ASUS Republic of Gamers Rampage III Formula Review

ASUS bundles their Rampage III Formula inside a red box with the Republic of Gamers logo on the top left hand corner of the box. The name of the board: Rampage III Formula Motherboard along with the Windows 7 Ready logo is below that. The bottom of the front of the box has the 6-core support LGA-1366 logo, the Core i7 logos, the Intel X58 Chipset inside logo and the SLI and CrossfireX logos.

The back of the box has the features of the board pictured including ROG Connect, GameFirst and SupremeFX X-Fi Built-in. The specifications of the board are also here and the various certifications the board has as well. The box flap lifts up giving details on the features of the board including ROG Connect, ProbeIt and CPU Level Up along with BIOS Flashback, SuperemeFX X-Fi 2 and Extreme Engine Digi+.

Opening the box we find that ASUS has bundled their ROG Rampage III Gene motherboard below a plastic cover without an anti-static bag. The board is held securely in place with the accessories below in another box below the motherboard. The board comes with a sticker that looks like the ROG logo, the ROG Connect USB cable, 6 SATA connectors, 2 SATA 6Gb/second cables, the Q-Connector, a set of cable ties, a set of cable tie labels, the I/O Shield, the E-SATA Bracket, an optional fan for use with the chipset when water-cooling, a 3-way SLI Bridge a CrossfireX bridge, the manual and a Driver DVD. The Driver DVD contains the drivers and Kapersky Anti-Virus software.