Rampage 3 Gene Review

**Philwong** · 07-12-2010, 04:25 AM

Lets sum up the pros and cons...

Pros
- SATA 3.0
- USB 3.0
- Intel NIC
- ROG Connect
- Beefier NB heatsink
- Voltage measurement points
- Software Xi-Fi 2 with EAX 5.0 support
- Unified red/black theme

Cons
- No IDE port
- No fusion block support
- No LCD poster
- No socket 775 mounting holes

Will R3G be priced higher than the good ole R2G??

Phil

**uncle fester** · 07-12-2010, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by Philwong

You can't display temps, voltages and other useful information to monitor system health real-time with LEDs isn't it?

Phil

umm can you show me a board that does display all of that with the onboard post leds , they all only display boot codes and error codes they dont display voltages and the classi does show the temp of cpu but thats it and most people disable that anyway.

**Nanometer** · 07-12-2010, 09:26 AM

no ide port as a con? you must be joking... lol

**Clint** · 07-12-2010, 09:40 AM

max bclk?

**Philwong** · 07-12-2010, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by uncle fester

umm can you show me a board that does display all of that with the onboard post leds , they all only display boot codes and error codes they dont display voltages and the classi does show the temp of cpu but thats it and most people disable that anyway.

Exactly.. I would opt for an LCD display over diagnostic LEDs any time.

Phil

**Philwong** · 07-12-2010, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Nanometer

no ide port as a con? you must be joking... lol

Compared with the R2G, but you're right. Maybe its time to drop it for such high-end boards.

Phil

**uncle fester** · 07-12-2010, 06:41 PM

well you can call it a con if you wish, personally i can get the same info from the leds as from the error codes.

**uncle fester** · 07-12-2010, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by Clint

max bclk?

max bclock is 222 but can go upwards to 250 with qpi in slow mode.

full review will be completed soon waiting on new cpu mine unfortunatly died.

**MassiveOverkill** · 07-13-2010, 06:25 PM

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=...TX-Motherboard

**Skott1962** · 07-21-2010, 10:55 AM

Looking forward to seeing how well this mobo does.

**PaRn ssR** · 07-26-2010, 12:02 AM

No E-Sata in Back I/O

**map01ch** · 07-26-2010, 02:38 AM

Thanks for sharing....... show us the LN2 benchmark.....

**PrometheusCon** · 07-26-2010, 10:19 AM

I bought this board from that ewiz.com link. I used the promo code BUBBLE20 (I think that's what it was) to get $20 off, so $215.99 total including free shipping ain't too bad.

**majkel84** · 08-03-2010, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Philwong

Compared with the R2G, but you're right. Maybe its time to drop it for such high-end boards.

Phil

Ithought they would never give up this high end feature....

**VoRtAn_MaDgE** · 09-16-2010, 03:45 PM

I know i'm digging kind of but...
How does this board performs in terms of heating (NB/SB) compared to the RII GENE ?
Any idea ?

**CedricFP** · 09-20-2010, 04:08 AM

Very interested in a full review.

To be honest, I hate that in Hong Kong this retails for close to 300 USD, rather than the 220 in US.

**uncle fester** · 09-20-2010, 07:31 AM

Sorry man i will get around to it but so many reviews going on and going back to this mobo at the moment is a bit hard - im under the pump

**CedricFP** · 09-21-2010, 12:16 AM

Originally Posted by uncle fester

Sorry man i will get around to it but so many reviews going on and going back to this mobo at the moment is a bit hard - im under the pump

Hey that's totally no problem! Didn't mean to rush you or anything, just wanted to express how much I'm looking forward to it as I'm in the market for MATX X58 after my EVGA kicked the bucket.

Keep it up, friend

EDIT: Some interesting findings here...

Why should the RIIIGene be so much slower than the EVGA Micro if both use ICH10R?

Source: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/mot...board-review/6

**KILLER_K** · 09-22-2010, 08:41 PM

Any benchmarks on this thing yet? I got mine today and did a ssf build with it. But i'm having issues with my kingston hyper x t1 2,000 with x.m.p. If i even try to use it the board will nto full boot, set it on auto it boots fine but at 1066.

Same as overclocking, i have to leave it on auto or it will not overclock. So i'm just going to mess around with it. would be nice to get a unofficial thread for it though.

As posted above me my ssd gets slower benchmarks then my R2E full atx board does. Not sure, perhaps need some better drivers maybe.

**miptzi** · 10-07-2010, 03:12 PM

is the central heatsink tall? seems to be VERY....

**Aerou** · 10-07-2010, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by miptzi

is the central heatsink tall? seems to be VERY....

it's sort of a optical illusion, because the angle of the fins and zoom of the camera that took the picture

**WaterFlex** · 10-07-2010, 11:52 PM

looking forwar for some numbers

thanks in advance

**fordf250** · 10-08-2010, 03:45 PM

I am very happy with mine 211bclk, 4.4G 950 with noctua and 6G ram at 1600 linX stable. All low voltage but cpu at 1.45Vcore. Looking forward to the review.

**KILLER_K** · 10-16-2010, 05:41 PM

Back up on the block. As i still like to see a full review on this board also. I just haven't had time to try mine either.

**Leeghoofd** · 10-17-2010, 12:01 AM

Originally Posted by CedricFP

EDIT: Some interesting findings here...

Why should the RIIIGene be so much slower than the EVGA Micro if both use ICH10R?

Source: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/mot...board-review/6

and then they say this :

Code:

The R3G also returned reasonable, if not spectacular SATA speeds of 221MB/sec via its ICH10R based SATA 3Gbps ports and of 216MB/sec from its Marvel 9128-powered SATA 6Gbps ports.

Let's say something is bugged in the benches... should all be head to head... Gonna try to get me one... and compare it to the RE 3

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