ASUS Rampage V Extreme (LGA 2011-3) Motherboard Review

Overclocking

Overclocking was a strange one. We couldn’t seem to get 4.5GHz truly stable, whereas we were able to run 4.5GHz on other motherboards. I am not quite sure why this was the case because in many benchmarks (GPU and memory ones) the R5E performed better despite having 0.1GHz less clock speed. The issue was probably a trivial one: some particular setting somewhere needed a minor tweak to iron out the instability issues. In the end we settled on 4.4GHz because this was stable and we didn’t have enough time to test out every BIOS eventuality, that’s not to say the R5E cannot do better because we think it can and we will be hoping to push it further at a later date. We did turn a lot of our focus to memory overclocking as well and we were gobsmacked by just how well the R5E did. The R5E is now our go-to motherboard for DDR4 memory reviews for one reason: it’s amazing at memory overclocking and smokes the competition with memory performance. Check for instance the below configuration with Kingston HyperX Predator 3000MHz memory operating at 3100MHz – look at those performance numbers: it’s over 70,000! No other motherboard seems to be able to match the R5E on its memory performance which probably explains why in graphics and memory benchmarks the R5E was able to outperform rivals even though we couldn’t get it to the same CPU frequency.