so today on my video blog we've got the Maximus 3 formula so this is A's premium
p55 LGA 1156 board you can see from the
logos on the front it supports NVIDIA SLI and ATI Crossfire X technology so
this is a republic of Gamers board which
means you've got all of ausa's high-end features so you got a black red and
white color scheme for the board we're going to get that out in a minute here
but let's talk about a couple of the basic features that uh you will find on
it so it also features something that's new for their p-55 boards their mem
technology which basically allows you to press a button and make sure that your
motherboard is going to select the most compatible possible settings for your
memory to ensure that you can post even with more exotic RAM so that's kind of a
cool feature well let's take out the matte black box here that has all of the
accessories and there are a lot of accessories so here we've got Q connect
which allows you to plug in all your individual little pins and then plug in
into the board as an entire brick then we've got uh what appears to be an SLI
Bridge that's a very short SLI Bridge actually um the spacing must be a little
bit on the different side here's some zap zip ties then we've got the user
guide including oh this is this is interesting so there's your your drivers
and um your driver DVD and then here so
this is for labeling all of your SATA connectors I've actually never seen this
included in in a motherboard box before so you can all of the the SATA
connectors that go to all of your different drives that's that's very
unique that's uh very helpful for managing your cables and this is a
sticker oh this is a republic of Gamers sticker for the side of your of your
case that's very cool as well here we have a USB cable mhm and then we have
the io Shield right there then we've got a
whole lot of SATA cables so we' got 1 2 3 4 5 six SATA
cables and then on the back panel we've got a two USB and one
EA um IO plate and last but not least
we've got the Supreme FX uh XF PCIe 1X
audio board so that'll install in the
top slot so we're all done with the
accessories so let's get into the board itself here ah as I mentioned before
this is a premium board from Aus so it
will have almost all if not all of the high-end
bells and whistles sorts of features so let's get it uh kind of in a more
comfortable place here so we can have a look at it here all right so let's start
with the basic layout here's our two PCIe 16x slots so like almost all p-55
boards they're going to run at 8X 8X if you're running SLI or Crossfire so you
can see you've actually got another PCI e6x slot that one will run at 4X now in
terms of SATA ports you've got a ton of SATA port ports on this board you've got
two here that are labeled for optical drives you've got two here that are
labeled for um hard drives and then you've got another six these are the
ones you're going to want to use first cuz these are the ones coming off the actual chipset of the board the Intel
chipset so those can be used for anything then for power connectors we've
got the power connectors in their usual locations with the 24 pin on the right
and then the eight pin over at the top left now in terms of the power design
for the CPU you can see you can count them 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 uh this is probably a 16 plus three phase power design based on checking out
how many phases there are so the three phases are actually for the uncore of
the CPU now one thing I noticed right away about this board is that all of the
fan headers oh and the cameraman's having a look at the uh at the cool
glowing logo on the North Bridge that's pretty sweet actually I really like the
uh the the fashionable sort of color choices they've gone with for this board
it's uh Far Cry better than what we've seen in the past from everyone actually
but what you can see here here this is kind of a high-end feature is that you've got all four pin pwm ready fan
headers so there are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight
of them on this board all over the place that's a really cool thing to see like
all p55 boards you got support for dual Channel DDR3 memory and let's have a
look at what's available on the back so here we go we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 N9
USB ports one PS2 keyboard port a simos
reset button then we've got fire wire East SATA 1 GB Ethernet port and then we
have the ASUS uh what is this thing even called actually it's called R OG connect
so you've got a port for that feature as well this button will turn that on so
anyway thank you for checking out my blog on the Maximus 3 formula