ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
The last time I bought in to an extreme edition was my old QX6700
It’s been a while
Bought this board and an i7-3960X and it’s been a pita so far
My 16GB G.Skill RipjawsZ F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH is not on the QVL
The G.Skill website lists this as a qualified motherboard but only on manual X.M.P
The problem arrives when you first install them and the board wont boot
There are so many problems with manually setting the X.M.P beginning with the fact you have to start the board with only two modules
Once you manually set the X.M.P you can turn it off and add the other two modules and they will work in quad channel, the brother has 16GB Team Xtreem 2600MHz and they do the same
Things don’t improve from here, I have saved this setting to profile1 and copied BIOS 1 to BIOS 2 and whenever an overclock goes wrong I should be able to load BIOS 2 and start again
There is a switch on the board for changing from BIOS1 to BIOS2
Either it don’t work for me or the problem comes back to memory compatibility
The GO button is no help here as it doesn’t allow you to set the X.M.P as part of the file
If I turn the system off during an overclock session it won’t start up again until I take out the two modules and start from scratch
And it only registers 12GB in the BIOS which equals three modules??
Of course, if you go to the DIMM/GPU Post section in the BIOS it shows all 4 modules
The print screen didn’t show it but each module has a graphic of a memory module
I don’t really fancy disabling the ClockGen Full Reset option, although I haven’t even tried it yet so I can’t comment
Although I haven’t got round to experimenting with the BCLK yet when I try to load the 4.6GHz profile I made it does a full reset, which is basically a full shut down and restart which takes me back to the original problem with the memory, so I am tempted to try it
And now RAID won’t work for me either
I am trying to set up a pair of Western Digital Black WD1602ABKS 160GB in RAID0 as a data storage area but as soon as I enable RAID windows won’t work
I am using the brother’s Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD and want somewhere to install the programs to in order to reduce the clutter on the SSD
I have noticed a significant increase in boot up times with all my programs installed so an alternative is required
Just enabling RAID0 in the BIOS is enough to break the windows install
Fair enough I thought, re-install, stick the DVD in
Windows install enters the PE environment and then gets itself lost??
It can’t find any drives at all apart from the PE environment X drive
USB install does the same, loaded the raid drivers and the install on a USB stick and got the same reaction
The south bridge fan is quite noisy but thankfully you can hush it a bit or even turn it off if you want
In the Fan Speed Control section is the PCH fan Control options
In Profile Mode you have even more options
So much fun in such a short time
I’ve only had it a week
At the moment I’m using my Swiftech Apogee XT Rev.2 system from the Big Bang+2600K but we have some new cooling on the way so lots to write about soon
The last time I bought in to an extreme edition was my old QX6700
It’s been a while
Bought this board and an i7-3960X and it’s been a pita so far
My 16GB G.Skill RipjawsZ F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH is not on the QVL
The G.Skill website lists this as a qualified motherboard but only on manual X.M.P
The problem arrives when you first install them and the board wont boot
There are so many problems with manually setting the X.M.P beginning with the fact you have to start the board with only two modules
Once you manually set the X.M.P you can turn it off and add the other two modules and they will work in quad channel, the brother has 16GB Team Xtreem 2600MHz and they do the same
Things don’t improve from here, I have saved this setting to profile1 and copied BIOS 1 to BIOS 2 and whenever an overclock goes wrong I should be able to load BIOS 2 and start again
There is a switch on the board for changing from BIOS1 to BIOS2
Either it don’t work for me or the problem comes back to memory compatibility
The GO button is no help here as it doesn’t allow you to set the X.M.P as part of the file
If I turn the system off during an overclock session it won’t start up again until I take out the two modules and start from scratch
And it only registers 12GB in the BIOS which equals three modules??
Of course, if you go to the DIMM/GPU Post section in the BIOS it shows all 4 modules
The print screen didn’t show it but each module has a graphic of a memory module
I don’t really fancy disabling the ClockGen Full Reset option, although I haven’t even tried it yet so I can’t comment
Although I haven’t got round to experimenting with the BCLK yet when I try to load the 4.6GHz profile I made it does a full reset, which is basically a full shut down and restart which takes me back to the original problem with the memory, so I am tempted to try it
And now RAID won’t work for me either
I am trying to set up a pair of Western Digital Black WD1602ABKS 160GB in RAID0 as a data storage area but as soon as I enable RAID windows won’t work
I am using the brother’s Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD and want somewhere to install the programs to in order to reduce the clutter on the SSD
I have noticed a significant increase in boot up times with all my programs installed so an alternative is required
Just enabling RAID0 in the BIOS is enough to break the windows install
Fair enough I thought, re-install, stick the DVD in
Windows install enters the PE environment and then gets itself lost??
It can’t find any drives at all apart from the PE environment X drive
USB install does the same, loaded the raid drivers and the install on a USB stick and got the same reaction
The south bridge fan is quite noisy but thankfully you can hush it a bit or even turn it off if you want
In the Fan Speed Control section is the PCH fan Control options
In Profile Mode you have even more options
So much fun in such a short time
I’ve only had it a week
At the moment I’m using my Swiftech Apogee XT Rev.2 system from the Big Bang+2600K but we have some new cooling on the way so lots to write about soon
