Rampage 3 Issues
 

Any tips for clocking this board?

I managed to grab a 234 CPUZ screeny the other day, and can run pcmark up to 222 BCLK HTT disabled. (same enabled)

224 gives me a variety of errors, from 0x124 (VTT) ox101 (vcore) or it just restarts. USually at the CPU tests, but sometimes at hte irst or second tests.

Rog connect has been pretty accurate for temps, compared to realtemp. Although it measures lowest core not highest and realtemp sees a single core hitting up to 70C temps. the rest seem to stay right at what the ASUS software says 45-50C.


HC said that you cant pass 222 BCLK on air on the ASUS boards (I assume he meant benchable, as even my first x58 benched 222 that cost $100 18 months ago on air).

Was going to keep this board for future USB3/SATA3 reviews and ditch the classy, but if it can't clock, I can't justify that.

Any tips?

I tried playing with some of the other settings. running them auto, high, low whatever.

Oh.. added fans to IOH and ICH so no more BIOS corruption issues. Although they still run warm considering ambient.

when did i say you can't 222 on asus boards? lol

with the 32nm you can....

with the 45nm ...its hard...you have to push the vtt ....

ditch the evga :D

slow mode for qpi, or lotsa pci-e mhz

Thats it? Will give it a try tonight when the temp drops :)

Thinking maybe my chip is just degrading :(

whats your

vtt?
uncore frequency?

yeah slow mode for max bclk but sucks for 3d but thats what let me get passed 225 bclk and pci-e 115mhz is what i used on my other asus mb i had i think i been up to 250-60 bclk on the r3e/980x just in slow mode

I was running 109 and 111 PCIE speeds will try 115 and 120 later. Thought I could get to it tonight, but ready for bed and thought I would hit up my forums first.

uncore left at auto or manually set to twice mem, I even tried bumping it up one notch.

VTT I need 1.35 for 220 stability I have tried up to 1.5 though with no luck.

I tested max QPI the other day and settled in around a 8.6GTs so should have plenty of room...

I tried slow mode and 240 BCLK with 19x cpu multi and it would not even post. There is something else missing. Going to shelve it for now, no more X58 benches for me till I can go cold I guess.

1.35 jumping to 1.5 is not good.... be careful with vtt adjustments.

1.5 is too much...on air
1.35v is not optimum if your uncore is 4000mhz or above

you have to do it one step at a time.

REALLY?!
i just got a e762! :argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh:

No not really. Rampage III Extreme is the new toy out and everybody is on that bandwagon. I don't see where either board really outshines the other in terms of overclocking. The classified and REIII are the two best boards out right now for extreme clocking. It's just that everyone forgot about the classified because they didn't refresh it with sata/USB 3 and new marketing. The REIII was just made to catch up to the classy.


I say they are ~ equal boards.