welcome friends to my unboxing and overview of the Rampage 4 extreme black
edition it's a rampage 4 extreme but it's been updated in some significant
ways so memory speed has been upgraded from 2.4 GHz Max to 2.8 gz Max their
Extreme Engine Digi plus vrm design has moved from their second gen to their
third gen design game first 2 has been added to the onboard networking allowing
your game packets to be prioritized Bluetooth has been updated to 4.0 and
they've added Wireless AC which was not present on the original Rampage 4
extreme the BIOS has a black edition theme there are 60 amp chokes versus the
older black metallic chokes for the power design Assassin's Creed 4 is in
the Box versus Battlefield 3 in the older one there are six SATA 3 ports
versus four SATA 3 ports in the older one there are eight usb3 ports versus
six usb3 ports in the older one and it comes with the OC panel versus the OC
key for overclocking it has a Subzero temperature monitor it's got a pause
switch VGA hot wire four extra fan headers that you can attach fans to just
like that on an exposed PCB and much more so I'll tease you guys by holding
the board here while I talk about some of the things that set Rog or Republic
of Gamers apart because let's face it boards are going to perform pretty much
the same out of the box compared to each other these days so Rog gets special
attention there's preset profiles from the Rog team for things like CPU and
memory to give you great starting points when you're tweaking things on your own
there are excellent automatic management rules running in the background whenever
you're making simple adjustments for a quick overclock to things like vcore and
CPU frequency that enable the system to maintain stability even if you don't
know how all those little settings work speaking of all the little settings
there's Tweakers Paradise which gives you an enormous range of tweaking
options that most people like like short of probably a couple dozen people in the
entire world will never ever need but
they're there it's also got their CPR boot recovery so it allows it to recover
and boot up without clearing seos allowing you to continue on your Merry
way overclocking and actually this is a bit of a new thing so unlike many Rog
products in the past it has four-way optimization which allows F speed CPU
speed and power consumption to be balanced and also includes their new
away mode which turns power consumption way down when you're actually not right
there in front of the system the first accessory we find in the box is the OC
panel it's got a normal mode and you can mount it in a 5 and 1/4 in Bay in your
system that gives you like a post debug readout hardware monitor info like
temperatures and fan speeds and allows you to change your fan profiles on the
fly or you can get crazy and get things
into extreme mode which has insane stuff like uh it provides leads that you can
run to make adjustments to up to four graphics cards at a time to crazy stuff
like power switching frequency and overcurrent protection it's got Sub-Zero
temp probes that actually plug right in here and allow you to monitor subzero
temperatures it gives you direct control of key frequencies and voltages on the
Fly and much more if you want a more detailed overview we actually covered it
in the Maximus 6 Extreme unboxing quite a while ago this isn't the first time
we've seen OC panel and it's a very cool little piece of Hardware it plugs into a
proprietary report on supported Boards called rogor EXT accessory wise assus
includes two-way three-way and four-way SL Bridges as well as an Rog branded
Crossfire Bridge they include 10 SATA cables half of which are right angle and
half of which are straight they include their Q connector for easily plugging in
your front panel connectors as well as their dualband magnetic antenna that
plugs into the back of the motherboard IO for your wireless implementation they
include the cable the custom cable that you need to plug in the OC panel as well
as an Rog connect USB cable so that you can plug a second computer usually a
laptop into it to monitor things that way if you prefer not to use the OC
panel they also include an IO Shield an awesome metal Republic of Gamers magnet
that's freaking amazing as well as a manual driver disc that you can throw
away and of course that copy of Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag they also
include a standard LGA 2011 back plate to go along with the custom much more
robust one that they have pre-installed on the board now on to the motherboard
itself the CPU socket is of course an LGA 2011 socket with full support for
the latest extreme Edition processors for power we've got an 8 Pin and four
pin connector that feeds the 8 plus 3phase CPU power design with 60 amp gold
treated coating chokes this is the best power delivery design that ASUS has ever
implemented on a consumer grade motherboard hands down in fact even the
memory has been beefed up with two plus two phase power something that I've
personally never seen on a board before not only that but the whole board
features 100% 10,000 hour lifetime Black
Metallic caps so it not only will run extremely well it'll do it for an
extremely long time moving along along
to the right hand side of the board we have a postcode readout as well as
onboard switches for start and reset we can individually turn our PCI Express
16x Lanes on and off with a bunch of dip switches here we've also got the slow
mode dip switch which is most for extreme overclocking our 24 pin
connector in its ideal location on the right hand Edge our usb3 connector in
its ideal location on the right hand Edge although i' prefer to see it at a
right angle we've also got 10 SATA connectors six of which are SATA 36 GB
per second two provided by the Intel chipset two by as media chipsets and
then there are four SATA 2 connectors we've got dual physical bio switches as
well as the rest of our front panel connectors we have a BIOS switch for
switching in between those two bioses as well as an easy plug PL down here at the
bottom so that's a four pin Molex that provides auxiliary power if you're
installing more than a couple of graphics cards speaking of a couple of
Graphics per cards we've got full support for four-way Crossfire and
four-way SLI with 16x 8X 8X 8X operation
being the maximum that it can run at or you can go 16x 16x if you run in PCI
Express Lots 1 and five I would like to
backtrack a little bit here and I want to show you guys what they have done in
terms of voltage notification as well as voltage checkpoints so their
Pro Bel voltage checkpoints have expanded from seven voltages to 10
including allowing you to monitor the voltages of addin video cards and their
volt minder 2 LED system not only now indicates what kind of voltages things
are running at with different colors representing more and more dangerous
voltages but it can also indicate which voltage costs an overclock to fail now
that is an extremely awesome feature and you'll find that right around here on
the side it's become a pattern for Rampage class board boards to have
mediocre sound implementations compared to Maximus range boards in the past
little while but that is going out the window with the black edition so they
have put one of their best audio implementations ever on this particular
board it starts with the PCB moot which is a separated PCB portion just for
audio as well as PCB shielding and a tin plated metal cover on the Supreme FX
chip itself all of this is to reduce interference it follows up with Elna
premium audio capacitors as well as a new W amp design to reduce interference
and make the output cleaner they've also implemented much better than usual front
audio so there's a separate front audio deck which is a cus logic
cs4398 instead of HD audio and added a
Texas Instruments TPA 61282 headphone
amp for the front Port so even the front Port can handle 600 ohm headphones not
only that but going along with their Supreme FX Hardware is the software side
of things so they've got their radar overlay to show you sounds for es
visually on the screen in front of you along with their sound enhancer with
presets for gaming to key in on footsteps Bomb Timer beeps or other
kinds of in-game noises as well as profiles for the sound enhancer that you
can switch between on the Fly fan expert 2 now has along with being able to set
you know custom fan curves and profiles that are preset or whatever you want to
do now has full control of both DC and
pwm fan so this is something we haven't seen before and all the fan headers are
located here here here here here here
here here and here so guys who is this
board for because it's extremely expensive it's for people who want
nothing but the absolute best that's
what it's for if you want to load up 64 gigs of RAM you want to put an extreme
Edition in there and load in four graphics cards and you want everything
to actually run correctly all the components on this board are designed
for it to actually be loaded up I mean even little simple things like the vrm
solution for the CPU is designed to give off less interference when it's being
heavily loaded so it's less likely to to cause a problem with some other
component of the system that might also be working extremely hard it's not made
for you to just kind of casually throw you know 8 gigs of RAM in it and like
One graphics card and like you know the lowest end CPU that fits in it this is
for the hardcore let's go around to the back of the board and I'll show you guys
I mean even the back plates are hardcore there's back plates on the vrm back
plates on what would typically be called the Southbridge area back when I was you
know first getting into this stuff which was an awful long time ago and then let's finish up with iio so there's a
PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port I still love to see this four USB 2.0 ports six
USB 3.0 ports two EA ports gigabit Ethernet of course that has game first 2
as well as the onboard AC audio 7.1 audio as well as optical audio out and
finally Rog connect as well as a clear seos button built right into that
shrouded gorgeous back that's got a nice
big like heat sink attached to it and like a nice heat pipe up here and man
this board looks good if you were to buy a board based on just having the best
looking system on the Block then it would be hard to recommend anything other than the Rampage for extreme black
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