X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[LostHawk]

My rampage also has: "PCB made in China" written on it.
There front of the box has a nice X48 logo on it and the back of the box does indeed say X38 .

I used serveral programs to check the system status and to run benchmarks.
Some programs also list the chipset as X38, but this could be caused by me running older versions of tools such as cpu-z, everest and 3d mark.

But these small mistakes don't really bother me, for me the board runs fine and the temps are also ok'. When running my E8500 @511 fsb multi 7.5 the board runs no hother than 40 degrees while stressing with orthos for a long period.
I have noticed that airflow does have a big impact on the temps of the board, when using a intel boxed cooler it ran much hotter then when I used my zalman FS-C77.

Made in China for my Rampage too
The chipset .inf/drivers Asus gave on the DVD are the X38 ones but I know it's really a X48 no worries p.

*Did one of you try to do the usual basic thermal compound mod for the NB/SB ? Cleaning and just putting your own Arctic Silver or other instead ?
Never mind I see it's about the same cooling as for the Maximus Formula so it should give the same results.
I will do that soon then.