Maximus 4 extreme this is a p67
motherboard it is evidently designed for overclocking it is part of the Republic
of Gamers brand from ASUS it supports the latest Intel Core i7 Core i5 and
core I3 processors if for whatever reason you're putting a core I3 on
Extreme motherboard which you shouldn't be doing um on the LGA 1155 platform it
features the Intel p67 chipset it is fully SLI ready and ATI Crossfire X
ready although that should probably be called AMD Crossfire X at some point it
features the I direct which is a on of
gosh darn minute a Bluetooth no well you
know what we'll get into that later Rog connect which I am familiar with so you
use a USB cable to plug into a thirdparty computer using a utility to
overclock your PC 3D Mark vantages included 10 USB 3.0 ports two at the
front eight at the back uh We've also got a Bluetooth module accessory card
which is included RG connect which we talked about already
supports three-way SLI and Crossfire X so not four-way but three-way is just
plenty for an LGA 1155 socket anyhow I
mean remember the CPU only has 16 PCI E
Lanes built into the uh the controller anyway oh you know what I haven't showed
you the whole package yet there we go so more of the same information here uh oh
okay I direct here we go tune your PC from your iPhone or iPad now
nice just in case you want to Extreme
Engine Digi plus so that is uh powerful combination of analog and digital design
elements for the vrm there's the motherboard itself let's get this baby
opened up so accessories box first because I always tease you guys like
that here we go lots of accessories this
is a high-end board so it has all the accessories so this is that uh Bluetooth
module okay this is our three-way SLI
Bridge here's our two-way oh rather Crossfire Bridge here's our two-way SLI
Bridge we're going to put those all together this didn't seem organized right to me all right we've got some zip
ties we've got the Q connectors we've
also got um voltage checkpoints so
probit quick installation thing so you can check the voltages and we'll cover
that when we have a look at the board itself IO Shield couple temp probes
three to be exact uh Maximus 4 extreme user guide
including uh sticker and installation DVD as well as labels for your SATA CA
so you can keep track of which or which once you've already routed them in your case finally exclusive feature guide so
Rog connect RC Bluetooth and rogi direct
overclocking from your iPhone next I'm expecting them to include uh utility
that lets you overclock your iPhone got that weird case sticker the big huge one
that I did eventually find someone who had installed it on their case so that
was uh that was interesting next we've got the Rog connect cable which is a USB
cable with Rog stamped on it essentially okay we've got four SATA 3 6 gbit per
second cables which are only different from the other ones and the fact that they're white they're all right angle
and then we have four more right angle SATA 2 connectors we have rear USB 2.0
bracket and that is it for the
accessories now let's close that back up
and have a look at the board itself so ASUS has had the whole Republic of
Gamers color scheme thing just figured
out for a while now I mean look at this this looks fantastic oh you're in the
light cameraman way to go all right so from that angle this should look pretty
darn impressive which is what it looks like in person so why don't we start at
the middle of the board here's our LGA 1155 socket surrounded by the digi plus
vrm so you can see here that they're using a fairly different looking design
for the for the voltage regulation modules remember that clean voltage to
your CPU is very important for achieving the highest possible overclocks we've
also got I mean they've done such a good job of these on the last few generations
of boards really neat looking mosfet heat sinks as well as the heat pipes
that tie them into the Northbridge heat sink and then uh nothing connected but
you can see that the Southbridge heat sink is stylized similarly as well now I
do know they're not called North Bridge and Southbridge anymore but I'm old
school like that you're not going to break that habit sorry guys all right
we've got our 8 Pin power connector up here at the top of the board right where
it belongs top left ideal location now
we don't have dual eight pins but I would go as far as to say that's completely unnecessary on a p67 board
all right we've got uh let's move this way so we have four DDR3 slots
supporting dual Channel these are the easy install slots so they only have
Clips on the one side you put your module in like this and you clip it closed all right we've got built-in
start and reset switches we have liquid nitrogen mode switch on and off so that
might be handy if you're benchmarking with liquid nitrogen this this is smart
this is a much better place for the Post LED because you can actually see this
when you have graphics cards installed love it start reset also we have the PCI
e6x switches these I'm a big fan of as
well if especially if you have water cooling installed full cover blocks it
can be real pain to troubleshoot which card is on the fritz so you can turn off
your PCIe lanes and boot to whichever card you want here are all the uh
voltage checkpoints so we have RAM CPU
uh nf200 chip even uh PCH PLL uh PCH CPU
IO CPU P CPU oh sorry this is uh CPU SAA
all right moving down we have the Go Button we have a 24 pin power connector
and its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board we have SATA IO
so the red ones red ones are SATA 3 6 GB
per second these ones are running off the Intel chipset these ones are running
off a third party chipset these are SATA to 3 GB per second and since this is a
B3 revision board they are not affected by the bug that affected the original
p67 boards here's a bio switch so we have two dedicated Hardware BIOS chips
you can save one set of settings in the other one and then if you're experimenting you can switch over to
your other BIOS boot up to that one and then play around with whatever it is you
want to do here's all your front panel connectors moving right along we've got
clear seos somewhere there's a little
arrow pointing somewhere not sure what in the heck okay you know what just
don't one to2 disable enable one 2 to three disable two clear seam mode I I
don't know what this does okay forget it okay we've got four USB 2.0 front panel
headers cuz they didn't really have any room for them on the back since it's
full of USB 3 couple fan headers we've got a couple of easy plugs so one two
easy plugs so if you are installing a ton of graphics cards I would definitely
recommend using those because they will help provide some supplementary power to
your cards we have 1 2 3 4 four PCI e6x
slots uh they are all wired for no hold
on one two three of them are wired for
16x so those ones are going to be running off the nf200 chip this one is
only wired for adx so if you install three cards you're going to be using up
this this and this you will have no room for additional expansion cards now this
one right here is PCI e1x uh that one's going to have full bandwidth regard
regardless this is a PCI e4x that's running off the chipset so that one will
have full bandwidth regardless of what you install in all these slots so these are going to run in uh I could check the
manual but I'm just going to guess correct me if I'm wrong should be
161616 or it could also be 8888 but you
can't run four-way SLI or Crossfire anyway so I don't really see the point
of doing that unless you're folding folding at home okay USB 3.0 rear panel
header so that's an interesting location for that I guess if you're going to put
like a PCI bracket in that would be useful and then finally I think that's
pretty much it so here's where the Bluetooth module installs the one that was in the packaging and one more thing
back out from the board so this is not a
standard ATX board like many Republic of Gamers boards in the past it is slightly
wider so an ATX board would end right here this board ends right here so while
you don't need an eatx case you do need an ATX case um that is a little bit
wider than the farther far rightmost mounting holes to make sure that you'll
be able to install this board now another thing I want to talk talk about
is we have 1 2 3 four oh here back out
cuz you're not going to be able to see where I'm pointing 1 2 3 4
5 six 7 eight pwm fan headers on this
motherboard so you can plug in a ton of fans to this motherboard without
overloading it all right let's have a look at the back iio plate last but not
least we've got a PS2 U PS2 keyboard
mouse combo Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 USB 3.0
ports two eeta ports a clear Simo switch
optical audio out two Intel gigabit
network connections so these are not using third party controllers we have
the Rog connect button as well as the r connect Port as well as 7.1 audio out on
the back of the board we find a couple of heat sinks for the mosfets so those
are going to give you an additional little bit of heat dissipation on the back of the board and also of noticed
the fact that all of the heat sinks on this motherboard are using screws
spring-loaded screws with plastic washers to ensure no shorting out and
also no disengaging like you can have happen from time to time with those
plastic Clips thank you for checking out this unboxing of the Maximus 4 extrem
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