ASUS RAMPAGE IV GENE

Eons ago, in hardware years, INTEL let lose its X79 platform. Not too different from Sandy-Bridge apart from more cores and two additional memory channels. This platform was immediately relegated to a 3DMark11, 3DMark Vantage and Wprime toy. Not much has changed for the most part, it remains a platform for those particular benchmarks. A simple enough transition to make from P67/Z77 then one would have thought. Read the full story here