ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Preview
First Look - Continued
Published: 1st November 2011 | Source: ASUS | Price: TBA |
Preview Continued
The business end of the Rampage IV Extreme has a really cool feature. The top PCI Express slot has a triple slot gap before the next one. Really useful if you're fortunate enough to own the ASUS Mars II for example, but equally almost and GPU will benefit from a bit of extra space to maximise airflow.
The certainly isn't a shortage of SATA options. Alongside that are some temperature monitoring points, if you're the kind of person who is on first name terms with your local LN2 supplier this could prove very handy indeed.
There certainly is a lot of power available to the board, with an 8 Pin and 4 Pin connector behind the CPU socket. As well as the usual ASUS high-end features, there is also a cool feature that allows you to 'hotwire' your system for extremely fine voltage control without having to trim variable resistors.
The IO at the back has nearly everything you could wish for, including a plethora of USB ports. It's been a while since we've seen active cooling on an ASUS Intel board. We hope that it's more precautionary.
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I love my ROG P55, I should keep it going and reccommend to any OC'ers; get this, I bet it'll be awesomely satisfying
Thanks OC3D
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very nice... *thinks up ways to raise A LOT of money!*feel abit better.......................WANT THE REVIEW NOW WE ALL WANT TO SEE!!!!!
1. Lift that silly blower off the NB and swap it for a water block - those tiny fans don't last 18 months running 24/7 unless they have very fancy bearings.
2. If I went with a pair of Mars 2 cards I would water-cool them. Problem is no water blocks exist for the Mars 2, and probably never will. A quartet of next-gen 600 cards running in quad-SLI will make this board scream.
3. Tom, you need to get your greedy little mits on a 8C/16T CPU...
Keep up the great work!
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Originally Posted by ShortAlieN
oh for the love of pete. someone help me. I am currently in the process of finding anything that I own, worth selling, so that I can buy this board and make something wonderful happen. |
I do like that Asus have taken the best from the R3E and R3E Black edition board an put all the features in to one board.
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Originally Posted by Ravious
I agree. I can't wait. X79 will be out of my budget though . |
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Originally Posted by murphy7801
Didnt think there was any prices at the mo |
Motherboards....not too sure.
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Originally Posted by Mr Moose
Budget hex will be just shy of £500 with the top end being £1000 naturally. Motherboards....not too sure. |
I'm ALL over it.
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