Hardware Specification Check, Please!

[Moonwraith]

I shall! The beast is almost up and running - just gotta grab files off the old ide harddrive - get a new wireless card (the linksys one doesn't have a 64 bit driver 🙁) - then try and find out what caused a huge explosion this morning in my old pc 😛

 

[Moonwraith]

After a few hiccups here and there, and finally finding the right bios version. It's working beautifully. Got it lightly overclocked to 3.5 GHz without a single bit of strain on the system, running crysis on full everything got it upto a steady 41 degrees, which isn't bad at all - may try pushing it further for a laugh at some point.

I've got to sort the cables out still - but here's some pictures of it in its infancy.

 

[kcnychief]

Nice, but shame on you for not doing cable management before posting pictures. Sazar will surely ridicule you 😛

 

[Moonwraith]

That's about as tidy as I could get them for now! I'll look at it again sometime soon 😛

(Yeah it still looks horrific)

(Much better with the side panel on to hide it)

 

[rotjong]

After a few hiccups here and there, and finally finding the right bios version. It's working beautifully. Got it lightly overclocked to 3.5 GHz without a single bit of strain on the system, running crysis on full everything got it upto a steady 41 degrees, which isn't bad at all - may try pushing it further for a laugh at some point.

I've got to sort the cables out still - but here's some pictures of it in its infancy.

Minus that cable management it looks nice. I like your HSF. My Vendetta 2 works nicely but I hate the look.

I'm not sure what BIOS you ended up with but you might be interested in the newest 0408 bios dated 2008.07.10.

Refer here: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...&model=Rampage+Formula&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

I've had no ill effects and it apparently it works better with Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066 memory although I've haven't noticed any difference.

 

[Moonwraith]

Yeah, ended up with the 0408, but had to use the EZ Flash 2 method, using the updater didn't make any difference.

The cable management isn't really an important thing for me, as long as it runs and looks alright with the side on 😛 I'm happy!

 

[rotjong]

Yeah, ended up with the 0408, but had to use the EZ Flash 2 method, using the updater didn't make any difference.

The cable management isn't really an important thing for me, as long as it runs and looks alright with the side on 😛 I'm happy!

I don't mess around with any other way to update the BIOS. The ASUS EZ Flash 2 is awesome. I just use an older 16 MB SD memory card and a SanDisk MicroMate reader. Pop it into the front USB port, turn on the power, Alt+F2, select the new BIOS from the memory card, and you're good to go. 😀

Your cable management isn't that bad, really, unless someone is being totally nuts about it. You have a lot more free room in your case than I do in mine.