WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:07.839 the Rampage 3 Extreme is probably the motherboard I've received more requests 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 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:16.240 start with the actual uh motherboard itself the basic features it is a 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:20.039 rampage series board so that means it is part of their highest tier of 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:26.599 motherboards even within the Republic of Gamers brand so it's a 1366 motherboard 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:28.760 it supports LGA 1366 of course including 00:00:26.599 --> 00:00:35.000 Intel's latest six core processors so you got support for all Cor 7 Extreme as 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:37.559 well as all core i7 1366 CPUs you've got 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:41.280 support for SLI and Crossfire up to threeway but that gets a little bit more 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 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:49.079 huge and comes with a window so you can 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 00:00:50.440 --> 00:00:55.640 more about the board after so basic features you've got their Rog connect so 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:59.680 you can plug the motherboard into another computer and overclock with the 00:00:57.559 --> 00:01:04.600 other computer you've got Extreme Engine dig plus so that means you've got 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:06.439 digital pwm USB BIOS flashback more on 00:01:04.600 --> 00:01:10.840 that in a little bit and it also includes some bundled software 3D Mark 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:18.040 Vantage and kasperski antivirus now this motherboard actually introduces besides 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:21.479 that USB BIOS flash feature two pretty 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:23.720 unique ways to flash the BIOS so one is 00:01:21.479 --> 00:01:26.840 just by loading the BIOS onto a USB stick plugging it into the back of the 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:32.280 motherboard and then it just automatically flashes and then the other 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:36.200 is the two separate BIOS chips which can be flashed with two different settings 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:40.159 or they can be set with two different settings and you can Flash from one to 00:01:38.119 --> 00:01:43.439 the other in order to actually maintain two completely different overclocking 00:01:41.880 --> 00:01:47.880 profiles like you could have one for 24/7 and then one for whenever you're 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 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 00:01:55.960 --> 00:02:02.439 little Bluetooth thing yeah this is a uh a Bluetooth module so comes with 00:02:00.320 --> 00:02:08.440 Bluetooth that's pretty cool then you've got whatever is in here which I will 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:11.760 find out what it is for you okay we got 00:02:08.440 --> 00:02:14.200 a couple screws and then we got some uh 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 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 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 00:02:25.440 --> 00:02:30.400 thermal compound and a reasonable amount of it I'm really impressed to see that 00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:34.760 most mother man motherboard manufacturers don't get that 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 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:45.080 six 7 eight SATA cables uh four our 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 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:53.000 an IO Shield we've got some zip ties 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:56.720 we've got there oh this is good prob belt that's another feature it includes 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:59.879 so you've got little uh leads that you can plug into all of the voltage 00:02:58.519 --> 00:03:04.360 monitoring points on the motherboard board to make it easier to plug in your 00:03:01.519 --> 00:03:09.560 multimeter you've got their Q connector uh one crossfire bridge and then one 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:14.440 long SLI Bridge we've got some temperature sensors and last but not 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:20.519 least we have the Rampage Extreme users guide with some labels for the SATA 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:22.799 cables as well as uh the drivers and 00:03:20.519 --> 00:03:27.120 installation utilities DVD don't use that download the latest off D website 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:31.760 then we have a republic of Gamers sticker so let's get all that back in 00:03:29.519 --> 00:03:36.920 there and let's get the motherboard out so one thing that stands out to me 00:03:34.920 --> 00:03:42.959 right away about this motherboard is while EVGA and uh Gigabyte are tripping 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:48.879 over themselves and each other to release motherboards that are not a 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:52.840 standard ATX form factor ASUS has opted 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:55.480 to stick with the ATX uh 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:59.280 design for this particular board you can see they've gone a little bit wider so 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:04.720 it's more like an extended ATX than a standard ATX but they keep the standard 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:09.000 Seven slots rather than making the board longer at the bottom and I really like 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 00:04:11.239 --> 00:04:19.079 means it can fit in many more cases than these these non-standard boards it also 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 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 00:04:24.400 --> 00:04:31.479 components packed in there but even with this standard ATX board you still get 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:38.600 all the benefits of up to four-way Crossfire or four-way SLI these slots 00:04:34.919 --> 00:04:41.479 will run at 8X 8X 8X 8X and if you have 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:45.199 a case like the Corsair obsidian 800d that doesn't have an eighth slot but 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 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:53.880 here so you'll go two two two and two so 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 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 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 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:13.479 to say about it but they have included holes for 1366 as well as what appears 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 00:05:15.479 --> 00:05:21.479 guys with their liquid nitrogen pots won't have newer hard mounting hardware 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 00:05:24.919 --> 00:05:31.960 CPU connectors so that means that this through its digital pwm is able to pump 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:35.759 a lot of juice into your processor you've got to be going pretty far over 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 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 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 00:05:46.520 --> 00:05:54.400 on the back panel very convenient thank you assus for that then we've got our 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:56.120 support for up to uh six dims so that's 00:05:54.400 --> 00:06:01.720 triple Channel memory we have our onboard switches there's our start and 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:03.520 reset and then we have have oh boy okay 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 00:06:04.919 --> 00:06:11.479 these do they are onoff switches right here they are labeled switch one to 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:16.039 switch four very cool okay oh this is interesting there's a liquid nitrogen 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:19.759 mode up here and it appears to be the jumper right here so they've actually 00:06:17.520 --> 00:06:23.800 got a special liquid nitrogen profile for this board and I'm guessing what it 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:28.160 does is it controls the uh the timing of the electrical signals for if the board 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 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 00:06:36.960 --> 00:06:45.759 two SATA 6 gbit per second connectors here and rather yeah two SATA 6 gbit per 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:48.440 second and then six SATA 2 so SATA 3 GB 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:53.560 per second connectors here then we have the uh BIOS 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:58.520 switch right here we have one more SATA connector then we have our front panel 00:06:55.440 --> 00:07:01.000 connectors here are the two BIOS chips 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 00:07:02.520 --> 00:07:09.400 actually load one BIOS profile or the other one here's the plugin for their OC 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 00:07:10.919 --> 00:07:17.080 of your case for some Hardware overclocking next we've got and I like 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:22.960 this this motherboard has all four pin pwm fan connectors no Legacy thre pin 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 00:07:25.840 --> 00:07:33.199 counting here I got four I've got five 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 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:40.879 pretty cool next we have a Molex connector at the bottom so this is to 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:45.080 provide additional power there's actually two of them and I'm glad to see 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:49.159 this one in a very sensible location here because usually you see a lot of 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:51.919 bottom mounted power supplies these days and then there's one more up here so 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 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 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:04.360 as your BIOS uh battery and last but not 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:08.520 least we've actually got one more clear seimos jumper so you can do it the 00:08:06.520 --> 00:08:12.159 oldfashioned jumper way or you can hit either of the two switches up at the top 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 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:20.479 as well as the ic10 r Southbridge they 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 00:08:22.280 --> 00:08:30.560 cooling at them but if you yeah you know what that's basically 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:32.959 it if you want to ASUS has included an 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:38.080 extra heat sink which you can see straps in right where this this piece comes off 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 00:08:40.680 --> 00:08:46.680 throw an additional one on here and you can get that addition additional cooling 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 00:08:49.760 --> 00:08:55.080 know what the spacing actually looks right for Swift Tech's water block that 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:59.120 can mount here as well so it looks like Aus has continued their tradition with 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:03.399 their high-end Republic of Gamers Boards of allowing them to be water cooled with 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:07.399 a third party piece that's pretty neat as well and the cameraman is probably 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:11.240 having a look at the like black angular heat sink I really like their new style 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:14.640 and their Republic of Gamers boards have been typically black and red they've 00:09:12.680 --> 00:09:18.160 done an exceptional job of making this board look like something you'd really 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 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 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 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 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:38.760 all that often last but not least let's 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 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:46.920 we've got 1 2 3 4 5 six USB 2.0 ports 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 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 00:09:53.279 --> 00:10:00.959 it you hold this for 2 seconds and it flashes awesome next we have a clear 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:03.360 Simo switch here Optical audio out eat 00:10:00.959 --> 00:10:06.279 fire wire gigabit Ethernet this is you know what this is one of those things 00:10:04.640 --> 00:10:10.519 again I have to comment on I'm so sick of seeing gaming motherboards with like 00:10:08.560 --> 00:10:15.040 two or I've seen up to four Ethernet connections on the back why Gamers need 00:10:12.760 --> 00:10:22.760 one fast Ethernet connection that's all so that's uh yeah just random rant then 00:10:18.760 --> 00:10:24.800 we have two USB 3.0 ports as well as 7.1 00:10:22.760 --> 00:10:32.680 audio thank you for checking out my unboxing and product overview of the 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:35.680 much awaited ASUS Rampage 3 00:10:32.680 --> 00:10:35.680 extremee