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ASUS Rampage III Extreme Intel X58 Motherboard Review
| Manufacturer: | ASUS |
| Product: | ASUS Rampage III Extreme |
| Date: | Wed, Sep 08, 2010 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Chris Morrell - |
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Air Aerated Assembly
For the first half of this article opted to use a beefy air-sink in order to give the overclocking section a fighting chance at being entertaining. Windows 7 32-bit was chosen to give a compromise between performance and stability and satisfying the restraining order filed against me by Vista. NVIDIA's ForceWare 258.96 drivers were used with the quality settings set to performance. MSI's AfterBurner was used to adjust GPU clocks while ASUS' ROG Connect was used to adjust CPU clocks and voltages. In all the benchmarks the overclocked runs were run straight through at the indicated clocks.
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Component |
Brand/Model |
Live Pricing |
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Processor |
Intel Core i7 980x |
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Motherboard |
ASUS Rampage III Extreme
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Memory |
Corsair Dominator GT DDR3-2000 C7 3x2GB
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Video Card |
EVGA GTX 480 1.5GB |
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Hard Drive |
Seagate 7200.10 320GB |
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Cooling |
Prolimatech Armageddon |
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Power Supply |
Corsair HX1000 |
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Operating System |
Windows 7 Professional 32-bit |
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Next Page - Air Aerated Aftermath
| Review Index |
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Page 1 - Rampaging Red REX Runs Rampant
Page 2 - Alluring Accessories Page 3 - Bloody Beautiful Board Bitmaps Page 4 - Bashful BIOS Page 5 - Air Aerated Assembly Page 6 - Air Aerated Aftermath Page 7 - Cryogenically Cooled Creature Page 8 - Cryogenically Cooled Conquest Page 9 - Maximizing Memory Page 10 - Supplementary Software Page 11 - Creative R3E Conclusion |
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