Asus X48 Rampage Extreme Motherboard Review

Test Setup

For the stock tests the Rampage Extreme was used with the 502 BIOS. The E8400 was left at stock speeds while the Corsair PC3-14400C7 Dominators were set to 6-6-6-18-1T. It’s important to note that 1T Command rate because it resulted in a huge performance boost and was the default setting. The 8800GT was left at stock speeds and the 175.19 Nvidia drivers were used. Vista Ultimate 64-bit was used with Service Pack 1 integrated. For the overclocking tests an E8600 were used while the DDR3 was relaxed to 9-9-9-27-2T timings.

Intel Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo E8400	Click Here
Motherboard	Asus Rampage Extreme	Click Here
Memory	Corsair 2x1GB PC3-14400C7 Dominators	Click Here
Video Card	Gigabyte 8800GT 512MB	Click Here
Hard Drive	Seagate 7200.10 320GB	Click Here
Cooling	QX9650 Box Cooler	Click Here
Power Supply	Corsair HX1000	Click Here
Operating System	Windows Vista Ultimate	Click Here