Tuesday, January 12th 2010
ASUS Rampage III Extreme 32 Megapixel high-res photo
According to ASUS the Rampage III Extreme is "Designed for those who know the Dark Art of Overclocking". It comes equipped with all features that overclockers dream of, and also has new stuff like ROG Connect for example.
The board supports CPUs for Intel Socket 1366, which means Core i7 including Gulftown (yes, I asked). As chipset Intel's X58 and ICH10R is used like on the Rampage II Extreme. ASUS has routed 32 PCI-Express 2.0 lanes to the PCI-E x16 slots, so you can either run x16+x16, x16+x8+x8 or x8+x8+x8+x8 - all without the added heat and latency of NVIDIA's nForce 200. As we hear this does make quite a difference in a 4x HD 5870 configuration for example. Major improvements have also been made to the power solution which is now 8-phase digital 250 - 1000 kHz. Of course support for USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gb/s is included as well.
While exact details are not known, the price of the board will be "highest priced ROG" - my guess is around $400, with availability starting around the Gulftown launch which should be some time in March.
Big, big picture, about 5 MB, can be found here.
The board supports CPUs for Intel Socket 1366, which means Core i7 including Gulftown (yes, I asked). As chipset Intel's X58 and ICH10R is used like on the Rampage II Extreme. ASUS has routed 32 PCI-Express 2.0 lanes to the PCI-E x16 slots, so you can either run x16+x16, x16+x8+x8 or x8+x8+x8+x8 - all without the added heat and latency of NVIDIA's nForce 200. As we hear this does make quite a difference in a 4x HD 5870 configuration for example. Major improvements have also been made to the power solution which is now 8-phase digital 250 - 1000 kHz. Of course support for USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gb/s is included as well.
Big, big picture, about 5 MB, can be found here.
37 Comments on ASUS Rampage III Extreme 32 Megapixel high-res photo
This board looks nice, but with eVGA's Dual-Socket board, it doesn't stand up. Same amount of money, more benefit.
EDIT: Image does not work for me.
EDIT^2: Only a single Gigabit LAN?!
image was stitched together from 9 21 MP images and scaled down so that photoshop could actually export it as jpg
One has quite an obvious disadvantage so should not be compared.
And evga board is just for marketing and fit, i will never pay 1000usd for a overclocked 920 (cof cof 975 cof)
I've been off and on 2P systems since my dual P2 333Mhz. I admit that it used to be much more cost-effective back then, but I can still get value from 2P these days. Low(er) TDP Xeons for instance.
Not knocking the Asus, it's one hot board and I'd certainly use it if a client asked for it in a build, I just couldn't buy one personally.
Also, I notice the 8-pin power connectors up top, with another 8-pin next to it, although 4 are covered on the second one.
How much power is expected to flow through this :confused:
EDIT close-up view:
www.pcworld.fr/image/zoom/1100821/Asus-Rampage-III-Extreme-5
1st post! i just couldn't resist lurking around. :D
There's an awful lot of power-related stuff on this board. I'm guessing it's set-up to be an OCers dream.
Or sumfink.
Congrats on your first post, BTW :toast:
The first block is ps/2 and 2 usb.
Reset button for bios. 1394
The second block. Bottom external SATA port.
SPDIF and Coax
The last block is obviously speakers.
There would be a receiver for blue tooth as well.
The Rampage II definitely has 2 Lan ports.
It would be easier if it was announced, and you could just look it up in the manual.
There's a limited amount of space, with the extra audio stuff being onboard.
Yes.. now do you realize why jumping the gun and calling somebody stupid makes you look bad?