ASUS ROG Rampage III Extreme

[sholvaco]

DAAYUUUUUUM!

Sorry about the lack of official details but they are still somewhat sketchy at this point.

It looks like this version comes with a single NF200 and provides quad SLI/CF while retaining a regular ATX form factor. Also comes with USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb via the already known PLX solution using the SB PCIe lanes and in turn provides an PCIe x4 2.0 slot feeding off the IOH (ideal for physX while running dual SLI at x16 by x16).

Other obvious stuff would be two 8 pin CPU connectors, two additional molex connectors (I assume for powering PCIe slots), ROG connect and on-board audio this time (understandable given what they are trying to achieve here). PWM solution unknown right now but I think It'd be safe to assume it shares a similar design with the one used on the Maximus III Extreme shown in November last year.

Read "more" about it here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...-3.0,2529.html

[zalbard]

Does it have digital PWM?
And I bet the stock cooler will perform terribly.
Nice PCI-E spacing, though!
What is that flashy add-in card at the network ports? WiFi?

[TONY GAL]

WTFtis mobo is very beauty and very strong...
i like that very much

[Expat GriZ]

D00D!! Thanks for posting this & the pic! Wondered when it would show up....Looks Devilishly SICK!!!!

[Katanai]

This looks really good but come on, 3 extra power connectors? That makes absolutely no sense.

[NightCrawler™]

The amount of power connectors is huge.. Does it need that much juice..?

[Bodkin]

Yay, my new board is here

[Expat GriZ]

The extra molex's are there for those of us who are going to hammer this board. Normal use, much like the eVGA 762 & that new Dual Socket monster they are not mandatory. This is an OCing Board!!

[metachronos]

those heatsinks look hideous but that's a minor flaw.

[Etihtsarom]

I doubt the HS will be sufficient. And these added connectors, Probably not necessary at all unless you're loading up 4 cards to bench.

[Necetra]

I bet the heatsinks will be more annoying than they would be helpful.. Linking everything with heatpipes means you can't replace only one part easily.

[AceBaran]

I want to know the pricetag !

[IgoRR]

this MBO is going to spend a lot of current

[Blacky]

Wow it looks verryy good! though whats that shiny thing new solid capacitors near socket & memory area? or how that could help in the OC department?

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

Smells like classified

[N19h7m4r3]

Good board, sadly it looks ugly as sin!

I prefer the old look of the ROG boards far far more.

The spacing is very good though and I really like that it's still ATX and smaller than the previous one.

[Utnorris]

I like the board, except for the molex connectors in the middle of the board. If you do not need them to run Tri-SLI then that's fine, but if they have to be used then running cables to it will destroy the look. I am going to assume that they dropped the LCD display in favor of ROG connect, it's a shame as I liked that feature. The one thing the Classified has is the ability to disable a PCIe slot for trouble shooting or benching purposes and then of course digital PMW's, but otherwise they look very similiar.

[overclocking101]

wait you mentioned maximus 3 extreme where is this?? i have seen no photos or news about that board??

[sholvaco]

Looking at it some more:

-From a tiny glimpse of the CPU power delivery behind the sink, it appears it uses the same type of inductors as the M3R demo boards which supposedly ran a digital PWM. Like there was doubt.

-The "post modern" sinks seem to have a porose texture to them which hints at use of ceramic coating ASUS had been flaunting on occasion. Could be the quality of the shot though... NOT.

-775 mounting holes, yuck. The 1366 has been on the market for over a year. There are enough cooling solutions out there to not have to compromise the PCB structural integrity around the trace overladen socket area.

-It'd be interesting to know how the NF200 is hooked up if there even is one on this particular board. From what I can tell from the photo, the slots seem to run a standard split via digital lane switches of either x16/x1/x16/x1 or x8/x8/x8/x8. Unless... GASP! it uses a single x16 IOH link to run all four slots - very unlikely and stupid if it were true. The blurb of an article I linked in the OP is far too vague.

Yes, it is heavily influenced by the EVGA Classified line and that's good thing IMHO.

[jfromeo]

Firstly, I was glad that they finally got rid of the IDE port. But then I looked at the molex plugs for PCI-e and i lol'd.

It looks like the Classified, although the heatsinks seem to be too low for such a high-end motherboard.

[Stryder75]

Very nice looking board. Not crazy about the chipset heatsink tho. Where is the integrated water cooling option? Man, this thing is built to take some juice. And that "shiny" thing in the pmw area looks to be some type of LED backlit "bling" readout. If you look closely, it hassome red writing on it. Still a great looking board that will prob go thru some minor changes for launch.

[N19h7m4r3]

Yes, it is heavily influenced by the EVGA Classified line and that's good thing IMHO.

Yes it's good, except for the colour scheme :P

I don't like red and black all that much.

I love MSI's blue and black, hell give me DFI's UV active slots anyday over this.

[HelixPC]

I think someone looks up to eVGA

[Torphoto]

I like, was going to buy a p6x58D but I might wait for this instead, those 775 holes need to go no point to have them now.

[Sadasius]

Okay now I want this board. USB 3.0 and SATA 6....Yahoo and it looks like the IDE is finally kicked off the damn board. Yay!