First pics of Asus Rampage 2 Extreme (X58)

[mikeyakame]

AU dollar is pretty solid at the moment still so is great for us! Nice as hell board, depending on when it comes out I'll have to decide between this or the P6T-Deluxe. This seems to have better placed PCI-E slots for running 2 GTX280 in SLI and an 8x Areca SAS raid controller. P6T has poor placed slots for this since the GPU will interfere with the 3rd PCI-E 16x slot.

[MomijiTMO]

AU dollar is pretty solid at the moment

Lol wat D=

All the foreign backers are running away. Currently at 0.75USD. I remember when it was 0.98USD. Nehalem is going to be expensive now.

[mikeyakame]

Lol wat D=

All the foreign backers are running away. Currently at 0.75USD. I remember when it was 0.98USD. Nehalem is going to be expensive now.

yeah appears i spoke too soon! stupid world economy!

good point, but when you switch to a different board, dont you need to reinstall windows anyways and install different sound, chipset and whatnot drivers?

well its 2 different departments in the same company...

believe it or not Vista completely does away with this! I've gone through a handful of boards and what not and all I've had to do was uninstall sound software and video drivers after booting with new board. Then simply just reinstall Intel motherboard drivers, video and sound. Works like magic! I've even gone from ICH7R to ICH9R and Vista still booted fine off my raid array with the ICH raid drivers! XP's reinstalling the OS is a thing of the past for new hardware.

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We will bundle 3D Mark Vantage with this MB :-)

pmp,

Any chance we'll be seeing this board ready for primetime at official i7 release? By the looks of the revision on the board, looks like a 1.00! So perhaps it will be ready once NDA is lifted! Great news if so! No doubt it'll hurt the wallet but will be worth it!

[Slovnaft]

believe it or not Vista completely does away with this! I've gone through a handful of boards and what not and all I've had to do was uninstall sound software and video drivers after booting with new board. Then simply just reinstall Intel motherboard drivers, video and sound. Works like magic! I've even gone from ICH7R to ICH9R and Vista still booted fine off my raid array with the ICH raid drivers! XP's reinstalling the OS is a thing of the past for new hardware.

Vista can work between multiple chipsets, but you will not see the best performance until you do a "repair" or fresh install to get it to properly do away with the old chipset drivers and use the correct ones.

[azza21]

The boards looks awesome, i bet the price will be also. Hopefully they can keep it under £300, looking unlikely though.

[pmp]

pmp,
Any chance we'll be seeing this board ready for primetime at official i7 release? By the looks of the revision on the board, looks like a 1.00! So perhaps it will be ready once NDA is lifted! Great news if so! No doubt it'll hurt the wallet but will be worth it!

Sure it will be ready @ worldwide stocks before NDA lifts up. Besides, don't get messed by PCB revision - it's not a MB revision in fact

[G H Z]

We need a board with a socketed northbridge...and of course a source of NB's