I've talked to ASUS about that and I think it was Gary Key who said that it's at least being updated frequently now and getting better all the time. Which is true. It's had two or three updates since I started writing the R3BE article up to now.
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I've talked to ASUS about that and I think it was Gary Key who said that it's at least being updated frequently now and getting better all the time. Which is true. It's had two or three updates since I started writing the R3BE article up to now.
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It's getting better but that's a relative baseline to reference, starting from garbage. The whole killer line is sold on the promise of higher fps, better pings and all the other marketing hocus pocus you can type, yet it's pretty much universally worse then an Intel NIC across the board.
Again, I wouldn't care on a bargain board with some stupid fatality sticker on it, but this is the cream of the ASUS crop, it (killer NIC) just looks so out of place ;\
I can forgive it for being one sexy as hell board though~
Again, I wouldn't care on a bargain board with some stupid fatality sticker on it, but this is the cream of the ASUS crop, it (killer NIC) just looks so out of place ;\
I can forgive it for being one sexy as hell board though~
Unless the killer nic does what it's supposed to I think the non-black edition
of the rampage iii extreme is a better buy.
I was hoping to get one of these motherboards but not now after reading about
the disappointing performance of the killer nic.
Oh well great review as always and this time you guys saved me some money.
of the rampage iii extreme is a better buy.
I was hoping to get one of these motherboards but not now after reading about
the disappointing performance of the killer nic.
Oh well great review as always and this time you guys saved me some money.
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I'm a Bigfoot Networks (BN) enthusiast: my previous machine had their relatively cheap Killer K1 card and my current machine, with a Gigabyte G1 Assassin motherboard, came with an embedded e2100 chip. Though the network management software for the latter is a bit daunting, I've nothing except praise and satisfaction with both models. I respect the opinions of critics who dismiss BN products as overpriced gimmicks, but they are simply not shared by me after 2.5 years of firsthand experience with the card and chip. I can't wait to see what technological innovations BN designs down the road.
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me too, I use that but not the Lan myself....
I haven't tested the SSD 510 so I couldn't say but it seems reasonable that a drive based around a Marvel controller would work best with the Marvell storage controller integrated into a motherboard.
Eh ? Seems like in the review of that, it was decent except for price, and overclocking, even after various updates ? Unless i'm missing a followup to the followup of a followup
Forget the review. The real problem with that board reared it's ugly head long after the fact. The Striker Extreme was based on the NVIDIA 680i SLI chipset. It was therefore plagued by the same problems the reference 680i SLI boards were. Voltage regulation was better but memory compatibility was worse. There were other issues as well but I won't get into all that here. It's the only ROG board I haven't liked. And again I only hated it after living with it for some time.
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All the benchmarks were run with the 990X and different DDR3 RAM. The overclocking was done with the Core i7 920 which was really to see what BCLK's you can get out of it. Nothing more. Memory speeds don't really matter that much. The board will go past DDR3 2000MHz speeds. This is fairly well known.
I'm running a 980X on mine. I'm sure I can answer just about any question you might have with regard to that. Though I'm using the cheap RAM on mine too.
If it's like any of its other Asus ROG Rampage brethren, it'll have no problems pushing the Gulftowns. Hell, I can push my 980x on the Rampage III Formula to 4.4 ghz on air cooling with ease. I'm sure the BE is just as good and then some.
THE dreaded Striker struck me too - so frustrating i gave mine away in the end, could'nt ask money for such a letdown...
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Yeah that was a bad board.. whats so funny is my future brother in law has one in his rig and he has had 0 issues....
Sleep mode worked fine for me at stock speeds. Overclocked I never tried it. Overclocking usually kills that feature.
I got this board a few months ago to pair with my 990X and 24GB of RAM. Very pleased to see HardOCP reviewed it. Given the age of the platform, the board hasn't really had much coverage around the web.
There really is only one way to sum this board up: It's built on the pinnacle of platform maturity, it's impressively refined, and it makes other bells-and-whistles board look cheap. Who cares if it's practical or how many niches it fills -- it's the Bugatti Veyron of motherboards.
There really is only one way to sum this board up:
It's built on the pinnacle of platform maturity, it's impressively refined, and it makes other bells-and-whistles board look cheap. Who cares if it's practical or how many niches it fills -- it's the Bugatti Veyron of motherboards.I got this board a few months ago to pair with my 990X and 24GB of RAM. Very pleased to see HardOCP reviewed it. Given the age of the platform, the board hasn't really had much coverage around the web.
There really is only one way to sum this board up:
I'd be surprised if we reviewed any more X58 boards at this point. I'm surprised we did this one. Though I'm glad we did. It was a good experience.
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I got this board a few months ago to pair with my 990X and 24GB of RAM. Very pleased to see HardOCP reviewed it. Given the age of the platform, the board hasn't really had much coverage around the web.
There really is only one way to sum this board up:
I agree overall a solid board.. Despite socket 1366 is dead, it still will have life for at least another year or so...
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I like the motherboard's design and color, but I don't really know if I can justify dropping more than I did for my 3GB GTX 580 on a motherboard ... especially when my wife hasn't told me what price range I have for my new PC
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mike you going x79 socket 2011? drool btw on the 3GB 580, i think two of the 3GBs in sli is probably teh sweetspot for gaming.
I like the motherboard's design and color, but I don't really know if I can justify dropping more than I did for my 3GB GTX 580 on a motherboard ... especially when my wife hasn't told me what price range I have for my new PC
Your wife shouldn't be making that determination as long as you have a job and make your own money.
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Probably not, I'm currently looking at Sandy Bridge and X58 as the two possible routes for my new PC, unless a good enthusiast board shows up in September
. I'm leaning towards Sandy Bridge at the moment though, although I may just end up going X58 because of my budget (I've got a $2000-$2500 budget in mind, and I'm planning on keeping the GTX 580 for use in the new PC). I'm inclined to agree Dan, but with the limited income I do receive on a monthly basis outside of my refunded loan and grant money I get at the beginning of every semester, I pay my share of the bills with. Plus we only have one vehicle and we're trying to save for another. She hates saying no to me, but with us studying in two separate fields, there will come a time when that second vehicle is necessary. Oh well, that's the breaks I suppose.
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Are you married Dan? lol!
Sorry to go OT, but you posted it. If you're married, money is community, there is no more yours and mine, unless you set the ground rules at the beginning. Most of the time, for purchases more then a couple hundred or so, the spouse gets to have input.
Still a sweet board. If I hit the lottery I'd buy one
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better to have a reasonable system and a happy wife than the top of the top of the line and be broke and have a mad wife
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Are you married Dan? lol!
Sorry to go OT, but you posted it. If you're married, money is community, there is no more yours and mine, unless you set the ground rules at the beginning. Most of the time, for purchases more then a couple hundred or so, the spouse gets to have input.
Still a sweet board. If I hit the lottery I'd buy one
Pfft, I have lived quite happily with the way I spent my money for the past 4 years. I'll be damned if marriage changes the way I spend my income. Now with kids, that's a different story.
Are you married Dan? lol!
Sorry to go OT, but you posted it. If you're married, money is community, there is no more yours and mine, unless you set the ground rules at the beginning. Most of the time, for purchases more then a couple hundred or so, the spouse gets to have input.
Still a sweet board. If I hit the lottery I'd buy one
Hell no. So far I've been smart enough to avoid that trap.
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So are you married or not? As I said, most marriages treat income as shared, but not all.
Hell no. So far I've been smart enough to avoid that trap.
Lucky you. I'm going through a divorce after 11 years and it's no fun...
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Foolish ones yes, you see alot less shared income marriages now a days. I for one will not be sharing my income. I will gladly pay my share of the utilities and insurance but putting together bank accounts is a no no for me.
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I guess the traditional marriage is dying away, so I guess this sort of thing changing makes sense. My wife and I shared all of our accounts and had our divorce been ugly, it would have been hard. Luckily our split was amicable, so there weren't any issues. I guess I'm conservative enough I don't understand the "my money, her money" concept in marriage, but I guess that's just me.
One other reason to keep separate accounts is for redundancy. Mainly in case someone gains access to your accounts. If they do so, then they'll only get your account(s) and not your spouse's accounts. This happened to a friend of mine who was doing well and had a decent amount in his checking's and savings. His wife fell for some phishing scam and they lost everything over night. They got all the money back eventually, but for several days they had a real difficult time having zero cash on hand or in the bank.
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That makes a lot of sense.
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