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Asus Rampage IV Black Edition (X79) Motherboard Review

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Our testing uses a Kingston HyperX 3K SSD.

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Neither SATA 6Gb/s port fed by the X79 chipset is likely to hamper the performance of a modern SSD.

The quartet of ports provided by a pair of ASMedia's ASM1061 chipsets are limited to transfer speeds of less than 400MB/s. These ports are better suited for low-priority devices or if the pair of X79-fed SATA 6Gb/s lanes are being utilised.

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  1. what an amazing board – very very expensive though!

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