Asus has, following in the footsteps of Gigabyte and MSI are motherboards with the X79 chipset and the LGA2011 socket for the next generation of processors is presented. The top model of the company is the Republic of Gamers Rampage IV Extreme.
The Rampage IV Extreme is designed for overclockers and gamers, and features several overkloktools. So does Asus have a OC Key: a dongle between the video card and the monitor are mounted, and with which the system can be overclocked with The OC Key uses an osd to provide information. Also is the board equipped with uitleespunten for the various voltages, and for overclockers with liquid nitrogen want to get started, the RIVE is equipped with connections for thermometers.
The system can also normally via the uefi to be overclocked, or automatically using the RoG software. The pci-express slots can be individually turned off and there is a special mode for LN2 overclockers. The video card can be overclocked using VGA Hotwire, which allows a higher voltage is put on the map. The southbridge is actively cooled; the power supply is by three ‘Extreme Engine Digi+ II’-vrm’s, which by heat sinks with heat pipes to temperature to be taken.
The Rampage has a x1 slot and five pci-express x16 slots, two of which are also electrically as x16-ports are carried out. The other slots are actually x8 slots. Furthermore, there are four usb 3.0 ports and a header for two more pieces. The board has eight sata ports, of which half of the sata-600 standard. There are eight usb 2.0 ports, and a RoG Connect port, and the board is equipped with bluetooth 3.0, and a gigabit ethernet adapter.
The LGA2011 socket is flanked by two times, four ddr3-memory slots. Asus offers a variety of backplates, and a second locking mechanism for the socket, so that in addition to socket 2011 coolers also socket 1366 coolers can be used. A price for the RoG board was the Asus is not yet known.
