ASUS Rampage Formula (Intel X48)
Expansion options
ASUS Rampage Formula uses the ICH9R south bridge with a radiator. Therefore, the board supports six SerialATA II ports and allows merging disks into RAID arrays of levels 0,1,5, and 10.
Besides, the board is equipped with one ParallelATA link, with the JMB368 controller made by JMicron being in charge of its functioning.
Therefore, as many as 8 hard disks (6 SATA II + 2 PATA) altogether can be plugged in to ASUS Rampage Formula. The board provides operation of 12 USB 2.0 ports: six of them are positioned on the rear panel, with as many can be plugged in with brackets. Besides, the motherboard supports the IEEE1394 ("Firewire"). For that, there is an additional onboard VT6308P controller made by VIA.
There are two FireWire ports on the board altogether: one mounted on the rear panel, with the other one connected with a plate (available in the package bundle).
ASUS Rampage Formula offers 8-channel integrated Intel High Definition Audio, with AD1988B chip used as the codec. Recall that the audio subsystem is on a separate board.
Now a few words on the network support: the board uses two high-speed Marvell 88E8056 (100 Mbit/s) network controllers connected to the PCI Express (x1) bus.
Both the RJ-45 connectors are brought over to the rear panel which has the following configuration:
Engineers at ASUS have completely given up support for the LPT and COM ports. Missing is also a PS/2 connector to plug in a mouse. On the other hand, USB 2.0 ports are in abundance; there is a Firewire, as well as an optical and coaxial S/PDIF outputs.
Here is a schematic diagram of the components:
There are no jumpers on ASUS Rampage Formula, and to clear the CMOS there is a special button (on the rear panel). This button can be locked with a special switch. Besides, ASUS Rampage Formula uses buttons to power and reset the system:
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