ASUS Rampage III Extreme ATX Intel Motherboard

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Package was delivered on time and undamaged. Unpackage the motherboard, inserted essential parts and booted appropriate up. This is my 4th ASUS MB and second Rampage Intense (I have a Rampage Intense II), and I have under no circumstances had a problem with their MBs (All four are nevertheless running). This MB is solid and does what it is advertised to do, even the tried the builtin OC profiles which was a breeze. The cost if I had to mention something.

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I Love the color scheme on the mother board. Loved that it had USB 3. support. and SATA 6GB/s transfer speed. the only thing i hate was it looks like it was open there was finger prints on the FPCAP chip next to the cpu. can't wait to total my Computer construct

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Don't know Received the motherboard with a dream setup of other elements. Regrettably some of the PINS had been bent inside the CPU chamber as I went to set up the method. Returned it to Newegg below their procedures posted on their website, only to be told that I will need to send it to ASUS straight since they say it was physically damaged. Their return policy is misleading. So I nonetheless don't have a functioning method. And Newegg probably has lost me as a buyer Client service sucks

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Lots of function. The ideal board i've ever had. It has been more than one month given that the time i bought, and almost everything runs very smoothly.I overclocked my i7 920 to four. quite really simply. Only one particular USB connector. Oh come on Asus Prior to acquiring this board, reading so numerous negative testimonials practically had pushed me away. But I am glad i didn't

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If you want a actually stable board that handles the i7s and SLI OC'ed this is it. I like this board and it's the very first time in a extended time that I didn't think the BIOS on a board was a P.O.$ (really this is censored?). None The only issue I would say is that if you go this route with SLI and RAID, you are going to need to have one particular hell of a PSU. Not only from an output perspective but a connector viewpoint. I actually had to use a 2nd antec PSU that I had laying about simply because I didn't have adequate connectors to hook everything up, haha.

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Simple to setup/install. Fantastic for overclocking. Very good consumer assistance.The bios is quite versatile, when it comes to voltages, you have free of charge reign. Two Bios' to boot, and many overclocking profiles. (these aren't just overclocking settings, but every thing in the bios. You could use it for different configurations of hardware if you had to swap points out) A bit huge, but contrary to other posts, it effortlessly fits in a Corsair 600t case.Most say price, but you get what you spend for. If you are looking to overclock, no other Rampage board will do. Get the a single made for overclocking, (the gene and forumla boards are nice but lack a lot of bios overclocking functions that make this board worth it.) Shipping was on time, thanks newegg :) One good issue this board does though overclocking, soon after you save/exit the bios, the computer auto shuts off, and turns back on. Some motherboards basically reboot, and have issues.

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Products are clearly marked for installation. BIOS is mainly effortless to comprehend, but with most up-to-date update, no manual's are obtainable (v. 1207) with regards to some of the modifications. Alot of bells and whistles like a voltage testing interface with leads for testing OC settings and a seperate ON/OFF and Reset switch for testing outside of the case. Hardware installation and booting was a breeze with no difficulties on my set up. The front panel (PWR, Reset, HDD, and so forth) connection adapter is good for novice installers, but not needed due to the good labelling on the board it self. Lots of Fan connections!Various energy connections to help this board along really should you need to put in 4 Graphics Cards. A beefed up NorthBridge Heatsink w/Fan to replace the Heatsink (only) cooling selection if your pushing it a tiny hard with a number of GPU's. 1, One particular, Uno, less than 2, USB connections on the board. =\ There are four Usb two. and 2 Usb three. outlets built in on the back of the board, but if you have an soon after industry multi card reader and a number of situation USB's you'll have to buy a USB expander (not sold at NewEgg) to connect them. Manufacturer could stand to update it's manual when it updates the BIOS. My manual in box, was slightly off from what I saw on the screen at boot up. The board is a small wider than most. This brought on the back bracket of my Heatsink to be offset from the typical opening on the situation. Make positive to install your Heatsink and Fan, PRIOR to putting in the motherboard into the case. Over all this is an awsome board and appears in particular adept at Overclocking with some built in protections.

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Just look at the specs....has it all. What else could anyone ask for?? Are there any? I read all the critiques on NewEgg and other forums before acquiring. Right after obtaining the board out of the box, got out my magnifying glass and looked at all the pins -- none were bent. Place all the components with each other....installed windows in 10 minutes. I can only assume all the other people problems with this board are due to a single factor -- USER ERROR. I take a lot of these comments with a grain of salt. I have other ASUS boards - one particular is running 24ǝ for final 5 years with no problems. It has a warranty. That is what it is for.

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- Look at this factor! I half want to just FRAME it and hang it in the living space!- It has SWITCHES. And BUTTONS.- You can access the BIOS attributes form your android phone. And flahs the BIOS devoid of turning the method on. - Lots and lots of other stuff. - It IS pricey.- 7 fan connectors but only One particular USB header? - Super overcomplicated BIOS miiight be a bit hard to navigate. I am NOT a gamer or an overclocker. But given that gamers/overclockers tend to beat up their machines, stuff created for that is usually high top quality, and I construct my machines to last. This board has a bazillion insanely cool features designed for overclockers, but because I'm not employing any of them they don't account in my rating. Nonetheless, this IS pretty a lot a top-of-the-line board.

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had all the functions I was searching for...my final board was an ASUS Ƒst run AN8SLI Dlx) and that lasted five+ years....parts that came off the HCL actually operate with the board.... I'm one of the lucky ones who has an IOH chip that IDLES at 80'C ... a fast run out to Asus's website and I'm not the only one particular....Apparently ASUS employed/uses true low excellent themal paste underneath the heatpipe assembly and upon prying mine apart, I also had this "earwax" the forum customers spoke of. A single of their moderators pointed out to one more user that 80-90'C was an acceptable temperature range and the thermal cutoff was 100'C and I've hit it far more then a dozen occasions in three months....Even obtaining scraped off this garbage thermal paste and replacing it with ArticSilver5 brought it down about two-3'C ... which isn't enough. My box runs on air and no other monitored temp even gets close to warning thresholds, a lot much less danger ones, and it's plenty nicely ventilated. Network engineer by trade, and this isn't my 1st rodeo with a high finish make....Really, Incredibly dissapointed in this board. I wished I'd waited long enough to obtain a thing else. Will truly assume extended and hard just before buying anything from ASUS once again.

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Great color It doesn't work. This is a observe up to my Jan 13th assessment. I ended up taking this build to a top rated end personal computer shop in the area. They have had two additional of these undesirable boards from ASUS trying to get this up and working. Each and every board has had a unique difficulty from dead memory slots, undesirable esata slots and one was DOA. Come on? Four undesirable boards in a row? We have attempted swapping processors, graphics cards and all the other components and everything tests back to board failure. Now tech support is saying that every stick of memory has to be installed and configured 1 at a time to make it function?? Absolutely nothing noted about that in any of the literature that comes with the board. The shop has verified that the only negative component is the board and are now working by testing with third level tech support. Meanwhile I'm three months without a operating personal computer. DO NOT Acquire THIS BOARD!

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Looks great, cables are high excellent, manual is decent. DOA....DRAM Q_LED stays lit with elements tested operating in many other configurations. A number of sorts of RAM, GPU, PSU...2 boards had the precise exact same challenge. There are many others like me, so it's not an outlier. I've been unable to get my new machine operating for weeks thanks to this board.Newegg sent me two bad boards in a row...weak QC, Asus. I want my dollars back so I can purchase a various board...from newegg, of program :)

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Board boot up was great. and fast Board Sata's controllers were DOA, Method would boot but shut down as soon as a Difficult drive was connected tested each 1000 watt PSU identical result. I will give a replacment a try.

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wicked fast. wonderful newegg service. little pricey but worth it. only 1 pci slot and it is useless if installing two-slot vga card in SLI/CF simply because of the layout of the board. I can't use my cisco wireless card now. did not detect right memory speed, but it's an effortless fix in BIOS

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fantastic for OCing and gaming, and tesing CPU's and SLI and Crossfire. only one USB plug-in on the board. Wish it had the very same amount as the Saber tooth. this board is wonderful if your just strictly going to test OCing and sli-ing. Lacks USB's for a plethora of flight sim controls. and usb monitors.

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extremely stable, a lot of tweaking feature. expensive. the auto cpu step up function are good for common joe like me. Just select what you want reboot and your beneath dog cpu will be that high-priced cpu that you have select.

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Bought 2 of these Neither had concerns and will buy much more ROG boards in the future. It has every little thing I could possibly ever want and much more! A number of four pin connectors needed

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Its a great adequate board. I like the way ASRock lets you save numerous overclock settings for uncomplicated recall. This board has a significant heat-sink with fan on the X58 which blocks putting in a substantial cpu cooler like V8 or V10. It does handle the stock Intel cooler that ships with the i7-980X with 1mm to spare.

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Great overclocking, USB3, plenty of PCI-E x16 slots, looks fairly cool (if that matters to you) -Price-Marvell SATA 6Gbps chip sucks and is worse in most approaches than Intel's onboard 3Gbps. Do not use it if you don't have to unless you have to.-Onboard Intel Matrix RAID Option ROM (NOT driver) version is very old at eight.. My other motherboard from a various maker that begins with the letter G came with 8.9 and worked when custom updated to 9.6 and later ten.. This board only performs with eight.. You require at least eight.7 to have correct SSD support and eight.9 added additional SSD improvements. See the thread on the Asus forum titled "[Problem]inapropiated version INTEL RAID." This problem would be annoying on a 贄 board. This is a 踜 board and they won't give us right assistance for SSDs, even though Asus was capable to repair the problem on the older P5E3 board by offering eight.7. Note: I am told the P6T and R3 Gene series suffer from the exact same problem. The issue has been brought to Asus assistance who did not have any beneficial response. I advise going for a diverse brand all together till Asus hires some BIOS engineers that know what they're performing and care about the client sufficient to do something about it. This board is basically not worth the funds to start with. Asus boards are the only enthusiast ICH10 boards that I have noticed not work with at least version 9.six of the Intel Matrix RAID Alternative ROM.

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Amazing board that just functions and lets you do astounding factors with your cpu. Value only two internal usb ports.

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This is a comply with up to a overview I posted various months ago about this board. * This issue overclocks like a beast. I won't go into crazy facts, but I'm presently running my i7 930 @ four.two ghz rock strong stable with a CPU voltage of 1.35 with my ram running at 1603 mhz @ 1.6400 volts. CPU temp peaks out at 77C following 5 hours of Lynx benchmarking in an Antec 1200 situation with two Radeon 5970's in there. Sadly, right after about 4 months of ownership, I had to RMA it due to intermittent cold boot troubles. The device now only powers on when it feels like it. I'm not convinced that this is a PSU problem immediately after testing. ASUS tech help is incredible! I insist that you NOT RMA this board with Newegg should heaven forbid you require to. Not only do their tech speak English (out outsourced and not attempting to sound incorrect) but their RMA policy for this board is Amazing. I was asked minimal to no concerns following I thoroughly explained the concern and was advised that the tech encountered those with my identical type of problem prior to. I requested an RMA and he processed it without hesitation.To boot, this motherboard qualifies for their premium RMA processing which includes a straightforward mailing or faxing of some paperwork with your CC quantity. After they obtain it, they're shipping me out a new motherboard inside 24 hours without waiting for the old one particular.I'm thrilled and relieved by this. I only acquire ASUS motherboards for many causes, and this just became a single of them.I'm a enormous advocate of consumer assistance. A business that values their prospects is a Value-Added resource and speaks properly of their p

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When it come to performance, it's got you covered. It's got most of the bells and whistles you could hope for(if your an over-clocker). The two separate bios chips are a great touch. It's defiantly some thing you'd want to have in a windowed situation. And for what you get, it's great to know it'll fit in most desktop cases. The cost is a bit considerably. But if you've got the money then go for it. Getting two bios is good, only if you can navigate by means of the piles of menus and useless alternatives to get anything carried out. My very first board I had to RMA to NewEgg. I could't figure out what the issue was. Even so, after some odd hours of troubleshooting, I did narrowed it down to the MoBo.And btw, NewEgg, your flippn' great. I'm glad that you go out of your way to assist your customers out. Got my new one particular and it's operating like champ.Thanks.If there's something you get with this board, get the Ext. warranty. Finding this board appears to be a small gamble(at least from the evaluations plus my own).But for sure, ASUS, when it comes this board, you really got some Excellent Manage issues.I've read some forums were some buyers had to RMA at least four of these in a row.But if you get lucky, you'll extremely happy you got it.P.S. Why the heck does it have only a single USB header? I imply, actually? I'm spending close to 踰.00 and you can't throw in at least 1 additional?

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Excellent feature set, great hunting board Effectively, it won't boot, will not go into BIOS. I checked the Asus forum and it seems to be a prevalent issue with this model. If you get lucky possibly you'll get a great a single.

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The stability and OCing considerations that went into this board are staggering. Any enthusist will be busy for days if not weeks dialing their 1st excellent state and still have a lot of alternatives with which to improve upon that. Tons of on-board choices make nearly any gaming config feasible. The Marvel SATA3 controller kinda stinks (no RAID ) but they're not alone and it nevertheless handles 1 drive at SATA3 speeds which are blazing with an SSD!

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Recieved the board from Asus for the RMA I submitted , immediately after insatalling the board and getting it to boot it is now operating great. When I initial installed the board I had difficulties getting it to post it seemed to get stuck with the memory , due to the fact the memory examine led stayed lit. Right after many tries and bios modifications I was in a position to get past it and now is working nicely. It does nonetheless seem to take longer to post than the initial board. I can\'t tell if it is a refurb board Over all I think the RMA method went effectively and since the motherboard is operating I don't have any key complaints. I am pleased with the overclocking capabilities of this board , I have my Intel 980x cpu running at 4.two ghz with water cooling.