These LED’s are in place to give an overclocker an idea of where their overclocked failed. Along with that you will see a series of very small LED’s that Asus calls its Voltiminder LED II. To the right of the start buttons you have seven small connections for use with Asus’s Probelt connectors that give you leads to connect your multi meter to for accurate voltage readings on each rail. This is completely unique to the Rampage motherboard as a way to replace the use of variable resisters and give you on the fly adjustments using the Rampage’s multiple overclocking solutions. Between the Start button and the ram slots you have six sets of pin headers for VGA Hot-Wire, a on board solution that gives you full adjustability when overclocking video cards. Moving down you have the sports car inspired Start button to turn your PC on and reset button. Behind the Slow mode switch there is a small jumper that will turn on LN2 mode, to give better overclocking when working at less than -10 degree’s Celsius. Below the LED there is a switch for slow mode, specifically designed to allow someone doing extreme overclocking to slow the overclock back down to cool things down temporally or to help with booting while overclocking. Here in the top right corner of the board you can see they have placed the LED readout right next to one of many 4 pin fan headers (one of two in this photo alone). This one photo alone is a great example of how much ASUS packed into the Rampage IV. In this photo you can also see the CPU fan header, it’s a little hidden and hard to see. You have a total of one 8 pin and one 4 pin although they have half of the 8 pin covered meaning you will only need one 8 pin unless you are planning on pushing the power requirements for the CPU. Starting directly at the top of the board you can see all of the CPU connections needed for the Rampage IV. Even better is the red and black theme all across the board. The eight DIMM slots, 5 PCI Express slots and active cooling are all eye catching. The overall look of the Rampage IV is amazing and a little intimidating.
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