ASUS Rampage IV Formula LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard. ASUS ROG Rampage IV Formula is formulated to provide the best gaming experience possible. This gaming board features the new Intel X79 chipset along with an exclusive audio and LAN gaming solution– the SupremeFX III and Intel Gigabit Ethernet with GameFirst technology, all designed to give you the fastest and most immersive gameplay ever. 4-way SLI and CrossFireX support in combination with the PCIe 3.0 capabilities boosts the graphics performance to a new level. Rampage IV Formula features the new Extreme Engine DIGI+ II with 10K Black Metallic Capacitors that enables you to push systems to their maximum, yet remains reliably stable to ensure you don’t miss any action when gaming. Another innovative feature is the X-Socket, which enables you to swap out the CPU bracket around a LGA2011 board with one that is designed for an LGA1366 cooler. Join in the Republic of Gamers and become the king in the battles.
 
Features:

• 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor family for the LGA 2011 Socket
• Intel® X79 Express Chipset
• SupremeFX III - Supreme Sound
• Extreme Engine Digi+ II – Optimum power efficiency with premium components and intelligent digital design
• X-Socket - Get more life out of your LGA1366 CPU coolers
• NVIDIA® SLI™ / AMD CrossFireX™ Technology Support
• USB BIOS Flashback - Easy, worry-free USB BIOS Flashback
• Windows 8 Ready – Assured Compatibility

Overview:

The Choice of Champions
The Republic of Gamers consists only the best of the best. We offer the best hardware engineering, the fastest performance, the most innovating ideas, and we welcome the best gamers to join in. In the Republic of Gamers, mercy rules are only for the weak, and bragging rights means everything. We believe in making statements and we excel in competitions. If your character matches our trait, then join the elite club, make your presence felt, in the Republic of Gamers.

Fast Boot
Instant OS Login. ASUS has released new hardware and software designs to shorten system boot-up time to 2-seconds* for a smoother user experience that removes annoying delays under Windows 8, and even previous versions of Windows. Faster system boot and restart means Windows starts quicker and higher efficiency - No more waiting around.

ASUS Boot Setting
Multi-startup Options. Thanks to ASUS Windows 8 hardware optimization, ASUS Boot Setting provides better flexibility in customizing your PCs startup process. You can enter the BIOS directly with one click through a user-friendly interface, and quickly select your preferred system boot up method: either get to the OS in seconds or opt for regular boot up. Whatever your choice, settings are saved and persistent, with no need to choose every time you power on.

LGA2011 Intel® Core™ i7
This motherboard supports the latest Intel® Sandy Bridge-E processors in the LGA2011 package, with memory and PCI Express controllers integrated to support 4-channel (4 DIMM) DDR3 memory and 16 PCI Express 3.0 lanes. This provides great graphics performance. Intel® Sandy Bridge-E processors are among the most powerful and energy efficient CPUs in the world.

Intel® X79 Chipset
The Intel® X79 Express Chipset is the latest single-chipset design that supports the new socket 2011 Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme Edition processors. It improves performance by utilizing serial point-to-point links, allowing for increased bandwidth and stability. Additionally, the X79 comes with 2 SATA 6Gb/s and 4 SATA 3Gb/s ports for faster data retrieval, doubling the bandwidth of current bus systems.

PCIe 3.0 Ready
The latest PCI Express bus standard delivers imporved encoding for twice the performance of current PCIe 2.0. Total bandwidth for a x16 link reaches a maximum of 32GB/s, double the 16GB/s of PCIe 2.0 (in x16 mode). PCIe 3.0 provides users unprecedented data speeds combined with the convenience and seamless transition offered by complete backward compatibility with PCIe1.0 and PCIe 2.0 devices. It is a must-have feature PC users aiming to improve and optimize graphics performance, as well as have the latest, most future-proof technology.

SLI/CrossFire On-Demand
Why choose when you can have both? SLI or CrossFireX? Fret no longer because with the ROG Rampage IV Formula you’ll be able to run both multi-GPU setups. The board features SLI/CrossFire on Demand technology, supporting up to four graphics cards in a 4-Way SLI or CrossFireX configuration. Whichever path you take, you can be assured of jaw-dropping graphics at a level previously unseen.

Quad-Channel, DDR3 2400(O.C.) MHz
The motherboard supports DDR3 memory that features data transfer rates of 2400(O.C.)/2133(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1600/1333 MHz MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the latest operation system, 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The quad-channel DDR3 architecture double the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system performance.

ROG Exclusive Features -Extreme Engine Digi+ II
Optimum power efficiency with premium components and intelligent digital design. The Extreme Engine Digi+ II has been upgraded and equipped with the finest Japan-made 10K Black metallic capacitors, while the digital VRM design allows you to achieve ultimate performance with adjustable CPU and memory power management frequencies. Precise adjustments create greater efficiency, stability, five times longer lifespan than solid capacitors* and performance for total system control. (*At operating temperature of 105°C)

ROG Connect
Plug and Overclock - Tweak it the hardcore way! Monitor the status of your desktop PC and tweak its parameters in real-time via a notebook—just like a race car engineer—with ROG Connect. ROG Connect links your main system to a notebook through a USB cable, allowing you to view real-time POST code and hardware status readouts on your notebook, as well as make on-the-fly parameter adjustments at a purely hardware level.

Specifications:

 

CPU Support List:

Core i7-3820 (3.6G,L3:10M,6C,HT,rev.M0)

Core i7-3820 (3.6G,L3:10M,6C,HT,rev.M1)

Core i7-3930K (3.2G,L3:12M,6C,HT,rev.C1)

Core i7-3930K (3.2G,L3:12M,6C,HT,rev.C2)

Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition(3.3G,L3:15M,6C,HT,rev.C1)

Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition(3.3G,L3:15M,6C,HT,rev.C2)

Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition(3.5G,L3:15M,6C,HT,150W,rev.C2)