BIOS

Before any analysis of BIOS we should mention that this BIOS is, traditionally for ASUS, signed by AMI. As we expected from an ROG motherboard, BIOS is packed with options and features for fine tuning. Extreme Tweaker offers really extreme tweaking options for all vital components. As it is already seen on its older brother (Rampage II Extreme), GENE model can also raise voltage to insane values, or if you like it that way – to values that can fry almost any component. All options that are standard for ROG motherboards are present in GENE BIOS but there is one very interesting option: user can now disable all additional components with one option instead every component apart.

During our tests this motherboard performed perfectly and as evidence there are results. We didn’t encounter any problem and power unit has performed brilliantly. We have only one recommendation: chipset needs active cooling (fan) because it can get pretty hot especially if you have water cooling solution for your CPU.

Test Configuration: Intel Core i7 Extreme 965, OCZ DDR3-1333 6GB, ATI Radeon HD4870x2