As we round out our coverage of the Asus Republic of Gamers Rampage IV Gene we are taking a look at both the synthetic and real-world performance of this board. As we have mentioned before the Gene is the gateway into the ROG Line and shows an excellent blending of performance, features and ease of use for those that are new to playing with higher end Motherboards. Of course the Gene also serves a purpose with the enthusiasts as well it offers a very competent motherboard in a small package for gaming, small and quiet systems and even for someone looking for a solid board to build a home server on. Since we have already shown you what the Rampage IV Gene looks like on paper, let’s take the tiem to show you how it looks in the real world.
BIOS -BIOS is an acronym that stands for Basic Input/Output System. It is meant to control your product at a very low level. As of right now there are three regularly used BIOS formats (there are actually more than that but there are three common ones). These are the AMI (American Megatrends Incorporated), Award, and Phoenix. Asus has been one of the companies that has really put some time and thought into their UEFI interface. They went out of their way to not only make it look good, but also to make sure it is completely functional. We took some time to show you how it is implemented on the Rampage IV Gene. You can check out our video below.
Overclocking –Being part of the Republic of Gamers lineup the Rampage IV Gene has some great overclocking tools and support for your tweaking needs. We played with both the Auto Tune settings and also with our own manual attempts. We ended up with a hybrid of options to get our stable overclock of 4.645GHz which, while not the highest we have ever gotten our Core i7 3960 to, is higher than average.
Of course overclocking is a picky subject. I can buy two identical CPUs from the store and they will not always perform the same way under stress. This is the same with motherboards, RAM and GPUs. So again it is important to keep in mind that our results represent a specific hardware configuration. Yours may be similar but will rarely be identical.
Overclocking Tools -
The tools for overclocking on the Rampage IV Gene are the same ones that we have shown you before with a few small differences. Some of the items that are available in the Maximus Line (Z77) are not yet available in the Rampage line like the auto FanXpert software. However the tools are still very complete as you will see from the video below.
