ASUS pay very close attention to audio quality on Rampage IV Formula and Gene with separate tracer

http://www.tweaktown.com CES 2012 - In our second video with JJ from ASUS at their Trump Towers suite we got a close up look at the new ASUS ROG Rampage IV Formula and Gene and learned a lot about what ASUS is doing to really take audio to the next level.

Exclusive to the aforementioned two motherboards, ASUS engineers are taking audio quality very seriously and have created a special route for the audio tracers from the back IO to the onboard audio codec towards the south of the motherboard. When held up to sunlight with a static board demo we could clearly see the separation in the PCB for the audio. When the system is turned on, the route actually glows red as you can see in the video above.

The reason for all this? By creating a dedicated route for the audio signals, ASUS is able to offer better audio performance that is somewhat separate from the other parts on the PCB and this should go a long way to reducing any audio interference.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• CES 2012
• ASUS
• audio
• PCB
• ROG
• Rampage IV Formula
• Rampage IV Gene
• TweakTown

[26psyside]

Camwilmot, your videos are great and all, but dont you think its a bit akward, to film people at so close range? no need to zoom and keep the camera at his face like 20 seconds.....you did the same on other videos as well, you know im sure that make them feel nervous cause of it....

[guyoutput]

Filming objects or people in front of a window = silhouette.

*facepalm*

[envyus83]

@SexyTerrorisT ATX

[SexyTerrorisT]

Rampage IV Formula is ATX or eATX?

[xXxbwelitexXx]

@26psyside I completely agree XD

[TeaBagNinja100]

yes, yes

I understood everything he just said..lol

[nemtastic]

This could make deathmetal that much better. gg

[gokou340]

@IROHINE It is Standard ATX

ATX Form Factor

12 inch x 9.6 inch

[gokou340]

Thank you for actually asking the one question that a lot of people want to know; When?

Sounds like this week or next week sometimes :) Woohoo!!

[xxkevinxx323]

HI JJ.

[1BYEBYE1]

@rstan58 mhm i c your point. thats why i was kind of pissed with the rampage IV extreme cause i can't have 2 cards and a dedicated sound card at the same time unless i use a pci sound card slot. but i really liked it cause i could run 3 asus gtx directcuii on this board. which would be amazing.