thank you to Squarespace for sending us the CES 2017 for the past few years getting
excited about a motherboard has actually been a little difficult other than like
adding on rgbs and a few extra fan headers there hasn't been a ton that
they've even been able to do because the chip manufacturers AMD and Intel have
taken a lot of the work onto themselves and moved everything onto the chip but I
think they might have figured it out that the maxim is 9 extreme this is an
amazing freaking board and not just because everything lights up in whatever
freaking color you want there's a ton of other cool things as well it comes with
water cooling built onto it right away but not just water cooling water cooling
with a built-in flow rate meter in the block and leak detection these little
rings around the main G and a/ qu inch slots will actually detect if there's a
leak and will send information to your computer to a user configurable shutdown
timer cool but that's not it that's not
it at all below that there's an extra little panel if you remove the screws on
that there's an m.2 slot that is cooled by this little metal piece right here so
it's all built in no need to point fans at your motherboard and across on the
other side something that I really like I hate USB 3.0 headers they they just
the too many pins the little tiny things they suck this right here is a USB 3.1
Gen 2 header which will be available on newer cases coming up I think inwin and
Leon Lee are currently kind of pushing cases and tons of other people will in
the future it looks like a much better more robust header and I'm excited to
use it there's a bunch of other cool stuff as well like dual bioses 12 fan
headers most of which are in the bottom right hand corner or upper right hand
corner with one on the left hand side just in case you have a back case fan
and one kind of in the middle up there bunch of right angle stuff as well a
four pin Molex on the bottom so you can throw more power into the graphics cards
a right angle 24 pin which is pretty Sleek right angle SATA cables although
those are fairly standard these days and then one of the now I'm going to call it
old school although it's basically current generation USB 3.0 header as
well two of those fan headers can be used to power your pumps and they are
labeled accordingly and then just to the right of that there's another header for
another flow rate meter just in case you want to have a second Loop in your
system for audio in the bottom left hand corner you'll see the Supreme FX s1220
chip so that you have nice onboard audio
and then that brings us to the io where no stone was left unturned either at the
top you have a BIOS update button a Coss clear button two antennas for Wi-Fi a
DisplayPort and HDMI connection two USB
3.1 Gen 2 ports one in type A and one in
type c and then six USB 3.1 gen 1 ports
Ethernet optical audio and a new audio
Bay now this is what we're used to if you guys can see this right here this is
a standard audio Bay where everything is just colored on the outside this is the
new bay notice how everything is just gold that could be a little frustrating
to figure out what you need to plug in but no they're all are RGB lit just like
everything else on the motherboard so in it's default configuration everything's
kind of what you'd expect it the one that used to be green is green the one that used to be blue is blue but you
could change it if you wanted to I think the Maximus 9 extreme kind of redefines
what it means to have an extremely high-end motherboard and it's in the
name so it kind of makes sense but let me know what you guys think in the comments down below thank you to
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