ASUS Rampage Extreme Motherboard
CPU and Memory Benchmarks
Published: 10th August 2008 | Source: Asus | Price: £246.39 |
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility capable of benchmarking the performance of individual components inside a PC. Each of the benchmarks below were run a total of five times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average being calculated from the remaining three.
Everest is in many ways similar to Sisoft Sandra. Focusing mainly on software and hardware information reporting, Everest also comes with a benchmark utility suitable for testing the read, write and latency performance of the memory subsystem. Each of these benchmarks were performed a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average calculated from the remaining 3.
Result Observations
Both the Rampage Extreme and Blitz Formula SE boards performed very closely to one another. However, in the Memory testing there is now quite a difference. This is most likely down to the extra bandwidth that DDR3 provides over the DDR2 of the Blitz Formula.
Most Recent Comments
The bad??? 246 bloody pounds, that's the bad!
Nice review mate
Nice review mate
Nice review, mate.
This board is really cool looking, but the price tag hurts my eyes
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They should put that cooler onto the rampage formula and the sound card also
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This board is really cool looking, but the price tag hurts my eyes
.They should put that cooler onto the rampage formula and the sound card also
.£250! Are they serious?!
8/10 on the price!? Are you serious or have you started crapping 24 carrot turds?
It's a nice mobo (and review) but £250 is beyond a joke. I hope this flops. Top end mobos should be around the £150/175 max. I can't... It's... £250. WTF.
8/10 on the price!? Are you serious or have you started crapping 24 carrot turds?
It's a nice mobo (and review) but £250 is beyond a joke. I hope this flops. Top end mobos should be around the £150/175 max. I can't... It's... £250. WTF.
Is that the only award it gets. Editor's Choice
I suggest you go back and put more awards like Gamers Choice and Best in its class
I suggest you go back and put more awards like Gamers Choice and Best in its class
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£250! Are they serious?!
8/10 on the price!? Are you serious or have you started crapping 24 carrot turds? It's a nice mobo (and review) but £250 is beyond a joke. I hope this flops. Top end mobos should be around the £150/175 max. I can't... It's... £250. WTF. |
8/10 on price is a little generous I feel Matt
Lush board though
Thanks for the comments and feedback guys it is appreciated. As for the price issue, yes it is a very dear board. But I'd probably pay that for a motherboard of this calibre personally. When I bought my Blitz Formula SE it was nearly AUS$500, and after conversion the ASUS Rampage Formula comes in at AUS$530. It's relative. Hopefully the price will fall significantly in the short term as it is a great motherboard
Great review mate. It's made me interested enough to consider trying one I am either going to get this one or wait for the x58's.
I am either going to get this one or wait for the x58's.Hi mate and thanks. I'm sure that you'd have a load of fun tweaking this board.
Great review. This board certainly is awesome. I believe the first ROG board was the Crosshair though 
Hey Peevs,
Well I got the Blitz formula at launch too, it was £170 with next day delivery, so I still don't see how you can justify the 8/10 value... Areyou sure youpaid $500 AUS for the blitz? This mobo is the same calibre as the Blitz was at that time. An £80 increase for a top end mobo over such a short time period isn't right. The rest of the review is top notch though
I totally agree with Matt of the Kempez variety on this one, manufacturers need to wake up.
Well I got the Blitz formula at launch too, it was £170 with next day delivery, so I still don't see how you can justify the 8/10 value... Areyou sure youpaid $500 AUS for the blitz? This mobo is the same calibre as the Blitz was at that time. An £80 increase for a top end mobo over such a short time period isn't right. The rest of the review is top notch though
I totally agree with Matt of the Kempez variety on this one, manufacturers need to wake up.
I'm probably biased on this, but this is my personal not my professional view.
The Rampage Extreme is a kickass board, though a little pricy at this time. As we all know though, these prices tend to drop fairly rapidly and I'd certainly expect the same of the Rampage.
The Rampage Extreme is a kickass board, though a little pricy at this time. As we all know though, these prices tend to drop fairly rapidly and I'd certainly expect the same of the Rampage.
Wicked board, and I mean wicked in terms of todays youth slang (wicked, yo, cool, innit)....wicked price though....and I mean that in terms of saddam hussein, michael jackson and apple, ie evil....i'd like to see how it fares with a couple of 4870x2's as ATI are now boasting the fastest cards on the market...could be interesting that an ATI/Intel Platform will be the fastest...good review guys...do like the extra optional heatsinks...I am a sucker for hunks of metal though...oooo shiny
Way too expensive, other than that looks like a great board. The price of hardware is getting pretty ridiculous these days because like it or not, rightly or wrongly, PC's will always be compared to consoles and its becoming like the price of an upgrade would buy you a new console!
Well this IS a top of the line board. You dont need to buy it to have top notch performance though. Always expect top of the line to be extremely pricey.
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