Pictures of Asus’ hotly anticipated Rampage III Formula have surfaced, revealing plenty of details of this gaming motherboard.
The Rampage III Formula will be part of Asus’ Republic of Gamers ‘ROG’ range and will use the X58 chipset, acting as a cheaper version of the popular Rampage III Extreme.
It will offer SupremeFX X-Fi 2 audio, Digital VRM and Intel Ethernet to improve system performance by relieving CPU load during online gaming.
The gaming world has been waiting for an X58 board that sits somewhere between the high-end offerings, with many features that gamers are not fussed by, and the budget end – and Rampage III Formula is looking to fill this niche.
There are, as you would expect, six DDR3 memory slots supporting 2200MHz and a maximum 24GB.
Asus’ board is also offering three PCIe 2.0 x16 slots supporting three-way SLI and CrossFireX, Gigabit LAN from the Intel 82567V Ethernet controller, two SATA 6Gbps, and USB 3.0
Final specs:
CPU
-Intel® Socket 1366 Core™ i7 Processor/Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition
Chipset
-Intel® X58/ICH10R
Memory
- 6 x DIMM, Max. 24 GB, DDR3 2200(O.C.)/2133(O.C.)/2000(O.C.)/1800(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 Non-ECC, Un-buffered Memory modules
- Tri Channel memory architecture
Expansion Slots
- 4 x PCIe 2.0 x16 Supports x16; x16/x16; x16/x8/x8; x8/x8/x8/x8 configurations
- 1 x PCIe x4
- 1 x PCI 2.2
Storage
Intel® ICH10R Southbridge
-6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports , Intel Matrix Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10
JMicron® 363 controllers:
- 1 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (Black)
- 1 x External SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
Marvell® PCIe SATA 6Gb/s controller
- 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (Red)
LAN
- 1x Gigabit Intel® PHY
Audio
8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC, Support Blu-ray audio layer content protection
USB
NEC® USB 3.0 controller
- 2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports (at back I/O)
Intel® ICH10R Southbridge
- 9 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (2 ports at mid-board, 6 ports at back I/O, 1 port at back I/O reserved for ROG Connect)
Bluetooth Module Accessory Card
-Bluetooth V2.0/V2.1+EDR
-RC Bluetooth On/Off Switch
Software
-Futuremark 3DMark Vantage Advanced Edition
-Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Form Factor
extended ATX Form Factor: 12 inch x 10.6 inch ( 30.5 cm x 26.9 cm )
*The board is 1 inch wider than other ATX boards so check your case for compatibility
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