ASUS & DFI X58 Motherboards Revealed

• bit-tech: Early Look - Asus Rampage II Extreme:
  
  

  “While not the first to pursue this niche market, the Asus Rampage II Extreme is built for this type of person, and the people that want to be these types of people. Inevitably too, it'll have a record setting price tag to match; if you sold a lung for your last RoG or Quantum Force motherboard, be prepared to part with a kidney, a testicle and perhaps your mother too. Between Foxconn's and Asus' premium brands, neither makes apologies for what they are designed to be - gone are the days when everyone bought the best board by default. Yea, it is incredibly niche willy waving stuff, but for those who want to bear all and thrust, it's getting close to being exactly what they need.”

  
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• TweakTown: DFI exclusively shows us its LANPARTY UT X58 mobo:
  
  

  “We visited Eric, Jarry and Jet at the DFI headquarters in Taipei today where they gave us an exclusive up-close look at a working sample of their forthcoming LANPARTY UT X58 motherboard.
  
  We got a look at the first revision of the board and sadly the new heatpipe cooler was not quite ready for us to take photos of. This board will get a similar made by Thermalright cooler as seen on older boards, but this time around DFI has decided to make the coolers themselves to try and reduce costs. It was mentioned that while the cooler will be similar, it will be improved by allowing users to use their own after market or custom cooling equipment or “weapons” as Jarry put it, whereas with other brand motherboards that is not always that easy to do. That did allow us to get an unobstructed view of the no fuss high-end enthusiast performance motherboard. Jarry Chang, the head engineer and designer at DFI, had some interesting points to make about the LANPARTY UT X58 and much of it made perfect sense.”

  
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