Asus Rampage 2 Extreme/Core i7 920 @ 4.20Ghz

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Please fill out your system settings using the guide in my sig then fill out this BIOS template:

AI overclock - manual or auto
OC from CPU level up - auto or i920/i940/i965
OC from Memory level up - auto or manual
CPU Ratio setting - auto or ...

CPU configuration
CPU Ratio Setting - auto
C1E Support - disable or enable
Hardware prefetcher - enable or disable
Adjacent Cache line prefetcher - enable or disable
Intel Virtualization tech - disabled or enable
CPU TM Function - enable or disable
Execute Disabled bit - disabled or enable
Intel HT Technology - enable or disable
Active Processor Cores - all or 1 or 2
A20M - disabled or enable
Intel Speedstep tech - enable or disable
Intel Turbo Mode tech - enable (Not shown if Speedstep is disabled)
Intel C-STATE tech - disabled or enabled

BCLK frequency - ...
PCIE frequency - ...
DRAM frequency - DDR3 ...MHz
UCLK frequency - ...MHz
QPI frequency - auto or ...

Dram timing control
1st iformation - ?
2nd information - ?
3rd information - ?

EPU II phase control - full phase
Load-line calibration - enable or disable
CPU differential amplitude - auto or manual values
Extreme OV - disabled or enable

Current voltage 1.34v - 1.812v - 1.39v
Cpu voltage - ... v or auto
CPU PLL voltage - ... or auto
QPI-Dram voltage - ... or auto

Current voltage 1.551v - 1.507v - 1.531v - 1.558v
IOH voltage - auto
IOH PCIE voltage - auto
ICH voltage- auto
ICH PCIE voltage - auto

Current voltage :
DRAM Bus voltage - ... or auto
DRAM REF voltage - auto

Debug mode - string
Keyboard TeakIt comtrol - disabled or enable

CPU spread spectrum - disabled or enable
PCIE spectrum - disabled or enable
CPU clock skew - auto or ...
IOH clock skew - auto or ...

[TI9]

Hi, I can manage 3200MHz with the LCD poster wich is nice, but I would like to check if I can go higher like the topic poster,...here my settings copyed from his post altough a little different, but this doesn't seem to work.. OC fails!!

TARGET CPU 4000MHZ
TARGET DRAM 1603MHZ
BIOS 1406
Rampage II Extreme V02.61

[I][B]AI overclock - manual
OC from CPU level up - auto
OC from Memory level up - auto
CPU Ratio setting - auto

CPU configuration
CPU Ratio Setting - auto
C1E Support - disable
Hardware prefetcher - enable
Adjacent Cache line prefetcher - enable
Intel Virtualization tech - enable
CPU TM Function - enable
Execute Disabled bit - enable
Intel HT Technology - disable
Active Processor Cores - all
A20M - disabled or enable
Intel Speedstep tech - enable
Intel Turbo Mode tech - enable
Intel C-STATE tech - disabled

BCLK frequency - 200
PCIE frequency - 100
DRAM frequency - DDR3 1603MHz
UCLK frequency - 3208 MHz
QPI frequency - N/A??? I Have QPI LINK DATA RATE set to auto

Dram timing control
1st iformation - 8-8-8-24 rest auto
2nd information - auto
3rd information - auto

EPU II phase control - full phase
Load-line calibration - auto
CPU differential amplitude - auto
Extreme OV - disabled

Current voltage 1.257v - 1.812v - 1.204v
Cpu voltage - 1.45 v
CPU PLL voltage - auto
QPI-Dram voltage - 1.375

Current voltage 1.138v - 1.508v - 1.111v - 1.508v
IOH voltage - auto
IOH PCIE voltage - auto
ICH voltage- auto
ICH PCIE voltage - auto

Current voltage :
DRAM Bus voltage - 1.65681
DRAM REF voltage - auto

Debug mode - string
Keyboard TeakIt comtrol - disabled

CPU spread spectrum - auto
PCIE spectrum - auto
CPU clock skew - auto
IOH clock skew - auto


Thanks

[TI9]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Welcome to the forums

Sounds like possibly a bad stick of memory.

Try one at a time and you should be able to isolate any bad sticks, if that doesn't work, come back and we can try other things

it's tripple channel, but i doubt it is faulty, haven't noticed anything suspicious...seems good. I did a little test with windows mem checker, nothing wrong.

[affiliate13]

Originally Posted by TI9

TARGET CPU 4000MHZ
TARGET DRAM 1603MHZ
BIOS 1406
Rampage II Extreme V02.61

[i][b]AI overclock - manual
OC from CPU level up - auto
OC from Memory level up - auto
CPU Ratio setting - 20

CPU configuration
CPU Ratio Setting - 20
C1E Support - disable
Hardware prefetcher - enable
Adjacent Cache line prefetcher - enable
Intel Virtualization tech - disable
CPU TM Function - disable
Execute Disabled bit - enable
Intel HT Technology - disable
Active Processor Cores - all
A20M - disabled
Intel Speedstep tech - disabled
Intel Turbo Mode tech - enable
Intel C-STATE tech - disabled

BCLK frequency - 200
PCIE frequency - 100
DRAM frequency - DDR3 1603MHz
UCLK frequency - Auto
QPI frequency - Auto

Dram timing control
1st iformation - 8-8-8-24 rest auto
2nd information - auto
3rd information - auto

EPU II phase control - full phase
Load-line calibration - Enabled
CPU differential amplitude - auto
Extreme OV - disabled

Current voltage 1.257v - 1.812v - 1.204v
Cpu voltage - 1.45 v
CPU PLL voltage - auto
QPI-Dram voltage - 1.375

Current voltage 1.138v - 1.508v - 1.111v - 1.508v
IOH voltage - auto
IOH PCIE voltage - auto
ICH voltage- auto
ICH PCIE voltage - auto

Current voltage :
DRAM Bus voltage - 1.65681
DRAM REF voltage - auto

Debug mode - string
Keyboard TeakIt comtrol - disabled

CPU spread spectrum - auto
PCIE spectrum - auto
CPU clock skew - auto
IOH clock skew - auto


Thanks

Try those marked in red.
This is only for 4Ghz so maybe 1.45v is a little too much so if it is stable pull that down some as soon as you can; it varies but i would be looking close to 1.3/1.35v for that. Hard to guess really.
the TRUE is a great cooler but im guessing even it will begin to sweat running LinX at that kind of vcore.
Are you using a C0 or D0? Sometimes it matters sometimes not.
Use CPUz and RealTemp to give us an idea of what else is happening.

I would do 6GB 1st and then add the other 6GB afterwards, you may need more IOH/NB.v and possibly more Vtt QPI/Dram.v

Let us know how you get on.

[TI9]

Hi, I have a revision C0/C1 model, I took out 6GB ram and did the settings above this post, but again not booting...any ideas ?

cheers

[affiliate13]

When you say not booting does it just result in overclock failed or it posts but wont load windows?

It could be your PSU, if you have another one spare try it but make sure the load is spread evenly across all the rails.

Try with one stick of RAM and try 3.4Ghz then keep upping the BCLK till you hit 200.

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by TI9

it's tripple channel, but i doubt it is faulty, haven't noticed anything suspicious...seems good. I did a little test with windows mem checker, nothing wrong.

It's no good just taking out 6GB of RAM, you need to start with one stick and test all the modules on their own. X58 boards, much like any other, will refuse to post with even a single bad module. It's a bit of a tedious task, but it's the most likely culprit in my opinion

[TI9]

Originally Posted by affiliate13

When you say not booting does it just result in overclock failed or it posts but wont load windows?

It could be your PSU, if you have another one spare try it but make sure the load is spread evenly across all the rails.

Try with one stick of RAM and try 3.4Ghz then keep upping the BCLK till you hit 200.

hmm, sry , yes I mean with no booting it just fails the OC...it does boot with default settings or @3200Mhz with the LCD poster wich i'm using for almost 2 months now. with average temp of 53°C, but i guess its the PSU, I just save this to a profile and try again later, thanks alot for your help!

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Do test the sticks as Clunk says; RAM can go bad so easily and at any time. Grab a magazine and run Memtest on each one with a fan pointed at them.
But yeah the PSU is worth a shot too.

[TI9]

ok thanks alot both of you, I'll try and test it out when I have time!

cheers