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can you test #8 for 2000 5-8-5 at 1.84V?

Hm, I just sorta killed my last non-1366 DDR3 board last weekend(lets say it refuses working on cold completely and on ambient it can only boot a single stick of ram at really loose timings), so that testing will have to wait for a while now. Gonna try finding a second kit to compare against, but others appear to get far better results with the 2000 C8 Dom GT kits on x58 from what I've seen. Will probably just see how far they go at 2.05V and if they don't last I'll find another kit I guess... Whats the typical tRCD limits I can test for? Sorry for derailing the OP a bit with my own kit

I've heard others say the exact same thing about my kit But at least on my x58a-oc and Rampage II Extreme I could get none of the sticks to finish 32m above 1020 7-7-7 at 1.84V. Might as well push them to 2 V when required then... Only positive thing about this kit is that its not weak in tRCD, no difference in required voltage between 7-8-7 and 7-7-7...

Talking about hypers - what voltages do you usually run/what is the safe limit at ambient? I usually tend to chicken out around 1.84V with my kit (which appears to barely manage 2040 7-7-7 at that voltage), but I heard a couple people are running their kits at >2V for benching? And one last question - is it worth running them on Dice or even LN2?

I don't know if its the same with the original Rampage Extreme, but at least my Rampage II Extreme refuses booting with that kind of postcode

Damn, blue ripjaws already gone GL with sale!

What if my system is too unstable to relaunch explorer?

I was mainly thinking about the input filtering Caps for vcore and other rails and possibly even 12V. Check the caps before the NB VRM, those could be an issue too I guess? Had a Rampage IV Formula that had been baked and pretty much all the caps were toast due to that. It could very well be something else, but that's all I can think off right now.

Are the Capacitors raised? Might be that those are messed from the repeated oven sessions... If so recapping the board (at least the relevant ones) could be a potential solution. I would wait for more ideas what could be wrong though.

Yeah 4.7 at 1.4-ish is nice. If you wanna try max bclk you need to up pcie (118 should be the max bootable on the RIIE in my experience). Without touching that anything beyond 222 is odd. If that still limits BCLK at 260-ish (note that everything above that is pretty good - under 10% of my tested CPUs managed it at ambient) Setfsb with the ICS9LPRS916JGLF is your friend. Bottom slider is for pcie, top for bclk.

Nice one!

Its this one: as or prices, not sure, given the x58 board is basically untested. The benefit going from the 3 way to 4 way SLI classified board is irrelevant nowadays (given 3d benching relevance at least, collectors tax is always a thing), and a 3 way SLI board has been listed for 6 months by now on here for 125€ and hasn't sold yet. With some luck 250€ for the combo, probably less. The prices for all Maximus III variants seem all over the place, could be worth anywhere from 90-140, the classied combo probably about the same. - my personal judgement for these at least, it could be very skewed off course. I wouldn‘t want to pay nearly as much for an evga x58 board (probably not above 80€) as it would really surprise me if it could come close to asus or Gigabyte for max bclk and it would just be to test another brand.

Its also not an AMD CPU.

One of your sensor tabs isn't fully showing.

Great Score!

And now to complicate it even more, does it matter which bench? For Ref Freq I could see the first line applying and for everything else the second line.

Second highest clocked 32M so far!

^That's why I suggested one day where both backgrounds are valid during the transition

how about leaving the old background active for one more day after publishing the new one? Should solve most conflicts here...

wait, what the hell is going on here?

Have you compared CL4 and CL5 scores? Because according to this, DDR3 doesn't support CL4.

I thought DDR3 and CL4 weren't real and just a setting that didn't work correctly? Pretty sure about average Hypers could match that at 661 quite easily.

I fully expect your USB drive to have a score at 6.8GHz saved now

I had pretty good success getting uncore to reasonable on this board, at least a couple of Westmeres can do 4600 on air without much trouble. Getting 4600 on air is doable on quite a few of my chips and I've had a couple do 4800 at reasonable voltages. RAM might be an issue though, my Dom GT 2000 CL8 need 1.8V for 2000 7-7-7 and won't budge from there even with 1.9V...

Who needs a Rampage III if the II can do this? :P