All results were obtained at 4625MHz on an un-optimized Windows 7 64-bit. These are our figures, yours may vary so only use these as a
guideline for a similarly configured system. Note that we used a 125MHz BClk* to keep the numbers consistent with other X79 motherboards.
Motherboard
Cinebench 11.5
ASUS RIVE Black Edition
14,11
3DMark11
Super Pi 8M
Aida 64 Copy
Aida 64 Latency
BIOS Version
14559
1.26.783
72865
46,6
Bios 0208
1.28.093
64928
50
Bios 2.05
1.28.047
30526
47,8
Bios 0403
Physics: 17090
EVGA X79 Dark
14,1
14442
Physics: 16841
ASUS X79-Deluxe
14,1
14330
Physics: 16092
tweak and marvel at. Perplexing as
well, is that the RIVE Black Edition
not only presents itself as the best
overclocking motherboard we have
ever seen, but it so happens to be
the greatest gaming motherboard
around as well. This is not achieved
through gimmicks, no but in a simple
and direct way. You will receive your
network traffic shaping NIC, but with it
some of the best audio you will find on
any motherboard right now. There’s
no denying the fact that ASUS knows
audio, very well actually. With some of
that expertise poured into this board,
we instantly have a motherboard that
is not only dual purpose, but possibly
a leader in both applications. It is
most certainly the leader when it
comes to overclocking of any kind,
be it you employ air, liquid, dry ice
or LN2 cooling. There’s not a better
alternative right now and the odds are,
there will never be for the remainder
of this platform’s life.
For the gamers who are looking to
justify this purchase, consider the
Assasin’s Creed: Black Flag coupon
as well. After all, as proficient as
this board is at being a gaming
motherboard, what best way to
promote that rather than packing
a triple A title with it? Moreover, it
packages the best version of the
entire Assasin’s Credd legacy into
the package. If you’ve read this far
and are contemplating the gaming
machine build of your life. In other
words your “ultimate” (at least for
your budget) gaming rig, simply
buy this motherboard and be done
with it. Think not of alternatives,
potential replacements, nothing
of the sort. It is far from being
cheap, but it is far ahead of
anything else, more so than the
price would suggest.
As for the rest of us, it is simply
a matter of owing our X79 CPUs at
least a single run on the Rampage
IV Extreme Black Edition. You’ll
never really know the maximum
potential of your CPU or memory kit
until you have them on this board.
There is no other board that will
bring you this close to the edge
this conveniently. You could write
it down to the OC-Panel, perhaps
the exhaustive memory tweaking
options, the CPU tuning functions,
the power delivery on the board or
anything else. The bottom line is;
this is the greatest motherboard
ever made. It is so finely executed
it should be a study for all future
motherboards. There are no
further accolades we could shower
upon this board even if we wanted
to, had we still used a numeric
rating system this would be a
perfect score. There’s nothing else
like it. We here at TheO