Rampage VI Extreme (LGA2066, Intel X299) - info, experience, BIOSes etc.

[FlanK3r]

Intel public HEDT CPus with platfrom Intel X299 at Computex 2017. The CPU reviews are still under embargo for short time ,-). But some informations are officially out and OK with Intels NDA.

Intel X299 is really highend chipset for enthusiast CPUs. This year very powerfull, much more than anyone hoped. Because this year is AMD also very strong at CPU side (Announced not only 8 cores with SMT, but also up to 16C with SMT for AMD X399), Intel will launch step by step 6C/12T, 8C/16T, 10C/20T....Everything?:) Nooo, continue it with 12C/24T, 14C/28T, 16C/32T and new flagship 18C/36T !!!


New LGA2066 will be new one after 2011v3...Great value is, you can put in two generation CPUs. More info bellow.
1) Kabylake-X with new CPUs Core i5 X a Core i7 X. Those CPUs are KabyLake-X. Its basically Kabylake with more capacitors and bigger heatspreader. This could help with higher overclocking than classic Kabylakes. Kabylake-X have support only for dualchannel mode (up to 2666 MHz 1.2V). After XMP mode or manualy tweaking you can except everything between 3600 MHz to 4400 MHz at DRAM effective frequency.
2)Skylake-X, are HEDT processors Core i7 X and new Core i9 X. Starting as 6C/12T and up to crazy 18C/36T
There is support for Quadchannel memory. Based at first results on web, the memory clock we can expect overclocking of RAM around 3200 to 3800 MHz. All depends on type of memory chips, quality of IMC particular piece of CPU.

APEX series replaced Extreme series in extreme overclocking segment (yes, all fans of DICE, LN2 and LHe are focus directly at this board). This board broked many WRs after first day 🙂 There is example with informations about records from 31.5.2017.


APEX series replaced Extreme series in extreme overclocking segment (yes, all fans of DICE, LN2 and LHe are focus directly at this board). This board broked many WRs after first day 🙂 There is exmaple with informations about records from 31.5.2017. Rampage Extreme is for enthusiast, wattercooling setups, casemodders etc. Strix series is ideal part for daily overlcocking (of course, it can handle LN2 too !) and gamers, streamers...

Rampage VI Extreme - eATX size

-looks awesome, the rainbow AURA effects! But there is also small display for current information about CPU clock, temperatures or speed fans...

The motherboard support again up to 128 GB DDR4 DRAM in up to quadchannel (depends at your CPU - if KB-X or SK-X). In right upper corner are helpfull buttons START, RESET, PCIe and DIMM switchs. Also switch for slow mode, retry and safe button, RGB header and also great ROG DIMM.2 slot for NVMe M2 discs. So Extreme can be realized with Liquid Nitrogen also, if is it your hobby sometimes 😛 Look at crazy numbers of voltage meassuring points.

At the bellow are button to swicth the BIOS (two BIOSes here), many USB ports, MEM OK, again RGB header. Under frontplate near the PCH is place for next M.2



-part of IO. The IO shield is integrated and from left to right there are CLR CMOS button, BIOS Flashbakc button, Wi-Fi+BT device with support 802.11ad standard! Many USB3/3.1, LAN, audio outputs with backlight


-Rampage in the glory 🙂

And last video with short description from GamersNexus

[tistou77]

Yes for this 😄

[Elite_ROG]

All I want to know is release date and if it is compatible with my Gskill ram F4-3200C14Q-64GTZR.

[Thomas_extreme_]

Does the rampage vi extreme support aio cpu water coolers?

[Raja]

Thomas extreme gamer wrote:
Does the rampage vi extreme support aio cpu water coolers?

Plenty of headers for pumps and fans. FWIW the AIO header on ASUS boards is just a pump header that has Q_Fan control disabled by default. Nothing special about it.

[Thomas_extreme_]

Does the Asus rampage vi extreme come with an oc panel?

[Captain_Zap]

Hey All:

After looking through all these posts and purging the internet, I was finally able to order the Asus ROG VI Rampage Extreme with a confirmed ship date of 10-13-2017! Now I can relax and wait!

I called CDW and they would not give me a ship date so.........I decided to try it anyway since I could not get it from anywhere else yet. They charged shipping and taxes, but now I can finally get back to work!

Thanks!

[JustinThyme]

Captain Zap wrote:
Hey All:

After looking through all these posts and purging the internet, I was finally able to order the Asus ROG VI Rampage Extreme with a confirmed ship date of 10-13-2017! Now I can relax and wait!

I called CDW and they would not give me a ship date so.........I decided to try it anyway since I could not get it from anywhere else yet. They charged shipping and taxes, but now I can finally get back to work!

Thanks!

Preorder same as anywhere else. That ship date is contingent on two things.
1) they actually get them by then
2) how many they get and how many people are ahead of you already.

[Captain_Zap]

JustinThyme wrote:
Preorder same as anywhere else. That ship date is contingent on two things.
1) they actually get them by then
2) how many they get and how many people are ahead of you already.

JustinThyme,

I checked my order this morning to see if there was an update and they pushed it from 10 -13-2017 to 11-1-2017. Other vendors may be able to get it out sooner.

[Captain_Zap]

What paste and how much to use for i9 7980XE CPU?

This is what I read:

"With 18 cores in need of adequate cooling, every piece of real-estate that may serve as an heatsink of sorts comes at a premium; that is why thermal paste for this Intel processor was applied not only to the CPU die itself, but also to the entire PCB around it. Der8auer says that doing this allows heat to be better dissipated form the CPU die, allowing for up to 400 MHz increased clock-speeds under load. Direct contact with the die was also tried, and achieved by cutting off the central pat of the IHS, while keeping the edges of it as a way of better load balancing the weight of the cooler (in this case, an LN2 cooler) over the CPU’s PCB, in order to avoid different amounts of pressure on the CPU pins."

Thanks

[JustinThyme]

Captain Zap wrote:
What paste and how much to use for i9 7980XE CPU?

This is what I read:

"With 18 cores in need of adequate cooling, every piece of real-estate that may serve as an heatsink of sorts comes at a premium; that is why thermal paste for this Intel processor was applied not only to the CPU die itself, but also to the entire PCB around it. Der8auer says that doing this allows heat to be better dissipated form the CPU die, allowing for up to 400 MHz increased clock-speeds under load. Direct contact with the die was also tried, and achieved by cutting off the central pat of the IHS, while keeping the edges of it as a way of better load balancing the weight of the cooler (in this case, an LN2 cooler) over the CPU’s PCB, in order to avoid different amounts of pressure on the CPU pins."

Thanks

Can you link that please?

Doesn't make sense. Personal experience has proven otherwise. Excessive paste is worse than toothpaste. You end up creating an insulated barrier that only traps heat. The purpose of the TIM or Thermal Interface Material is to fill pores and micro scratches on mating surfaces only to get good conductivity between them. blobbing paste on the PCB does not aide in any contact point and I'm certain will only insulate and cause it to retain heat.

Reading this a little more carefully this applies to extreme sub zero cooling only aka LN2 and helium and I can see it helping a little there but be sure it would be detrimental in air and water cooled applications. For this less is more. There are those that do the pea blob, Im not one of them. Ive been putting it on and spreading it with a razor for years and get great results. As for what paste, 6 of one and half dozen of the other. I use either Artic MX4 or Thermal Grissly Kryonaut and have had excellent results. While Ive used the Coolabs liquid ultra for delidding to go between the IHS and the die in delidding projects I cant bring myself to try it with the chips sitting in the machine. One blob of that rolls off and you have screwed the pooch, actually the entire pack for that matter and you are back to waiting for another MOBO.

I bought my 7900X Binned and delidded from SL. Does it come at a premium over the delidding service? Well yes but its a guaranteed 4.8 @ 1.25 and higher with more juice (I got mine to 5.0 with 1.275 and did some general tasks with it no worries. Dinnt want to push it with a bench mark with just an H115I AIO on it for cooling. Ill have plenty of time for that when I get it in the case. monoblock delay holding up progress. Most importantly they are now offering up a 1 year warranty on the chips they sell so I dont have to worry about losing the intel warranty over it. The real disconcerting fact is to see them selling delidded chips for less than MSRP as in the 4.5 GHz samples and lots of 4.6 samples too. The 4.8s come and go quick When I bought mine it had just popped up and after I paid within minutes it said sold out so Im thinking the golden geese on these are not all that common. Simply seeing a delidded sample at 4.5 when you can get that right out of the box isnt all that promising for seeing these do like the Kabylake 7700K Where pretty much every chip hit 4.8 and most would get to 5.0 with some nice samples (I got one of them) that will do 5.2