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  • shoek - Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - link

    What can the Omega do that this new board cannot? Seems like it is superior to the Omega, especially if it has been designed with Cascade Lake-X in mind
  • Orange_Swan - Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - link

    looks like the omega has slightly better storage options with a u.2 port, curiously according to Asus UK site the Encore can support 256GB RAM vs the Omegas 128GB RAM.
    https://www.asus.com/Product-Compare/?products=eZw...
  • airdrifting - Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - link

    LOL 3 slot spacing = fail.
  • Valantar - Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - link

    Not considering the current trend of having every single GPU on the market be more than two slots thick.
  • jeremyshaw - Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - link

    Agreed. Even the ones which aren't, are usually axial fans, too. Blowers are fading from the market, and they are the only ones that really benefit from a 2 slot spacing. Axial coolers benefit strongly from wider spacing between slots.

    Watercooling could go either way, though I would rather not.
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - link

    I'm pretty sure the 2.5 and 3 slot card resurgence is (partially) in response to Nvidia moving to a stock "open air" heatsink design 2-slots thick with 2 axial fans. This basic design was used by board partners, and in a bid to come to market with "better" coolers, you either go three fans (card is extra long and incompatible in most cases) or go thicker/taller with 2 larger fans.

    Most aftermarket PC builders only use one PCI-e device, a GPU, and may sometimes also get an M.2 NVMe SSD as well. At that point GPU thickness going over 2 slots isn't really an issue since most users are buying 7-slot ATX motherboards and cases.
  • DanNeely - Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - link

    even with 2 slot cards, an empty slot of space improves air flow and temps for the top card.
  • Alistair - Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - link

    I don't get it, 3 slot spacing is preferred.
  • mazicato - Friday, August 23, 2019 - link

    so I agree three or potentially four slots speaking of the future (4 slots) is like one exhaust or four exhaust a honda or corvette the more air flow the less sluggish over heat
  • Andy Chow - Friday, August 23, 2019 - link

    Yes. 3 slot spacing, last PCIe slot is locked at 4x, for $650. Hard fail.
  • amnesia0287 - Thursday, August 22, 2019 - link

    Whats the extra ram slot for? pmem?
  • Qasar - Thursday, August 22, 2019 - link

    that is the VROC slot
  • damianrobertjones - Sunday, August 25, 2019 - link

    Vroc usually sits at the bottom of the board and is a tiny little thing. (Capitals are amazing).
  • damianrobertjones - Sunday, August 25, 2019 - link

    Possibly for the riser card that fits 2x M.2 drives.
  • apriest - Monday, August 26, 2019 - link

    It's the DIMM.2 slot, it can be switched in the BIOS to use the PCH or directly off the CPU PCIe lanes (knocking the 2nd x16 slot down to x8).
  • AymincendiaryOne - Sunday, December 29, 2019 - link

    Have an M.2 and Intel 905p NVMe AIC drive installed in Rampage VI Extreme Encore. Although the BIOS can see the drives it cannot boot to any of them. Clicking on Boot order kicks up a message the system can't find any boot drives. I haven't found anything in the motherboard book as to why this would happen, especially when reset to all defaults.

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