Official Rampage IV Black Edition X79 Thread

[Nodens]

The LGA2011 socket is indeed standard. Any LGA2011 block will do.

[Nephelim]

I didn't mean use only nickel as material ofc. But have memoryblocks, chipset blocks that match the "full nickel version": http://www.ekwb.com/shop/blocks/cpu-...ll-nickel.html

Im a neatfreak and so far they have the clear cpu, plexi cpu and nickel cpu but only acetal and plexi memory / chipset. This does not match my gpu wich only exist in acetal / nickel (I should state thats what available to me and my config)

[cx-ray]

Nickel plating provides excellent corrosion protection. The problem lies in manufacturers cheapening out on their plating practices. Also, users should be aware of mixing metals with high electric potential differences.

[izzyreb02]

Well aneway, I'm glad they putting their attention to us Rampage Users.

I'm sure when we saw new VRM stuff on the Maximus VI, we prob like "hey wheres the love for us Rampage users to, with those cool features" :3 but now we got it xD

[Cuirassier]

I think that board is gonna be awesome (especially if they launch an armored one with a good quality Copper-Nickel CrossChill two or three weeks later, I don't mind about waiting for such a thing).
It would be great (also) if ek, Koolance or xspc craft an special edition watercooling kit for this board (with cpu block, chipset block, some good quality copper-nickel tubes, ram blocks and two gpu special edition blocks). I think that the price it's gonna be around 475US$ (or 530US$ for the armored one, if they release it) What do you think about this hypothesis. Please comment.
My Rig

Rampage IV Extreme, 4930k, 2x Raidr, 32gb Beast Hyperx, 2x780DCIIOC, Cosmos II, Xonar Phoebus, PQ321Q 31.5-Inch ASUS, Orion Pro Headset, CM Storm gaming pad, seasonic platinum 1000w, XSPC AX360 Triple Fan Radiator+XSPC AX240 Dual Fan Radiator, EKWB EK-Supreme HF - $100, Phobya Balancer 450 Reservoir - Silver Nickel, Nickel plated Copper tubing, 5x CM Turbine Mach 1.8, 2x PMP-500 Pump (Koolance).

[izzyreb02]

I just hope they make more stock, cause when we kinda had Dark EVA Motherboard in Stock in PCCaseGear. It Got sold out pretty quick all in one day.

[abvolt]

Anyone hear of what the retail cost of this board is going to be yet.

[Hatross]

our way... here in the west, $600 range with some retailers +/-$50

matx plz...

[DougG]

Board looks awesome. I am probably way in the minority of potential users here but I wish ASUS would quit wasting pcie lanes on whatever third party SATA controller they feel the need to throw on these boards and give us all 40 lanes from the CPU so we can do SLI or Crossfire and still have a 5th slot at x8 to run an actual RAID card. Again probably just me but when I shell out this kind of money to build a high end system I am not going to be satisfied with the in my opinion lame controllers that get built into these boards.

[Nodens]

Well if you don't go Quad SLI/Crossfire you should have no issue with that. I use dual SLI on my dev system with an LSI Megaraid card and I don't even use that slot. Now if you want to go Quad, you can always use the original RIVE.