gentlemen start your
engine right so today we have the Rampage 2 extreme motherboard from ASUS
and the features of this board as outlined by the back of the box are
support for Intel's new nalum core i7 CPUs up to 12 GB of DDR3 memory and
triple Channel yeah whatever if you wanted to look up the specs you could
look online so basically we're going to talk a little bit about the slot layout
basically one of this board has one of the best regarded slot layouts out of
all the x58 boards you can put in one two
and just to prove that I can count
three video cards a tri video card
configuration it supports both Tri SLI and tri Crossfire and you still will
have one PCI Express slot way up at the top for the onboard Supreme
FX sound there you go that's what the back of your system will look like if
you are unsmart like me and you've managed to plug in three different video
cards and a sound
card included with the Rampage 2 extreme is the The Usual Suspects as far as
accessories goes cables adapters all that kind of stuff but it does come with
some cool stuff there's the LCD poster which will basically tell you on an LCD
if the system posted or not and why these are really cool these are probit
is what it ASUS is calling it but essentially it hooks up to any one of
these contacts on the side of the board and you can use your digital multim to
find out the exact voltages being fed to components these are some temp probes
and then this is kind of cool you've got a flexible SLI Bridge so that means that
you can either use the two slots that are closer to each other for SLI or the
two that are further apart that means that you can decide whether you want an
extra PCI Express or an extra PCI slot as your extra and then there's also the
new supreme effects xfi Edition it seems like they'll put an xfi logo on pretty
much anything these days and your IO panel and that's about all for
interesting access series