Hey,

I for one had many problems when the board came out. Stability problems, compatibility problems, Boot sequence problems (lot of those). But now, this board is rock solid. I can throw a lot of stuff at it and it'll take it. I'm still recommending this board over any other when people ask me about which one they should buy.

Max

Honestly, when I ordered the board I already had the intention to tinker with it, so my expectation was an enthusiast board - and that expectation was totally fulfilled.
Granted early efis had some stability issues when it comes to plug&play, but plug&play was never what I took the board for - imao there are better boards to work with like the WS ones.

Of course I also had my problems and wanted them resolved, but most of the time all I had to do was playing with all the settings and what not - I never was angry.

I guess it's the less experienced users that go "oh woah an expensive mobo with rog branding - must be goooooood" *sometimelater* "THIS BOARD IS **** IT AIN'T RECOGNIZE ANYTHING ON AUTO AND WON'T DO 5GHZ OUT OF THE BOX!!!!!"
What I wanted to say is: It all comes down to what you expect and what you actually do.

I also talked a friend out of getting this board (and instead go for skylake) because he saw my build and what is possible with this motherboard.
As I knew he is not an _entusiast_ and doesn't even know/is interested in/wants to overclock and simply would've been overwhelmed by this board (an hypothesis which proofed to be right later on ;)); and still it does not change that fact that I think that this is a fantastic mobo.

TL;DR: Best board I ever got.

I got my R5E when it first came out. It's still going strong! 😛

I also picked up the RVE went it first came out. I've been happy with it since day 1. Then again, it's likely I had the right expectations. I've been overclocking for many years and I know to expect some tinkering and tuning when going with this type of board. Same can be said with my RIVE which now resides in my son's rig. To be honest overclocking is now almost too easy and folks don't want to work for it like it used to be in the old days. Everyone wants plug n play.

A testament to the positive experience I've had with both the RVE and RIVE is that both systems will have last me 2 years. That's huge for me. Before that I would change out mobos every few months since 2001. I ws always an Abit fan back in the day and those boards could be tempermental as well...but boy could they clock!! So I guess I just got used to working for those clocks I wanted. On the flip side, for my wife, we simply slapped a Hero VII in her rig, fired up a modest overclock, and its been humming since. I haven't been in that BIOS in over 2 years.

As some said above, positive experiences with the RVE are influenced by proper expectations.

I had all motherboards from Rampage series. Unfortunately at the start I was very disappointed in the Rampage V Extreme. Especially what drove me crazy were occasional problems 'no post', hangs on XX Qcode, and then I was forced to power down PC, restart again, and again... And still CPU Q-Fan controled pump speed remains at the maximum speed after waking up from sleep state, ignoring UEFI settings. 🙂

I must say that version 3101 is rock stable for me, and I'm very happy with it. I'm having very stable OC, cores and cache to 4.5GHz, DDR4 to 3000MHz with 1T showing in AIDA64 memory write/copy benchmark over 70000MB/s. My NVMe Samsung 950 Pro showing in ATTO disk benchmark over 2500MBs (read), 1500MB/s (write). I had experience with some other X99 boards, and it is much more difficult to achieve stable speeds and OC.

I'm exceedingly happy with my RVE which I bought June 2015. Everything has worked as it should, and it made learning how to overclock a pleasure. The only thing I wish for would be more detailed BIOS update release notes. Well, ANY detail would do, heh.