News - ASUS tackles the high-end mATX market with Rampage II GENE
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Supports Intel's Core i7, has six triple-channel DIMM slots, and a pair of PCIe x16 slots to play with.
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Re: News - ASUS tackles the high-end mATX market with Rampage II GENE
What an awesome board - all the best bits of X58, crammed into mATX? I'm really impressed!
Re: News - ASUS tackles the high-end mATX market with Rampage II GENE
Tis impressive however if you are running SLI with dual slot cards you have no room for a soundcard :( Bit of a shame but there isnt anything they could really do i suppose
Re: News - ASUS tackles the high-end mATX market with Rampage II GENE
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Biscuit
Tis impressive however if you are running SLI with dual slot cards you have no room for a soundcard :( Bit of a shame but there isnt anything they could really do i suppose
This board has the supreme X-Fi built into the motherboard. It's the chip bottom left of the board.
Re: News - ASUS tackles the high-end mATX market with Rampage II GENE
That is one SWEET board.
I'm surprised ASUS haven't integrated their own Xonar card on to their own motherboard, instead ASUS uses a chip from their fiercest soundcard rival, then again ASUS doesn't manufacture their own sound chips. I really hope that Supreme X-Fi is the real EMU20K deal and not the CA0106 crap, makes the onboard X-Fi a bit redundant.
EDIT: Just looked at spec, only does EAX4 i.e. no EAX5. Looks like it is the CA0106 :confused:
Re: News - ASUS tackles the high-end mATX market with Rampage II GENE
Il never use a creative sound card after my emu1212 and XFI extreme audio ever again...
Re: News - ASUS tackles the high-end mATX market with Rampage II GENE
This board looks seriously interesting. I know I'm not the first to say this, but the "I wonder how much it'll cost?" question lingers.
If it was as expensive as other x58 mobos, it'd be a very, very expensive mATX mobo.
Re: News - ASUS tackles the high-end mATX market with Rampage II GENE
They're more niche than other X58 boards, so I wouldn't be surprised if they cost even more to be honest. Top of the range enthusiast boards in an mATX format and all those features will not be cheap.
Re: News - ASUS tackles the high-end mATX market with Rampage II GENE
Seen some prices on this.
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=a...tf-8&scoring=p currently shows one seller (Kikatek) listing it at £198, whereas other (better-known (to me anyway)) sellers list at around £215.
Scan (who I'd prefer to buy from if I was in the immediate market) says "Call". Does that mean they are bored and want to chat? (Joke.)
Re: News - ASUS tackles the high-end mATX market with Rampage II GENE
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Originally Posted by
baius
Seen some prices on this.
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=a...tf-8&scoring=p currently shows one seller (Kikatek) listing it at £198, whereas other (better-known (to me anyway)) sellers list at around £215.
Scan (who I'd prefer to buy from if I was in the immediate market) says "Call". Does that mean they are bored and want to chat? (Joke.)
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