ASUS has just unveiled ROG Rampage Extreme, a motherboard targeted to overclocking enthusiasts based on Intel X48 chipset. This motherboard has a myriad of overclocking options that can be adjusted on-the-fly through a joystick-like control without entering the BIOS Setup. ROG Rampage Extreme also has a LCD POST display and comes with an add-on sound card called SupremeFX X-Fi based on an Analog Devices ADI2000B codec, which is connected to a PCI Express x1 slot. Its MSRP isn’t available yet. See the specs for this new ASUS motherboard below.

• CPU Support: Intel Core 2 Extreme/Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo/Pentium D/Pentium 4/Celeron 400 Series/Celeron D Processor
• FSB Support: up to 1,600 MHz
• Chipsets: Intel X48/ICH9R
• Socket: LGA 775
• Memory: Four DDR3-DIMM sockets up to DDR3-2000 MHz (8 GB max.)
• PCI-E x16 2.0 slots: 2
• PCI-E x1 slots: 3
• PCI 2.2 slots: 2
• SATA-300 ports: 8
• e-SATA ports: 1
• Parallel IDE ports: 1
• On-board LAN: Two Gigabit Ethernet ports
• USB 2.0 ports: 12
• Firewire (IEEE1394) ports: 2

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