![]() ![]() We'll try to find out more about this board in the coming days.ĪSUS Rampage IV Extreme review - 12:39 PM In fact the slide detailing it had its picture blurred, and used the wrong picture for Rampage IV Formula picture. Expect the ASUS Rampage IV Formula to have a sweet price.ĪSUS announced Rampage IV Gene to its internal partners (and not to the general public), it is a micro-ATX motherboard for the LGA2011 platform, though it didn't talk about it much. XSocket is a unique CPU socket retention clip custom-made by ASUS, which lets you use any socket LGA1366-supporting cooler or water-block on the LGA2011 socket. ROG exclusives include a feature-rich ROG UEFI firmware setup program, TweakIT, ProbeIT, LN2-safe mode, Voltiminder, onboard OC switches, ROG Connect, ROG Flashback, ROG Gamefirst, and XSocket. Here, you will also find ROG connect and CMOS clear switches (can be disabled), and a BIOS flashback button that helps the UEFI BIOS recover from bad settings/flashes. A bunch of USB 2.0 and PS/2 combo make for the rest of the rear panel. There are six USB 3.0 ports, four on the rear panel, two via header. There is one Ethernet connection, driven by an Intel-made controller. As a neat cosmetic touch, ASUS used its PCB printer to lay a fiber-optic trace like a wire on the topmost PCB layer, at one of its ends is a blood-red LED, this wire ends up looking a a groovy red line connecting the CODEC to the audio jack cluster and front-panel HDA header, and a glowing ROG "eye" logo. At the analog output cluster, the audio jacks are gold-plated. The circuit consists of a 1500 uF capacitor that works to dampen EMI noises, the CODEC chip is covered with an EMI shield, and the area where the CODEC is located is electrically isolated from the rest of the board. It combines a new conventional high signal-noise ratio (high-quality/fidelity) HD Audio CODEC (probably ALC898), with an active circuit that works to eliminate EMI noises commonly found on motherboards. The board features what's called ASUS SupremeFX III. Storage connectivity includes four SATA 3 Gb/s (black), four SATA 6 Gb/s (red, two from the PCH, two from third-party controller), and two eSATA 6 Gb/s (also from a third-party controller).ĪSUS deployed a new audio solution on this board, putting its experience with audiophile-grade sound cards to 'sound' use. Apart from these long slots, there are two PCI-E 2.0 x1. It is wired to four PCI-Express 3.0 (capable) x16 slots, among which two are PCI-Express 3.0 x16 capable, and all four are x8 capable, depending on the way they are populated with addon cards. The CPU is powered by a 11-phase Digi+ VRM. Unlike the Extreme, Formula has just four DDR3 DIMM slots (one slot per memory channel), yet it supports all the DRAM multipliers Extreme does. Pictures reveal the board to be standard ATX. Press shots and presentation slides of the Rampage IV Formula started making waves today. Is there any source on asus.The ASUS ROG Rampage IV Formula and Rampage IV Gene will be releases soon as well, as TPU reported today: Extreme is only advised when high multipliers are at fixed values without speedstep or c state options enabled. Optimized - Will offer phase switching in fine increments relative to phase count (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 etc) This setting is advised up to 4.8GHz and matches well when speedstep and other active c states are enabled.Įxtreme - Will offer the maximum performance and power delivery but will yield the most heat. ![]() Standard - Will default to normal Intel phase switching policy 1 to 4 phases. This is important to consider when defaulting to a consistently higher frequency and not using PerCore overclocking or using a multiplier above 47x. Values such as Standard, Optimize or Extreme will providing superior power delivery (while producing more heat) when light to moderate loading is present. ASUS phase switching implementation by default will initialize and load all phases automatically when under high/100% load. ASUSs descriptions of the CPU Power Phase Control modes are pretty vague, but I found this:ĬPU Power Phase Control - This setting will impact power draw at idle and mid load states. I was manitoring core temperatures for the whole Prime95 run and the cores were at maximum between 54 ☌ and 59 ☌ hot. I've changed CPU Power Phase Control to 'Optimized' and Prime95 would run without problems for 20 hours (I think 20 hours is enough to say the system is stable). I expected a problem with RAM, but after 40 hours of memtesting there were no errors. With 'Standard' CPU Power Phase Control at least two Prime95 workers (In-place large FFTs - maximum heat/power consumption) would fail after about 30 minutes. ![]() BIOS is loaded with "Optimized Defaults". I have an R4F with i7-3820 (with a Noctua NH-D14 cooler) and 4x8GB RAM.
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