ASUS Rampage III Extreme Smiles for the Camera

InnocentCriminal · Jan 9, 2010

pantherx12 said:
You don't have to IC, you use either the 8 pin "regular" connection or the other, its if you don't have a psu with two sets of mobo power cable.

I had a 939 board that had the same, only with 1 of each, not 2 of each.

I know, but it's the fact if I needed to use them.

SteelSix · Jan 9, 2010

InnocentCriminal said:
As always I like the red & black colour scheme. However, I fuckin' hate 4 pin Molex as it is, last thing I would want to do is plug several of them into my stylish new motherboard.

I really hope the 4 pin Molex connector dies.

:shadedshu

They're in a nice location for dual 120mm exaust fans found on many cases; but I'm with you.. not connecting them to my mobo..

pantherx12 · Jan 9, 2010

They're not for connecting fans guys.

They're for supplying power to the mobo.

Mescalamba · Jan 9, 2010

Bloodrage or Classified? I can´t decide which design they stolen, can you?

It seems quite ok, desing is definetly not best I saw (probably due wrong copying with "improvements from ASUS"). Well, I´ll wait and see how it performs.. and then I´ll buy another mobo, cause nothing from ASUS will enter my domain.

Long live eVGA.

SummerDays · Jan 9, 2010

Mescalamba said:
Bloodrage or Classified? I can´t decide which design they stolen, can you? It seems quite ok, desing is definetly not best I saw (probably due wrong copying with "improvements from ASUS"). Well, I´ll wait and see how it performs.. and then I´ll buy another mobo, cause nothing from ASUS will enter my domain.

Long live eVGA.

Stop smoking crack!

stock · Jan 9, 2010

Aren't those molex for supplying supplemetry power to the PCI-e lanes?

DrPepper · Jan 9, 2010

stock said:
Aren't those molex for supplying supplemetry power to the PCI-e lanes?

That's what I'd think but there are other boards that don't use them and have as many PCI-E lanes.

Wile E · Jan 9, 2010

Mescalamba said:
Bloodrage or Classified? I can´t decide which design they stolen, can you? It seems quite ok, desing is definetly not best I saw (probably due wrong copying with "improvements from ASUS"). Well, I´ll wait and see how it performs.. and then I´ll buy another mobo, cause nothing from ASUS will enter my domain.

Long live eVGA.

I was wondering why it took so long for someone to mention the resemblance to the Classified boards.

At any rate, I'm unimpressed by this board. Asus has been overhyped in the past couple of generations in my book. I think Gigabyte and EVGA have been doing a much better job.

SummerDays · Jan 9, 2010

This board has pretty much everything you ask for in an i7 mother board, and it's backed with a top end warranty from Asus.

Throw some waterblocks on it, overclock an i7 980, hooked up three watercooled 5870s, 24 GB of ram (someone check on this), and you're ready to go.

There are two SPDIF coax and optical to hook it up to your stereo system. USB 3.0 and Sata 6

Plus it's got a ton of quality capacitors that aren't cheap.

What else do you need? lol

Wile E · Jan 9, 2010

SummerDays said:
This board has pretty much everything you ask for in an i7 mother board, and it's backed with a top end warranty from Asus.

Throw some waterblocks on it, overclock an i7 980, hooked up three watercooled 5870s, 24 GB of ram (someone check on this), and you're ready to go.

There are two SPDIF coax and optical to hook it up to your stereo system. USB 3.0 and Sata 6

Plus it's got a ton of quality capacitors that aren't cheap.

What else do you need? lol

Spdif is useless for me, as any on-board audio junk just gets disabled by me anyway.

Sorry, but there are better choices for my money. I'd much rather have the EVGA or GB boards.

mtosev · Jan 9, 2010

asus does it again

SteelSix · Jan 9, 2010

stock said:
Aren't those molex for supplying supplemetry power to the PCI-e lanes?

My bad, yes they are. In that case, they must be smokin the same stuff I was when I thought they were fans..

PP Mguire · Jan 10, 2010

Guys, if your bitching about extra power for stability then this deff isnt targeted toward you. When i was overclocking my i5 under phase if i unplugged the second 8pin power cable my 4.6ghz clock was unstable as hell. If i had 2 4pin molex for more powah i would most deff get a higher OC. If you see no need for extra connectors like that then this board isnt for you hence you should click the back button.

As for the bluetooth on the fly support, same thing. I would love to be able to NOT use the aging old crap bios to overclock my cpu and change voltages.

And sorry guys, but Asus has been doing the red and black color scene before eVGA decided to make "Classified" BS.

Wile E · Jan 10, 2010

No they haven't been doing red and black. The only full red and black themed Asus boards are this and the Maximus III boards. EVGA and Biostar both beat them to that punch.

PP Mguire · Jan 10, 2010

Yea "full" red and black. But Asus has been doing red and black much longer since they started doing the whole "ROG" thing.

TheMailMan78 · Jan 10, 2010

pantherx12 said:
To be honest, I don't see the point of an extra cable in the first place, sure the power is more evenly distributed ( supposedly) but presuming you've got a non shit psu you should be golden with 1 connection always.

to put an additional one on, AND two molex power connection just screams MARKETING to me.

" LOOK AT ME AND MY POWER"

I'm finding a lot of motherboards boring recently, getting bigger and flashier rather then working on the things that matter.

Component layout for example D:

The molex connectors could be an output? If so I could see tons of applications for them. Pretty cool IMO.

[H]@RD5TUFF · Jan 10, 2010

This would seem like ASUS's attempt to compete with the classified for sheer OC'ing power, but imo too little too late.

Disparia · Jan 10, 2010

Someone bring back silver and purple! (Soyo)

trt740 · Jan 10, 2010

Wile E said:
I was wondering why it took so long for someone to mention the resemblance to the Classified boards.

At any rate, I'm unimpressed by this board. Asus has been overhyped in the past couple of generations in my book. I think Gigabyte and EVGA have been doing a much better job.

WilE I love ya man but your flat out wrong my Rampage Extreme II is a total beast it took Asus a while but the bugs are gone. Bios 1504 and 1639 have unleashed the Rampage Extreme II. This should be a very good board. You are correct in saying Gigabyte and Evga make good boards aswell. I have always liked the Classified but to tell you the truth you would hard pressed to find a bad x58 board. I also like Gigabytes higher end boards, well to tell ya the truth I like just about every board they make, right down to the 50.00 boards. I have built several AMD systems for family and friends and they are the Toyota's of motherboards. However, Asus really can present a decent solid quality item aswell. Sorry to disagree because when it comes to computers you know your stuff.

btarunr · Jan 10, 2010

Actually, Foxconn has been doing the red+black scheme well before EVGA. EVGA was a wee little player in the motherboard industry (it is even now) relying on NVIDIA's reference designs to sell motherboards. Even its first X58 SLI board continued looking like an NVIDIA board. Foxconn had its BloodRage around that time, it even had various other QuantumForce series boards before X58 that used red+black. So just as you call this a Classified ripoff, you can call Classified a BloodRage ripoff.

Besides EVGA's product availability and service network sucks outside North America. ASUS on the other hand, can service a Rampage III Extreme even in any Indian city with 10,000 population.

PP Mguire · Jan 10, 2010

Jizzler said:
Someone bring back silver and purple! (Soyo)

Soyo Dragon Ultra Platinum Edition FTW!

PCpraiser100 · Jan 10, 2010

Shall we begin clapping people, or is it too soon?

SummerDays · Jan 10, 2010

Having owned an Asus Rampage II Extreme for over a year, it's kind of like a birthday to see photos of the III. lol

Excellent board. Highly Recommended!

Mussels · Jan 10, 2010

Wile E said:
Spdif is useless for me, as any on-board audio junk just gets disabled by me anyway.

Sorry, but there are better choices for my money. I'd much rather have the EVGA or GB boards.

when using SPDIF, onboard vs dedicated becomes moot - quality is determined by speakers alone.

Mussels · Jan 10, 2010

TheMailMan78 said:
The molex connectors could be an output? If so I could see tons of applications for them. Pretty cool IMO.

they're facing the wrong way to be meant as an output

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