ASUS Rampage III Gene review

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Rampage III Gene ROG

All the way to the left we can see a battery of SATA connectors, this board certainly has plenty of them. You'll have six SATA2 connectors and then then two red ones, which are SATA 6G.

All the way to the right we can spot Asus ProbeIt feature pins, allowing you to use a multi-meter to measure the major power sources on the motherboard, e.g. voltage measuring points. Personally I find these measuring spots too small to work with.

Rampage III Gene ROG

We flip the board around again 90 degrees and stumble into internal low-level connectivity like front panel headers and more USB headers. Also we spot:

  • Two mechanical x16 PCIe 2.0 slots 1x PCIe x4
  • 1x PCI

 It's not a lot, but all the is room for of course. Let's zoom in a little.

Rampage III Gene ROG

We spot the reset and power on buttons that ASUS has on all their ROG motherboards.  To the left of the 'start' button we see a small red button that is the Go Button which allows your motherboard to boot even if there might be some compatibility issues between the motherboard and the memory. All that the user has to do is to simply hold this button, at first a "MemOK!" functions will start visible by a red LED that begins to blink. The motherboard will now take charge of a self-memory patching process, and fix the memory compatibility before your very own eyes, till the system finally able to boot up. Once the system completes the system POST, this button will then become the quick and easy OC button, which overclocks your system to your desired settings once been pressed.

 

Rampage III Gene ROG

See that small VIA chip, it's responsible for audio as it in fact it the VIA VT2020 10-Channel Hi Def Audio CODEC featuring ENVY HD, DTS compatible actually. On top of it was the X-Fi sticker logo. It's confusing but Creative Labs is providing a software layer that sits on top of the VIA codec implementation, this allows for Creative's drivers suite and functionality as EAX. It's a little sneaky as you expect Creative Labs hardware under that sticker; ASUS in fact calls this the SupremeFX X-Fi 2 high definition audio functionality.

Rampage III Gene ROG

Okay last photo in this large slideshow aka photo gallery, it is certainly a nice board alright. But it's time to see how well it performs don't you think? First we'll be managing a little stress test at default configuration.

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