First pics of Asus Rampage 2 Extreme (X58)

[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

[vegettoxp]

Hey guys, I was wonder, Should I Update my Motherboard with this one. I currently have the Asus Maximus Formula SE Running with Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770. I believe I paid $279 for my Maximus. Your Thoughts?

[Mezzro]

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?

Sure, but you have all your data intact. I think most people have more HDD space occupied by data than OS and app's. Takes much longer to restore all that data -- or do comprehensive backups, as opposed to incremental, etc.

[Astratuner]

So the only way is to buy a PCI-E soundcard or none at all?

since you can't mount a PCI one here right?

[mascaras]

ASUS Rampage II Extreme - First Look





How fast? Imagine a cheetah sprinting for a gazelle after devouring a case of Red Bull. Actually, that has more to do with the 3.2GHz i7 overclocked to a healthy X.XGHz (Ed: Sorry, not yet!) with a few gigabytes of Qimonda's finest running at a leisurely 2200MHz. Yeah, we broke the 1.65V memory guideline, but there is a trick to it without causing permanent damage to the CPU, although our benchmark programs are crying foul right now. To be honest, this board does bring out the best in the new i7 in a very easy manner once you learn the tricks of the BIOS.


http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3428

regards

[emoners]

How fast? Imagine a cheetah sprinting for a gazelle after devouring a case of Red Bull....

hmm too much time on the Discovery Channel huh :p

[Slovnaft]

AArhg!! ASUS or Gigabyte, ASUS or Gigabyte, 16 phase or Copper...
Now tell me you don't believe in SHC?!

[Sampsa]

Ok, Core i7 Extreme Edition and Rampage II Extreme under test with SF3D... next table are Kinc and elmor benching

[Atlantic2142]

Well,
Awesome board..... and you got the right beer as well
Cant wait to test one of those.....the beer, or was it the other way around?

Cheers

[Slovnaft]

ASHaahah the SHIRT is my favorite part!

[Astratuner]

the sound card doesn't fit in lol

[k|ngp|n]

SICK SICK SICK Board Sampsa. Good luck to all of you guys! Always exciting times with new HW Can't wait to see pics and scores from the 4 and 5 unit monsters

[emoners]

looks like a new cooler from Thermalright

[Chri$ch]

Asus Rampage II Extreme X58 (Retail)

(Source: xfastest.com)

[MomijiTMO]

Thanks again Chri$ch. I seem to be saying that on a monthly basis

[Astratuner]

thanks mate!


But I'm still worried about the black PCI X1 slot and the coolblock.

That way no soundcard could get put into?

I really hope they fix this issue.

[Zaskar]

Whats that suspended PCB next to the NB?

[@@@@]

Asus has some steep competition up ahead the new x58 motherboards are looking like battle royal but Rampage Extreme II has a good reference base on its older brother we'll just have to see the numbers to see if it can surpass its predecessor.

[T_Flight]

Oh it will. It's just a matter of them pricing it to where enough people will buy it and make it noticed. If only the elite can afford it then you'll see a bunch of P6T variants being OC'd.

On the heatsinks I doubt there will be any changes. These things are already boxed up ready for release. They are probably already sitting in warehouses by now. What you see in those retail shots are what we're gonna get.

The soundcard that comes with that board is more than sufficient. It was never designed for aftermarket cards. These boards are crowded. It's a miracle they could get everything on them with the new larger socket and still keep the ATX form factor.

[Frodin]

It's a miracle they could get everything on them with the new larger socket and still keep the ATX form factor.

This one didn't.

[T_Flight]

This one didn't.

Huh? Was it changed? What I read was it was slightly larger, but the bolt pattern was the same. Is that no longer the case?

[Frodin]

From the pictures, you can see that it's slightly larger, and therefore not ATX. The ATX form factor adherence seems to be decided by the size of the board:

A full size ATX board is 305mm wide by 244mm deep (12" x 9.6" ).

Although the hole pattern should be part of the spec as well(?), didn't care to check. I guess most midi tower cases that enthusiasts buy will fit the board anyway, as it's only slightly larger.

[T_Flight]

Yeah that had me worried, becasue I told some poeple it would fit and wanted to correct that if it wouldn't. In my case I have a case that is the largest around so fit is no problem, but I didn;t want others to get that thing and then find out it wouldn't fit. That would be a real downer. That assumes that they choose it.

Alot of people are waiting to see the prices on these things. They've got to break soon. I know boards like this will be expensive, but i hope they don;t jack the price up so high that many won't want it.

I'm also eyeing that EVGA board, as well as the P6T variants. I really like this board though. Come on Asus, don't let me down, price this thing right, and we'll all put this thing in the record books. I'll be OC'ing in the water and single GPU class.