the context of LN2 overclocking. This
motherboard has come to represent
the best of what the Core i9-7980XE
Extreme Edition is capable of under
such extreme conditions. I’ll save
you the rest of the read if you’re not
so inclined to get into the details
about my overclocking adventures
with this specific CPU and the
motherboard. You can literally
overclock this CPU LN2 under
LN2 and the Rampage VI APEX
motherboard with no VRM heatsink
at all. Note that this is specifically
for LN2, but the power circuitry on
the board is extremely capable, and
even when the CPU is drawing over
800Watts the Rampage VI Apex is
able to deliver without skipping a
beat. This is something that I have
yet to witness on any other board,
and in all honesty wouldn’t even
attempt.
Would I go so far as to say this is
perhaps the only motherboard one
could use for the Core-i9 7980XE
Extreme Edition? Not really, but look
at it in the following way as given by
the numbers on HWBOT here. Out of
all X299 submissions (of which there
were 13,219 at the time of writing),
the Rampage XI APEX made up
26,93% of the total. Impressive, but
not as much as when you consider
that the Rampage XI APEX board
has more submissions than any
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