Product Gallery - the ASUS Rampage III GENE

When we flip the board around we stumble into the processor area. We spot one 8-pin CPU power header located well (right to the heatsink), all ferrite core chokes and quality capacitors catch the eye. And obviously there's Socket 1366.

Also spot lower RDS MOSFETs and lower ESR solid capacitors are used here. Pure quality components are being used and nothing else. We see that the board design is completely passively cooled.

The boards phase design is as follows:

• eight phases on the CPU
• two phases for QPI/DRAM power
• two phases for PCH (x58)

Here you can see the eight-pin CPU power header a little more up-close. 

Once we flip the board around we stumble into the DIMM slots, DDR3 of course. Up-to 24GB may be installed and the board will actually support 2200 MHz straight out of the BIOS (though overclocked). XMP profiles are detected properly and if desired activated optionally. Despite its small size you'll notice is that everything is just positioned really well. But let's zoom in a little.