Every motherboard manufacturer now has their own Core i7 platform, although they pretty much all come in the same flavor. This market segment is very crowded and it seems like everything has been done before. As soon as a company comes up with something unique, the rest of the crowd shortly follows along with a similar feature. The i7 powered motherboards all sport the enthusiast X58 chipset and boast an equally enthusiatic price tag. With high end features such as triple channel DDR3 memory and support for both CrossFire and SLI, this isn't a platform for the faint of heart.
What we have today is truely different from what we are used too, although admitedly not unique. The Rampage II Gene is Asus' latest product out of the Republic of Gamers series. The RoG motherboards usually come in ATX and some even E-ATX format, but this one is a tiny mATX. Size matters, you say? Maybe not. The Gene is equipped with the usual six memory slots, a whole bunch of connectivity, X-Fi SupremeFX sound, CrossFire, SLI and the list goes on.
SOURCE: www.neoseeker.com
