1. Who knows.. try it and see. But I doubt it

2. That value depends on the memory product itself so I can not say for sure however 1.55 is typically ok. You need to check with the memory company on exact limits

3. The CPU GTL is a factor of VTT or FSB Termination Voltage. The NB GTL is a factor of the NB Voltage. It is sometimes needed to run stable however if it will run stable on AUTO it is best left there. If not stable then use the feature however the dangerous voltages to change are CPU PLL and FSB Termination. If you change those and include the GTL multipler you can fry a proc without it ever getting hot or close to max temp.

If it will run AUTO stable, put them on auto. If not set them back

4. Nope, a 400FSB CAS 4 clock at 1000 and tRD5 is in the hot zone. The only better you can do is 1T and I doubt it will do that with tRD5. Since you have established a correctly defined hot-clock, every FSB higher than 400 will deliver 2x the punch but will also become more and more unstable very quickly.

The only other possibility would be a 450MHz x8 clock on the same memory speed and timing with a 333MHz strap but I think you must have 1200 memory to do that so you are probably maxed out now.

Keep in mind.. components must break in so you may become unstable and not be able to run those numbers in a few weeks time. Its the luck of the draw in that respect

speaking of hot clocks.. check out the latency on this bad boy

raptorx wrote on May 31^st, 2008 at 11:41pm:



You know the sick thing about those numbers in my run?

Thats a 1 year old P35 DDR3 motherboard running just over default memory speed

When you get up inot the DDR3 1800+ range.. "Hot-spot" CL and 1T are not as important or needed because of the bandwidth but its really nice when you can get 1T @ CL and tRD. The lowest tRD you can get with CL8 is 6 so when you can pop 1T and MCH RD 6 @ 1800 on CL8 2X2GB ... they sing

You do not want to see the DDR3 x48 overclock result


LOL!!!

Typically you can go a touch (.1) volt higher than spec with Corsair if you have the fan module running without any problem

My case has a side panel with 3-120mm fans blowing directly on the motherboard & memory.  that and 3 other case fans (1 intake, 2 exhaust) keep things cool enough.   

-Jim

None

I always remove the heatpipes, sand down the tops of the components it touches and then applty thermal epoxy and glue that unit solid to the chipset and the power transistors of the best heat conductor possible and then simply make sure the tower has at least 1 80mm (min) side fan blowing directly at the motherboard and at least 1 120mm expelling air out the rear


The issues with heat on the Rampage Extreme and other boards of its class are associated with the chipset and 4GB+ of memory and a quad core processor overclocked. The issue is the 4GB and the penny quad cores