X48 Motherboards from ASUS

Rampage Formula Main Specifications

ASUS Rampage Formula main features will be:

• Socket: 775.
• Chipset: Intel X48 Express.
• Super I/O: Winbond W83627DHG
• Parallel IDE: One ATA-133 port controlled by a JMicron chip.
• Serial IDE: Six SATA-300 ports controlled by the south bridge chip (ICH9R), supporting RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10.
• USB: 12 USB 2.0 ports (six soldered on the motherboard and four available through I/O brackets).
• FireWire (IEEE 1394a): Two ports controlled by VIA VT6308P chip, one soldered on the motherboard and another available through an I/O bracket.
• On-board audio: Coaxial and optical SPDIF outputs controlled by the south bridge chip. This motherboard comes with an add-on sound card called SupremeFX II, which is connected to a PCI Express x1 slot. This card is based on an Analog Devices AD1988B codec (eight channels, 24-bit resolution, up to 192 kHz sampling rate for both inputs and outputs, 92 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the inputs and 101 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the outputs).
• On-board video: No.
• On-board LAN: Two Gigabit Ethernet ports, controlled by two Marvell 88E8056 chips, each one connected to one PCI Express x1 bus.
• Buzzer: No.
• Power supply required: ATX12V 2.x (24-pin), EPS12V optional.
• Slots: Two PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots truly running at x16 and supporting CrossFire, two PCI Express x1 slots and two standard PCI slots.
• Memory: Four DDR-DIMM sockets up to DDR2-1800/PC2-14400.
• Extra features: Passive cooling, aluminum solid capacitors, Q-Connector for the case frontal connectors, external clear CMOS switch, on-board reset and power switches, external POST diagnostics LCD display, Voltiminder LEDs that indicate voltage status from the CPU, chipset and memories, and EPU (Energy Processing Unit).