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New ASUS Rampage Formula Overclock?

Postby raptorx » Sat May 31, 2008 11:27 am

I just got a new ASUS Rampage Formula and this board ROCKS over my Gigabyte P35-DS4, mainly because of the BIOS settings I now have.
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Re: New ASUS Rampage Formula Overclock?

Postby NickN » Sat May 31, 2008 8:00 pm

1. Who knows.. try it and see. But I doubt it

2. That value depends on the memory product itself so I can not say for sure however 1.55 is typically ok. You need to check with the memory company on exact limits

3. The CPU GTL is a factor of VTT or FSB Termination Voltage. The NB GTL is a factor of the NB Voltage. It is sometimes needed to run stable however if it will run stable on AUTO it is best left there. If not stable then use the feature however the dangerous voltages to change are CPU PLL and FSB Termination. If you change those and include the GTL multipler you can fry a proc without it ever getting hot or close to max temp.

If it will run AUTO stable, put them on auto. If not set them back

4. Nope, a 400FSB CAS 4 clock at 1000 and tRD5 is in the hot zone. The only better you can do is 1T and I doubt it will do that with tRD5. Since you have established a correctly defined hot-clock, every FSB higher than 400 will deliver 2x the punch but will also become more and more unstable very quickly.

The only other possibility would be a 450MHz x8 clock on the same memory speed and timing with a 333MHz strap but I think you must have 1200 memory to do that so you are probably maxed out now.

Keep in mind.. components must break in so you may become unstable and not be able to run those numbers in a few weeks time. Its the luck of the draw in that respect

speaking of hot clocks.. check out the latency on this bad boy


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Re: New ASUS Rampage Formula Overclock?

Postby raptorx » Sat May 31, 2008 10:41 pm

Yeah, I knew your numbers would blow mine away even before I posted! ;D

It's Acedemic now, I flew around in FSX for a while and even though things were nice & clear, I used as much as 1.99Gb during that flight (Extra 300 in San Diego).  So I decided to go back to my Corsair 2 x 2Gb sticks.  Now I have to run @ DDR2 1000, cas5 and tRD6.  I haven't been able to even POST with tRD5.  

I never could get 1N to work, POST was fine but always errors in memtest on test #5.  I tried a couple CMD clock skew settings but gave up.

My numbers w/these settings now are around 8800/7100/8000 mb/s and 57ns memory; and 3.5ns L2 cache.  I'm still playing around though.  My ass is sore from sitting down reading & running stability tests all day. :D

I don't know what these Corsair Dom's will do, I haven't pushed vDIMM beyond 2.1v yet, as per specs.

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Re: New ASUS Rampage Formula Overclock?

Postby NickN » Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:45 pm

[quote]Yeah, I knew your numbers would blow mine away even before I posted! ;D

It's Acedemic now, I flew around in FSX for a while and even though things were nice & clear, I used as much as 1.99Gb during that flight (Extra 300 in San Diego).
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Re: New ASUS Rampage Formula Overclock?

Postby Kobus » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:59 am

I would like to know from Nick and Jim what extra cooling (if any) they
use on the mobo chip and memory
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Re: New ASUS Rampage Formula Overclock?

Postby raptorx » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:10 am

My case has a side panel with 3-120mm fans blowing directly on the motherboard & memory.  that and 3 other case fans (1 intake, 2 exhaust) keep things cool enough.   8-)

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Re: New ASUS Rampage Formula Overclock?

Postby Kobus » Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:22 pm

Thank you Jim
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Re: New ASUS Rampage Formula Overclock?

Postby NickN » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:27 pm

None

I always remove the heatpipes, sand down the tops of the components it touches and then applty thermal epoxy and glue that unit solid to the chipset and the power transistors of the best heat conductor possible and then simply make sure the tower has at least 1 80mm (min) side fan blowing directly at the motherboard and at least 1 120mm expelling air out the rear


The issues with heat on the Rampage Extreme and other boards of its class are associated with the chipset and 4GB+ of memory and a quad core processor overclocked. The issue is the 4GB and the penny quad cores
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Re: New ASUS Rampage Formula Overclock?

Postby Kobus » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:37 pm

Thanks Nick
Just wanted to confirm that every thing could be kept cool without any liquid
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