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by popular demand I can't believe how many people have asked me to unbox this the a sous rampage 3 Black Edition motherboard so this is part of their Republic of gamers brand this is an ex 58 that is an LGA 1366 motherboard supports core i7 extreme score sevens nvidia sli and ati crossfire i think they mean AMD crossfire but the badge has yet to be updated let's go around to the back where we will find a couple of things first there's an ROG Thunderbolt so that appears to be bad enough something's it looks like a sound card so we'll get a little bit into that looks like it has external power so that's gonna have a headphone amp on it we've got Bluetooth v 3.0 okay we've got ROG Connect which is their their overclocking feature which allows you to use another computer to plug into here and then alter overclocking settings as well as extreme engine digi+ which is their vrm solution alright everything else on here on the back is pretty straightforward so why don't we go ahead and have a look at what is presumably a window into the future of motherboards there's the Thunderbolt look at that powered by Oxnard I mean zonar sorry sorry umm so we'll look at that more later but let's have a look at what's in here so first of all we have a built-in headphone out aha sound greater yeah will sound greater with a headphone amp guarantee umm what it's what else do we have here ok so it looks like some sort of processing chip ok that's good we have a dedicated end PU so that's a killer e 2100 dedicate really is not a faulty 2100 Wow cool ok so there you go you got a PCIe 1x uh killer killer dick alright extreme engine DIGI+ ok analog and digital design elements combined for power ok ROG connect we've already covered that bluetooth 3.0 so the first and Wi-Fi enjoyment new technology lifestyle excellence free antivirus and that's pretty much Han so let's start opening this thing up I'm actually excited about this because I did not even know that this product existed until I had like 300 billion requests to unbox it all over my channel or my inbox I even had some guy email me it's like okay don't know you got my email but like thank you for requesting an unboxing in it I'll see what I can do okay here we are sooo lots of accessories look at this so we have a couple of Wi-Fi antennas I remember these I had one of these with my AAA 10:32 SLI deluxe I think that's around the time they started shipping these these Wi-Fi antennas with onboard Wi-Fi on their motherboards and they stopped doing it for a while all right we've got a USB USB 2.0 and eSATA PCI bracket got a little chipset fan which probably sounds horrible don't recommend using that in all likelihood okay we've got an extension cable for USB okay Oh or or on board or front panel audio maybe I don't know I don't know what this is for okay next we've got some SATA 3 cables which are exactly the same as the 6 SATA 2 cables so that's 2 SATA 3 6 SATA 2 cables except for the color okay we've got the ROG connect USB cable for all these back in here there we are we've got a 3-way SLI bridge we have a two-way SLI bridge we have a crossfire bridge ok we have their cute connector which is for the front panel connectors as well as one USB 2.0 header make it a little easier to plug in we've got some zip ties we have an i/o shield some temperature probes a user guide around page three blackish that's a heavy user guy that's like thick look at that okay and then we have a an Intel chipset and support DVD as well as a republic of gamers sticker throw away the DVD there mmm look at this audio precision test report Thunderbolt powered by our success disclaimer the information and contents contained in the something-something okay so basically they're just showing it's really good cool thanks guys okay then we got a big old case sticker and let's go ahead and put that back - all right motherboard time okay Thunderbolt why don't we do the Thunderbolt a little bit later actually give me two seconds here guys all right so if we're gonna have a look at the Thunderbolt powered by zone our first so this is a PCIe 1x combo card it includes not only the land port but also the zone our aspects which are the sound aspects of the very high-end land and sound solution that comes with this board so you've got a spit if out you've also got a line out and a line in okay moving around we've got a matte black PCB and you can see right on the back here you've got rampage 3 Black Edition as well as your serial number information all on there okay we've also got front audio out which is right here and at the back of the card we've got a USB connection which is evidently what that little USB extension cable was for and then we've also got a molex power connector so that is going to provide power to the amplified audio out port alright let's have a look at the motherboard itself so the first thing I notice about it three guesses guys matte black PCB love it anything with a matte black PCB could be in my system no problem because matte plaque PCBs look awesome next thing I notice about this board is it has a non-standard layout it is slightly wider than an ATX spec an ATX board would normally end right about here okay this one is just a little bit wide so you don't need additional mounting holes you don't need an e ATX case but you will need is a little bit more width on the edge of your mother or tray in order to install this board so you can see it's only one two three four five six seven in Lincoln in length or in height so its standard ATX height but it's a little bit bit wide alright so let's start at the CPU socket right in the middle because that's a good place to start as I mentioned before that is an LGA 1366 socket so that has full support for all the core i7 extremes core i7s on the LGA 1366 platform here we've got the PWM which includes a very very slick looking cooler okay so there you go there's some kind of NEC splash token talking tokine however you pronounce that chip here as well as eight phases of their digi+ PWM actually hold on bear with me a moment yes eight plus three phase power so what that means is we've got eight higher-quality phases as opposed to putting a ton of lower quality phases on this particular motherboard that is the root as Zeus has decided to go moving over here we've got support for triple channel memory up to six dims so it uses a Seuss's easy slots so that means you only have to actually fasten the clip on the one side you just slide it in to one side put it in and then you push the clip in like this we've got a post LED indicator so that'll give you post codes right there we have start and reset switches on board we've also got voltage check point all down here so we've got a couple grounds we've got CPU CPU PLL qpi io h io h PCIe IC h IC h PCIe and ram so that's actually more voltage check points than i've seen on I think any other board here are the PCIe 16x switches so you can actually use these to easily diagnose video cards this is this feature there have been times when I would have pretty much done anything for this feature because when you install don't turn the camera sideways like that when you install a couple of video cards in there and you know they got full cover liquid cooling blocks on them and you're trying to figure out okay you have a video problem is the is the bottom car dead the easiest way to find out would be to go like this turn off your top slot boom all of a sudden that's your primary PCIe slot now you can find out if that cards dead or if it's something else that's wrong with your system so it's great for for troubleshooting we've also got this button which is for making sure that the system will post 100% no problem with the any memory no matter what the spec is 24-pin power here we've got also a USB 3.0 front panel header so you can use that on any new case that supports a USB 3.0 USB 3.0 front ports via a header we've also got storage here so we've got 6 say 2 to 3 gigabit per second as well as to say 2 3 6 gigabit per second ports we've got a pretty sweet-looking Southbridge heatsink which has a sous branding on it it's got kind of a matte black finish the entire board almost as black other than a couple little red accents which look really good dual BIOS right here you can see we've got two dedicated BIOS chips a couple front USB ports oh yeah front panel switches as well as a BIOS clear switch right here there's a ton of 4 pin PWM fan connectors I'll count them in a minute but this just seems to be a ton on this board we've got a molex easy plug here so that's if you're loading this up with graphics cards you might need to provide some exhilarate our to prevent your 24 pin connector from burning out from providing all that juice all through the board oK we've got a front audio connector on the motherboard itself as well using X by two supreme effects so if you don't want to use the Thunderbolt card you still have pretty decent onboard audio which is kind of cool ok so that's your that's that you also have pretty decent onboard Ethernet so they're using the Intel Ethernet as opposed to a third-party chip for the onboard Ethernet as well if you don't want to use the killer 2100 that comes on the Thunderbolt card so let's have a look at what we've got yeah I promised to count the 4 pin PWM fan connectors l1 more other thing that I haven't shown yet to is it has two PCIe 8-pin connectors Oh PCIe - CPU EPS 8 pin connectors up here so you're going to need to access those from the top probably one of them is optional but providing both will give you potentially more current to the CPU sockets we've got one two three four just zoom out so you can see where these are four five six seven eight eight four pin pwm fan connectors all over this motherboard craziness oh yeah here's where that fan goes on the Northbridge heatsink so that's where I mentioned there was a red accent there so you can bolt that fan on there get a little bit of additional cooling if you are using water cooling or some other kind of cooling that doesn't provide any incidental airflow to the Northbridge hietzing all right so let's have a look at the back where we will find our bluetooth 3.0 as well as wireless LAN 802 one one b/g/n there's also another reset switch up here that's a very peculiar place for it alright and an additional one here kidding me oh yeah okay there's a clear CMOS switch there okay we've got one of those ps2 mouse keyboard combo ports we have one two three four five six USB 2.0 ports here on the back we have two USB 3.0 ports two eSATA ports we have our ROG connect button as well as the USB port for that the Intel n that I mentioned before as well as the creative x-fi to supreme FX sound that I mentioned before so this is a decked out motherboard there is no doubt about it we've also got some additional heatsink re going on on the back here for the PWM as well as the standard LGA 1366 backplate all of the heat sinks on the front are attached via screws which is nice because they can't come out like push pins also means if you need to take them off and put them back on you don't risk damaging the push pins making it impossible thank you for checking out my unboxing of the rampage 3 Black Edition from the soos don't forget to subscribe to Lions tech tips from our unboxing 3ds and other computer videos so I did have to Artyom for a couple of these things first of all there is an ln2 mode jumper over here and that Allah with the hue reset button over here which actually stops power to the CPU to allow you to recover from a non posting state when you are using liquid nitrogen is some of the extreme overclocking features that we have on this here particular board there's also a jumper for a load line calibration on the qpi okay we also have whoops we also clarified what this guy down here does this is a BIOS switch so you can actually switch between these two BIOS chips here on the board and I think that's pretty much all we wanted to cover here