Still have mine! Playing modern titles alongside an RX 580, i7 Extreme 980 at 4.2Ghz. Killer setup for me even to this day running COD:MW at 100+ FPS 1080p and high settings. Talk about future proof, never would have thought a decade out of this was reasonable.
Yeah same here bro! Running strong since 2010 with i7 980x , 24GB Corsair , my evga gtx 480 HC is struggling! And I’m terrified that it’s gonna leak coolant any day now 🙈
Still gong strong for me. Just sold mine and about to ship so came to check something about the board and stayed for the nostalgia. Unbelievable board.
@tazss159 x58 has 32 lanes for PCI-E, and that is divided up by however many cards you have. one card runs at x16 in the slot. two cards run at x16. 16 + 16 = 32. But with four cards, 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 32. the lanes are divided up. Besides the bandwidth for PCI-E 2.0 x8 is 4GB/s, and x16 is 8GB/s. so as a final note, there is no way to saturate any of those so the performance difference is VERY minimal from x8 to x16 for video cards.
The 4 switches on the motherboard are for enabling or disabling the PCI-E X16. It's useful if you have all your GPU's installed and water-cooled and you think you have an issue with a card. You can trouble shoot and find the exact card that is giving you problems by turning the switches to off.
This board has two full x16 2.0 lanes. x8 x8 x8 x8 is for quadfire. Dual sli and dual crossfire will run at full x16 speed if you only use pci-e slots 1 and 3. There is a new Rampage 4 extreme that has four x8 3.0 slots, which all run at the same speed as x16 2.0, though you need a pci-e 3.0 graphics card probably.
I still have my Rampage II Gene, killed a PSU w/ a pushed i7 980X. RE: at 10:04, "why 2 LAN" NIC teaming, more bandwidth, LAN party back in the day, LAN share or just double up to 2Gb/s if your hardware can support it. In the end, if 1 fails, you got back up. ASUS has given us this way back to the P4C800 days.
@shotokanslammer1 So just to be clear: No, this board indeed does NOT support DDR2. (support? it just doesn't fit.) But DDR3 can run in dual channel aswell. Though most people who've got 6 DRAM slots use more then 2 sticks of RAM and thus automaticly use tripple channel.
This board is the best motherboard i've ever owned, hands off. The bios is absolutely tantastic, overclocking features, connectivity. Everything is just perfect.
I ordered it last year almost as soon as it got out, its an incredible board, I'm glad to see even over a year already its still one of the leading gaming boards in the market, so easy to teak your settings on the BIOS, and even the Bios Menu its preety good looking, nothing I ever saw before that, People You gotta get it!!!
I plan on using this board for my next build and have been reading reviews and a lot of people who use this board say that the North bridge (where the included fan goes) does actually get pretty hot. Some reviews say it helps or in some cases solves the problem if you remove the heat sinks all around and use aftermarket thermal compound. There are some that say they haven't had these heating issues but there are enough complaints about the issue to give me pause.
My north bridge runs 72~75 and south bridge in the ~65. it's 28C in my room. Motherboard is 50C tough. I7 960 @ 3.9ghz in summer and 4.2 in winter. ( 1.3v @ 3.9 and 1.325 @ 4.2 ) Before i got a real cooler, the voltage was 1.08 @ 3.2 because elseway it was overheating. Started with a 560ti 2gb, now got a second because 2gb isen't enough for gta5 or similar. got corsair 1600mhz ram 3x4gb ( wished i picked up something different, rust use tons of ram and can't get hold of similar ram for a normal price ) FSB ( Qpi link ) @ 169mhz instead of 133. Ram clocked at 1694. Built in november 2011, still my only computer.
@enigmafirst The ATI/AMD drivers only support up to 4 GPUs at once, and a 5970 has 2 GPUs on a single card. And even if you could, there is only one crossfire bridge on the 5970, so that wouldn't be possible, because 4x crossfire requires two per card.
@BigHeadClan fail. this board does have an LGA1366 socket. which means that no kind of amd cpu will fit and the sandybridges won't too. because they only run onLGA1155 sockets! i think you all should know that this vid is older than one year ;)
That is actually a great feature, when things are made easier for the customer I really appreciate it because it stops me needing 5 millions steps to troubleshoot things
Maybe other MOBO manufacturers will follow with the front audio at the bottom and no longer in the middle of the MOBO. Would make running the audio cable a lot easier.
@WestCoastMods Well he said in the beginning that the board only supports only 3-Way SLI. I think he just wanted to show that ASUS made it possible to potentially install 4 video cards without using the XL-ATX form factor. Cheers :-)
I just ordered an HD Radeon 5870 2gb GDDR5 with Eyfinity 6 for 200 bucks off of newegg! Can't wait to get it! I ordered it and it was 55% off from 400 bucks
@hammudi90 you can put 8 ram DIMMS and if you can find a PSU to support 4 GPUs aswell as 4 GPUS that are small enough to fit on the PCIE slots then yes, theoretically you can.
@shotokanslammer1. You said "It has tripple channel. Sure it'll work in dual channel as well." Maybe you were not talking about this board?? You were answering a question and I didn't go back all the way to see what you were talking about. Thanks for clearing that up for me man.
As I said though, higher end mother boards like the one in the video have two full x16 2.0 lanes. Its only the top cards and dual chip cards that are starting to bottleneck on x8 2.0. Whilst generally the most powerful single card is the best option, at times two mid level cards may be far cheaper and have the same performance. The mid tier cards of the current generation are still fine on x8. Its only the 7900+ and 670+ cards that are bottlenecking on x8.
Your the best Linus. Not only do you give excellent detail about your reviews, but you always make it extremely entertaining. It is no wonder why NCIX made you their host of NCIX Tech Tips.
@stunner629 yes that's not an issue, this MB supports up to 8 Core's. So that means SandyBridges i7-990x and AMD Bulldozer series when it does come out.
@SwiftXZ still one of the best motherboards on the market, if you can afford it get the rampage 4 extreme or the sr2 classified but they are almost twice as much
@mikey9890 that's the thing, everywhere I read everyone contradicts themselves, some say all u need to do is touch the psu, some ppl say it must not be plugged in, some people say use a antistatic mat, some people say buy the wristband, some people say touch the unpainted part of the case.. there are no visual guides anywhere on the net on this, it's so frustrating I just wish I could get a definitve answer. Linus could benefit by being the only guy to address this issue!
I actually like dual gigabit ports. Bridge them and its a handy way to share an internet connection with just one more machine at a LAN party or something.
@snakefaceproductionz No because this is X58 and 2600K is P67. If you want something like this for 2600k you should get ASUS Maximus IV Extreme which is 3way sli capable and P67 or get a Gigabyte UD7. Hope I helped :).
Well Linus, I got this board to replace my MSI PRO-E which was causing all sorts of problems. It cost me €320.- and think every cent of this was worth it and well spent. Thank you for providing some information. Just got a new PSU since the other one (a cooler master 900W PCU) burned down.. don't ask why, I don't know. Got a replacement from the store.. 1000W :)
The four switches I believe can be used to turn off the PCI-e slots (with each switch corresponding to one PCI-e slot). This is supposedly helpful if you have a multiple GPU setup, and one breaks, this is an easy way to test which GPU is faulty, just by turning off each slot until one GPU doesn't display an image.
@Awayze not at all, Sure 2 mid range cards are not a good and 1 high-end card, Having 2 cards wont increase VRAM or the frequency (unless you overclock), but it will increase the ammount of GPU cores, which makes a CrossfireX and SLI setup alot more powerful than any 480 or 5870. Example: 2 ATI Radeon 5770s will always trump a 5870. or 2 GeForce 800GTs will always out perform any 480.
@KillaMarci Yeah your right, I must of missed that, anyway after watching it again I kinda understand the point he was trying to make, but the way it's explained is going to lead ppl to believe that this board supports 4wat SLI.
Sweet mobo. You need to be able to put that Bios switch on the outside of the case so you can switch easily between your 24/7 and extreme benchmarking OC settings.
Depends on your motherboard, most lga1366 boards have at least two pcie 16x 2.0 lanes, lga1155/6 only 1 16x 2.0 lane. Many also have bandwidth sharing between the additional ports, eg if you using two lanes they might run at 16x but with three lanes they might run at 16x, 8x, 8x. Pci-e 2.0 8x is only now just starting to be a bottleneck for the latest high end single chip graphics cards. The AMD 7970, depending on the game, loses between 2-7% max performance in an 8x 2.0 slot.
@funyongod Sure, 2 card will outperform a single in RAW power, but a single card will most likely run cooler, have lower power consumption, cost less, be more compatible and be alot more stable. This isn't always the case though, the new gtx460 scales incredibly well in most benchmarks i've seen.
@shotokanslammer1 Where did I say anything about DDR2? If you are confused about dual channel and tripple channel, this is the thing: it has nothing to do with DDR x things. DDR stands for Double Date Rate and they keep making it faster and a different number: DDR, DDR 1, etc... Now Dual Channel and Tripple channel is something else. In Dual channel , 2 RAM sticks are more effectivly used together by the OS. In tripple Channel this means 3 sticks. DDR3 can also be used in dual channel mode.
@GenericName007 I've read where the northbridge heat issue also can have adverse effects on a multi-gpu set up b/c the north bridge is so close to the first gpu slot, it can actually cause the temp for the gpu in that first slot to increase and overheat. Really want to get this board but am starting to be mildly concerned. Not sure if Asus has addressed the issue in later revisions/releases of this board.
@YamiPoyo i didn't know sabertooth had better cooling thx for letting me know and if your building a rig for yourself go with whichever configuration is more convenient for you, im running a rampage 3 on my rig and it runs smooth all the time my build: haf 942 gtx 570x2(liquid cooled) corsair hx 850w corsair xms3 12gig ram rampage iii formula intel i7-950(liquid cooled)
I have the feeling that dual lan on a "gaming" board came about years back before routers and switches were as much of a common place as they are in today's household. The concept of LAN parties have been around for ages now, but people that didn't have the option of an extra NIC or switch, the dual LAN was used.
You're missing the point one £600 GPU using full x16 bandwidth will work better than two cards sharing the x16 bandwidth reducing it to x8 per card. Thus what ever your budget is buy the most expensive card you can rather than two. Sli mainly comes into use when working on multimedia and having several apps or windows open.
I have the same x58 chipset, but an slightly older motherboard. The Asus P6T. The ASUS site says thet this board officially supports a max of 24gb of ram. But somehow it also seems to support 48gb of ram. After reading some articals about this nice suprise i ordered 48gb ddr-3 triple channel "Kingston Hyper-X Savage" (2400Mhz), and it works!! I still use this hardware in combination wit an i7 990x (6 cores - 12 treads) overclocked from 3.47 Ghz stock to 5 Ghz. CPU cooling: Gamerstorm Assassin (max temp at load 63c/145 Fahrenheit) GPU: Asus RX580 dual 8gb oc. My setup can still run the newest games at 1080p with an average framerate from 90 to about 120 fps, on mu 24 inch Asus led screen (MS228). Pretty old screen by the way, but it does not have dead pixels or something. So i will stick with this screen as long as it will last (or untill i win the lottery)
still using this motherboard in my setup that's been running atleast 10 hours a day since 2010 :D i remember sweating the price but damn what a reliable board
@Mohammed Talha can play everything comfortably at 1080p max settings. depends on the game but can sit around 200 fps in overwatch for instance with lots of stuff going on. I use a 980x still as the cpu and stuck a gtx1080 in this when it got released
@scoobywoo27 A motherboard is one of the key components on your PC. (with key I mean that if it fails, your PC will crash and be dead).. Anyway, the motherboard houses the processor, the memory and in most cases these days: one or multiple graphics cards and maybe a sound card. Basicly all other hardware is connected to it and most, if not all, data goes through it. That's why they call it a "mother"board (I think).
Can you do a quick tutorial on grounding yourself when building a PC? Do you ground yourself at all? I notice you don't seem to use anything like a antistatic wristband when handling these parts, would be nice that's all!
dip switch... I never thought I would see those again, we used to have them way back in the 80's and early 90's, I think the only boards that used to have those were labeled PRO by intel, and several servers boards, again, correct me if I am wrong, those seem to be for the PCIe slots...
I got this one :) Great motherboard , but it has one litle problem... Chipset on this motherboard has big problem with overvarming, so if you going to buy it so you must to be sure that you have some extra fans (better at the front side of the motherboard on the tower).
@zxcv1175 I Had: Antec 900 Coolermaster 850 watt HiS 5870 xms 1600/1800/2000 ram 6 gigs ddr3 Gigabyte x58 ud3r I7 950 The first system i returned due to faulty sound ports And some other minor video lag. The new system used a revision of the ud3r, but the voltages were bad. So they are replacing so much of my pc now that its been 2 weeks since i took it in.
@rockmansnake It has tripple channel. Sure it'll work in dual channel aswell. But as soone as you've got more then 2 RAM sticks you'll get the best performance (dunno if its noticable) with tripple channel. Anything else you'd like to know?
Did anyone ever figure out how to use the onboard HDMI codec? In the BIOS, you can select an option that says HDMI/SPDIF so how does one go about using onboard HDMI for this mobo?
+Izlude Tingel Figured it out... lol. There is a RARE HDMI bracket that connects to the motherboard... you most likely won't find it. (luckily I did). Most people would use their AMD GPU's HDMI port and install the Realtek ATI driver on top of it. This does NOT give the same results. It is completely different. The onboard codec is much better sounding to the audiophile.
@bytesaber I love the two NICs on mine because i can host a single game across 2 gigabit networks at the same time, allowing me to play with 8 other people, rather than 4 (standard networks)
@169Phoenix It will for me too..I've allready ordered the part/parts. It will be working together with 12 gigs of ram, a GTX 580 and an i7 980 in a Haf X because why not..? xD
The performance of the SLI/Crossfire depends on the hardware scaling and the driver support. Currently AMD has better hardware scaling but Nvidia has far better driver support. The two main sane approaches, are either using two high end cards for higher performance, or two high value for performance mid tier cards. If there is a single card solution with better performance for the same price as the sli/cf setup, then the single card is better.
@markowina Are you in the UK? The online store Aria are doing i7 950 for £211!!! that is a great price. I bought a i7 930 for £215 6 weeks ago along with a EVGA X58 Micro mobo but not had a chance to set it up yet as I still need to get my case Corsair 800D and some more nice compression rotary fittings for the water cooling loop. Hope your bui;d turns out aw2some
Nice, but is it worth it ? I got the Gigabyte X58A-UD7 because the marketing from Asus suck's, they released the P6X58D-premium with no raid support on the sata 6gb/s so this Rampage 3 can sell better and they allyways have ram problems (maybe an other marketing thing)... i don't like them anymore ! I'm a Gigabyte fan now \:d/
Why not buy it? 1.It has a bunch of features (two 6gb/s sata ports + two USB 3.0 + tri sli + more) 2.Supports most (if not all) of the latest processors + memory + more 3.You can get it refurbished for an amazing price. 4. It just looks amazing. I honestly don't see any reason not to buy this.
Hey Linus, Are you aware that this board DOES NOT support 4way SLI. It should have been obvious to you when there was no 4way SLI bridge included in the box. Anyway still a great board, using it in 2 of my upcoming projects I am surprised no one else has mentioned it in the comments. Cheers LazyMan :-)
@MCLRproductions seems like a reasonable build dude, you won't get much overclocking potential with that cooler, also if your screen size is 2560 x 1600 as you say the gtx 560 will struggle, you need a gtx 580 or gtx 590, 6950/6970/6990 for screen resolutions of that size. also I would swap the PSU to something like the corsair AX 850, if you want anymore help pm me :)
Still have mine with I7 950 running strong since 2010
Me too i7 950 12gb ram, new graphics card and ssd in recent years and it can still handle pretty much everything
@@russellbryant9776 hell yeah. I do have 2 newer ryzen 7 builds but the old i7 950 and rampage is running strong!
Still have mine! Playing modern titles alongside an RX 580, i7 Extreme 980 at 4.2Ghz. Killer setup for me even to this day running COD:MW at 100+ FPS 1080p and high settings. Talk about future proof, never would have thought a decade out of this was reasonable.
Yeah same here bro! Running strong since 2010 with i7 980x , 24GB Corsair , my evga gtx 480 HC is struggling! And I’m terrified that it’s gonna leak coolant any day now 🙈
@@antoniocusato6074 Haha Go out in style!!
I just came here for the nostalgia.. good old days :)
Still gong strong for me. Just sold mine and about to ship so came to check something about the board and stayed for the nostalgia. Unbelievable board.
@tazss159 x58 has 32 lanes for PCI-E, and that is divided up by however many cards you have. one card runs at x16 in the slot. two cards run at x16. 16 + 16 = 32. But with four cards, 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 32. the lanes are divided up. Besides the bandwidth for PCI-E 2.0 x8 is 4GB/s, and x16 is 8GB/s. so as a final note, there is no way to saturate any of those so the performance difference is VERY minimal from x8 to x16 for video cards.
The 4 switches on the motherboard are for enabling or disabling the PCI-E X16. It's useful if you have all your GPU's installed and water-cooled and you think you have an issue with a card. You can trouble shoot and find the exact card that is giving you problems by turning the switches to off.
Wow that was 5 years ago, 5 years i followed you linus
This video got me to build my current rig =/
Wow 10 years ago this video came out
5 years ago this comment was weitten
This board has two full x16 2.0 lanes. x8 x8 x8 x8 is for quadfire. Dual sli and dual crossfire will run at full x16 speed if you only use pci-e slots 1 and 3. There is a new Rampage 4 extreme that has four x8 3.0 slots, which all run at the same speed as x16 2.0, though you need a pci-e 3.0 graphics card probably.
I still have my Rampage II Gene, killed a PSU w/ a pushed i7 980X. RE: at 10:04, "why 2 LAN" NIC teaming, more bandwidth, LAN party back in the day, LAN share or just double up to 2Gb/s if your hardware can support it. In the end, if 1 fails, you got back up. ASUS has given us this way back to the P4C800 days.
I have this MB for more than 3 yrs now and it is still working great.
six years, brah. Time to update my GTX 580 1,5GB, though :(
7 years and still good. EXCEPT my poor Ethernet onboard Network adapter. it died
Wow i have same mobo and same "GTX 580" 1.5gb
Yes, it's still surprisingly good.
I can play Planet Coaster decently with that card :)
9 years... Ryzen 3000 im coming
not sure if anyone has answered this yet, but those switches are for the PCI-e lanes so you can switch them on and off to determine a problem card.
@shotokanslammer1
So just to be clear: No, this board indeed does NOT support DDR2. (support? it just doesn't fit.) But DDR3 can run in dual channel aswell. Though most people who've got 6 DRAM slots use more then 2 sticks of RAM and thus automaticly use tripple channel.
FINALLY!! you've reviewed this board :D
It has been 7 glorious years for my Asus Rampage 3 Extreme !
This board is the best motherboard i've ever owned, hands off. The bios is absolutely tantastic, overclocking features, connectivity. Everything is just perfect.
I ordered it last year almost as soon as it got out, its an incredible board, I'm glad to see even over a year already its still one of the leading gaming boards in the market, so easy to teak your settings on the BIOS, and even the Bios Menu its preety good looking, nothing I ever saw before that, People You gotta get it!!!
Uhh 10 years later 6:02 those switches are to disable the 16x pci-e slots. I don't think anybody has answered that yet lol
I plan on using this board for my next build and have been reading reviews and a lot of people who use this board say that the North bridge (where the included fan goes) does actually get pretty hot. Some reviews say it helps or in some cases solves the problem if you remove the heat sinks all around and use aftermarket thermal compound. There are some that say they haven't had these heating issues but there are enough complaints about the issue to give me pause.
Still using one of these in 2016. X5650 @4Ghz. We have found the x58 does indeed run HOTT!
ICU2 GetMe me to w a i7 ex and a GTX 580
me too!, i7 950 , gtx 980 ti
i7 920 @ 3ghz (lol super mini oc) and gtx 670 direct cu ii top
prett nice gaming pc (smal oc because bad cooler ive got a tx3 evo...)
i7 975XE @ 4004MHz
Gainward GTX 580 1,5GB @ 888-912MHZ Base (+85/+100 mV)
Still very decent.
My north bridge runs 72~75 and south bridge in the ~65. it's 28C in my room. Motherboard is 50C tough.
I7 960 @ 3.9ghz in summer and 4.2 in winter. ( 1.3v @ 3.9 and 1.325 @ 4.2 ) Before i got a real cooler, the voltage was 1.08 @ 3.2 because elseway it was overheating.
Started with a 560ti 2gb, now got a second because 2gb isen't enough for gta5 or similar.
got corsair 1600mhz ram 3x4gb ( wished i picked up something different, rust use tons of ram and can't get hold of similar ram for a normal price )
FSB ( Qpi link ) @ 169mhz instead of 133. Ram clocked at 1694.
Built in november 2011, still my only computer.
@enigmafirst The ATI/AMD drivers only support up to 4 GPUs at once, and a 5970 has 2 GPUs on a single card. And even if you could, there is only one crossfire bridge on the 5970, so that wouldn't be possible, because 4x crossfire requires two per card.
@BigHeadClan
fail.
this board does have an LGA1366 socket. which means that no kind of amd cpu will fit and the sandybridges won't too. because they only run onLGA1155 sockets!
i think you all should know that this vid is older than one year ;)
That is actually a great feature, when things are made easier for the customer I really appreciate it because it stops me needing 5 millions steps to troubleshoot things
Maybe other MOBO manufacturers will follow with the front audio at the bottom and no longer in the middle of the MOBO. Would make running the audio cable a lot easier.
Download the latest drivers from ASUS, thats if you can find it on there website...
Also north-bridge runs extremely hot..
@NOOBNUT08
if you've got the SLI cables, yes it does. (It comes with a 3 way SLI cable)
I love how excited linus is... I can tell because of his quickness
@WestCoastMods Well he said in the beginning that the board only supports only 3-Way SLI. I think he just wanted to show that ASUS made it possible to potentially install 4 video cards without using the XL-ATX form factor.
Cheers :-)
I just ordered an HD Radeon 5870 2gb GDDR5 with Eyfinity 6 for 200 bucks off of newegg! Can't wait to get it! I ordered it and it was 55% off from 400 bucks
@hammudi90 you can put 8 ram DIMMS and if you can find a PSU to support 4 GPUs aswell as 4 GPUS that are small enough to fit on the PCIE slots then yes, theoretically you can.
@shotokanslammer1. You said "It has tripple channel. Sure it'll work in dual channel as well." Maybe you were not talking about this board?? You were answering a question and I didn't go back all the way to see what you were talking about. Thanks for clearing that up for me man.
As I said though, higher end mother boards like the one in the video have two full x16 2.0 lanes. Its only the top cards and dual chip cards that are starting to bottleneck on x8 2.0. Whilst generally the most powerful single card is the best option, at times two mid level cards may be far cheaper and have the same performance. The mid tier cards of the current generation are still fine on x8. Its only the 7900+ and 670+ cards that are bottlenecking on x8.
Your the best Linus. Not only do you give excellent detail about your reviews, but you always make it extremely entertaining. It is no wonder why NCIX made you their host of NCIX Tech Tips.
@stunner629 yes that's not an issue, this MB supports up to 8 Core's. So that means SandyBridges i7-990x and AMD Bulldozer series when it does come out.
Good show, man. You just helped me ID all the stuff that came with my box to make sure I have everything. Very awesome shows, sir.
@SwiftXZ still one of the best motherboards on the market, if you can afford it get the rampage 4 extreme or the sr2 classified but they are almost twice as much
those switches by the memory allow you to turn on/off the pcie 16x slots so you can disable a broken card w/out having to remove it
@Theslywaffle no you can only run 2 5970's on any board because its a dual gpu card, you could run 4 5870's because their only single gpu's
Great unboxing! I've just built my new rig and I'm very happy I got the Rampage III. Now I'm just waiting for my i7 960 to come in.
@mikey9890 that's the thing, everywhere I read everyone contradicts themselves, some say all u need to do is touch the psu, some ppl say it must not be plugged in, some people say use a antistatic mat, some people say buy the wristband, some people say touch the unpainted part of the case..
there are no visual guides anywhere on the net on this, it's so frustrating I just wish I could get a definitve answer.
Linus could benefit by being the only guy to address this issue!
I actually like dual gigabit ports. Bridge them and its a handy way to share an internet connection with just one more machine at a LAN party or something.
@ShitakeStudios actually it does. look at the slots. you just need a quad sli card like the GTX295 590 of GTX285 classified edition from evga.
@snakefaceproductionz No because this is X58 and 2600K is P67. If you want something like this for 2600k you should get ASUS Maximus IV Extreme which is 3way sli capable and P67 or get a Gigabyte UD7. Hope I helped :).
@milkymilkway They won't be compatible. This is a socket LGA1366 Motherboard and the 2600k is a socket LGA1155 Processor.
Well Linus, I got this board to replace my MSI PRO-E which was causing all sorts of problems.
It cost me €320.- and think every cent of this was worth it and well spent. Thank you for providing some information. Just got a new PSU since the other one (a cooler master 900W PCU) burned down.. don't ask why, I don't know. Got a replacement from the store.. 1000W :)
The four switches I believe can be used to turn off the PCI-e slots (with each switch corresponding to one PCI-e slot). This is supposedly helpful if you have a multiple GPU setup, and one breaks, this is an easy way to test which GPU is faulty, just by turning off each slot until one GPU doesn't display an image.
@Awayze not at all, Sure 2 mid range cards are not a good and 1 high-end card, Having 2 cards wont increase VRAM or the frequency (unless you overclock), but it will increase the ammount of GPU cores, which makes a CrossfireX and SLI setup alot more powerful than any 480 or 5870.
Example: 2 ATI Radeon 5770s will always trump a 5870. or 2 GeForce 800GTs will always out perform any 480.
I Just retired this board for a Dark Hero, ran 10 years with heavy OC, nothing ever broke on it
@KillaMarci Yeah your right, I must of missed that, anyway after watching it again I kinda understand the point he was trying to make, but the way it's explained is going to lead ppl to believe that this board supports 4wat SLI.
Sweet mobo. You need to be able to put that Bios switch on the outside of the case so you can switch easily between your 24/7 and extreme benchmarking OC settings.
@superclaw900 Rampage III is a socket 1366. i5 is an 1156 socket.
@stunner629 No it does not, the 2600K is LGA1155 whereas this motherboard only has an LGA1366 socket
Depends on your motherboard, most lga1366 boards have at least two pcie 16x 2.0 lanes, lga1155/6 only 1 16x 2.0 lane. Many also have bandwidth sharing between the additional ports, eg if you using two lanes they might run at 16x but with three lanes they might run at 16x, 8x, 8x. Pci-e 2.0 8x is only now just starting to be a bottleneck for the latest high end single chip graphics cards. The AMD 7970, depending on the game, loses between 2-7% max performance in an 8x 2.0 slot.
@funyongod
Sure, 2 card will outperform a single in RAW power, but a single card will most likely run cooler, have lower power consumption, cost less, be more compatible and be alot more stable. This isn't always the case though, the new gtx460 scales incredibly well in most benchmarks i've seen.
the switch's at 6:02 allow the user to turn on and off the PCI slots.
@shotokanslammer1
Where did I say anything about DDR2?
If you are confused about dual channel and tripple channel, this is the thing: it has nothing to do with DDR x things. DDR stands for Double Date Rate and they keep making it faster and a different number: DDR, DDR 1, etc... Now Dual Channel and Tripple channel is something else. In Dual channel , 2 RAM sticks are more effectivly used together by the OS. In tripple Channel this means 3 sticks. DDR3 can also be used in dual channel mode.
@GenericName007 I've read where the northbridge heat issue also can have adverse effects on a multi-gpu set up b/c the north bridge is so close to the first gpu slot, it can actually cause the temp for the gpu in that first slot to increase and overheat. Really want to get this board but am starting to be mildly concerned. Not sure if Asus has addressed the issue in later revisions/releases of this board.
the 4 switches on the motherboard turn the PCI-e slots on or off for troubleshooting graphics cards.
The on off switches are to turn on an d off a gpu so you know witch one is broken instead of taking them all out.
@YamiPoyo i didn't know sabertooth had better cooling thx for letting me know and if your building a rig for yourself go with whichever configuration is more convenient for you, im running a rampage 3 on my rig and it runs smooth all the time
my build:
haf 942
gtx 570x2(liquid cooled)
corsair hx 850w
corsair xms3 12gig ram
rampage iii formula
intel i7-950(liquid cooled)
I have the feeling that dual lan on a "gaming" board came about years back before routers and switches were as much of a common place as they are in today's household. The concept of LAN parties have been around for ages now, but people that didn't have the option of an extra NIC or switch, the dual LAN was used.
@markowina You will get your i7 up to 4Ghz even with a good air cooled system, as long as the airflow in your case is good.
@supergamervids The Intel Core i7 2600K is a LGA1155 CPU, you're looking at a review of an LGA1366 motherboard.
@Varsarus Yeah, that is true, but naively it does not support 4way. And as far as the ROG Extender, don't get me started on that.
You're missing the point one £600 GPU using full x16 bandwidth will work better than two cards sharing the x16 bandwidth reducing it to x8 per card.
Thus what ever your budget is buy the most expensive card you can rather than two.
Sli mainly comes into use when working on multimedia and having several apps or windows open.
I have the same x58 chipset, but an slightly older motherboard.
The Asus P6T.
The ASUS site says thet this board officially supports a max of 24gb of ram.
But somehow it also seems to support 48gb of ram.
After reading some articals about this nice suprise i ordered 48gb ddr-3 triple channel "Kingston Hyper-X Savage" (2400Mhz), and it works!!
I still use this hardware in combination wit an i7 990x (6 cores - 12 treads) overclocked from 3.47 Ghz stock to 5 Ghz.
CPU cooling: Gamerstorm Assassin (max temp at load 63c/145 Fahrenheit)
GPU: Asus RX580 dual 8gb oc.
My setup can still run the newest games at 1080p with an average framerate from 90 to about 120 fps, on mu 24 inch Asus led screen (MS228).
Pretty old screen by the way, but it does not have dead pixels or something.
So i will stick with this screen as long as it will last (or untill i win the lottery)
Mine too, with Xeon E5645, used to work with Office applications, in 2024 😁
@TABerselli Yeah sorry, I meant to say you can't.
Appreciate you correcting me.
still using this motherboard in my setup that's been running atleast 10 hours a day since 2010 :D i remember sweating the price but damn what a reliable board
@Mohammed Talha can play everything comfortably at 1080p max settings. depends on the game but can sit around 200 fps in overwatch for instance with lots of stuff going on. I use a 980x still as the cpu and stuck a gtx1080 in this when it got released
Just sold mine. Still was using as my main PC in 2022. Runs everything smoother than my MSI GE75 laptop. Absolutely amazing board.
@@dalenewton9697 they dont make em like they used to
@scoobywoo27
A motherboard is one of the key components on your PC. (with key I mean that if it fails, your PC will crash and be dead).. Anyway, the motherboard houses the processor, the memory and in most cases these days: one or multiple graphics cards and maybe a sound card. Basicly all other hardware is connected to it and most, if not all, data goes through it. That's why they call it a "mother"board (I think).
Can you do a quick tutorial on grounding yourself when building a PC? Do you ground yourself at all? I notice you don't seem to use anything like a antistatic wristband when handling these parts, would be nice that's all!
@enigmafirst Yeah, but you can only crossfire up to 4 gpus, or only two 5970 cards. just wait for the 6970 if you want 4x crossfire.
Great job as always. Love your reviews/unboxings.
the rampage series is the best motherboard i've bought. I've only choose to buy rampage series eversince.. A true ROG fan.
@kutzak159 You could probably get the dimensions off newegg's hardware specs, or the manufacturer's website...
06:00 this switches is for RAM memory, so you can`t to
ON or OFF memory if you don`t wanna to use, at least i think so :D
@x900lbGorillax some power supplies do come with duel 8 pins the corsair HX1000 watt power supply has two
thank you for all videos, you're great man!
The four switches are used to disable the four expansion cards in each of x16 PCI-e
Pretty awesome board, shame the stock levels in the UK are terrible to say the least, nowhere has had them in stock for over 1 month now.
Cooler Master HAF X, Rampage III Extreme, Intel core i7 980X Extreme Edition, Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200W, 2 Crucial RealSSD 256GB RAID 0, CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB DDR3 2000MHz OC, 4 Asus 5970. Windows rating 14.2
dip switch... I never thought I would see those again, we used to have them way back in the 80's and early 90's, I think the only boards that used to have those were labeled PRO by intel, and several servers boards, again, correct me if I am wrong, those seem to be for the PCIe slots...
I got this one :) Great motherboard , but it has one litle problem... Chipset on this motherboard has big problem with overvarming, so if you going to buy it so you must to be sure that you have some extra fans (better at the front side of the motherboard on the tower).
@zxcv1175 I Had:
Antec 900
Coolermaster 850 watt
HiS 5870
xms 1600/1800/2000 ram 6 gigs ddr3
Gigabyte x58 ud3r
I7 950
The first system i returned due to faulty sound ports
And some other minor video lag.
The new system used a revision of the ud3r, but the voltages were bad.
So they are replacing so much of my pc now that its been 2 weeks since i took it in.
@rockmansnake
It has tripple channel. Sure it'll work in dual channel aswell. But as soone as you've got more then 2 RAM sticks you'll get the best performance (dunno if its noticable) with tripple channel.
Anything else you'd like to know?
Did anyone ever figure out how to use the onboard HDMI codec? In the BIOS, you can select an option that says HDMI/SPDIF so how does one go about using onboard HDMI for this mobo?
+Izlude Tingel Figured it out... lol. There is a RARE HDMI bracket that connects to the motherboard... you most likely won't find it. (luckily I did). Most people would use their AMD GPU's HDMI port and install the Realtek ATI driver on top of it. This does NOT give the same results. It is completely different. The onboard codec is much better sounding to the audiophile.
@bytesaber I love the two NICs on mine because i can host a single game across 2 gigabit networks at the same time, allowing me to play with 8 other people, rather than 4 (standard networks)
@169Phoenix It will for me too..I've allready ordered the part/parts. It will be working together with 12 gigs of ram, a GTX 580 and an i7 980 in a Haf X because why not..? xD
I like this although I think the V is out now. Will be upgrading very soon for SLI build, can't wait!
The performance of the SLI/Crossfire depends on the hardware scaling and the driver support. Currently AMD has better hardware scaling but Nvidia has far better driver support. The two main sane approaches, are either using two high end cards for higher performance, or two high value for performance mid tier cards. If there is a single card solution with better performance for the same price as the sli/cf setup, then the single card is better.
@LauxHawk cameraman won't let me.
Why does this have no comments 😂
@markowina Are you in the UK? The online store Aria are doing i7 950 for £211!!! that is a great price. I bought a i7 930 for £215 6 weeks ago along with a EVGA X58 Micro mobo but not had a chance to set it up yet as I still need to get my case Corsair 800D and some more nice compression rotary fittings for the water cooling loop. Hope your bui;d turns out aw2some
Nice, but is it worth it ?
I got the Gigabyte X58A-UD7 because the marketing from Asus suck's, they released the P6X58D-premium with no raid support on the sata 6gb/s so this Rampage 3 can sell better and they allyways have ram problems (maybe an other marketing thing)... i don't like them anymore ! I'm a Gigabyte fan now \:d/
hi theiur those switches if not already answered switch off the pci-e lanes to trouble shoot a bad card if they are for example or watercooled
dude i love your videos. very informative !
@YamiPoyo i'd personally pick rampage 3 over both sabertooth x58 and p67
Why not buy it?
1.It has a bunch of features (two 6gb/s sata ports + two USB 3.0 + tri sli + more)
2.Supports most (if not all) of the latest processors + memory + more
3.You can get it refurbished for an amazing price.
4. It just looks amazing.
I honestly don't see any reason not to buy this.
Hey Linus, Are you aware that this board DOES NOT support 4way SLI. It should have been obvious to you when there was no 4way SLI bridge included in the box.
Anyway still a great board, using it in 2 of my upcoming projects
I am surprised no one else has mentioned it in the comments.
Cheers
LazyMan :-)
@MCLRproductions seems like a reasonable build dude, you won't get much overclocking potential with that cooler, also if your screen size is 2560 x 1600 as you say the gtx 560 will struggle, you need a gtx 580 or gtx 590, 6950/6970/6990 for screen resolutions of that size. also I would swap the PSU to something like the corsair AX 850, if you want anymore help pm me :)
I'm buying this! In December! Already got i7 2600k!
i bought the rampage 3 gene
and 2 gtx 460s for sli
: )
Wow, i did not remembered that my board had that many features!
me neither
Really?
@Ox1ze there covered with a protector incase you only have a 4 pin connector