ASUS Rampage 4 Extreme Review
PC Mark and F@H
Published: 14th November 2011 | Source: ASUS | Price: £335 |
PC Mark Vantage
After our pretty poor showing on the Intel board, in the RAM score particularly, things are redeemed on the ASUS R4E. Vantage still isn't putting up the numbers that we'd expect when you look at all the rest of our results, but the Rampage makes the best of it and certainly puts the DX79SI in the shade.
PC Mark 7
Demonstrating the underlying performance of the Rampage IV, the PC Mark 7 result is 300 points, 10%, better at stock than the reference board. That's a huge gain in anyone's book. Our overclock pushes that another 250 points higher. Remember, this is with a mechanical drive only. A quick SSD would pretty much double the total score.
Folding @ Home
Although we see a small increase from the Rampage IV Extreme at stock when compared to the Intel DX79SI, just look at the overclock result. 53470 PPD anybody?
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"The small box to the right of the SATAII is for reading the temperature of the board"
These connectors look suspiciously like K type probe connectors, are they?
Maybe next year 
.Brilliant review as always and the fan is a no-no for me as well
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Originally Posted by Malarky13
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Maybe's I could convince the kids to have a selection box each for Christmas |
, lol.I can say that the board looks magnificent, although changing the backplate practically made me **** my britches...take off the cpu cover then remove it, then turn over the board for the backplate. Eeeep.
About the chipset blower fan, wouldn't it be possible to make it run quieter with an inline resistor? Surely it can be rewired to spin slower if there's no manual BIOS adjustment...
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It wouldn't be a new tech release without a new RoG motherboard to go with it. Welcome to the X79 Rampage IV Extreme review.
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