ASUS X99 ROG Rampage V Extreme Review

[Vicey]

The Rampage IV Extreme is the best motherboard I've ever owned. I've used it since March 2012 and the amount of support Asus has given this board since its release has been far and above expectation. They have released 1 to 2 BIOS updates every month since it came out and have completely redesigned the EFI interface on it midway through its life span.

The Rampage V Extreme looks to be a worthy successor from my point of view. The EFI is even more improved, the overall aesthetic of the board has been improved. They removed the useless chipset fan that the RIVE had and gave us three band AC Wifi built in. That's incredible.

I think if I was building a new system today I'd buy this board. I know a lot of people when buying motherboards don't consider the after sales support or the EFI but I've used three LGA 2011 boards by three different manufacturers (Asus, Asrock and MSI) and in my opinion Asus is in a league of their own when it comes to just that one aspect and it really makes a big difference to your experience using the product and lets be honest when all these boards are sat side by side the features are 95% identical so great software and non-standard extras like AC WiFi start to stand out more.

Great review

 

[Xrqute]

 

[RizeAllard]

Nice performace, with full of extras. I need to see how the others compette before chose.

It would be good to see how it performs with 5930X

 

[RamboOC]

awesome video review

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Any word yet if there may be a possibility of unlocking the extra cores?

 

[Wraith]

Any word yet if there may be a possibility of unlocking the extra cores?

Is that even still a thing... I know it was a possibility in the old Phenom/Athlon days.. but chips these days are fused off at a hardware level.

 

[Dicehunter]

Is that even still a thing... I know it was a possibility in the old Phenom/Athlon days.. but chips these days are fused off at a hardware level.

Imagine being able to unlock the 4 extra cores and it be fully stable ? That would be immense ^_^

 

[Wraith]

Imagine being able to unlock the 4 extra cores and it be fully stable ? That would be immense ^_^

It'd be a nice surprise and added bonus, but like TTL said in the "4 brew & a packet of hobnobs" video they were speed binning a lot so I'd say from that, that there fused cores. It'd be awesome if they aren't, and just the nudge AMD needs to do it again. :lol:

 

[NeverBackDown]

It'd be a nice surprise and added bonus, but like TTL said in the "4 brew & a packet of hobnobs" video they were speed binning a lot so I'd say from that, that there fused cores. It'd be awesome if they aren't, and just the nudge AMD needs to do it again. :lol:

No AMD should not do that.. one the marketing team would screw it up and two with the amount of heat they put off with 8 cores i wouldn't want to deal with 12

 

[Kaapstad]

We really need to see W/Rs done with a 5930k as this will be 6 core performance and show how much better the new platform is compared to the old.

You could beat a lot of the records above if you were crazy enough to use a multi CPU Xeon setup to whack up the Physics scores.

 

[Bartacus]

No AMD should not do that.. one the marketing team would screw it up and two with the amount of heat they put off with 8 cores i wouldn't want to deal with 12

They've have to come up with a CPU cooler that could double as an egg McMuffin maker of some kind!