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the rampage 3 Jean is basically like the rampage 3 extreme but in a micro ATX form factor ok that's it I'm done the video I'm just gonna knock off for lunch so thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech didn't know okay so the rampage 3 Jean this isn't it LGA 1366 motherboard it supports cry 7 extreme core i7 processors on LGA 1366 it's SLI and CrossFireX ready it's Windows 7 ready it has a bunch of a soos Republic of gamers features including ROG connect so that means you can hook it up to another PC tweak a bunch of hardware settings that way it has Pro belt which is your voltage readout points it has CPU level up which is a one-button overclocking method which you probably aren't going to be using if you're buying a rampage board it has a game first which is a land priority excuse me land priority application so you can actually set it so that your incoming and outgoing packets are prioritized to either games media streaming VoIP or file-sharing and you've got nice high-end onboard audio which includes this Kaspersky antivirus apparently as well so let's have a look at the included bundle accessories first and then we will have a look at the board I really like the look of a Seuss's rampage series boards these days they look just amazing ok so the first thing we've got is an i/o shield next we have some cable ties for managing your wires we've got an SLI bridge there front panel connector software software helper blocks so these enable you to connect all your front panels buttons to this and then plug the whole thing into the board you've got a USB cable for the ROG connect you've got one two three actually I'm sorry there are two SATA 6 gigabits per second cables and then 6 SATA 3 gigabit per second cables then we have the user's guide which includes a driver DVD as don't use this as well as a Republic of gamers sticker and some labels for your SATA cables so that you can see which one goes to which drive very easily they have one of these side window cakes sticker things I don't think I've ever seen anyone put one of those on the side of their case before but there's a first time for everything if you have one of those on the side of your case please take a video of your computer and set it as a video response to this video I'm sure that everyone would be interested to see what your case looks like with that thing on it all right here we go so let's start in the middle we've got our LGA 1366 socket and with what appears to be eight phase power so that means I mean that's about as good as it gets for a micro ATX form factor you have a lot less PCB to work with and given that we're seeing so many manufacturers moving towards larger than ATX size boards you can imagine there's a lot of electrical routing that needs to go on with these high-end board designs these days we've got six ddr3 slots and you can see that it's got the clips on the one side and no clips on the other side so these are those easy insert style slots they support triple channel memory here is the onboard battery for the CMOS okay that stores all your your BIOS settings so you take that out it'll lose the BIOS settings you got your 24-pin power and it's ideal location on the right-hand edge and then you've got an 8 pin power in it's ideal location up at the top left you only have to plug in 4 but I would recommend using 8 especially if you're running any overclocks next you've got to say - 6 gigabit per second ports as well as 6 SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports here is the IR og that's their their chip for all of the Republic of gamers overclocking features here's your South Bridge so that's covered by a very cool-looking heatsink and then the North Bridge is also covered by similarly styled heatsink I really like what assist is doing with their heatsink designs where they're going after practicality in terms of putting fins and heat pipes and everything on them but they also have a very very different angular look to them these days I really think it looks pretty cool and this is probably a more practical design right here just the straight fins with a heat pipe through it but that's going to be doing a lot of the cooling not only for the voltage to the arm for the power delivery for the CPU but also for the North Bridge because they are connected by that heat pipe down at the bottom of the board we have one PCI slot which is probably one to many for a board like this but lots of people still do have PCI peripherals that they need to plug in we've also got two PCIe 16x slots these will run at full 16x and then we have one PCIe 4x slots so if you're using two dual slot graphics cards you will not be able to install any additional cards in this motherboard it's just a limitation of micro ATX we've got on board start and reset buttons as well as a couple of USB 2.0 front panel headers as well as a firewire front panel header moving around to here we have the back panel connections so we have our ps2 keyboard port we have one two three four five six USB 2.0 ports a CMOS Clear button and it's absolutely ideal my favoritest place on the back panel of the motherboard we have optical audio out firewire Gigabit Ethernet rog connect button and port two USB 3.0 ports and what appeared to be gold-plated 7.1 audio ports thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the assuit rampage 3 extreme