ASUS Rampage V Extreme Review
Published by Hiwa Pouri on 12.09.14Conclusion
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| The Rampage V Extreme from ASUS is a product, which is close to perfection. For us it was astonishing to see how mature this board was already before the launch of the new Haswell-E platform. This is a fact that's generating a lot of trust. Of course the expectations towards ASUS flagship motherboard are high but in this case they definitely did not fail. There is simply an armada of features and extreme overclockers will be happy about some new toys, which are actually really practical and helpful. Usually when ASUS is launching a new high-end motherboard you can be rather sure, that it's going to be by far the most expensive board when compared to the competition. In the case of the Rampage V Extreme we find the price to be in line with the competition, especially considering the sheer number of features. | -
Design - Layout - Features |
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| Layout | + | - | |
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Basically the ASUS Rampage V Extreme's Layout has been very well structured and it's difficult to squeeze even more features, especially useful overclocking features, on an EATX motherboard. Once more practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the power- and reset-buttons. There is also a debug display which is very useful in case you should have issues with a component in your system or the board itself. Apart from that there is also a new safe boot as well as a retry onboard. Both these buttons will be useful if you choose to overclock or even extreme overclock your system. Also the placement of the PCI-Express x16 is very well chosen. There is a total of five full sized PCI Express slots and four of these slots support PCIe Gen 3.0, whereas there is one PCIe 2.0 slot. In this case it is possible to build a Quad SLI/CF setup without running into issues. Furthermore there are two SATA Express ports and there is also a M.2 slot, which features four lanes. In this case you get a lot of flexibility in choosing a powerful system drive and the fact, that the M.2 slot has been connected to the PCH via four lanes makes it possible to opt for a high performing M.2 SSD. |
- Angled SATA connectors
- 5 x Full-Size PCI Express x16 - Power/Reset-Button onboard - Debug display - Space around the CPU socket |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| A closer look at the performance of the Rampage V extreme shows, that in the overall 2D as well as 3D ranking we have a new leader. The board is actually capable of scoring first place in quite a lot of benchmarks we tested it in. On top of that we were surprised to see that this board offered this level of performance ahead of the launch date, which is anything but not normal. Usually there are a few BIOS updates after launch until you get something we'd like to call mature performance. On another note we had a look at power consumption and in this case we clearly see that we have a board here that has been equipped with many additional chips, which in the end means, that power consumption is high and energy efficiency is poor. | -
2D performance - 3D performance |
- Power consumption | |
| Overclocking / BIOS | + | - | |
| As you might have expected from ASUS you get an excellent BIOS which offers not only a boatload of tuning and tweaking options but is also very easy to use. Though ROG themed BIOS always comes with a touch that's a bit more technical it's still very well structured and it won't take long until one understands what's where. | - Clear arrangement - Sheer amount of options | ||
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| Should you be looking for a high-end overclocking motherboard, then the Rampage V Extreme is simply a great choice. Obviously you should have the necessary cash, since this board is no bargain. | -
Overclocking - Enthusiast - Gaming |
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| We give the ASUS Rampage V Extreme excellent 5 out of 5 stars. | |||
Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch
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