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February 2009
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The editors liked
Fast
Overclocking features
Alot of accessories
Stable performance
High quality heatsinks
Fantastic performance
Overclocking features are amazing
BIOS is as robust and easy-to-use. Addition of quick temperature and voltage readings is appreciated
Board layout is good overall
Many fan connectors to take advantage of
High quality
ASUS Attention to detail
Decnt Layout
Has more bells and whistles then a fire truck
Highly overclockable
Supports SLI and CrossFireX
Can handle three double-width graphics cards
Stable
Good software bundle
If you like adjusting BIOS settings such as CPU Differential Amplitude
The Extreme is for you.
The editors didn't like
Price!
3-way GPU will clear out all other slots
2-way will leave one PCI-E 16x free
Would expect to see more USB and S-ATA on an expensive motherboard
$400 price (Unless you take advantage of overclocking
This is not worth it).
Other then nit picking about the upper PCIE x1 not a thing.
Abstract: We would have liked to have published this round-up much earlier, but as you know things happen, especially when dealing with broad subjects and a lot of comprehensive tests. While we may not be the first, we had a chance to witness how BIOS versions o...
Fast, Overclocking features, Alot of accessories, Stable performance, High quality heatsinks
Price!
This board sells for around 300$ which is way more than a normal consumer would put on a motherboard, overclockers on the other hand might easily end up paying it. It got alot of cool overclocking features and were able to boost our processor quite hi...
Abstract: With Intel’s Core i7 starting to settle into the market, more consumers are moving to the new platform and faced with probably the most fundamental of choices: which motherboard to buy? There are several manufacturers that offer various products in th...
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Published: 2009-03-23, Author: brian , review by: legitreviews.com
The ASUS Rampage 2 Extreme is the ultimate enthusiast motherboard with more tweaking options than you can shake a stick at. Providing incredible stability even when pushing the envelope, the R2E is at the top of the heap if you're looking for the bes...
To date, ASUS Rampage II Extreme is one of the best implementations of capabilities of the Intel X58 chipset. This model will suit most overclockers and enthusiasts since it offers powerful onboard overclocking tools, impressive expansion options, and...
Working with this kind of hardware was a real pleasure. We only regret that we didn’t have better cooler for Corei7-920 CPU so we cannot give you definite overclock values for CPU. By lowering multiplier of QPI bus we concluded that limits are aroun...
Fantastic performance, Overclocking features are amazing, BIOS is as robust and easy-to-use. Addition of quick temperature and voltage readings is appreciated, Board layout is good overall, many fan connectors to take advantage of,
3-way GPU will clear out all other slots, 2-way will leave one PCI-E 16x free, Would expect to see more USB and S-ATA on an expensive motherboard, $400 price (Unless you take advantage of overclocking, this is not worth it).
With a board as robust as this, its difficult to find an opener for the conclusion. The Rampage II Extreme is easily one of the most incredible boards weve come across. Its feature-set is huge, and its overclocking-ability even greater. Thats not t...
