ASUS ROG Rampage III Extreme

[sholvaco]

Folks who only plan to run 3 sticks are still going to be fine, those who absolutely need 6 are going to have to either settle for normal height dimms or find a heatsink that's narrow enough to allow tall ones (Thermalright MUX-120 or similar).

[bingo13]

Quote:
Originally Posted by zalbard
Does it have digital PWM?

nope...

btw, tweaktown have a video of the board on their site.
its in the demo clip about rog connect

This board has a full digital PWM setup from CHiL.

[bingo13]

Are there any Asus boards that have good chipset cooling? Damn, it's not like copper is expensive.

Let me see, Copper is up 253% from last year and this design actually cools better than the typical big block designs used in the past.

[zanzabar]

Yeah they do, no way they made this mobo just for people running watercooling ++

im not saying that its only for liquid but making the board larger to accommodate air cooling when the board is basically for benching. its not like u can run 4 cards on air and get proper cooling

Let me see, Copper is up 253% from last year and this design actually cools better than the typical big block designs used in the past.

didnt aluminum go up too, but i would rather have some shiny aluminum than the painted

[AndreYang]

My R3E is early sample. New R3E size is the same as R2E. I will post some pics and results with final version R3E next week.

[EnJoY]

Gary explained some of the new features of this revision, including a totally new and improved PWM capable of over 260amps power delivery to the CPU. Gary said that number could increase to as high as 300a before launch. Another nice addition was the LN2 switch, which essentially fixes the cold boot issues by forcing the board to run in a base mode that disables all unnecessary features and bumps up voltages just for the boot process. The BIOS is still being tuned at the moment, but Gary is expecting the board to be ready for March/April.

http://www.techreaction.net/2010/01/...-eee-keyboard/

[WeeMaan]

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,10568.html

- 8+3 Phase Digital CPU/QPI Power Solution with extreme high grade mosfet (see attached picture).
- ROG Connect/ROG Connect RC Bluetooth
Unlimited OC control and monitor possibilities
Low level BIOS flash, flash without CPU
- Turn on/off PCIex 16X slots for diagnostic purpose
- LN2 mode for best possible environment when running extreme negative temps
- True SATA6 and USB3

[Mk]

Sexy!

[sxs112]

New Ver Rampage III Extreme

[KingOfsorroW]

Nice I like what I see.)
Kind of reminds me the classified board...

[emertX]

Crazy thing!
I ask myself, if bclk's around 230 will be normal with the new boards like X58A and RIIIE and the new evga's and so on!

[zalbard]

Crazy thing!
I ask myself, if bclk's around 230 will be normal with the new boards like X58A and RIIIE and the new evga's and so on!

You can get 230 with 'old' X58-Extreme (hard-modded) and Classy with no issues as long as your chip is capable of it. Hard to promise going much higher, though.
Not 100% sure about RIIE.

[emertX]

Privet...
Yeah...but who the hell is going to do the hardmod for me?

[sofos1990]

haha it's same as Classified
Is that a retail package?
Have you already tested the board?

[Kondik]

Holy Molly , Look at the quality of the components used to build it. Where was it when I wanted a new Motherboard. Great gaps between slots , Digital phases. Fujitsu capacitors. I'm going to cry If I don't see it here.

[dctokyo]

Hi sxs112,

The pictured you posted shows 1 molex near the PCI-e slots. is this the latest version? I have notice that other pictures show 2 molex

[Russian]

Nice I like what I see.)
Kind of reminds me the classified board...

LOTS of similarities...

Holy Molly , Look at the quality of the components used to build it. Where was it when I wanted a new Motherboard. Great gaps between slots , Digital phases. Fujitsu capacitors. I'm going to cry If I don't see it here.

JJ from ASUS said that they will NOT be using a digital pwm, but rather an analog one with low and high switching frequencies.

[zalbard]

JJ from ASUS said that they will NOT be using a digital pwm, but rather an analog one with low and high switching frequencies.

Bleh, did they give a reason?

[Russian]

Bleh, did they give a reason?

I'm not 100% sure. Nothing was really given to me on paper. They said that there was a lot of room to grow with this board. Right now its showing as Digital, which means that i may be wrong...

In all honesty, they had to go with a digital solution on this board. The heatsink doesnt really show anything, so i would say that right now we'd have to guess its a digital. They said the heatsink design and a few layout things aren't final yet. I just remember them talking a lot about all of the diff features on this board.

[jfromeo]

I have read somewhere that it will feature:

- 4 PCIe 16x mechanically
- no NF200 chip

x16/x16/x16/x16 without 2xNF200 or 2xX58? How is that bandwith possible?

[Viss]

Not possible, it wil be 8/8/8/8

[WaterFlex]

This board is for stars...absolutely domanating one...
but i hate the only one thing, its integrated sound...

[sxs112]

Hi sxs112,

The pictured you posted shows 1 molex near the PCS-e slots. is this the latest version? I have notice that other pictures show 2 molex

this is latest version

[GTi-6]

JJ from ASUS said that they will NOT be using a digital pwm, but rather an analog one with low and high switching frequencies.

IIRC, JJ told that board has both analog and digital. He mentioned that it can give low switching freq like analogs and high switching freqs like digitals.

I think Asus canceled the 2x NF200 version for this board.

[Cool Vibrations]

IIRC, JJ told that board has both analog and digital. He mentioned that it can give low switching freq like analogs and high switching freqs like digitals.

I think Asus canceled the 2x NF200 version for this board.

Awesome, that would reduce the cost for the board. Should cost less than the overpriced classifieds.