April 9 2011 review by ocaholic

This mainboard for hardware enthusiasts and overclockers is a very good overall performer, has a well balanced layout, great looks and comes with loads of features. Overclocking with a 225 MHz BCLK even gets the memory to its limit. The price is a bit high though.

Compared To:

Asus P6T6 WS Revolution, Asus Rampage III Extreme, Gigabyte X58A-UD9, MSI Big Bang XPower.

Overclocking:

An Intel Core i7 980 X was OCed @ 4.39GHz.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2006, 3D Mark Vantage, Crysis, Resident Evil V, Sisoft Sandra, Street Fighter IV, SuperPi, wPrime.

Test Setup:

• CPU : Intel Core i7 980 X
• HDD : Samsung Spinpoint F1 320 GB
• Mainboard : ASUS Rampage III ROG BE
• PSU : Antec 1200 Watt
• RAM : 3 GB Kingston DDR3 2000MHz
• Video card : ASUS ATI Radeon HD5850