ASUS Rampage III Extreme Smiles for the Camera

[Fitseries3]

 

[pantherx12]

Thank you for the better pics!

Glad to see they have 775 mounting holes and 1336, MORE boards need to do this.

Infact no idea why intel bothered to make the mounting holes different on 1336 in the first place.

 

[Fitseries3]

Infact no idea why intel bothered to make the mounting holes different on 1336 in the first place.

1366 requires more mounting pressure than 775 due to larger surface area of the IHS.

 

[pantherx12]

How does that apply more pressure?

 

[Chicken Patty]

The boar def. looks very sexy

 

[Fitseries3]

How does that apply more pressure?

larger mounting area can provide more pressure and spread it accross a larger area.

think of this...

take a nail and push it into the ground with 1000pounds of pressure. what happens?

now take a 3inch round cylinder and do the same.

the smaller one sinks right into the ground but the larger one spreads pressure evenly.

idk if i explained that properly but you may get what im saying.

 

[pantherx12]

I don't think that's right fit, after all your bolting the sink down most of the time, and you do those bolts up all the way they go ( or I do with my stuff) so they would reach the same level of pressure regardless of mounting hole position)


Also from your explanation the wider hole spacing would apply less pressure to a single point, which is what you don't want, you want a lot of pressure just on the CPU, which makes the closest holes the optimal choice, means you have more room for components.



I tested both sets on the blooodrage before I killed it, on my 3503 it made no difference in idle or load.


Any one willing to test this out on their board with 2 sets of mount holes?

 

[Kantastic]

larger mounting area can provide more pressure and spread it accross a larger area.

think of this...

take a nail and push it into the ground with 1000pounds of pressure. what happens?

now take a 3inch round cylinder and do the same.

the smaller one sinks right into the ground but the larger one spreads pressure evenly.

idk if i explained that properly but you may get what im saying.

I didn't get any of that, maybe I'm retarded but it just doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[Animalpak]

This time is very overclocking addicted, all in dual extra power connectors to the cpu and mainboard, sure those are not the final heatsinks.

 

[Chicken Patty]

I didn't get any of that, maybe I'm retarded but it just doesn't make any sense to me.

I get what FIT is trying to say, I am just not sure if it applies to what we were talking about the larger IHS and more spread out mounting holes.

 

[pantherx12]

I fixed my post as it was hard to read before.

Make sense now guys?

 

[Jstn7477]

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There's a THIRD Molex connector on the bottom edge.

Also, the amount of supplementary chips on this board is ridiculous. I counted 13 in the lower half, not including the BIOS chips, the chipset and the 10 PCIe switches and whatever else I missed.

 

[Kantastic]

So much for cable management .

 

[theubersmurf]

There's tons of value to that. It's better than EVBot or the OC Palm, is wireless, and relatively cheaper (OC Palm or EVBot add to the motherboard's cost).

Maybe, I'm not one to use devices like that anyway, I tend to overclock directly in the BIOS via the keyboard. But I guess if you go in for that kind of thing, maybe it's useful, being that there's no specialty instrument manufactured I suppose that's less expensive. It still seems to me gimmicky and honestly pretty silly. Can these devices be used to adjust speed/voltages while the OS is running? I guess if the answer is yes than it may be pretty useful.

 

[Assassin48]

Maybe, I'm not one to use devices like that anyway, I tend to overclock directly in the BIOS via the keyboard. But I guess if you go in for that kind of thing, maybe it's useful, being that there's no specialty instrument manufactured I suppose that's less expensive. It still seems to me gimmicky and honestly pretty silly. Can these devices be used to adjust speed/voltages while the OS is running? I guess if the answer is yes than it may be pretty useful.

the evbot is real-time overclocking if i remember correctly, same with the Asus Rog controller thing.

I can see this being useful like when doing 3d benching

 

[DRDNA]

To be honest, I don't see the point of an extra cable in the first place, sure the power is more evenly distributed ( supposedly) but presuming you've got a non shit psu you should be golden with 1 connection always.

to put an additional one on, AND two molex power connection just screams MARKETING to me.

" LOOK AT ME AND MY POWER"

I'm finding a lot of motherboards boring recently, getting bigger and flashier rather then working on the things that matter.

Component layout for example D:

This is an overclocking and benching board....not for just any ole desktop.

 

[pantherx12]

This is an overclocking and benching board....not for just any ole desktop.

I know but a single 8 pin cable supplies enough power, and THEN some even to a heavily over clocked CPU, I sincerely doubt this will make any major difference.

Unless they plan on running 5 volts through a cpu at once.

 

[InnocentCriminal]

As always I like the red & black colour scheme. However, I fuckin' hate 4 pin Molex as it is, last thing I would want to do is plug several of them into my stylish new motherboard.

I really hope the 4 pin Molex connector dies.

:shadedshu

 

[pantherx12]

You don't have to IC, you use either the 8 pin "regular" connection or the other, its if you don't have a psu with two sets of mobo power cable.

I had a 939 board that had the same, only with 1 of each, not 2 of each.

 

[Fitseries3]

As always I like the red & black colour scheme. However, I fuckin' hate 4 pin Molex as it is, last thing I would want to do is plug several of them into my stylish new motherboard.

I really hope the 4 pin Molex connector dies.

:shadedshu

+1

everything needs to switch to sata power connectors

 

[SummerDays]

bta, can you please clarify, does the mother board support two x16 slots or four?

 

[btarunr]

bta, can you please clarify, does the mother board support two x16 slots or four?

Two x16 or four x8.

Contrary to some reports on the internet, it doesn't look like there's an nForce 200 chip to me. There are two sets of external PCI-E lane switches.

 

[btarunr]

Can these devices be used to adjust speed/voltages while the OS is running? I guess if the answer is yes than it may be pretty useful.

The whole idea behind on-the-fly overclocking is letting you handle clock speeds, voltages, and fan speeds with the OS running. The idea behind devices such as the ASUS OC Palm and EVGA EVBot is letting you do that right in the middle of a game / benchmark.

This is not gimmicky because all it takes for the manufacturer is to add a Bluetooth module and necessary hardware, and give you a Java app for your phone. So unlike OC Palm which shot the price of the P6T Deluxe by $50+ or the EVBot (which costs like $75), this isn't coming at a premium. If your phone has Bluetooth and can run Opera Mini (which is a Java app), then it can run the ROG Connect app.

 

[SteelSix]

I like the PCI-E retention tab, looks like it's fingertip accessible from above or below an installed card (if not blocked by a cooler).

I have a Rampage II Extreme, no plans to upgrade but man that's a nice board. The low profile heatsinks are very sexy.

 

[adam99leit]

larger mounting area can provide more pressure and spread it accross a larger area.

think of this...

take a nail and push it into the ground with 1000pounds of pressure. what happens?

now take a 3inch round cylinder and do the same.

the smaller one sinks right into the ground but the larger one spreads pressure evenly.

idk if i explained that properly but you may get what im saying.

i get what your saying ill explain it very very dumbly so people can get it easy ok think of it like this basically you have a cooler on your cpu with 4 levers extruding from it now since the 1366 chip and socket is so much bigger than the 775 chip and socket the cooler is also bigger so if you still used the 775 holes you would be reducing the size of the lever shorter lever=less tension so to compensate for that 1366 has wider mounting holes so that you keep the same size lever to keep correct amount of pressure on the chip hope that explains it better or at least in a different way hope it helps