1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:07,839 the Rampage 3 Extreme is probably the motherboard I've received more requests 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:12,519 for an unboxing for than any other board in the history of my channel so let's 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:16,240 start with the actual uh motherboard itself the basic features it is a 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:20,039 rampage series board so that means it is part of their highest tier of 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:26,599 motherboards even within the Republic of Gamers brand so it's a 1366 motherboard 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:28,760 it supports LGA 1366 of course including 7 00:00:26,599 --> 00:00:35,000 Intel's latest six core processors so you got support for all Cor 7 Extreme as 8 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:37,559 well as all core i7 1366 CPUs you've got 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:41,280 support for SLI and Crossfire up to threeway but that gets a little bit more 10 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:47,000 complicated and I'll tell you more once we get the board opened up the box is 11 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:49,079 huge and comes with a window so you can 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:52,239 see the motherboard on the store shelf you can see they've got uh we'll talk 13 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:55,640 more about the board after so basic features you've got their Rog connect so 14 00:00:54,079 --> 00:00:59,680 you can plug the motherboard into another computer and overclock with the 15 00:00:57,559 --> 00:01:04,600 other computer you've got Extreme Engine dig plus so that means you've got 16 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:06,439 digital pwm USB BIOS flashback more on 17 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:10,840 that in a little bit and it also includes some bundled software 3D Mark 18 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:18,040 Vantage and kasperski antivirus now this motherboard actually introduces besides 19 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:21,479 that USB BIOS flash feature two pretty 20 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:23,720 unique ways to flash the BIOS so one is 21 00:01:21,479 --> 00:01:26,840 just by loading the BIOS onto a USB stick plugging it into the back of the 22 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:32,280 motherboard and then it just automatically flashes and then the other 23 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:36,200 is the two separate BIOS chips which can be flashed with two different settings 24 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:40,159 or they can be set with two different settings and you can Flash from one to 25 00:01:38,119 --> 00:01:43,439 the other in order to actually maintain two completely different overclocking 26 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:47,880 profiles like you could have one for 24/7 and then one for whenever you're 27 00:01:46,399 --> 00:01:52,520 you're doing some extreme benching or whatever and then you can automatically go back to your old one you got a 28 00:01:50,439 --> 00:01:58,159 three-way SLI Bridge included you've also got a h oh I think this is that 29 00:01:55,960 --> 00:02:02,439 little Bluetooth thing yeah this is a uh a Bluetooth module so comes with 30 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:08,440 Bluetooth that's pretty cool then you've got whatever is in here which I will 31 00:02:05,079 --> 00:02:11,760 find out what it is for you okay we got 32 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:14,200 a couple screws and then we got some uh 33 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:17,920 Bubbles and then we got a little fan okay well we'll have to find out what 34 00:02:16,239 --> 00:02:22,360 that hooks up to you can see it's like an anodized red heat sink so that's 35 00:02:20,959 --> 00:02:27,640 probably what the heat sink on the motherboard's Finish is going to look like they've actually applied a proper 36 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:30,400 thermal compound and a reasonable amount of it I'm really impressed to see that 37 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:34,760 most mother man motherboard manufacturers don't get that 38 00:02:32,239 --> 00:02:43,239 detail IO bracket with two USB and one eSATA then we've got 1 two 3 4 5 39 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:45,080 six 7 eight SATA cables uh four our 40 00:02:43,239 --> 00:02:51,319 right angle four our straight we've got the Rog connect USB cable then we've got 41 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:53,000 an IO Shield we've got some zip ties 42 00:02:51,319 --> 00:02:56,720 we've got there oh this is good prob belt that's another feature it includes 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,879 so you've got little uh leads that you can plug into all of the voltage 44 00:02:58,519 --> 00:03:04,360 monitoring points on the motherboard board to make it easier to plug in your 45 00:03:01,519 --> 00:03:09,560 multimeter you've got their Q connector uh one crossfire bridge and then one 46 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:14,440 long SLI Bridge we've got some temperature sensors and last but not 47 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:20,519 least we have the Rampage Extreme users guide with some labels for the SATA 48 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:22,799 cables as well as uh the drivers and 49 00:03:20,519 --> 00:03:27,120 installation utilities DVD don't use that download the latest off D website 50 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:31,760 then we have a republic of Gamers sticker so let's get all that back in 51 00:03:29,519 --> 00:03:36,920 there and let's get the motherboard out so one thing that stands out to me 52 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:42,959 right away about this motherboard is while EVGA and uh Gigabyte are tripping 53 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:48,879 over themselves and each other to release motherboards that are not a 54 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:52,840 standard ATX form factor ASUS has opted 55 00:03:48,879 --> 00:03:55,480 to stick with the ATX uh 56 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:59,280 design for this particular board you can see they've gone a little bit wider so 57 00:03:57,319 --> 00:04:04,720 it's more like an extended ATX than a standard ATX but they keep the standard 58 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:09,000 Seven slots rather than making the board longer at the bottom and I really like 59 00:04:06,959 --> 00:04:14,000 this for a number of reasons the first of all the first of which is that it 60 00:04:11,239 --> 00:04:19,079 means it can fit in many more cases than these these non-standard boards it also 61 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:23,040 if they put the engineering work into it and you can see that they have they've 62 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:26,960 got the first PCI Express slot right at the top it means there's a lot of 63 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:31,479 components packed in there but even with this standard ATX board you still get 64 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:38,600 all the benefits of up to four-way Crossfire or four-way SLI these slots 65 00:04:34,919 --> 00:04:41,479 will run at 8X 8X 8X 8X and if you have 66 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:45,199 a case like the Corsair obsidian 800d that doesn't have an eighth slot but 67 00:04:43,479 --> 00:04:51,360 does have a vented port at the back you can actually install a dual slot card in 68 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:53,880 here so you'll go two two two and two so 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:57,600 you can use a standard ATX board to get that extreme feature as long as you put 70 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:02,199 the engineering work into it which isus has why don't we start with the c or 71 00:05:00,039 --> 00:05:07,880 rather move on to the CPU socket so it's a standard 1366 socket there's not much 72 00:05:05,199 --> 00:05:13,479 to say about it but they have included holes for 1366 as well as what appears 73 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:17,560 to be 775 so if you have an old cooler and a lot of the extreme overclocking 74 00:05:15,479 --> 00:05:21,479 guys with their liquid nitrogen pots won't have newer hard mounting hardware 75 00:05:19,639 --> 00:05:27,360 you can definitely use that to mount it there over here we have got two 8 Pin 76 00:05:24,919 --> 00:05:31,960 CPU connectors so that means that this through its digital pwm is able to pump 77 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:35,759 a lot of juice into your processor you've got to be going pretty far over 78 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:40,759 stock speeds for that to be a benefit but hey that's what this board is for uh 79 00:05:38,479 --> 00:05:44,039 we've got the clear seos buttton right here as well as one here so you've got 80 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:49,039 one on the top of the board if you're using it on an Open Bench as well as one 81 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:54,400 on the back panel very convenient thank you assus for that then we've got our 82 00:05:51,199 --> 00:05:56,120 support for up to uh six dims so that's 83 00:05:54,400 --> 00:06:01,720 triple Channel memory we have our onboard switches there's our start and 84 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:03,520 reset and then we have have oh boy okay 85 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:07,199 well I wish I knew what those do but uh please leave a comment if you know what 86 00:06:04,919 --> 00:06:11,479 these do they are onoff switches right here they are labeled switch one to 87 00:06:08,759 --> 00:06:16,039 switch four very cool okay oh this is interesting there's a liquid nitrogen 88 00:06:13,759 --> 00:06:19,759 mode up here and it appears to be the jumper right here so they've actually 89 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:23,800 got a special liquid nitrogen profile for this board and I'm guessing what it 90 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:28,160 does is it controls the uh the timing of the electrical signals for if the board 91 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:32,919 is going to be really really cold okay here we've got our 24 pin connector in 92 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:39,440 its ideal location and then we move down and we see our SATA connector so we have 93 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:45,759 two SATA 6 gbit per second connectors here and rather yeah two SATA 6 gbit per 94 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:48,440 second and then six SATA 2 so SATA 3 GB 95 00:06:45,759 --> 00:06:53,560 per second connectors here then we have the uh BIOS 96 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:58,520 switch right here we have one more SATA connector then we have our front panel 97 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:01,000 connectors here are the two BIOS chips 98 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:04,639 so all you have to do this is so cool is press the button and then you'll 99 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:09,400 actually load one BIOS profile or the other one here's the plugin for their OC 100 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:12,280 station which is a dual 5 and 1/4 in Bay device that you can plug into the front 101 00:07:10,919 --> 00:07:17,080 of your case for some Hardware overclocking next we've got and I like 102 00:07:14,759 --> 00:07:22,960 this this motherboard has all four pin pwm fan connectors no Legacy thre pin 103 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:30,280 fan connectors and it has a ton of them 1 two three let me see let's just keep 104 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:33,199 counting here I got four I've got five 105 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:37,520 six seven seven fan connectors so you can load a ton of fans on here that's 106 00:07:35,199 --> 00:07:40,879 pretty cool next we have a Molex connector at the bottom so this is to 107 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:45,080 provide additional power there's actually two of them and I'm glad to see 108 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:49,159 this one in a very sensible location here because usually you see a lot of 109 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,919 bottom mounted power supplies these days and then there's one more up here so 110 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:57,039 that's going to give you additional juice for your graphics cards if you're running four high powered cards in here 111 00:07:55,759 --> 00:08:02,680 let me see what else we've got there's your front panel audio connector as well 112 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:04,360 as your BIOS uh battery and last but not 113 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:08,520 least we've actually got one more clear seimos jumper so you can do it the 114 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:12,159 oldfashioned jumper way or you can hit either of the two switches up at the top 115 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:17,960 of the board now let's have a look at the cooling solution now the x58 chipset 116 00:08:14,879 --> 00:08:20,479 as well as the ic10 r Southbridge they 117 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:24,639 don't really run that hot it's not really necessary to throw a whole ton of 118 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:30,560 cooling at them but if you yeah you know what that's basically 119 00:08:27,199 --> 00:08:32,959 it if you want to ASUS has included an 120 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:38,080 extra heat sink which you can see straps in right where this this piece comes off 121 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:43,000 so you can leave it passive because you don't need all that cooling or you can 122 00:08:40,680 --> 00:08:46,680 throw an additional one on here and you can get that addition additional cooling 123 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:51,279 if you want it if you're going to be pushing it even harder so that's uh you 124 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:55,080 know what the spacing actually looks right for Swift Tech's water block that 125 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:59,120 can mount here as well so it looks like Aus has continued their tradition with 126 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:03,399 their high-end Republic of Gamers Boards of allowing them to be water cooled with 127 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:07,399 a third party piece that's pretty neat as well and the cameraman is probably 128 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:11,240 having a look at the like black angular heat sink I really like their new style 129 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:14,640 and their Republic of Gamers boards have been typically black and red they've 130 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:18,160 done an exceptional job of making this board look like something you'd really 131 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:21,399 want to put on display in a windowed case so why don't we have a look at the 132 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:27,160 oh yeah let's have a look at the back of the board look at that so they've got the standard back plate for the CPU 133 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:31,360 socket but they've also got uh a cooling heat spreader for the back of the pwm so 134 00:09:29,959 --> 00:09:36,760 that's something you see on the back of boards from time to time but not really 135 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:38,760 all that often last but not least let's 136 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:44,320 have a look at the I/O connectivity at the back so we got a PS2 keyboard Port 137 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:46,920 we've got 1 2 3 4 5 six USB 2.0 ports 138 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:51,279 this is not a true USB port that is the Rog connect Port so that can be used to 139 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:54,839 flash the BIOS in that Innovative new way you plug in the USB with the BIOS on 140 00:09:53,279 --> 00:10:00,959 it you hold this for 2 seconds and it flashes awesome next we have a clear 141 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:03,360 Simo switch here Optical audio out eat 142 00:10:00,959 --> 00:10:06,279 fire wire gigabit Ethernet this is you know what this is one of those things 143 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:10,519 again I have to comment on I'm so sick of seeing gaming motherboards with like 144 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:15,040 two or I've seen up to four Ethernet connections on the back why Gamers need 145 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:22,760 one fast Ethernet connection that's all so that's uh yeah just random rant then 146 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:24,800 we have two USB 3.0 ports as well as 7.1 147 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:32,680 audio thank you for checking out my unboxing and product overview of the 148 00:10:27,399 --> 00:10:35,680 much awaited ASUS Rampage 3 149 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:35,680 extremee