Asus Rampage IV Extreme

My first foray into the Rampage series has been a positive one. The red and black theme goes great with the board and everything feels high quality. This is an awesome board, there are a ton of BIOS settings regarding timings, voltages, etc. These help fine-tune your overclock. I was able to get i7 3820 to 5.0Ghz without even breaking a sweat on the board. You can also use the OC profiles which get you to a respectable speed. There's also the OC key to help you change your settings in Windows and the ROG connect allows you to do so on a different computer. You can also the AI Suite to monitor and change you settings in Windows.

The Start and Reset buttons on the board are very useful when you don't have your board in a case. LEDs on the board are informative, like the ones that light up to let you know if the board is on and how many GPUs you got plugged in. Error codes are displayed on an LCD on the board and help make troubleshooting easy.

There's a bunch of connectivity on this board which I won't name here :, but things I liked include Bluetooth and the USB 3.0. Though for a board of this price they should also give you a WI-fi adapter and a sound card. People have said the the PCH fan is loud, but you can turn it down in the BIOS.

I highly recommend this board if you want to overclock like mad, or do LN2 .

This is the best MoBo I've ever had, actually. I've previously owned about 5 other MoBos, but none of them let me overclock as much as this. Hell, with my Foxconn Flaming Blade MoBo I coudln't even overclock anything!

This is a board MEANT for Overclockers. Well, overclockers and people like me who want it all, who aren't happy with anything BUT the best. It's even got native support for L2N and the MoBo even allows you to put sensors on your MoBo that allow you to measure temps BELOW zero.

Lots of USB ports, both USB2.0 as well as USB3.0 and both internally as externally. Lots of SATA connections too, which I find good and useful. The more, the merrier.

It's an E-ATX MoBo, but it fits nicely within my Cosmos II and the Corsair H100.

It's sooooo easy to OC with this MoBo and you don't even need brains for it. Just select a pre-built in profile and you'll be fine, an easy OC to 4.4GHz or more.

The MoBo also looks gorgeous with its nice black&red theme, and will fit nicely when I finally get my WC loop setup (should arrive any day now) cuz now my whole computer will look black and red.

The OC key is also a nice feature as it allows you to change your OC settings while in Windows!

The MoBo also supports Quad SLI&CrossFireX, which I find awesome.


Of course, all those goodies have their price, and in the case of the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme, that is a steep one at 400+- $.
Also, the Chipset fan is really loud, louder even than my ASUS Radeon HD7970, CPU and H100 on full blowing power! Of course, disabling the PCH fan completely silences it and causes no harm.