Asus rampage III Extreme

That's £20 cheaper than what I budgeted for, so I'm pleased with that. Helios1234, thank you for the review, I'll read it shortly.

Excuse the ignorance, but what disadvantages could a user encounter with the PCI-E lanes running at 16x/8x/8x instead of 16x/16x/16x? Take me for example, I will be running a single 5870 on this board at first looking to upgrade to CrossFire later in the year, this won't be a problem for me will it?
 
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That's £20 cheaper than what I budgeted for, so I'm pleased with that. Helios1234, thank you for the review, I'll read it shortly.

Excuse the ignorance, but what disadvantages could a user encounter with the PCI-E lanes running at 16x/8x/8x instead of 16x/16x/16x? Take me for example, I will be running a single 5870 on this board at first looking to upgrade to CrossFire later in the year, this won't be a problem for me will it?
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For single or dual card setup, there'll be no problem and you'll be able to make full use of the PCIe x16 slots. For 3/4 card setup, people might feel that the reduced bandwidth of the x8 slots will reduce performance compared to x16.

In fact, I'll give it a go and report back. The second slot defaults to x8 so I'll see how the my GTX260 performs when I use it.
 
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For single or dual card setup, there'll be no problem and you'll be able to make full use of the PCIe x16 slots. For 3/4 card setup, people might feel that the reduced bandwidth of the x8 slots will reduce performance compared to x16.

In fact, I'll give it a go and report back. The second slot defaults to x8 so I'll see how the my GTX260 performs when I use it.
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I read about to see what the difference was running x16/x16/x16 and it was extremely minimal difference like maximum 5% difference. I think running x16/x8/x8 would be fine. Unless you need some serious epeen or competing then I don't think it will be noticeable. I read it on a review site, can't remember which though!
 
Great, thanks for the information Helios / LeJosh. I have no need for a three-card setup. I did notice one difference between the PCI-E setup on the R2E and the R3E though.

The R2E has 3x PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots.
The R3E has 4x PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots.

That doesn't make any difference to the bandwidth does it?
 
Pre ordered. £329 is a good price for this.

I spotted Gigabytes offering to compete with this, a revised UD7:

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http://www.overclock.net/intel-motherboards/681334-cebit-gigabytes-new-ud7-classified-heads.html

Doesnt look anywhere near as nice though.

Oh yea, I need to order a SATA DVD-R drive too. I'm still using an IDE :p
 
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I see Gigabyte is also using the Molex plugs and the 2 12v CPU power connectors. This should be interesting.

Funnily enough my Biostar X58 was probably the first board to make use of the Molex connector on board.

I just tried running my GTX260 in the x8 slot and there was minimal impact on performance. I'll add the results to the review.
 
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I just tried running my GTX260 in the x8 slot and there was minimal impact on performance. I'll add the results to the review.
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Great, thanks for doing that.

Apologies for the barrage of questions, but do you happen to know what memory multipliers are available for selection?
 
Hi

I take it the PCI-E lanes not running at full 16x is only a problem for a three card setup???? and a dual card setup SLI will defo run at full 16x???

Thanks for responding
 
The Gigabyte one has 3 molex plugs as opposed to two on the R3E, but it looks far from complete and will probably take a while longer.
 
Can anyone recommend me an outer casing that has a black and red colour scheme and can fit a 360 water cooling radiator in it?
 
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