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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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Cryogenically Cooled Creature
For the second portion of this review I ditched the Prolimatech Armageddon in favor of my K|ngp|n Cooling F1EE and liquid nitrogen. The board was insulated with toilet paper and unfortunately my thermometer was damaged coming back from QuakeCon so I benched without a thermometer. This limited me to dual-channel benching since this particular chip will crash due to cold aka coldbug in triple channel at -145 Celsius and colder. There were also a few other changes in hardware including a switch to Corsair GTX3 memory modules and a switch from the Corsair HX1000 to an Antec TruePower 1200w OC Edition. The same CPU, GPU, and motherboard were used from the air-cooled segment. Temperatures were kept somewhere in the -150 Celsius to -196 Celsius range.
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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 GTX 3 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 |
K|ngp|n Cooling F1EE |
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Power Supply |
Antec TruePower 1200w Quattro |
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Operating System |
Windows 7 Professional 32-bit |
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Next Page - Cryogenically Cooled Conquest
| 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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