ASUS ROG Rampage III Extreme

[Torphoto]

I don't think this board is XL-atx, looking at the mounting holes it looks like SSI-CEB, just a bit bigger, so it should fit where an eatx board will, but the last slot in 4x sli/xfire will need a chassis with 8 slots. I could be wrong but it looks just a tad bigger then the p6t7 ws but not as big as the evga 170-BL-E762-A1.

Now the real question is where are the full specs and when can we buy it !!!

[Blacky]

size is about 13.6" x 10.5"

So its confirmed its a XL-ATX form factor, dammit it won't fit in Corsair 800D either thanks for the clarification!

[To(V)bo Co(V)bo]

If you look hard, it has all 4 pin pwm fan connectors also! Nice board no less. I have a bloodrage and this seems very similar. Look at all the inspiration the bloodrage has done for x58 boards. I was really getting pist looking at all those sweet P55 boards, X58 is a totally neglected platform. There is very few excellent class x58 boards to choose from. We all know X58 is the true enthusiast platform no questions asked period!

I do believe we need a new connector standard for pcie power, molex just aint cutting it. Maybe they should put a SATA power connector that sits 90deg next to the sata ports, this would be a ideal place and connector.

[GTi-6]

From the pictures, I can tell the shown motherboard is SSI-CEB just like P6T7. Not an XL-ATX.

[Cool Vibrations]

It better not be an XL-ATX. Personally, I think that was a huge mistake on EVGA's part. Come on, that motherboard fit in only 10~15 cases without any modding. Most of us have E-ATX cases.

[Dami3n]

Nice layout, but crappy heatsink for a board with digital pwm and nf200

[Blacky]

Nice layout, but crappy heatsink for a board with digital pwm and nf200

could be equal or worst than classy though, I never understood why such huge cooling heatsink performed horrible...

[zanzabar]

why would it have 1 nf200 chip, that would give it 16x16x8x8 or 16x16x16 so i dont see the point if its for quad. i would rather have none of them but 2 would make alot more sense.

edit affter looking at more picks it looks to have a new plx chip, so dose that mean that it has a plx that can do 32x to 64x or dose it have an nf200 for 16x to 32x and a plx for 16x to 32x

[Chrono Detector]

This board does look good, I like the colour scheme and yes it does look like an EVGA Classified. Though it would be better if it had dual LAN.

[zanzabar]

This board does look good, I like the colour scheme and yes it does look like an EVGA Classified. Though it would be better if it had dual LAN.

affter polling it was shown that people dont use dual lan in large numbers, i would personally rather have a good nic like the intel one

[sholvaco]

So its confirmed its a XL-ATX form factor, dammit it won't fit in Corsair 800D either thanks for the clarification!

It's not. The board shown here is about the same size as the R2E and will fit into an ATX tower as long as there's enough depth clearance towards the hard drive cages/5.25 bays.

I do believe we need a new connector standard for pcie power, molex just aint cutting it. Maybe they should put a SATA power connector that sits 90deg next to the sata ports, this would be a ideal place and connector.

We have one. It's called the PCIe power connector and comes in either 6-pin or 8-pin forms. The new EVGA dual socket board uses them (on both PCIe and CPU PWM ) and so did the Maximus III Extreme demo board.

The reason they went with molex instead is the usually limited amount of PCIe connectors power supply units come with. This board facilitates four high end GPUs which could mean the use of four 6-pin connectors in addition to four 8-pin connectors in the extreme case, so using a single PSU one might run out of PCIe connectors before being able to hook the board up. I'd say the molexes are a pretty reasonable compromise in this case. Unless you care to inform us of some PSUs that come with unlimited amount of PCIe power connectors?

why would it have 1 nf200 chip, that would give it 16x16x8x8 or 16x16x16 so i dont see the point if its for quad. i would rather have none of them but 2 would make alot more sense.

edit affter looking at more picks it looks to have a new plx chip, so dose that mean that it has a plx that can do 32x to 64x or dose it have an nf200 for 16x to 32x and a plx for 16x to 32x

The NF200 is there to make the board quad SLI certified (if there even is one on the model shown here). I don't believe the visible PLX bridge takes care of the "x16" lane routing but rather provides a way to hook up USB 3.0/SATA 6Gb controllers and let the board retain the precious x4 2.0 link. Unless there is something else under that heatsink?

What is that flashy add-in card at the network ports? WiFi?

Bluetooth for that iphone oc app asus were talking about?

It could be just that: a USB based Bluetooth module.

[GTi-6]

Asus managed to put 2x NF200 on P6T7 WS SC in E-ATX form factor. I hope there are 2x NF200 under the heatsink but not quite possible with that small heatsink, I guess.

[PatRaceTin]

Those stock cooling can't hold NB+SB+PWM+NF200 HEAT!!!

[saaya]

Does it have digital PWM?

nope...

btw, tweaktown have a video of the board on their site.
its in the demo clip about rog connect

[zalbard]

nope...

Another fail board then.

btw, tweaktown have a video of the board on their site.
its in the demo clip about rog connect

Link?

[AndreYang]

I know 2 NF200 is so stupid, but it's required on 4-Way SLI in the future.

[Blacky]

Those stock cooling can't hold NB+SB+PWM+NF200 HEAT!!!

Well classy can't either (efficiently for such behemoth cooling) , anyways most will replace that stock cooler either with EK or BP WB's like most classy users...including me...

[GTi-6]

@ saaya, are you referring to this video? http://www.youtube.com/camwilmot#p/u/22/c_6THcwIPtE , it's about Maximus III Extreme. I couldn't find any other video about ROG Connect demo on Tweaktown Youtube channel.

@ AndreYang, the shown motherboard in CES 2010 and the motherboard you have, are they the same?

[sholvaco]

nope...

btw, tweaktown have a video of the board on their site.
its in the demo clip about rog connect

How can you tell? They were claiming digital with the P55 extreme board and this uses similar components. Source?

[saaya]

How can you tell? They were claiming digital with the P55 extreme board and this uses similar components. Source?

oh, my bad... that was the maximus 3 FORMULA extreme?
sorry, got confused by all the maximus formula II rampage III xtreme stuff ^^
so rampage is 1366 and formula is 1156? but isnt there a formula 1366 board too?

[C3]

hm afaik there is no asus x58 formula board?!

[G.Foyle]

Those stock cooling can't hold NB+SB+PWM+NF200 HEAT!!!

Ever seen a P6T7 WS? It has low profile heatsinks, 2x NF200 and doesnt overheat.

[massman]

Maximus = mainstream
Rampage = high-end

Formula = mainstream
Extreme = high-end
Gene = small-factor

So:

Maximus Formula < Maximus Extreme < Rampage Formula < Rampage Extreme
mainstream mainstream < mainstream high-end < high-end mainstream < high-end high-end

[sholvaco]

Like GTi-6 already stated the board featured in that tweaktown video is the P55 Maximus III Extreme which provides 4 way SLI via NF200, digital PWM, USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb and some other minor details over the regular Maximus III Formula.

The board shown here succeeds the X58 based Rampage II Extreme. No formula as of yet for this platform.

One of my recent rants detailing ASUS ROG naming conventions:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...3&postcount=21

[GTi-6]

On Kingpincooling forum Andre stated that there will be two versions. 2x NF200 and non NF200 version. But AFAIK, this has only one NF200 onboard. It's like in the middle of those two.

Any more info about this mobo?