ASUS Rampage Extreme Mainboard Coming

[Donnie27]

For example, Gigabyte retail their EP45-DS3L for just $110 US, though at this price users will lose some pretty significant features (mostly Bloat), such as Crossfire and RAID. It seems for a reasonably well equipped P45 motherboard, consumers will have to pay at least $150 US, making the EP45-DS4 quite a good value solution at $190 US. Overall we feel that Gigabyte has created an impressive high-end P45 motherboard in the EP45-DS4, that should suit the needs of most users.

There's also a pretty nice Gigabyte P43 verssion of this board for less than $100 US. That means less than $300 for 4GHz.

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There's also a pretty nice Gigabyte P43 verssion of this board for less than $100 US. That means less than $300 for 4GHz.

Yeah but is it DDR3?

[Donnie27]

Yeah but is it DDR3?

P43 uses DDR2 800 or 1066. I got 4GB of Muskin 5-4-4-12 for $60 after MIR. Where are prices? A bud built a Q9300 for about the same prices his P4EE and about $50 more than his FX-55 PROCESSORS alone. Can't bash Intel or AMD, he once paid $650 for a nVidia video card.

The whole computer was a jump in technology so why is the hell are Motherboard Prices going higher and higher? Because folks keep happily paying more and more. This market can influence prices but many misguided folks keeping price artificially high. Example! His old system is the first number and the New one is the second! Please also note that the Price of EVERY part is cheaper except the motherboard.

Asus A8N SLI 16X-->Gigabyte DS3L P45 version
Athlon Sc-939 4400+--->Intel Q9300
WD 160GB---->WD-500GB (later added a second 750GB)
1GB of OCZ DDR-400 via 2X 512MB sticks, 2X 2GB sticks
Audigy 2ZS-->X-Fi XGamer
2 16X single layer DVD-RW-->2 SATA 20X DL DVD-RWs
nVidia 6800---->nVidia 8800GT
19"-Sony CRT vs 22" Acer LCD

Same case and New PSU. In each case, the New tech is much better and cheaper. These Asus motherboards haven't kept up with time, they've went back to the bad old days of High prices. I wish *enthusiasts would STOP over paying for this stuff.

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that block looks to be made from aluminium...

Excellent, now I just need to find Aluminium CPU and GPU blocks so I don't have any nasty Cu eating it all! :flamethrower:

Seriously though, I love the look of this board and it will look excellent with a pair of chunky graphics cards from the red team. Any chance I can get hold of one within two weeks?

[eternal_fantasy]

Excellent, now I just need to find Aluminium CPU and GPU blocks so I don't have any nasty Cu eating it all! :flamethrower:

Seriously though, I love the look of this board and it will look excellent with a pair of chunky graphics cards from the red team. Any chance I can get hold of one within two weeks?

Actually.. I think it look aluminium like is caused by the lighting, if you take a look at these pics;

Picture 1
Picture 2

The block looks pretty copper-like... but all is speculation until someone can give definitive proof.

[OverCloke]

http://pic.xfastest.com/MB/ASUS/RAMP...EME/RE-920.jpg

OK... and the backplate of the coolers? Asus dont think in this detail.

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Actually.. I think it look aluminium like is caused by the lighting, if you take a look at these pics;

Picture 1
Picture 2

The block looks pretty copper-like... but all is speculation until someone can give definitive proof.

Cu or Al I don't really care, just trying to wind up the 'Cu Nazis'? :flamethrower:

But I would really like one for i34 (9th Aug) if at all possible!

[rob2k]

Legion Hardware review here :-

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=763

[SKYMTL]

Legion Hardware review here :-

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=763

That is the same review that everyone is talking about but they changed "Maximus" to "Rampage", as it should have been in the first place.