The ASUS Rampage V Extreme Thread

Sylver123 said:
Thanks a lot mate. Waiting to hear back from you.
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So the board arrived yesterday. I didn't get a chance to check the spacing straight away, so sorry for the late reply.

After checking now though, neither the NH-D14 or D15 will fit and both will overhang the top PCI slot. I expected as much as soon as I saw the board up close. Some sort of AIO of custom cooling is the only real way to go.
 
DarkFulgore said:
So the board arrived yesterday. I didn't get a chance to check the spacing straight away, so sorry for the late reply.

After checking now though, neither the NH-D14 or D15 will fit and both will overhang the top PCI slot. I expected as much as soon as I saw the board up close. Some sort of AIO of custom cooling is the only real way to go.
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Thanks DarkFulgore for getting back to me on this.
 
Looking on the Asus site:

RVE

4 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16, x16/x16, x16/x8/x8 or x16/x8/x8/x8 mode with 40-LANE CPU; x16, x16/x8, x8/x8/x8 mode with 28-LANE CPU) *2
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode) *3
1 x PCIe 2.0 x1 *3

*1 28-LANE CPUs can only support up to 3-Way SLI™/ 3-Way CrossFireX™
*2 The PCIE_X8_4 slot shares bandwidth with M.2 x 4.
40-LANE CPU: The PCIeX8_4 slot can only be used in x4 mode or lower when used simultaneously with the M.2 connector. If x8 mode is used, the two connectors will be mutually exclusive.
28-LANE CPU: The PCIE_X8_4 slot will be disabled and the M.2 connector will always be enabled.


Deluxe

5 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16, x16/x16, x16/x16/x8, x8/x8/x16/x8, x8/x8/x8/x8/x8 mode) *1
1 x PCIe 2.0 x4 (max at x4 mode) *2
28-Lane CPU-
3 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16, x16/x8, x8/x8/x8)
2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x1 mode)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x4 (max at x4 mode) *2

*1: The PCIe x16_5 shares bandwidth with M.2 x4. Triple PCIe 3.0/2.0 configuration is default set at x8/x8/x8. Adjust PCIEX16_5 Slot Bandwidth in BIOS.
*2: The PCIex4_1, USB3_E12 and SATAEXPRESS_E1 connectors share the same bandwidth. The SATAEXPRESS_E1 will be disabled when there is a device installed on PCIEX4_1 slot. Set this option to X2 Mode or X4 Mode when the installed PCIe device is higher than X4 interface.

X99-E WS

7 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16, x16/x16, x16/x16/x16, x16/x16/x16/x16, x16/x8/x8/x8/x16/x8/x8) :eek::cool::cool:



I have a RIVE at the moment which has 4 x PCIe3.0, x16; x16/x16; x16/x8/x16 and x16/x8/x8/x8, 1 x PCIe3.0 x16 (grey) slot, support x8, 1 x PCIe2.0 x1 slot

I was kind of looking at the WS as I don't use a lot of the advanced OC stuff on the RIVE but it was the best board at the time and the dual PLX chips on the WS means plenty of lanes.
 
Chaps,

Do any of you RVE owners have a Asus Xonar sound card working?

Setup:
Windows 8.1 64-bit
5960X at stock
780GTX SLI
On board audio disabled
Xonar powered by molex/floppy (power checked with voltmeter).
Drivers install ok, card relays click during initialization and when switching outputs on the STX.
Xonar set to default audio device in windows.

Problem:
No audio output, the Xonar audio center spectrum analyzer stays decidedly flat when playing something in VLC (tried explicitly selecting the Xonar as the output device etc).
foobar2000 won't even start playing if the Xonar is selected as the output device.

Tried all 3 available PCI slots with the 780GTX in PCI-E 3.0 slots 1 and 3.

Any suggestions welcome!

ETA: If I enable it, the on-board sound works ok.
 
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g0th2000 said:
Chaps,

Do any of you RVE owners have a Asus Xonar sound card working?

Setup:
Windows 8.1 64-bit
5960X at stock
780GTX SLI
On board audio disabled
Xonar powered by molex/floppy (power checked with voltmeter).
Drivers install ok, card relays click during initialization and when switching outputs on the STX.
Xonar set to default audio device in windows.

Problem:
No audio output, the Xonar audio center spectrum analyzer stays decidedly flat when playing something in VLC (tried explicitly selecting the Xonar as the output device etc).
foobar2000 won't even start playing if the Xonar is selected as the output device.

Tried all 3 available PCI slots with the 780GTX in PCI-E 3.0 slots 1 and 3.

Any suggestions welcome!

ETA: If I enable it, the on-board sound works ok.
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Just finished my build and a Sound Blaster Z card appeared not to be recognised so I've just left the internal sound on for the time being. Also had some strange results with overclocking. Just checked by bios and it's 0403 which make it pre-release, which probably explains some odd results.

Bios 0503 is the first release and 0603 is just out:

http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_V_EXTREME/HelpDesk_Download/

So this could be why you are having problems. I'm going to update now.
 
Cosimo said:
Just finished my build and a Sound Blaster Z card appeared not to be recognised so I've just left the internal sound on for the time being. Also had some strange results with overclocking. Just checked by bios and it's 0403 which make it pre-release, which probably explains some odd results.

Bios 0503 is the first release and 0603 is just out:

http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_V_EXTREME/HelpDesk_Download/

So this could be why you are having problems. I'm going to update now.
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Please let me know what you think of the onboard sound as opposed to the SBZ
 
This board is no good if you can only use the on board audio and you can't even use your PCIE sound card on it.

Please let us know if there is a fix for this or if a newer bios fixes the issue.

If the latest bios doesn't even fix it, then perhaps somebody would be better reporting
this to ASUS support or in their forums in case they don't know about this issue.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=RAMPAGE+V+EXTREME

Thank you guys.
 
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Hi Guys

I'm planning on getting the extreme MB and the 5960x. The use will be gaming, overclocking and rendering. What other components would you recomend to complete this system? And what would this cost?

Thanks in advance

Darth
 
Cosimo said:
Just finished my build and a Sound Blaster Z card appeared not to be recognised so I've just left the internal sound on for the time being.
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Sylver123 said:
This board is no good if you can only use the on board audio and you can't even use your PCIE sound card on it.

Please let us know if there is a fix for this or if a newer bios fixes the issue.

If the latest bios doesn't even fix it, then perhaps somebody would be better reporting
this to ASUS support or in their forums in case they don't know about this issue.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=RAMPAGE+V+EXTREME

Thank you guys.
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My Sound Blaster Z is now working perfectly. Software installed without a hitch (recognised immediately card immediately) and now on latest 0603 firmware. Next time I do a system build will be when I'm fully awake and not at 5am. :D
 
Klunt Bumskrint said:
Please let me know what you think of the onboard sound as opposed to the SBZ
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It was ok but nothing special. Sound was rather thin and clinical on my Creative GigaWorks T3 speaker system. The software is not very polished and is a bit fiddly to use.

My SBZ is working now and I've got my full/open sound back again without messing around with software settings. It sounds so much better than onboard and it's what I'm sticking with.
 
Not sure why high-end motherboard makers bother with on-board sound that still manages to suck and be worse than a middle of the road soundcard.

I wonder if the Asus STX II is better than my Auzentech Forte.
 
Cosimo said:
It was ok but nothing special. Sound was rather thin and clinical on my Creative GigaWorks T3 speaker system. The software is not very polished and is a bit fiddly to use.

My SBZ is working now and I've got my full/open sound back again without messing around with software settings. It sounds so much better than onboard and it's what I'm sticking with.
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Awesome, thanks. I was kind of hoping the onboard would be spectacular don't know why.
 
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