We managed to score some detailed information on ASUS coming monster motherboard R.O.G. Rampage Extreme a while back. The board is extreme in almost every way imaginable and the target consumer is the truly extreme users. ASUS was close to canceling the board simply because it wouldn’t return the R&D costs. Even though it has decided to keep developing the board we seriously doubt that it will get all of its money back. On the other hand, the board may very well be a real attention grabber and positive in many other ways for ASUS. We’ve gotten a hold of some of ASUS’ own tests and the results are the least to say impressive.
ASUS engineers have installed an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor on the R.O.G. Rampage Extreme and used liquid nitrogen to break some overclocking records. First of all they managed to reach a processor bus of 703.98MHz with both cores active. With one core deactivated they reached a bus speed of 710MHz, which is one of the highest bus frequencies we’ve ever seen.
E8400 with both cores active at 703.98MHz FSB
E8400 with single core active at 710MHz FSB
As if this wasn’t enough, they decided to test the motherboard’s memory overclocking capabilities. With a single DDR3 memory module from OCZ (we’re not sure exactly which) they managed to reach a terrifying frequency of 2516MHz, which is as far as we know a world record.
Single OCZ DDR3 at 2516MHz
These tests were done two weeks ago which means that ASUS has come a long way with its future flagship motherboard. The first boards should appear in early August and if they are of the same quality as this one, ASUS has raised the bar for what defines an extreme motherboard. Let’s just hope that the rest follows.
Picture from ASUS’ own tests
