Saturday, January 9th 2010
ASUS Rampage III Extreme Smiles for the Camera
One of ASUS' premier offers for this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) event is a new high-end socket LGA-1366 motherboard, the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Rampage III Extreme. The board succeeds the Rampage II Extreme which launched over an year ago along with Intel's then new Core i7 series processors. The new model based on the Intel X58 Express + ICH10R chipset, comes with four well spaced out PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots, a new set of overclocking enhancements such as the ROG connect which lets you control the motherboard's overclocking from any Bluetooth and Java enabled mobile phone, SATA 6 Gb/s and USB 3.0 connectivity using ASUS' innovative PCI-Express 2.0 bridge implementation, and a more powerful CPU VRM to keep the board stable with bleeding-edge settings.
The board features an enhanced CPU VRM which is now powered by two 8-pin ATX connectors apart from two 4-pin Molex connectors. Some of these could be redundant and needed only for electrical stability. The CPU and memory power circuitry makes use of super-ML capacitors for cleaner power delivery. Voltage readouts are located next to the DIMM slots for accessibility. The motherboard makes use of slimmer component heatsinks that look to be made of the ceramic composite which the TUF Sabertooth P55 motherboard uses.
Expansion slots include four PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (electrical x16, NC, x16, NC; or x8, x8, x8, x8) depending on how they are populated, and one each of PCI-Express 2.0 x4 and PCI. A PLX ExpressLane PEX 8613 bridge chip is used to give out up to 12 PCI-Express 2.0 lanes (using three ports) connecting to the southbridge using its PCI-Express 1.1 x4 link, so that any PCI-E 2.0 device can make use of that amount of bandwidth. Devices connected to it include a Marvell 2-port SATA 6 Gb/s controller, and an NEC 2-port USB 3.0 controller. Connectivity includes 8-channel audio with optical SPDIF output, gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth, eSATA, USB 2.0 and 3.0. The Rampage III Extreme should come out in Q1, just in time for Intel's 32 nm Core i7 980X six-core processor based on the Westmere architecture.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
The board features an enhanced CPU VRM which is now powered by two 8-pin ATX connectors apart from two 4-pin Molex connectors. Some of these could be redundant and needed only for electrical stability. The CPU and memory power circuitry makes use of super-ML capacitors for cleaner power delivery. Voltage readouts are located next to the DIMM slots for accessibility. The motherboard makes use of slimmer component heatsinks that look to be made of the ceramic composite which the TUF Sabertooth P55 motherboard uses.
105 Comments on ASUS Rampage III Extreme Smiles for the Camera
^ it'd look like that, if stuff were meant to be connected to it
If AMD wants to zoom ahead, they can have one and then maybe Intel users will have to wait for one. :roll:
proof that I had an i7
I figured the board had a dead RAM slot afterwards, notice it's running single channel :(
..which is why it's angled downwards.
Regarding the board is nice, but only 1 PCI slot? COMMON!!!!!!!
What happen if you have a TV tuner, a SCSI card and/or an internal Wireless adapter, all on PCI????
People were discussing using them to power fans and such, and my comment was that since they're a socket and not a plug, they're obviously meant for power INput, not output.
nothing about the angle of the plug.
P.S. Can you enlighten me pls, what's a "secondary/download box" ??
It would be ridiculous to watch TV on a system with the massive overclocks this board is desigend for in multi GPU setups, and anyone who buys this to run it at stock with one GPU is dumb for wasting the money.
He's saying use a second PC for the TV/media purposes. One that wont chew 500W at idle.
It was already discussed that the x58 chipset runs relatively cool and heat doesnt increase with OCing, VRM's may be another case - but we wont know til OC'ers get their hands on the board
X58 runs hoter then x45 or x48
( compared to most of my other boards idling at 30 or so)
With the stock sinks the blood rage idled at 60 or something insane.
But ofc ASUS doesn´t have anything in common, which means ASUS is ripoff. :D And pretty poor. Compared to Classy or BloodRage design, its just pathetic.. last good mobo from ASUS was their WS, which is pretty interesting mobo. It even has quite ok design/colors.