ASUS ROG Rampage III Extreme

[saaya]

ASUS said that they don't need an LCD poster because there are other indications on the board with LEDs that light up in certain areas if there is a problem there. Thats what they said... personally, i live by the things.

mhhh companies telling us what we need and dont need... dont we just all love it?

Asus was first with the red / black color, EVGA has just chosen to mimic the Asus.
Can not wait to get my hands on this motherboard

no, ati and dfi were the first with red and black on their collaborative RD480 ES board that was later sold by sapphire with white pcb and red colors.

asus did black red blue white for a long time, which i dont think was even on purpose as its not much of a color scheme and wasnt particularly pretty... they did one prototype board, the pinot noir, where they ALMOST dropped the blue, and which was a beautiful piece of art but unfortunately never made it to market...



after this asus went back to black white red blue...

bloodrage came out with 100% black and red FIRST...
then evga was "inspired" by that and so was asus, jetway and even ecs iirc...

The very same board that raked up a 10000$ debt with XS alone!

There was also a dual socket AMD board that had predominantly red slots even before the one above.

mem slots are black and white
pciE slots are red and white
i see blue and green usb/firewire slots, a babyblue dipswitch console, blue jumpers, silver and purple capacitors and pink and yellow stickers

sorry but if the popular color combo would be black and white or white and red, you would probably claim this board started it as well :P

[zalbard]

This is a bloody rainbow motherboard, it also has a green port and even a pink sticker. No wonder so many of them got smoked!

[Bodkin]

bloodrage came out with 100% black and red FIRST...

Wasn't that you design saaya?

[saaya]

Wasn't that you design saaya?

yes, me and zach who had just joined foxconn qf from abit back then

he showed me his previous boards from abit that he worked on, and i said i liked the design but thought red and black would be more popular (his boards were black and blue mostly). i told him my favorite boards looks wise were the ati RD480 ES board i got from a friend (thx chris ) a long time and used until that date, and the asus pinot noir. i also said that black and blue was very nice and we couldnt decide... so, i did what i always do if im not sure, i go and ask the experts... right here on xs

i emailed lots of people, talked on msn... and asked people what board they think had the best design, what colors they liked best, and i made a poll on xs what colors people wanted our boards to be. black and red were both way up in the polls and i always liked red and black (i painted my first bike red and black myself when i was 11 heheh)

so red and black it was, zach agreed, of course others at foxconn disagreed or thought colors didnt matter etc... we both had to fight to push it through, we had to argue and have endless meetings with different people and get way up management involved who had to literally smash the fist on the table during one 3 hour meeting to FINALLY get foxconns component department to make propper red slots instead of orangish, pinkish or purplish red, and to use the same color for all slots and not mix a different kind of red for pciE, pci, floppy, ide, usb and firewire connectors.

not long after BR was kicked off shamino left and went to evga. after he had just switched we met up with randy (who at that time was still at asus) and were hanging out... we had just received a newer prototype at that time which had much better red slots, and i showed shamino a picture of it on my mobile. he said it looked really good... i dont remember 100% if i showed it to randy as well, but im pretty sure i didnt... randy had already left at that time...

some time later i saw the first pics of classified and had to laugh, as i remembered how shamino had asked me what i would think if lets say gigabyte or asus came out with the same color scheme

i told him that i thought there was nothing anybody could do about it anyways, and as long as boards look more stylish i was all for it... although it would be a bit sad as all boards using the same color schemes would be boring imo and i hope that more board makers pay more attention on the looks of their boards and make boards look BETTER, not make all boards look alike...

anyhow, no idea if asus was "inspired" by BR or classified... either way, they were the last enthusiast board to pick up black and red :P
sorry if i talk so much about this, but this actually means something to me... ill give asus all the credit they deserve for the pinot noir, which was an inspiration for BR and was an awesome looking board... but they didnt start the black and red design :P

[BuBBle.D]

A killer color combo would also be a black PCB with yellow dimm/pci-e slots.

[Wiggy McShades]

A killer color combo would also be a black PCB with yellow dimm/pci-e slots.

didn't dfi do that already? looks pretty crappy on their boards. although every time I look at their boards i relive my dfi 680i experience so i may be bias.

[saaya]

yeah but dfi used neon yellow...
they should have gone for lamborghini yellow
there are a LOT of nice color combos out there... just look at cars for inspiration... its really not that hard to come up with a nice color combo... which makes it even more sad to see how many mainboards end up looking the same or similar or have almost random colors mixed together on the board

[N19h7m4r3]

yeah but dfi used neon yellow...
they should have gone for lamborghini yellow
there are a LOT of nice color combos out there... just look at cars for inspiration... its really not that hard to come up with a nice color combo... which makes it even more sad to see how many mainboards end up looking the same or similar or have almost random colors mixed together on the board

My Asus K8V Deluxe featured a black PCB with lovely Yellow slots.

It's such a good socket 754 board, I still have mine chugging away with all it's original parts

[anirudh_rocky]

What is the reason for only one lan controller? another lan port on top of the USB 3.0 would have been nice and full. Voltage measurement option on MSI's Big Bang series much better. totally miss the audio card {i know, compensated for the layout}......Looks like every one is doing the red and black colors nowadays....! see how the fan connectors blend into the PCB. Bluetooth for OC'ing.... come on

I really like the R3E, but i still believe that every thing works for the first RE(X48) its jus perfect IMO

[Hannibal Lecter]

Some interesting new infos and short test:

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1231/1/

We shouldn't have to wait a lot longer now I guess.

[imran7]

heatsinks finalized

[Bodkin]

heatsinks finalized

Link?

[p2501]

He was being sarcastic, check #185.

[Bodkin]

^ah, thats disappointing

[p2501]

^ah, thats disappointing

Nah, don't be disappointed. Check this post, to me it looks like the board generally is ready, maybe they're finalizing the BIOS.

[sholvaco]

Production version PR shots (straight from an ASUS rep):





So yeah, they are finalized or rather were from the get go.

[Sadasius]

Are there any temp probe headers?

[sholvaco]

Are there any temp probe headers?

There are some. After a quick scan I found at least three:
- top left corner next to the fan header, the pins are not visible but the print reads OPT_TEMP
- next to the bluetooth module, below another 4-pin fan header there is a 2-pin header also marked OPT_TEMP
- bottom of the board between the red header and the two 4-pin fan headers there's another 2-pin header, not marked though

EDIT: Seems ASUS listened to the enthusiast community and used an Intel NIC on their top of the range board. A nice touch.

[Sam_oslo]

How long does it usually takes for a finalized MB to hit the marked?

[Sadasius]

There are some. After a quick scan I found at least three:
- top left corner next to the fan header, the pins are not visible but the print reads OPT_TEMP
- next to the bluetooth module, below another 4-pin fan header there is a 2-pin header also marked OPT_TEMP
- bottom of the board between the red header and the two 4-pin fan headers there's another 2-pin header, not marked though

EDIT: Seems ASUS listened to the enthusiast community and used an Intel NIC on their top of the range board. A nice touch.

Thanks! Couldn't see them.

[Bodkin]

started saving my pennies for this?

[affiliate13]

Does the SATA6.0 have RAID support or just on the SATAII?

[metalop1g]

Onboard molex..? For what!? Srry if this has been discussed before, I have no interest in browsing through the numerous pages!

[sholvaco]

^
Two of them, another at the bottom facing downwards. They provide supplemental power to the PCIe slots to prevent overloading the 24 pin connector when more than two PCIe devices with high power requirement are used.

[imran7]

He was being sarcastic, check #185.

i wasnt being sarcastic i just had a problem posting those pictures shovalco did
asus posted those pictured on facebook so i think they are final