Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79 S2011 Intel X79 DDR3 ATX

**Rampage IV Extreme The most powerful X79 board has arrived!** 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor family for the LGA 2011 Socket Intel® X79 Express Chipset X Socket Get more life out of your LGA1366 CPU coolers Don't junk that expensive LGA1366 heatsink! With X Socket, switch out the LGA2011 pad for a 1366 one and get more life out of your previous CPU cooler. OC Key The key to real time monitoring and overclocking! Subzero Sense Find out how cold your board is VGA Hotwire Hotwire your system **The Choice of Champions** The Republic of Gamers consists only the best of the best. We offer the best hardware engineering, the fastest performance, the most innovating ideas, and we welcome the best gamers to join in. In the Republic of Gamers, mercy rules are only for the weak, and bragging rights means everything. We believe in making statements and we excel in competitions. If your character matches our trait, then join the elite club, make your presence felt, in the Republic of Gamers. **LGA2011 Intel® Core™ i7** This motherboard supports the latest Intel® Sandy Bridge E processors in the LGA2011 package, with memory and PCI Express controllers integrated to support 4 channel 8 DIMM DDR3 memory and 16 PCI Express 3.0 lanes. This provides great graphics performance. Intel® Sandy Bridge E processors are among the most powerful and energy efficient CPUs in the world. **Intel® X79 Chipset** The Intel® X79 Express Chipset is the latest single chipset design that supports the new socket 2011 Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme Edition processors. It improves performance by utilizing serial point to point links, allowing for increased bandwidth and stability. Additionally, the X79 comes with 2 SATA 6Gbs and 4 SATA 3Gbs ports for faster data retrieval, doubling the bandwidth of current bus systems. **PCIe 3.0 Ready** The latest PCI Express bus standard delivers imporved encoding for twice the performance of current P