970] [SeaSonic X750 Gold ] [Windows 7 (64bit)] [OCZ Vertex 30GB x3 Raid0] [Koolance CPU 360] [XSPC Razer 5970] [TFC 360 rad, D5 w/ Koolance RP-450X2]
HTPC
[Origen AE S10V] [MSI H57M-ED65] [ i5-661 w/ Scythe Big Shuriken] [Kingston HyperX LoVo 4GB ] [ SeaSonic X650 Gold ] [ OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD ] [ SAMSUNG Spinpoint 640GB 7200 RPM 2.5"][Panasonic UJ-225 Blu-ray Slot Burner] [ Ceton InfiniTV4]
Cool really?
Was it any good?
I find it quite puzzling that ASUS never carried across fixes from other 775 boards to their ASUS Rampage Extreme (supposedly their premier 775 board).
I do not think I will be switching platforms until this time next year :P
John
Stop looking at the walls, look out the window
I too have been a long time ASUS fan, and just got one of the newer R3F's with a 950, and I'm just about ready to throw it out the window, it drops my SSD on the SATA-III controller every couple reboots without rhyme or reason and usually the only way to get it back is clear cmos, shut down, start up and reconfigure the bios, but you can only enable AHCI on one controller at a time, i.e. standard sata2 or sata3, this is rediculous, I have never had a board so buggy in 20 years, I can't even overclock for snot on it without the marvel controller dropping the drive. I'm thinking I might be calling EVGA soon... unless someone else can recommend a good X58 1366 board... I don't want to switch teams because I have always had very ood results with asus products but this thing is aweful.
Desktop
[Asus Rampage III Gene] [i7 920 D0] [12GB OCZ3B2000C9LV6GK] [HIS HD 5970] [SeaSonic X750 Gold ] [Windows 7 (64bit)] [OCZ Vertex 30GB x3 Raid0] [Koolance CPU 360] [XSPC Razer 5970] [TFC 360 rad, D5 w/ Koolance RP-450X2]
HTPC
[Origen AE S10V] [MSI H57M-ED65] [ i5-661 w/ Scythe Big Shuriken] [Kingston HyperX LoVo 4GB ] [ SeaSonic X650 Gold ] [ OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD ] [ SAMSUNG Spinpoint 640GB 7200 RPM 2.5"][Panasonic UJ-225 Blu-ray Slot Burner] [ Ceton InfiniTV4]
I use the marvell sata3 controller (not in full speed mode) and it appears fine performance wise.
The reason I use it is I use NCQ (ahci) on the intel ports but I have one hdd that performs horribly with NCQ, the hdd also cannot get recognised by the jmicron controller for some reason but works perfect on the marvell controller, this made me so glad i got the -E board as the marvell controller is not on the first gen boards.
Bingo,
Can you please let the ASUS BIOS engineers know that we must have QPI PLL control on such expensive motherboards?
It's really disgusting that it is not available on my Rampage 3 Extreme.
I put my CPU into a friend's x58a-ud3r, a board that's about $170 less expensive, and my CPU was unleashed. Upping the QPI PLL from 1.1v to 1.16v allowed me to run my chip at the EXACT same settings, frequency wise, with only 1.28v. It takes my R3E 1.38v to achieve this.
The cooling difference is phenomenal with a full tenth of a volt less required on core voltage.
This is a make or break for me to jump ship on ASUS to Gigabyte. It needs to be manually controllable.
I don't want to see any responses that this is QPI/DRAM voltage, because it's NOT.
Core i7 990x @ 4665MHz 30x155.5 | ASUS Rampage 3 Extreme 1601 Modded BIOS | 24GB (6x4GB) Mushkin Redline 999057 @ 1866MHz 8-8-8-24-1T
2x MSI N770-2GD5/OC SLI Custom BIOS @ 1228/7464 | Samsung 840 EVO 1TB | 4x 3TB WD Red Raid 5 | Corsair RM1000 | 2x Dell SP2309W 2048x1152
H2O Cooled | EK - Supreme HF Full Gold - FB RE3 | Swiftech - MCP35x2 - MCRes Micro v2 | HWLabs - 2x GTX 120 - GT Stealth 120
7x Gentle Typhoon AP-0A 2150RPM | 1x Enermax Magma UC-MA12 1500RPM | Lian Li PC-A10B | 5GHz Gulftown
My Gene II was having similar issues once I OC'ed my W3520 above 3.9 Ghz. I had to raise my IOH voltage just a tad from the stock 1.11341 to 1.20616 and it solved my problem. Before I raised the voltage, my board dropped my Blu-Ray off the jmicron controller all the time. I had to power off the machine the next time it tried to post to get it to load the defaults due to a 'bad overlook', save my previous settings in the BIOS and exit.
After upping the IOH my chip passed 30 iterations of Linpack using 4096MB of RAM while the Intel ICY10R RAID was doing a verify on my mirror (proves the IOH voltage helped since its dealing with extra bandwidth of the southbridge during the rebuild) and my Blu-ray hasn't dropped since.
Last edited by R37ribution; 11-13-2010 at 07:57 AM.
hey what about Maximus III Extreme BIOS? no updates yes?
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Yeah I tried a couple different voltages and finally got the ram to run at ~2133MHz (it's corsair dominator gt and supposed to be spec'd at 2000@1.65v) and that in and of itself has taken forever, only to have it boot up and as soon as windows boots it just restarts. I think the cpu was only running at like 3.33GHz or something. I dunno, I think the gene or exreme would have been a better buy, but I'm really looking at the EVGA offerings. Maybe there will be another bios update in another 3-4 months that will help stabilize this board, but for me just getting it to run all of my hardware _at spec_ as opposed to on 'auto' has taken forever and I've yet to get a stable O'C'. I must have just a bad combo of hardware or something
Bingo,
Could you please find out a table of values for what QPI PLL voltage is set when a CPU PLL voltage is selected on the Rampage 3 Extreme?
Example:
1.36v = x.xv QPI
1.81v = 1.1v QPI(assumed)
1.82v = x.xv QPI
1.84v = x.xv QPI
etc.
I asked ASUS support for this information and got a very bad reply:
This is a key overclocking value and we need to know this information to prevent providing too much voltage to QPI PLL!!!Dear Valued Customer,
Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.
I am afraid to say that I am not allowed to give this kind of value.
I think you can operate according to the spec and manual of your CPU.
Or contact with Intel for consultation.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Please contact with me if you have any other questions.
Best Regards,
Stacey
ASUS Customer Service
If you could supply the full table of values or a method of calculating the values all the way from 1.2 to 2.0v it would be excellent.
Thanks!
Core i7 990x @ 4665MHz 30x155.5 | ASUS Rampage 3 Extreme 1601 Modded BIOS | 24GB (6x4GB) Mushkin Redline 999057 @ 1866MHz 8-8-8-24-1T
2x MSI N770-2GD5/OC SLI Custom BIOS @ 1228/7464 | Samsung 840 EVO 1TB | 4x 3TB WD Red Raid 5 | Corsair RM1000 | 2x Dell SP2309W 2048x1152
H2O Cooled | EK - Supreme HF Full Gold - FB RE3 | Swiftech - MCP35x2 - MCRes Micro v2 | HWLabs - 2x GTX 120 - GT Stealth 120
7x Gentle Typhoon AP-0A 2150RPM | 1x Enermax Magma UC-MA12 1500RPM | Lian Li PC-A10B | 5GHz Gulftown
ASUS Tech support has officially failed completely:
I think I might stop buying asus now.Hello,
Overclocking options are provided in the BIOS for experienced users to utilize in order to overclock their systems to their maximum potential. Asus does not provide any support whatsoever for overclocking as this can potentially cause damage to your hardware. We do not provide tables/charts or indexes of any kind to facilitate this overclocking. There is no false advertising involved here. Yes, the board has many options for overclocking, however we do not claim or guarantee that we will educate, instruct, or provide detailed explanations for how to do this. Your best bet would be to visit the more popular overclocking forums on the web, such as overclock.net, for advice on overclocking your board and what various options in the BIOS change or affect.
Best Regards,
Chris J.
Asus Support
Core i7 990x @ 4665MHz 30x155.5 | ASUS Rampage 3 Extreme 1601 Modded BIOS | 24GB (6x4GB) Mushkin Redline 999057 @ 1866MHz 8-8-8-24-1T
2x MSI N770-2GD5/OC SLI Custom BIOS @ 1228/7464 | Samsung 840 EVO 1TB | 4x 3TB WD Red Raid 5 | Corsair RM1000 | 2x Dell SP2309W 2048x1152
H2O Cooled | EK - Supreme HF Full Gold - FB RE3 | Swiftech - MCP35x2 - MCRes Micro v2 | HWLabs - 2x GTX 120 - GT Stealth 120
7x Gentle Typhoon AP-0A 2150RPM | 1x Enermax Magma UC-MA12 1500RPM | Lian Li PC-A10B | 5GHz Gulftown
EVGA Classified 3... nuff said.
|Intel i7 980X @ 4.2Ghz
|Venomous X Black
|Asus Rampage III Exteme
|6GB Kingston HyperX @ 2000Mhz
|EVGA Geforce GTX 480 2 way SLI
|Antec 1000w PSU
|Antec 1200
|Corsair 128GB Nova SSD
|Dual Samsung PX2370 LED Monitors
Asus fail big time here -10
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Question : Why do some overclockers switch into d*ckmode when money is involved
Remark : They call me Pro Asus Saaya yupp, I agree
Yeah I don't understand what you guys are expecting from Asus?? I'm happy they even gave us the ability to overclock. I've had too many Gigabyte boards fail on me in both abilty to overclock and reliability. With my Asus boards its been a dream as with many other Asus products.
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-Impossible is not a word
I was looking for an explanation as to how the board behaves with this secret adjusting of voltage, unseen to the user, so that I could use the BIOS correctly.
Normally this is a manual control that you can set in BIOS. It is on all EVGA, and Gigabyte i7 boards, including the exceptionally inexpensive UD3R. Unless Bingo can come through here, I'll likely be switching to a Classified 3, and selling off my R3E.
This all started when I built a new PC for a friend on the UD3R, and it took my CPU with my same memory to 4.5GHz, while my R3E struggles for 4.2GHz. Not only did it run my chip faster, it also did it with the same voltage.
Core i7 990x @ 4665MHz 30x155.5 | ASUS Rampage 3 Extreme 1601 Modded BIOS | 24GB (6x4GB) Mushkin Redline 999057 @ 1866MHz 8-8-8-24-1T
2x MSI N770-2GD5/OC SLI Custom BIOS @ 1228/7464 | Samsung 840 EVO 1TB | 4x 3TB WD Red Raid 5 | Corsair RM1000 | 2x Dell SP2309W 2048x1152
H2O Cooled | EK - Supreme HF Full Gold - FB RE3 | Swiftech - MCP35x2 - MCRes Micro v2 | HWLabs - 2x GTX 120 - GT Stealth 120
7x Gentle Typhoon AP-0A 2150RPM | 1x Enermax Magma UC-MA12 1500RPM | Lian Li PC-A10B | 5GHz Gulftown
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