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ASUS R.O.G. Rampage Extreme reaches 710MHz FSB and 2516MHz memory frequency |
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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.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.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.
