OC3D Review: Asus mATX ROG Rampage II Gene X58 Motherboard
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Rastalovich
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Great review.
1 thing I really like about the layout of the mobo is the consideration given to the cooling of the cpu - area. Really looks like they give u a nice amount of scope.
Amazes me how now memory areas seem more important than pci(e)(x) slots. U choose with ur preference here tho.
Still look at all the results for all the X58s and there aren't any across the board leaders. They all peak somewhere and drop elsewhere.
Be interesting to adopt a price per performance on the 3dmark Vantage stat - seeing as it's the lesser of the evils when thinking of artificial gaming/cost stats.
For the cash, the package seems poor to me. Many other manufacturers will atleast give u a full bank of sata cables - with locks, for example.
Meh, I'd stick with a Gigabyte to this point.
Awaiting the next ASUS mobo to come out in a month or so I guess.
1 thing I really like about the layout of the mobo is the consideration given to the cooling of the cpu - area. Really looks like they give u a nice amount of scope.
Amazes me how now memory areas seem more important than pci(e)(x) slots. U choose with ur preference here tho.
Still look at all the results for all the X58s and there aren't any across the board leaders. They all peak somewhere and drop elsewhere.
Be interesting to adopt a price per performance on the 3dmark Vantage stat - seeing as it's the lesser of the evils when thinking of artificial gaming/cost stats.
For the cash, the package seems poor to me. Many other manufacturers will atleast give u a full bank of sata cables - with locks, for example.
Meh, I'd stick with a Gigabyte to this point.
Awaiting the next ASUS mobo to come out in a month or so I guess.
Hi!
Amazing review mate, as always.
I think I'm in love
, to put so many features into that limited space is pretty awesome. The downer is the package. I've used to something else with ASUS Rampage mobo's, as I'm more than satisfied with my Rampage formula.
Maybe if I decide to build me a i7 platform PC this MB would without a doubt be my fist choice to buy.
Let's see what time brings, but for now this is the master MB for me :worship:.
Niky
Amazing review mate, as always.
I think I'm in love
, to put so many features into that limited space is pretty awesome. The downer is the package. I've used to something else with ASUS Rampage mobo's, as I'm more than satisfied with my Rampage formula. Maybe if I decide to build me a i7 platform PC this MB would without a doubt be my fist choice to buy.
Let's see what time brings, but for now this is the master MB for me :worship:.
Niky
you'd struggle with all the other components...nice idea...but from an enthusiast point of you I think its a redundant idea....sorry its mho...if you could get high performance low profile cards and other suitable components I would say "great"...but with what your gonna want to strap to this bad boy I think we have a way to go before its viable to purchase a mATX board of this calibre....
Rastalovich
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Similarly the mATX mobos are coming out in X58 form and not G53 or summit.
X58 seems it's gonna be the only chipset.
X58 seems it's gonna be the only chipset.
IMO it's the perfect board for a LAN gaming rig. Tiny little square box, handle on top, some heavy overclocking and a couple of GPU's in SLI / Crossfire.
No disrespect to Asus but some of their motherboard releases do seem a bit unenthusiastic with only a few minor component changes, so it's good to see something that's radically different for once.
No disrespect to Asus but some of their motherboard releases do seem a bit unenthusiastic with only a few minor component changes, so it's good to see something that's radically different for once.
