ASUS Rampage II Extreme

[elmor]

or Rampage "Too" Extreme as some say

For now I have an ES board to play with but I can't publish anything more than photos (no results) due to NDA on Core i7. Biggest difference is that it doesn't have the retail cooling but if I can get my hands on a retail sample I will post pics etc of that aswell.

Results will be up when NDA on i7 is up as I said before so for now you will have to do with these

Rampage II Extreme ES


TweakIt has been upgraded a bit, now you can set multiplier on the fly and there are measurement points for reading voltage for the key components with your DMM easily avaliable.

update: Retail board and results

Rampage II Extreme Retail



NDA is up Here are the results I achieved on this board:

Test system specification


Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition

ASUS Rampage II Extreme

A-DATA Vitesta DDR3-1600+ Tri-Channel 3x1GB

8500GT 512MB

Silverstone Olympia 1200W

Intel box cooler / Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme


Results

Highest SuperPi 1M score/clock:



Highest SuperPi 32M score/clock:



Highest bclock achieved:



3DMark06 CPU-test at 4Ghz (Intel box cooler!)



3DMark06 CPU-test at a bit higher voltage (Intel box cooler!):



3DMark06 CPU-test at a even higher voltage (Intel box cooler!):



3DMark06 CPU-test, highest with TRUE120:



Here's some 24/7 testing (Intel box cooler!):



Rampage II Extreme really takes overclocking to another level with improved TweakIt (multiplier change!) and ProbeIt.

More results will follow

[Leeghoofd]

Elmor you tease !!! hope it has the same Vdimm/Vcore seperation thing as the MSI mobo... making it easier to clock current DDR3 dimms...

Go go away stupid NDA

[blossa]

Oh, you always got the fun toys.

Have you had any chance to test it yet? Does it feel stable as the "normal" Rampage Extreme? I guess it may have some issues as it is an ES-board...

Tri-channel working ok?

[T_Flight]

Go go away stupid NDA

Man, you can say that again. I hope nobody makes a serious breach of NDA, but at the same time, this is getting to the point where it's definitely having a negative impact on buyers. Many have already jumped ship. I fear some of them jumped ship due to bad info, and misinformation that has filled the void.

I almost jumped ship myself. I had a 775 based system already in my cart with a Q9550, and had another window open with this forum, and somebody told me to just setup my case and the water stuff first and try to wait it out. I'm one of a number of people that are right at the end of their waiting game. If we don't hear something firm soon, I'm gonna have to go with the 775 based system, and an X48 board instead.

There hasn't even been a rumor of what the holdup is, and that's what bothers me. I'm starting to believe there may be something seriously wrong. It's definitely scaring people off. As much as I like this technology I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this.

[blossa]

There hasn't even been a rumor of what the holdup is, and that's what bothers me. I'm starting to believe there may be something seriously wrong. It's definitely scaring people off. As much as I like this technology I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this.

I don't feel like there is some special issues delaying the release. There is often NDA on new hardware before the release. Here is a roadmap posted 26th october 2007 saying that the estimated release is Q4 2008:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/26/i...ap-gets-outed/
For some Q4 is october 1th, for others it might as well be december.

@elmor: Does the voltages feel stable?

[AndreYang]

some pics are from www.xfastest.com

[SF3D]

Nice pictures Andre!

[eva2000]

thanks for the photos! love the heatsink mounting work around = 3.5" SATA hdd on top

[T_Flight]

I love this. I just hope they price it so I can own one of these. I really like this board. I've got a nice build planned out and this just belongs in it. There are other board that I can go to, but this is the one I really want so far unless the price scares me away, or some other world beater comes out, but so far this thing has everything going for it.

Asus! Please give us a price. Remember we have families and it's Christmas shopping season too!

[Atlantic2142]

Great pictures. After my SIIE i´ll go for the RIIE for sure

Cheers all

[elmor]

Insane amount of pictures Andre and really good ones too

No problems with any voltages or running RAMs in Tri-channel mode. Expected price is around €400.

[BlackFlag]

Sweet Jesus.

[AlfaBoy]

this board is gorgeous

fantastic work AndreYang, thanks for sharing!


i like the hdd on the top of the cooler

[bartx]

Damn, I love this board I really like way of voltage measuring - safe and gives much better than bios. Nice photos

[masxerofkartis]

That is a real beauty gosh though it 'll sure have a killer price Hope it is worth it( by the looks of it it is)

Weird i noticed no nb block on this one

[fatguy1992]

Awesome pics

[ZoLKoRn]

Nice board nice pics waiting to see nice results on it

[Ozzfest05]

I want to know price / eta on this bad boy I would give my kidney for it

[Astratuner]

So this means that only the supplied soundcard that comes with the motherboard can be used?

I'm planning on SLI ( or crossfire ) so a auzentech ( pci ) or creative pci-x1 won't fit. The Creative is to long so it will touch the heat sink. And the auzentech can't be used with sli or crossfire .


I'm sutch an audiophile and this hurts me :@

[kaskuli]

Let's hope some of this technology will trickle down to future Asus mainstream boards. Was surprised to find ROG-style Power/Reset Mobo-based switches and no ROG-style phoney NB waterblock on my P5Q3

[Slovnaft]

I'm sorry, i have to ask...do those a-data sticks really get hot enough to warrant that enormous hs/fans mount?
i mean it seems kindof absurd for ram that's supposed to run at 1.5-1.7v...

[Astratuner]

So this means that only the supplied soundcard that comes with the motherboard can be used?

I'm planning on SLI ( or crossfire ) so a auzentech ( pci ) or creative pci-x1 won't fit. The Creative is to long so it will touch the heat sink. And the auzentech can't be used with sli or crossfire .


I'm sutch an audiophile and this hurts me :@

Bump???

So the supplied audio card is the only one who will fit in the most upper slot???

[dinos22]

wow those photos, the board,,,, wow amazing actually
never thought i'd say that about a motherboard
sex on the beach

[Klarko]

Holy crap that thing looks baller! How expensive will this board be?

[Zucker2k]

Insanity. Nice pictures Andre.