ASUS Rampage III Extreme Smiles for the Camera

[InnocentCriminal]

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]

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]

They're not for connecting fans guys.

They're for supplying power to the mobo.

 

[Mescalamba]

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]

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]

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

 

[DrPepper]

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]

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]

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]

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]

asus does it again

 

[SteelSix]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[TheMailMan78]

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]

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

 

[Disparia]

Someone bring back silver and purple! (Soyo)

 

[trt740]

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]

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]

Someone bring back silver and purple! (Soyo)

Soyo Dragon Ultra Platinum Edition FTW!

 

[PCpraiser100]

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

 

[SummerDays]

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]

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]

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