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Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm - Malay proverb
Asus Rampage Extreme maxing out
A BRAND NEW WATER cooling system came in just before my Taipei hop today, so, before running that, I tried to push the aircooling limits on Asus' newest top-end mobo. That means: Zalman 9500 only, plus two side fans for the chipset / VRM area and the memory. All subsequent tests will be with watercooling or better...
I ran the BIOS boot as well as Vista boot on the setup, using ATI HD4870 card. Take a look what the mostly auto settings do:
Nearly 4.3 GHz, at FSB1900 and dual channel DDR3-1900 CL9, using four Kingston 2 GB DDR3-1600 pieces! The temperatures and voltages are also OK, minus the need to bump up CPU voltage to 1.4 volts to boot Vista properly, which I did a little later.
Right now, this is the highest score I got using the QX9650 on any mobo when plainly aircooled - and that's without any tweaks yet. Not bad... and, oh yes, Vista runs fine with all that Kingston memory at DDR3-1900, but the voltage needs to go to 2.04 volts for the memory to pass Sandra mem test - a bit on the edge there, let's see what can be done to lower it a bit in the next episode. µ
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How about you run prime 95 on all cores then tell us how stable it is at 4+ghz. Oh wait, you might not want to do that 'coz it might burn the CPU. 'Nuff said.
"Right now, this is the highest score I got using the QX9650 on any mobo when plainly aircooled"

highest score? what in the effing aytch are you talking about? there's no score here. all you've done is boot Vista on a high o/c. WHOOPIDY-DOO!
However, 190 Mhz/s memory core X2=380(ddr)X2=760(ddr2)X2=(ddr3)1.52 Ghz/s actual memory clock. It is misleading to State 1900 Mhz/s when actual unit Memory is running at 1.52 Ghz/s. 
It appears this will be amoung TOP Extreme scorers, Maybe TOP That, with Ultie Test. Ultie Files are BIG, So Fast Clears them Fast, Yet Tough is Also needed to endure constant birage.

Seems as Good Main As Available at present, that is, early August, So Its Nice To See Facts working Out Bit of early preview.
drashek
For being so FUDding rood!
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Ok, I'll have the next coarse with mushrooms to spike it up a nutter notch. This is like music to me ears.
But who's keeping score?
Aren't forums more suited for showing off your e-penis?
run an stability test and see how good your system is. I mean, Im getting to a point where Im getting tired of numbers because they dont mean anything but just an " I got this high"