ASUS ROG Rampage III Extreme

[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.