1 00:00:07,279 --> 00:00:13,839 just when you thought it was impossible to cram more features into a 2 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:18,240 motherboard ASUS brought out the Rampage 4 extreme so this particular one comes 3 00:00:15,719 --> 00:00:23,359 with the full copy of Battlefield 3 it is PCIe Gen 3 ready which comes along 4 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:29,439 with the territory because this is an Intel LGA 2011 socket motherboard with 5 00:00:26,039 --> 00:00:31,920 the x79 chipset supporting core i7 6 00:00:29,439 --> 00:00:35,640 extreme and core i7 processors on this socket that is six core processors only 7 00:00:34,399 --> 00:00:40,239 so far although there should be four core processors and even more core 8 00:00:38,079 --> 00:00:48,480 processors coming in the future four-way SLI and Crossfire support and a wide 9 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:51,160 wide range of other features so let's 10 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:54,559 get started here actually you know what let's let's open up the board first I'm 11 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:58,120 going to like shake things up a little bit here and I'm going to go ahead I'm 12 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,480 going to get the board open I'm going to get the board out of the box which you 13 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:07,119 can see through the box fairly well anyway so it's not not a huge issue one 14 00:01:04,799 --> 00:01:13,320 way or the other but uh we will talk about features as we 15 00:01:10,159 --> 00:01:13,320 show them on the 16 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:20,479 C there we go all right so the 17 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,799 motherboard let's do the accessories then we'll do the board itself and the 18 00:01:21,799 --> 00:01:27,320 features when we are done with the accessories so accessories I'm going to 19 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:32,320 have to cover some of the features here as well so check this out you guys this 20 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:34,320 is the L LGA 2011 back plate oh so why 21 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:38,159 does it have an LGA 2011 back plate in the Box you might ask well that is 22 00:01:36,479 --> 00:01:46,479 actually because of a feature called X socket which allows you to install 23 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:49,040 either L an LGA 2011 native cooler or 24 00:01:46,479 --> 00:01:53,759 actually if we just open up uh recently closed tabs here x socket there we go or 25 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:58,840 if you check out these uh if you check out the event. 26 00:01:56,439 --> 00:02:04,360 ASUS.com 20101 rx- socket website you can actually see 27 00:02:01,759 --> 00:02:10,440 thirdparty coolers that support their X socket uh technology which allows you to 28 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:12,920 install your 1366 cooler on LGA 2011 29 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:16,440 boards that include x socket technology which as far as I know is just this one 30 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:20,480 okay what else we got here in terms of accessories gamer UI gamer style the 31 00:02:18,959 --> 00:02:24,599 choice of Champions so here's a little Rog oh look at that it's all shiny and 32 00:02:22,879 --> 00:02:30,480 like silvery put that somewhere nice okay we got the Battlefield 3 game which 33 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:35,519 you guys can't see the code for we have a three-way SLI 34 00:02:32,519 --> 00:02:38,080 Bridge a four-way SLI 35 00:02:35,519 --> 00:02:44,120 Bridge a two-way SLI Bridge nice flexible black cable perfect and finally 36 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:49,080 a crossfire Bridge once again black perfect okay we've got their what are 37 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:54,120 they calling this now prob belt okay so that allows you to quickly check your 38 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:56,680 voltages on a variety of things which we'll see when we open up the board we 39 00:02:55,440 --> 00:03:01,080 got our IO Shield we've got Rog connect which 40 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:05,959 allows you to to overclock your CPU and change settings using the USB connection 41 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:10,680 and an additional computer we have the oxnar or Zonar sound card so apparently 42 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:15,159 this board includes Zonar technology fascinating either that or this is just 43 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:20,280 oh no this seems to be just like an ad for it oh 44 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:24,840 interesting next we have a lanyard cool it's a battlefield uh Battlefield 3 45 00:03:22,239 --> 00:03:33,519 lanyard this is cool we'll get to this after R connect cable uh USB B cable of 46 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:39,120 some sort oh this is for the OC key which is also part of that so we'll get 47 00:03:34,799 --> 00:03:41,360 to that later okay we've got 1 2 3 4 USB 48 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:46,640 or SATA 3 6 GB per second cables those are all right angle and then we have 1 2 49 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:48,239 3 4 SATA SATA 2 3 gbit per second cables 50 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:51,280 and those are all right angle as well finally Q connectors which allow you to 51 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:57,000 do your front panel and at least one front USB connector with additional ease 52 00:03:55,319 --> 00:04:03,239 and now let's just go ahead and throw these back in here and then let's whip 53 00:03:59,799 --> 00:04:07,040 out the board itself because the board 54 00:04:03,239 --> 00:04:10,239 is what you folks all paid good money to 55 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:13,599 see and by paid good money I mean didn't 56 00:04:10,239 --> 00:04:16,639 pay anything at all here we 57 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:18,280 go so this is not quite a standard ATX 58 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:23,800 board we've seen ASUS doing this with their Republic of Gamers level boards 59 00:04:20,359 --> 00:04:27,440 for quite some time where they're 60 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:29,840 widening the board just a smidgen in 61 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:33,800 order to cram on more features so you can see here is where we would normally 62 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:38,400 have the board ending and ASUS has put about another couple centimet of PCB 63 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:44,280 where they've put a lot of useful things why don't we start with the CPU socket 64 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:46,759 so there's our LGA 2011 socket that is a 65 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:51,600 supporting core i7 and core7 extreme processors and where is the uh you know 66 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:55,800 what I'm going to be perfectly honest with you guys see here's the back plate 67 00:04:53,400 --> 00:05:01,199 that's on here now I actually don't understand exactly how X socket is going 68 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:03,800 to work based on what I've seen so far 69 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:08,840 but the theory is that it does work and that's good okay as long as the cooler 70 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:14,199 supports it so that's that's the key part around the sides of the socket we 71 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,960 have our eight dim slots so yes ASUS has 72 00:05:14,199 --> 00:05:19,560 managed even on their top tier performance board to provide eight dim 73 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:24,639 slots if you are installing only four dims I would definitely recommend you 74 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,199 use the red slots because those ones are 75 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:29,680 slightly further away from the CPU socket giving you a little bit more room 76 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:33,960 for bulky coolers and a little bit additional air flow around your socket 77 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:39,039 speaking of coolers we've got our vrm coolers here and here ASUS has 78 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:45,120 integrated their new generation of Digi Plus vrm on this particular board which 79 00:05:41,919 --> 00:05:48,039 means that you have uh dedicated digital 80 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:51,680 voltage Regulators not only for the CPU but also for the memory which just means 81 00:05:50,039 --> 00:05:55,479 additional components that they had to build into this board you can actually 82 00:05:53,600 --> 00:06:00,000 you I mean you can clearly see how dense the PCB is every square inch of it is 83 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:04,479 covered with something C CPU power connectors we have one eight pin and one 84 00:06:02,039 --> 00:06:07,960 four pin connector you do not have to use both of them although I would 85 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:10,880 recommend if you're going to do any serious overclocking on this board which 86 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,919 I hope you're doing if you're buying this board that you probably connect 87 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:20,160 both of them moving down this side of the board we have an LED post readout we 88 00:06:17,199 --> 00:06:26,880 have slow mode I would probably leave that off for the most part ln2 mode 89 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:30,240 which is the jumper right here uh CPU 90 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:32,000 frequency ah okay where's that one Le 91 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:36,280 can't even see where some of these lead fascinating okay well here's all the 92 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:45,199 voltage checkpoints so you can check uh Dam CD Dam AB 93 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:47,840 PCH 1.5 PCH 1.1 VT vssa VC cor and 94 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:53,880 you've got two grounds available we have onboard start and reset switches we also 95 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:57,280 have the ability to turn on or off I 96 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:59,680 believe these are all of the PCI Express 97 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:03,879 um here the red PCI Express slots although I will double check that for 98 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:05,800 you guys we have the traditional go 99 00:07:03,879 --> 00:07:09,440 button right here we've got our 24 pin connector and its ideal location along 100 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:12,479 the right hand Edge front USB 3 in what I would consider to be its ideal 101 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:16,919 location along the right hand Edge Subzero sense this is fascinating so 102 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:22,160 Subzero sents right here allows you to detect the board temperatures even when 103 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:24,280 you are well below zero so no matter how 104 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:29,720 cold you are in theory this will tell you the temperatures that you need to 105 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:32,919 know we have four SATA to 3 GB per 106 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:34,280 second and four SATA 3 6 gbit per second 107 00:07:32,919 --> 00:07:38,360 Port so two of those are running off the Intel chipset or rather four all four of 108 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:43,520 those are running off the Intel chipset so that is ideal we also have an active 109 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:48,720 cooler on the chipset here which is connected by heat pipe to another active 110 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,919 cooler and or a passive uh heat sink and the other passive heat sink and finally 111 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,520 the other passive heat sink that I showed you guys already so it's like a 112 00:07:53,759 --> 00:08:00,199 chain of heat pipes leading all the way down here all right keeping on moving 113 00:07:58,599 --> 00:08:03,800 this button switch is which BIOS you're using so this is a multi BIOS board if 114 00:08:02,319 --> 00:08:08,479 you do happen to corrupt your BIOS you can switch to the other one there's your 115 00:08:06,039 --> 00:08:14,759 front panel connectors another front USB 3 and uh one two USB 2 front panel 116 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:20,720 headers finally moving over here there's your two BIOS chips there are is your 117 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:22,879 front panel audio and how many four pin 118 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:26,400 pwm connectors do we have on this board we have one here uh just zoom out far so 119 00:08:25,479 --> 00:08:31,440 that they can kind of see where they are there's one here one here that's two 120 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:39,320 three four five six 7 121 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:42,200 eight four pin pwm connectors that's 122 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:45,560 that's outstanding awesome love to see it more of those is always better in my 123 00:08:43,839 --> 00:08:51,920 mind so here let's have a look at the PCI Express slot layout so it is ideally 124 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:54,600 laid out for four-way uh SLI or four-way 125 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:58,600 Crossfire in an ATX or well semi ATX form factor remember XL ATX boards are 126 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:02,720 about this much longer but ASUS wants you to be be able to install this board 127 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:05,839 in any number of different cases so what you will need to do four-way SLI or 128 00:09:04,399 --> 00:09:10,800 Crossfire is you will need a case like the 800d from Corsair that has uh maybe 129 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:14,760 seven expansion slots but at least like some extra space at the bottom so that 130 00:09:12,519 --> 00:09:18,480 the bottom card can hang over a little bit so you can install if you're running 131 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:24,519 two asli or Crossfire you will be able to install those two cards plus an 132 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:28,200 additional one two three PCIe 16x Slots 133 00:09:24,519 --> 00:09:33,279 of which uh they are all wired at 8ex 134 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:38,560 remember uh x79 is 16x 16x or it is 16x 135 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:40,279 8X 8X or it is 8x 8X 8X 8X in the way 136 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:43,800 that the PCI Express slots are going to be split up here we have a couple of 137 00:09:41,959 --> 00:09:48,399 auxiliary power connectors here's a six pin as well as a four pin floppy 138 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:51,880 auxiliary power connector and let's move around to the back panel of the board 139 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:57,360 before we start to go over some of the features that I haven't necessarily 140 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:59,519 quite covered yet so 1 2 3 4 5 6 s USB 141 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:03,240 2.0 ports a PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port clear seos button there's also 142 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:07,160 another one here if for whatever reason the back panel is not convenient enough 143 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:10,839 for you we also have an Rog connect button so that's this port right here 144 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:14,920 you use that to do overclocking on another computer connected to this one 145 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:20,079 there is Bluetooth which also allows you to do overclocking but that's via your 146 00:10:16,839 --> 00:10:21,519 iPad or iPhone or I guess iPod Touch 147 00:10:20,079 --> 00:10:26,120 would probably also support it so you can use the app to do that we've got an 148 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:32,160 eSATA Port here another eSATA Port there gab Ethernet 4 USB 3.0 7.1 audio out 149 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:37,399 including optical audio out so let's see if there's any features here that I have 150 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:42,320 sort of missed there are some LEDs built into this board that are going to remind 151 00:10:39,079 --> 00:10:43,760 you about your voltages or just I guess 152 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:51,360 warn you about your voltages is more like it and right this one ha OC key so 153 00:10:47,399 --> 00:10:54,120 OC key is actually just a straight DVI 154 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:58,040 pass through so you see this and this and then you have to connect it via USB 155 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:03,920 whether you do it this way or with the internal style connector so you can see 156 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:07,760 this right here okay and what OC key 157 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:11,360 does is it overlays your bio 158 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:13,760 settings on top of the image that your 159 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:18,160 uh video card is already outputting so what that means is you can actually see 160 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:22,639 rather than just relying on this guy right here the little post post readout 161 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:28,680 you can actually see status updates about your PC you can change settings 162 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:33,200 without even interfering with whatever you're doing on the screen behind the 163 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:37,880 overlay so it's kind of like if you have a home theater and you have a receiver 164 00:11:35,839 --> 00:11:44,480 that has an overlay to change whatever settings uh that at the hardware level 165 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:47,920 but it doesn't actually affect the media that's playing back in the background 166 00:11:46,279 --> 00:11:52,560 and then you can just you know shut it off at will so that is the OC key I 167 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:55,079 think that's pretty cool uh let me see if there's anything that I've kind of 168 00:11:53,519 --> 00:12:00,760 missed where so this is hardware driven so you can tweak your system on the Fly 169 00:11:57,519 --> 00:12:02,079 and the OSD monitor right okay I already 170 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:06,760 talked to you guys so this allows you to monitor whatever information you want as 171 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:10,200 well talked about Digi plus 2 which means that you've got okay hold on let's 172 00:12:08,639 --> 00:12:14,160 see if I missed anything so Japan made 10K Black Metallic capacitors these are 173 00:12:12,839 --> 00:12:18,519 rated for 105° and ASUS figures they'll last up to 174 00:12:16,839 --> 00:12:22,800 five times longer than regular solid caps these guys down here with all the 175 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:27,720 cooling all over them ah VGA hot wire oh I can't believe I missed this one right 176 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:30,120 here so VGA Hotwire is these headers 177 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:39,480 right here this allows you to actually overvolt your overvolt your 178 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:42,920 gpus through the ASUS utility rather 179 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:45,000 than connecting variable resistors to 180 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:49,079 the back of the board and adjusting the little dials so you soldered you have to 181 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:52,360 do all the same solder points you still have to do the work it doesn't support 182 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:56,920 just like over rting your GPU through the PCI Express lot or anything like 183 00:12:54,199 --> 00:13:04,240 that but what it does allow you to do is it allows you to adjust those settings 184 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:06,880 using the motherboard so that is very 185 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:11,519 very cool uh what else do we have here forway okay and I think that pretty much 186 00:13:09,399 --> 00:13:16,320 covers it nope there's one more thing so USB BIOS flashback without even a CPU or 187 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:20,680 RAM installed in the system you throw a USB key in there you rename the file to 188 00:13:18,639 --> 00:13:24,519 the correct name you check the manual to make sure you've got it all set up right 189 00:13:21,839 --> 00:13:29,880 you can actually Flash the BIOS in the worst case scenario which is everything 190 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:33,920 went as wrong as it can go and you can completely restore it to a new bio 191 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:38,079 couple more cool features sorry battery died is you can actually uh see the 192 00:13:36,519 --> 00:13:41,560 status of any cards that are installed in the PCI Express Lots in the BIOS this 193 00:13:39,959 --> 00:13:45,639 isn't a new feature on this board but it is one that I have seen on previous ASUS 194 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:49,000 boards like the Crosshair 5 that is very useful for diagnosing video card 195 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:53,279 problems especially if you have water cooling blocks on there and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for 196 00:13:51,839 --> 00:13:56,440 checking out my unboxing of the Rampage 4 extreme don't forget to subscribe to 197 00:13:55,079 --> 00:14:00,759 lonus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos