Special Features; Product Highlights - Asus RAMPAGE IV EXTREME User Manual

1.3

Special features

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Product highlights

Republic of Gamers
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.
LGA2011 Intel
®
This motherboard supports the latest Intel
package, with memory and PCI Express controllers integrated to support 4-channel (8 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 Express Chipset
®
The Intel ® X79 Express Chipset is the latest single-chipset design that supports the
2nd Generation Intel
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 improved 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 PCIe 1.0 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.
* This motherboard is ready to support PCIe 3.0 SPEC. Functions will be available when using PCIe 3.0-compliant
devices. Please refer to www.asus.com for updated details.
SLI/CrossFire On-Demand
Why choose when you can have both?
SLI or CrossFireX? Fret no longer because with the ROG RAMPAGE IV EXTREME, you'll
be able to run both multi-GPU setups. The board features SLI/CrossFireX on Demand
technology, supporting 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.)/2133(O.C.)/1866 support
The motherboard supports DDR3 memory that features data transfer rates of 1333/1066 MHz
to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet
applications. The quad-channel DDR3 architecture enlarges the bandwidth of your system
memory to boost system performance.
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Sandy Bridge-E Processor
®
®
Core™ i7 Processor Family for the LGA 2011 Socket. It improves
Sandy Bridge-E processors in the LGA2011
Chapter 1: Product Introduction