The ASUS Rampage III Gene is a small form factor Micro ATX motherboard that packs a powerful punch! This board begs to ask how well a small form factor system can overclock. Here you will see if the Gene will live up to the expectations of its legendary big brother the Rampage III Extreme. At the hart of the Rampage III Gene is its the X58 chip set capable of Quad SLI, and Quadfire X the 13666 socket board is capable of Trippe Channel DDR 3 and up 24GB of memory capacity



System Specifications

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ROG AV8 open air case
ASUS GTX 580 Graphics Card $499.00
ASUS Rampage III Gene Motherboard $229.00
Intel Core i7-980X Extreme edition 3.33GHZ Processor $899.00
Corsair Dominator GTX3 3x2GB 2000MHZ C7 Triple Channel Memory $183.00
Corsair F60 Solid state 60Gb drive $100.00
Antec 1200W High Current Pro Power Supply $200.00
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Service Pack 1 $100.00
Base System Cost: $2210.00


(22.22c Ambient Air Temperature)
Processor: Intel Core i7-980X
Core Voltage: 1.144V
Temperature: 27c
Core Speed: 3.33GHz
Uncore Speed: 2670MHz
Base Clock Speed: 133MHz
Quick Path Interconnect Speed: 3200MHz
System Memory: 3x Corsair Dominator GTX 4 2533MHz 2GB
Voltage: 1.66V
Temperature 25c
Speed: 1333MHz
Divider "Ratio": 2:10
Timings: CL9-9-9-24 74 1T






4GHz i7-980X
Processor: Intel Core i7-980X
Core Voltage: 1.360V
Temperature: 75c
Core Speed: 4.0128GHz
Uncore Speed: 2889.2MHz
Base Clock Speed: 160.5MHz
Quick Path Interconnect Speed: 2889.3MHz

System Memory: 3x Corsair Dominator GTX 4 2533MHz 2GB
Voltage: 1.66V
Speed: 963MHz
Divider "Ratio": 2:12
Timings: CL9-9-9-28 98 2T

Extreme Tweaker BIOS Settings
Enter the system BIOS by presing Delete on the BIOS splash screen.
Set Tuning mode to Exteme OC
Set AI Overclock tuner to manual
Increase CPU multiplier to 30X
Enable CPU Load-Line Calibration
Increase CPU voltage to 1.3V
Set DRAM bus Voltage to 1.65
Disable CPU Spread Spectrum
Disable PCIE Spread Spectrum
Advanced CPU confuguration
Disable Intel speedStep
Disable Intel C-State Tech

Press F10 save changes and exit, press F8 and boot off of your MemtestX86 disk
wait for atleast 1 full pass of error checking to complete before contunuing to boot windows

if no memory errors found boot to windows and run Prime 95 Torture test select In-place large FFTs
Install Core Temp we do not want the Maximum CPU temperature to exceed 80*C
I recommend an error free pass of Prime 95 for 24hr to ensure system stability








Random Access Memory Overclocking

Now we move into memory overclocking
Set DRAM Timing Control to Auto
Manually change the DRAM clock frequency to the rating of you memory in this case *2133MHz
Also change the DRAM voltage to match the rating of your memory *1.65V
press F10 to save and exit.




Boot into windows and open CPU ID to verify your memory clock speed.




Run a stress testing program like Prime 95 or a quick test like Wprime
To ensure stability I suggest creating a Memtest X86 CD to check for memory errors.

Rampage III Gene OverClocking to be Continued
future updates may consist of various Cooling with the goal of squeezing the most performance out of your hardware.
This thread will focus on the ASUS Rampage III Gene motherboard and its ability to overclock using an Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition CPU






ASUS RAMPAGE III GENE RESOURCES
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RAMPAGE III GENE: UNBOXING
RAMPAGE III GENE: SYSTEM BUILDING
RAMPAGE III GENE: OVERCLOCKING
RAMPAGE III GENE: FOLDING AT HOME
RAMPAGE III GENE: EXTREME OVERCLOKING
RAMPAGE III GENE: MODS
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