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Asus Rampaging, Extremely
FOR THOSE OF US eagerly awaiting a ROG X48 DDR3 mainboard, Asus has, for the first time, showed it here - finally: what was known as " Pinot Noir" at CeBit a few months ago has now officially become Asus ROG Rampage Extreme, most probably their highest-end mobo.
The original codename came from the red and black cooling assembly, consisting of a bunch of aluminum heat sinks with copper bottoms, connected via heat pipes to the main North Bridge cooler with the water cooling-enabled top. All other features are expected to be top notch too - luckily, in these dual-GPU card days, the old oddity of splitting the x16 slots into two x8 pairs with extra bridges is not there any more. Two plain, full x16 v2 slots are just the right combo for those who want dual or quad GPU setups.
You can also see full dual BIOS capability here, so you can switch between, say, initial old BIOS release and the newest one, helping circumvent some commonly-seen troubles.
Here's Asus' Derek Yu, the proud custodian of the ROG mobo line, holding his newest baby:
Oh, and by the way, take a look at the new set of this boards' buttons - they look far more sexy than the previous mobo ones, especially that little, umm, stick.
It reminds us a lot of that ThinkPad TrackPoint, which in turn - size and shape-wise - reminded many of one unique female body 'feature' so to say... And it calls you to, well, "TweakIt". ยต
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Any idea when this product is released so us mere mortals can flog off our offspring to own one of these?
No point in getting this for two reasons. 1) If have an X38 or similar, the performance difference is not worth it, especially for the $$. You won't be making a lateral move 2) X58 is (coming) out, and Nehalem will be the future. More cores, 3 Ch ram etc. no one will be looking back.
Usually this news would be exciting. But ASUS really needs to fix their BIOS support and forum presence. i.e. It is non-existent. Oh they have a forum for users, but no presence from ASUS techs there. The "technical questions" email support is answered by people reading out of a database and they don't really read your question, they just offer up the "canned" rma response and thats it. ASUS has grown too fast and they have not grown their support arm of the business. I love their hardware, but I think I'll stick with companies who offer robust support from now on.
[quote] It reminds us a lot of that ThinkPad TrackPoint, which in turn - size and shape-wise - reminded many of one unique female body 'feature' so to say... And it calls you to, well, "TweakIt". [/quote] Hmm, I'm not really following you here.. ;)
This Derek fellow looks like a guy who has never seen a klt, hence his assumption 1 can be Tweakt!! Lol, Derek, sex on a mobo, wootski, a female mobo mb??!!!! Will the usual Asus revision have a male shaped 'thingy' to upgrade and help make little ROG mobos?? It's all 2 much, even dual-bios, how innovative?!! I'm just so overc&*??? Well done Giga!@#$, err, I mean Asus!!!!!
...Lovin' Nubbin. As if nerds needed any more excuses to not leave their, uh, hardware and actually talk to real girls. That's right, Poindexter. I'm looking at you.
2 back. That's when you have to pull that second video card out to push those fun new buttons and switch (assuming it takes up two slots as 90% of them do). Mr Yu should have the look of shame and flog himself with the backside of that mobo.
Nehalem is out - this mobo would be a collosal waste of time and money. Anyone owning a current or previous gen mobo wouldn't gain any benefits from buying this. Neither would getting this new "old" tech help you for future upgrades.
Markus, there is an old PCI slot (the one with the "TweakIt" sticker) between the 2nd GPU slot and those little buttons. So, you got enough space to press them even after installing the GPU No.2 - even though, yeah, I also prefer 1-slot thin water or vapor-cooled cards.
Markus, there is an old PCI slot (the one with the "TweakIt" sticker) between the 2nd GPU slot and those little buttons. So, you got enough space to press them even after installing the GPU No.2 - even though, yeah, I also prefer 1-slot thin water or vapor-cooled cards.
Nehalem x58 will not be released by Intel until end of 4 qtr to HP,Dell,etc. secondary users will not see this chipset until the middle of the first qtr. So says a regional manger from the Intel IDF show in Chicago,illinois USA yesterday. Supply will be tight so don't even think of getting your hopes up for 6 months or more. Sorry