Hardware First Look: Asus Maximus III Extreme

Extreeeeeeeeeeeeeme to the Max, to the, uh, third power! Asus has dropped us a sample of its latest pimped out, tweaked up and very expensive Republic of Gamer's motherboard. Based on Intel's P55 chipset, is this going to be the ideal match for overclocking a Core i5-750?

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2010/02/14/first-look-asus-maximus-iii-extreme/1

 

Ooh, looks nice! I almost thought it was a render, thanks to the colour choices.

 

I was expecting a review of the Titan Fenrir Valentines Edition today

 

Looks great and performance should be nothing short of stellar under LN2. Can't wait to get my hands on one of these

 

Expect a Titan Fenrir 1st Feb, 2nd Feb, 3rd Feb, 4th Feb, etc etc edition review.

Each of them differ by the colour of a single fin.

 

What is the "Q reset" button for?

 

It's for using LN2 only:

 

So could you do sli/crossfire in this and both cards will run at x16 speed?

 

Thanks!

 

Yes, although not "true" x16 in the most fundamental sense since it's one x16 lane from the CPU multiplexed into two via the NF200 chipset. Just like previous boards that used it.

 

you may joke, but they would all rock

 

i thought it's a DDR4 board.....

clearly, they've listened to us, and taken away the IDE ports, well done Asus.

what are the 2 molex connectors for? looks like the board is a bit too power hungry.

 

If you read the text...

Each PCI-E socket can provide 75W, x5 = 375W

It's not the board that's power hungry, it's what it offers. You don't want to be pulling over 500W from an 8-pin 12V CPU power plug in reality.

 

As much as I like the board, I just dont understand the point of NF200 on P55. For the price, complexity, power and heat you might aswell have gone with X58.

But then again I suppose this is a true benching board for people just out to get numbers with LGA1156.

 

Wait... ROG Connect over bluetooth? Damn i wish i could get that to work on my Gene!

 

LOL... i just happen to have a perfectly bricked msi mobo cuz of a bad bios flash. upgaded last year to gigabytes ultra durable board and have already been saved by it's dual bios setup.

 

this motherboard most likely costs more then an rampage extreme II (ok it lacks USB3 and Sata 6 both not important to me really as i do most of my stuff over Gigabit networking)

 

Very impressive board, love the colour scheme!

 

ouch bindi, that was harsh

 

True though. So I said it.