Asus rampage III Extreme

looks good, but have found using these top end boards to be a bit of a waste of time, unless going super cooled and overclocked! nearly all boards and CPUs will hit 4Ghz plus, i wouldn't bother paying the £200 extra for a extra 400Mhz this MIGHT give you.

(saying that i have just sold my RE2 and have a Rampage Gene)
 
I would like this motherboard :D Built in bluetooth cant go wrong with that :) When is this released? Early April? Thats when I am going to build my new rig.
 
mattjd said:
I would like this motherboard :D Built in bluetooth cant go wrong with that :) When is this released? Early April? Thats when I am going to build my new rig.
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April is the month by the looks of things. When exactly in April is unknown. VK, who works for ASUS on this forum has stated above: 1st-2nd week of April. I have also seen elsewhere on the ASUS forums themselves that claim the same thing.

On another note, your sig is too big for the forum rules mate, don't worry about the mistake I made the same: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18125835

Not trying to be forum police lol just trying to save you a ban :).
 
I cannot wait for this new board, i have just bought all the other components to fit around this beast and they are all sitting in my room.. such a shame i cant build it!
 
Looking at specs it’s got an extra 3 fan headers over the P6X58D Premium : the Opt ones from the Rampage II which can't be controlled by the AI software in the OS only through bios. It would have been nice if Asus had went with at least 1 extra PWM header instead. The P6 does have an extra 4pin fan header but alas not PWM controlled. Thought this would have been sorted on the Rampage. The Rampage also has the the same no. of USB3 ports and SATA6 ports as the P6 too, which is dissapointing.

Regarding GPU's unless you want to do 4way at only 8x8x8x8x which I don't think many people will over the drop in performance on the 1st gpu (or if they do, they will stick with the Classified or Asus workstation boards), it's got the same lane setup as the P6 - 16x16x or 16x8x8x. So no big plus there.

Regarding layout, it's missing the top 1x PCI-e slot on the P6 which was handy as it could fit any length soundcard. However it looks like you can have 3 dual slot GPU’s and a soundcard fit in just 7 slots. The P6 needs a case with 8 slots to do this. So a plus there for the rampage.

I can only see this board being worthwhile for extreme overclockers or those that wish to run trisli or trifire in a case with only 7 pci slots.
 
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One thing I will just point out. PCI-E x16 slots are backward compatible, you can plug a PCI-E sound card into any one of the PCI-E x16 slots so actually it's the best design you could have.

Would have been better if ASUS just made the board PCI-E x16 throughout however, rather than having a redundant PCI slot and a awkwardly placed PCI-E x4 slot.

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I realise that about the backward compatability and agree about the 16x slots throughout (they did that on their workstation board though). However I would still prefer a 1x slot at the top instead of wasting the bottom 16x slot for a soundcard, plus when running my 3 5870's the souncard is going to get pretty toasty.

Am just wondering is it worth getting a Rampage III extreme over a P6X58D Premium.
 
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