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Asus Rampage Extreme III (REXIII)

Rubycon

Rubycon

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Unboxing this tonight. It has a cooler in the box that bolts on (where the northbridge is on old motherboards) with a small fan. This would block most larger coolers (like VX, TRUE, Mega, etc.).

Is this used for water cooling where flow across the board may be low or non existent?

Hopefully the onboard cooler will be slightly cooler than the NF-200 based boards I have here. They tend to get hot (P6T7 and 762 classified).
 
I never used mine, my NB stays pretty cool, I think its for people that go wild on LN2. I hear that little fan can get a little noisy.
 
Rubycon said:
...It has a cooler in the box that bolts on (where the northbridge is on old motherboards) with a small fan...
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I thought that the X58 DID have a northbridge, where the P55 does not?

Or are you saying something different that I totally missed?
 
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Chipset cooler is a better term since the part is no longer referred as northbridge but its location on the board is in the same place as the traditional northbridge of a former FSB based chipset.
 
Rubycon said:
Chipset cooler is a better term since the part is no longer referred as northbridge but its location on the board is in the same place as the traditional northbridge of a former FSB based chipset.
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Understand.
At least not as weird as the P55 boards that have fake coolers in that position, where there is no chip underneath them at all. It was almost as if Gigabyte and some others didn't want to bother changing the design of their heatpipe system.

The P6X58D Premium also came with a little fan, but I have left it in the box to this point.

Will wait to hear your impressions of the III.
 
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Board seems OK so far.
CPU voltage overvolts like crazy with auto/full calibration on. 50% calibration gives slight droop and OFF droops like crazy!
Kind of worried about sudden death syndrome posts over on XS with this board though. Some are reporting both board AND CPU dead when it happens! 😱
 
Not sure what it shipped from the distributor with. I have two and the broker flashed them and tested them before handing to me.
 
This is the first board I have ever been on the fence about flashing. I am on 602, and from what I have seen, there has been a performance boost in games and benchmarks with the new bios releases. It just runs so good where I am am. I can run my 980X at 4ghz on 1.25 volts.
 
As with most enthusiast boards the latest BIOS' do seem to focus on the 980X. No harm in flashing to the latest. 🙂
 
I suspended use this week after finding that GTX 480 no. 2 was running at 4X instead of 16X. HOWEVER I ran some tests with the 762 (both running at 16X) and there is hardly a difference at all! Meaning "benchmark tolerance" and NO WAY one could tell in a game! Haha!

Coincidentally, Kyle Bennett over at [H] ran some 16/16 vs. 16/8 tests and found the same thing.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/08/16/sli_cfx_pcie_bandwidth_perf_x16x16_vs_x16x8

So it does not matter I suppose after all...

Reason being is the REXIII requires certain slots to be used for SLI and I have a RAID host (1680ix) that needs to be in one of the slots. If I were to put both video cards in the proper slots to get 16/16 the RAID card would have its backside less than 1/4" from one of the 480s and heat definitely would be a problem. A sound card or NIC would not be a problem but the RAID card needs air circulation or its processor will overheat. I did not even try running it that way because it was obvious. Desktop temperatures would be fine but as soon as a 3D app was fired up within minutes the CPU temp alarm on the card would be raised or close to it.

Outside of that, great board. Intel NIC is perfect and you know there are a lot of great X58 boards but they put those horrid Realtek NICs on them! WHY DO THEY DO THAT???! The 762 has Marvells which are definitely better than Realtek but IMO all these higher end boards should have Intel on them. (and Ti 1394 controllers! 😉
 
Rubycon said:
...Intel NIC is perfect and you know there are a lot of great X58 boards but they put those horrid Realtek NICs on them! WHY DO THEY DO THAT???! The 762 has Marvells which are definitely better than Realtek but IMO all these higher end boards should have Intel on them. (and Ti 1394 controllers! 😉
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It is all about making more money on the NICS, etc. The manufacturer determines what the wholesale price of the motherboard will be, and they know what the total cost of the components is for each board. If they can get a Marvell or Realtek NIC chip for $2 less than the INTEL, then for every 1,000 boards sold they make an extra $2,000. Of course, ASUS sells a lot more than 1,000 boards, and $2 would just be a guesstimate, but the bottom line is making more money for each board model.

Back on topic: I am glad you liked the REXIII, I am going to order one tomorrow, and yes, I very much like INTEL NIC's!!
 
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