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ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 13th November 2013 | Source: ASUS | Price: £399 |
Since the launch of the Rampage IV Extreme it's been the backbone of our graphics card test rig here at OC3D Towers, so it's fair to say that we know the ins and outs of it probably better than the ASUS R&D team. It's been absolutely bombproof in its reliability, never minding the endless hardware swapping and mad bouts of overclocking we've subjected it to.
So you can safely say that when we cast our eyes upon the Black Edition we were amazed that there was far more going on than a merely palette swap. It would have been so easy to keep the reliable Extreme and switch the colour scheme, but ASUS have pared the board right back and released something so different, and yet the same, that if it was called the Rampage V we wouldn't have batted an eye lid.
You're already familiar with the Rampage IV Extreme, so we'll be focussing our attention on what is new to the party with the Black Edition, and it's fair to say it's more than you might expect.
Technical Specifications
Now it's not only the colour scheme that's changed on the Rampage IV Black Edition. In keeping with the endless refinement we'd expect from ASUS there have been the following changes ;
Memory now supports 2666MHz and 2800MHz out of the box. Memory has always been the weak point of the X79 chipsets and so it's great to see an improvement in the supported speeds. Bluetooth support has been bumped from the old 2.1 specification to the latest 4.0 version, and in keeping with the wireless world that we live in the Black supports 802.11n by default. It's always nice to have onboard WiFi.
Power has been changed too. As well as the improvement from the v2 of the Digi+ to v3, the Black comes with 60A chokes, 4 way power optimisation and additional GPU power only requires a Molex rather than the 6-pin PCI needed by the Extreme. USB ports have been greatly increased to a total of 10 rear and 8 front, split between USB3.0 and 2.0. It's good to see the majority of the ports are at the rear as well, with 6 of them being the full speed USB 3.0 protocol.
Sound is the real change though. Whereas the Extreme just utilised the Realtek ALC898, the Black Edition has the full SupremeFX HD offering, which combines the CS4398 analogue converter and TPA6120A2 headphone amplifier to provide the equivalent of an onboard Phoebus sound card!
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It's been two years to the day since the launch of the Rampage IV Extreme. And now it's back, in black *cue AC/DC*
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nice review, Tom will you be replacing the bench rig with this and 4960X?
I think $500 (according to Newegg) is a bit excessive...but we all know you get what you pay for.
I have been waiting for a board before buying the 4930k, the wait is over.
Over the past 6 years that I have been using ASUS motherboards I have had plenty of ups and down with them, but in all honesty I really have become almost "dependent" (more like 100% comfortable) with them.
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It's only going to hit a very small amount of users, however when I had three 7970's in tri-fire (the XFX DD Black edition) the spacing the central pci-e slot, which I believe made it 16x,8x,8x, actually reduced temps on air by a significant amount due to the better spacing. It's a shame as the PCI-E options on the original RIVE this was one of main reasons that swayed me for that board.
I'm always switching GPU setups around with different configs and this was very helpful when using any 3 card setup. With the black edition 3 cards will have to sit against each other as you would in a quad card setup.
This is a personal limitation though and most people probably would not care too much about it. I just thought it might be something to mention anyway.Quote
has anybody that used this board felt the need to put a boards blocks on it??? Cant seem to find any decent intel on whether it benefits greatly from it or not. I dont plan any super crazy overclocks but I do plan on overclocking it. Plus running 7970 xfire.


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6th EU-Brazil Summit Reflects on Rio+20 and Doha
24 January 2013: The 6th EU-Brazil Summit discussed a range of issues for cooperation between the EU and Brazil, including the outcomes of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) and the Doha Climate Change Conference, as well as renewal of the EU-Brazil strategic partnership.
The strategic partnership was initiated at the first EU-Brazil Summit in July 2007. The 6th EU-Brazil Summit, which took place in Brasilia, Brazil, on 24 January 2013, outlined common objectives between the two sides.
In the ensuing joint statement, Brazil and the EU: welcome the signature in June 2012 of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on increasing cooperation in sanitary and phytosanitary measures; reiterate their commitment to ambitious international action on climate change, emphasizing the reduced deforestation rate in the Amazone biome; and stress the importance of continued work on biodiversity under the framework of both bilateral agreements and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
On sustainable development, EU and Brazilian leaders stress the importance of implementing the outcome of Rio+20 and pledge to work on the development of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), stressing they should be coherent with and integrated post-2015 agenda. They list eradicating poverty, changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production, and protecting and managing the natural resource base as the essential requirements for sustainable development. They also call for establishing the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in a prompt manner.
On energy, the leaders: emphasize universal access to energy; welcome the role of renewable energy, energy efficiency and low-energy models in sustainable development; reiterate biofuels as a viable alternative to fossils fuels; and stress engagement to find solutions on emissions from the aviation sector. [VI Brazil-EU Summit Joint Statement] [EC President Press Statement] [6th EU-Brazil Summit: An Ever Closer Relationship]

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Cub Scout Pack 182 of Three Bridges had their annual Blue and Gold Ceremony at Whitehouse School on Feb. 22.
During the celebration, 14 scouts were honored with the Arrow of Light award which is the highest award a Cub Scout can receive.
After receiving their awards, these boys graduated from Cub Scouts and crossed over to Boy Scouts.
They were received by Scoutmasters and members of their new Boy Scout Troop 186 in Three Bridges.
As a service project for the celebration of Boys Scouts, the Dens of Pack 182 made 'Birthday Bags' which were donated to the Flemington Food Pantry.


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The board met at Lincoln School at 400 Second Ave. for a special meeting that was announced last week. The board had until Feb. 17, according to President Adele Lewis, to decide on the new law signed by Gov. Christie in January. The law took the public vote on district budgets from the public as long as it stayed under a 2 percent cap and it allowed school boards to move their elections through a public vote or a governing body resolution.
Lewis said board members received weekly e-mails and had ample time to consider the matter.
The majority of the board said they approved of the November elections because it saves the board money, the voters can't override the budget if it's under cap, and some of the members said that it could generate more interest in its elections.
Members Christine Guerriero and Linda Koenig opposed the resolution.
"I undesrtand about the financial aspects, but I don't like the way this is being done. They gave us a month to act on this," said Koenig who then went on to tell how leery she was of what else the state might bring behind this law. "If it's too good to be true, it probably is."
Guerriero said she thinks the elections should have been moved to June with the primary elections because the November elections puts the district on the borough's schedule.
"I really think it puts new board members at a real disadvantage. They come on at budget time," said Guerriero.
Teresa Quigley, superintendent, said the county has been pushing its districts to move the elections to November to eliminate the public vote and majority of the 21 districts have already moved their elections.
The board was not able to provide figures on how much would actually be saved, but Lewis said figures will be given at the next meeting on Feb. 21.
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Blueshirts United reports that after not playing Wednesday night, Dan Girardi did not participate in today's optional practice.
John Tortorella would only say that he's "not sure" of Girardi's status for tomorrow night's game against the Islanders.
…Girardi had only missed two games the last five seasons before last night, so it really must be serious for him to sit out last night. It has me a bit concerned. Especially with Torts being so mum on the injury.
In other injury news, Ryan Callahan (shoulder) was cleared for contact today and participated without limitations during today's optional practice.
Callahan would not comment on a possible return date.
…i'm always cautious when it comes to injuries, so, while the Rangers are in need of their leader, especially on the power play, I'd hate to see him return too soon and risk further injury. Great sign that he's been cleared for contact.
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Elegant Crochet Doily
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Free crochet patterns like this one are great for sprucing up the home decor. Whether you use this Elegant Crochet Doily to make your house festive for the holidays, or if you decide to place them on top of coffee tables to act a simple accent, you'll love how they transform your home.
- Red Heart Super Saver worsted yarn or other worsted weight yarn
- Size F crochet hook
Finished size: Doily measures 8 1/2 inches (22 cm) across.
Ch 6, join to form ring,
Row 1: Ch 3, 15 dc in ring, join
Row 2: Ch 3, 2 more dc in same stitch, *skip next dc, 3 dc in the next dc, ch 2* repeat around, join at top of chain 3. 8 3 dc cluster.
Row 3: Ch 3, dc in the same stitch, dc in next dc, 2 dc in the next dc, ch 2, *2 dc in the next dc, dc in the next dc, 2 dc in the next dc, ch 2* repeat around, join at top of chain 3.
Row 4: Ch 3, dc in the same stitch, dc in next 2 dc, 3 dc in the next dc, ch 2, *2 dc in the next dc, dc in the next 3 dc, 2 dc in the next dc, ch 2* repeat around, join at top of chain 3.
Row 5: ss to next dc, ch 3, dc in the next 4, ch 5, sc in ch 2 space, chain 5, * skip next dc, dc in the next 5 dc, ch 5, sc in then ch 2 space, ch 5* repeat around, join at top of chain 3
Row 6: ss to next dc, ch 3, dc in the next 2, [ch 5, sc in the next ch 5 space] 2 times, ch 5, *skip next dc, dc in the next 3 dc, [ ch 5, sc in the next ch 5 space] 2 times, ch 5* repeat around, join at top of chain 3.
Row 7: ch 2, dc 2 tog over next 2 dc, [ch 5, sc in then next ch 5 space] 3 times, ch 5, * dc 3 tog over next 3 dc. [ch 5, sc in the next ch 5 space] 3 times, ch 5* repeat around, join at top of 2dc cluster
Row 8: *[ch 5, sc in then next ch 5 space]4 times, ch 5, sc on top of 3 dc cluster* repeat 6 times, end with [ch 5, sc in then next ch 5 space]4 times,ch 5, join at the base of the first ch 5 space.
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Can this be used for an afgan? I think I will try it.
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Hi there! Give it a try and be sure to post the finished project on the FaveCrafts Facebook page!
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Why is there a space between the diamonds on the left side?
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I have wondered that exact question. Anyone ????
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Beautiful, thank you for the pattern, also this would make a great snood to cover hair.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Remember the Detroit Pistons' concerted effort in the first Orlando Pro Summer League game to dump the ball regularly to Andre Drummond on the block?
It's exactly what Rasheed Wallace wanted.
Wallace, who has been hired by the Pistons to coach big men, said the development of Drummond's low-post game is essential, and the second-year center said forcing the offense to run through him on the post helps.
"I think he understands I need to work on my back-to-the-basket game and continue to get better," Drummond said.
Greg Monroe, who had the opportunity to match up against Wallace last year when the latter played for the New York Knicks, said he doesn't expect communication to be any issue for his outspoken new position coach.
"He's always had that voice," Monroe said. "There are certain guys around the league who are known not only for their game, but for their voice, and Rasheed was definitely one of those guys. He did it when he was a player, he's obviously going to do it while he's a coach now."
The image of Monroe huddled at his locker with former Pistons assistant Roy Rogers the last two years, studying video on a laptop computer, is indelible to anyone following the team regularly. The two grew very close in their two years together.
But when Lawrence Frank was fired as head coach, Rogers was, too.
"That's part of the business side of this game," Monroe said. "When you hire a new coach, they hire their own staff. That's just how it is. That's basically it.
"I don't have any control over that. I will always stay in my own lane and do what I can control, and that's play basketball. Whatever happens on that other side of it, I have to deal with it, but I'm always going to prepare myself to play basketball."
For Monroe, the primary development focus this year will be improving his mid-range game and guarding more mobile players as he plays extensively at power forward for the first time, after two years spent almost exclusively at center.
For Drummond, the main goal, other than the difficult challenge of improving his inaccurate free-throw shooting, is to develop a low-post offensive threat.
The young center had the chance to work with Wallace briefly back home before coming here for the Orlando Pro Summer League last week.
"A lot different," Drummond said. "Pushing me. Pushing me to play harder and do different things I'm not used to doing. So I'm really glad I have him."
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New Zodiac Sign Dates: Opiuchus? Girl, PleaseMonica Bielanko
WHAT? My son is now likely going to be an Aquarius and not a Pisces? I am devastated. DEVASTATED, I tell you! Because I totally had mapped out his life course based on his element being water and his sign being the fish! And Serge? Serge hasn't left his room for hours, because, you know, they were going to fish together and, and, and… now? All is lost! We've all been living a lie!
Astrology ain't my bag. And I'm not a skeptic, just snarky. Seriously! Ever watch Lisa Williams? Where she supposedly contacts the dead and then tells the living folks that they're okay and all that? I want that to be true SO MUCH.
Astrology is really the basis for all these fortune teller types, right? The mediums, the clairvoyants, psychics… whatever term they're going by. Because the first thing you're supposed to tell them is your birthday. So doesn't this new arrangement of astrological signs reveal them as fakes? If they've been reading your palm, or whatever, and then telling you what's going to happen, it's all wrong because they've been working from the wrong sign? Am I understanding this correctly?
And does this also this mean that all those people always talking about how they are SO TOTALLY a Sagittarius should now hang their heads in shame? Because I might enjoy that. Also, bummer about that tattoo of your zodiac sign you got on your lower back.
The big question is this: how do the new Zodiac Signs work? I have yet to see an answer. Do they immediately apply to everyone or just newborns? Thank God this was revealed before my February due date. But about the rest of us? Do we all just switch? You know, 3-2-1 SWITCH! Or stay with our old sign? The chaos!
The apocalypse must really be nigh! I'm just saying, y'all, I see a bad moon rising.
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Protest at Lord Corp. building shuts down all union construction
A protest by a handful of union insulation workers outside the new Lord Corp. facility in Summit Township has shut down all union activity at the $75 million construction project.
Thomas Mulholland, business representative from Local 2 of the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators, said union members are protesting the work being done by nonunion Hall Insulation of Cleveland.
Mulholland said the project is being supported in part by Pennsylvania tax dollars and that he objects to paying that money to out-of-state workers.
Will Hinkston, the company's vice president of global operations development, said in a statement that the small contingent of picketing union workers has had far-reaching effects.
"This has resulted in all union workers at the site ceasing work which has a significant impact upon our project schedule," he said.
Hinkston went on to say: "Lord Corporation is working to support a resolution between the parties involved so that we are able to complete this major investment in Erie County."
For now, the company is establishing separate union and nonunion contractor entrances so that work can continue on the project.
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New details on Romney's Tuesday rally in Iowa
Published 9:30 AM CDT Oct 08, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will hold a rally on Tuesday at the Koch family farm in Van Meter.
Doors will open at 9:30 a.m., and the event will begin at 11:30 a.m.
Organizers expect Romney to take the state at noon.
Tickets can be picked up at the Romney campaign headquarters in Urbandale beginning at noon on Sunday.
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In our communities we have seen it happen repeatedly. The neighbors moved out of that house up the street because they received a foreclosure notice.
They were once able to afford their house payments, paid on time, every time. Then something changed for them. The breadwinner may have been laid-off from a well-paying job, and maybe unable to find steady work, or settled for another job earning significantly less. Possibly it was a family member's expensive medical costs, and the lack of health insurance breaking the family's already tight budget. In too many cases, that once-affordable house payment jumped with an adjustable rate mortgage that can more than double the monthly payments.
The family may have been trying to sell their home, but the offers were not enough to satisfy the mortgage balance. Mortgage lenders, especially from out-of-state ''too-big-to-fail'' banks, are infamous for refusing to communicate with Realtors who attempt to get a short sale approved.
If successful, the mortgage holder would receive the sale proceeds, based upon the appraisers' value assessment. Most buyers need to move into their new homes within a reasonable time, and are not in a position to wait for months while mortgage holders dither.
Whatever the cause, homeowner is gone, leaving a vacant house. Months pass and nobody else moves in. The grass grows until the unmowed lawn looks like a hayfield. People living in the surrounding homes grow anxious, wondering when that eyesore will again become a properly maintained family home, and stop bringing down neighborhood property values.
Then someone notices that the doors or windows have been broken. The house has been ransacked, its walls and ceilings torn into by criminals who stripped it of its plumbing, wiring and appliances. This home has become a hazard and nuisance, with trespassers using it for drug abuse and other criminal activities, becoming a menacing presence for neighboring families.
Then water does its damage, brought by broken plumbing or weather coming through broken windows and condensing on the walls. The deterioration grows until the cost of repairs exceeds the value that the house would have if move-in ready.
Sometimes there is a fire, and firefighters risk their lives to assure that nobody is trapped inside. The aftermath is a flame, smoke, and water damaged wreck that is beyond any hope of salvage.
Families who were considering buying nearby homes change their minds and choose other neighborhoods. The nearby homes remain unsold, and even more soon join it on the market with a flood of for-sale signs appearing on the surrounding blocks. Vacant houses with for-sale and for-rent signs become targets for looting vandals and other criminals, experiencing the same cycle of deterioration as the first to fall into disrepair.
Blighted neighborhoods, filled with wrecked and abandoned houses, will scare away tenants as well as buyers, chasing population out of our communities, and leaving even more vacant houses. Youngstown State University and the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative compiled some alarming data, showing thousands of vacant structures in Warren and Youngstown, with about half rated beyond repair. Between 2008 and 2010, Youngstown saw an increase of over 25 percent in buildings receiving an F rating.
Our cities have been demolishing hundreds of these structures, using millions in Community Development and Neighborhood Stabilization Program grant funding, but even this is not enough to complete the task. So much more is needed just to remove the worst blight.
Ohio's Attorney General Mike DeWine has developed a new resource, from a nationwide settlement with five banks who have come to epitomize the foreclosure crisis. Trumbull County has $1,275,797 available, requiring $775,797 in locally provided funds to receive the total allocation. Mahoning County has $1,531,680 available, requiring $1,031,680 in local funds.
Fortunately, our cities and counties are prepared with operating land banks and officials who have already been taking action with every resource available to them. To fully use these allocations from our attorney general, we need to raise the local matching funds required to mobilize a total of $46 million and remove hundreds more blighted houses from our neighborhoods.
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The Fast Mail was a train operated by Amtrak from Washington, DC to Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts, numbered #12 (northbound) and 13 (southbound). Train 12 carried both passengers and mail while train 13 carried mail and freight only.
At New Haven a separate train ran to and from Springfield (412/413). Train 12 departed Washington daily at 3:00am while 13 departed Springfield/Boston in the early morning. In 2002, train 13 was canceled and 12 became 190, without mail and express service.
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