News - ASUS teases Rampage III Extreme X58 motherboard

[HEXUS]

Looking for something special to go with your Intel Core i7 980X processor? This could be it.

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[Chris_H]

This board doesn't use an NF200 chip, the 4 PCIe 16x slots are 16x-nc-16x-nc or 8x-8x-8x-8x, or similar. Early versions of the board did have a PLX bridge chip, but that doesn't seem to be on the final production version. Presumably both the USB3 and SATA 6G contollers each use a 1x PCIe 2.0 lane, and the PCIe 4x slot comes from the southbridge. They've also dropped the Marvell NIC in favour of an Intel one.

[iggy]

lovin the razzle dazzle colour scheme.