Hardware Asus Rampage III Extreme Motherboard Review

How the hell can they charge so much for a motherboard. I remember buying the ix38 Asus Maximus Extreme at £195 and I thought that was over priced.
I refuse to by a motherboard for more than £200. Anything over that is not worth it as there are new Intel Socket 1567 coming out soon.
(Good old rip off Britain) You may have to add that extra 2.5% VAT increase to the price, if that goes ahead soon.
Time to move country!!

 

I love the heatsink design.

Bit odd that the 6Gbps ports are slower than the 3Gbps ports though..
And that it's notably slower in games

 

like the evga classified board.. it's meant to be abused by a monkey

 

How does it compare to the classy's, I wonder

 

Well, these boards emphasised for the extreme overclocker. Or better yet, I much prefer the term "bragging rights" rather than e-peen. If people do buy this, whether to overclock or not, it's only because they can! And I say this proudly as I'm only running a 920 at 4GHz stable on stock voltages under water. Way to go Asus!!

 

Eeek £330. Makes me feel smug about getting my Rampage II Extreme for £160. I don't feel so bad about it being superseded so soon after purchasing it.

 

Seeing that they make so much effort to make a fancy cooling design, it hurts to see three kinds op red on the motherboard. Really, for that price i expect nothing else but perfection. They should talk to DFI, they know how to work with colored themes.