the Corsair carbide air 540 High airflow Cube case is great for air cooling or
liquid cooling check the link in the video description to learn more I would
make the argument that the Rampage 4 Gene is still the most extreme grade
motherboard for an matx system that is microatx it uses LGA 2011 which at the
time of filming this only supports up to second gen Intel Core Series processor
so that Sandy Bridge however Ivy bridgy is coming soon meaning you'll be able to
slap a six Core Extreme Edition or non-extreme Edition Ivy Bridge so that's
third generation core series processor onto this as well as up to 32 GB of
memory up to two dual slot graphics
cards in SLI or Crossfire as well as
pretty much anything else you would want to put on it this is an
extremely powerful little motherboard
and the emphasis of course being on the fact that it is little it's matx I mean
look at that the socket takes up like most of the motherboard so anyway let's
go through the accessories first of all there's do not disturb I am gaming go
away Republic of Gamers door hanger awesome love it there's the Rog connect
cable so this allows you to tweak BIOS options at a hardware level using a
secondary machine such as a notebook by plugging into the Rog connect enabled
USB port on the back of the board we've got six SATA cables so three of them are
right right angle and three of them are straight these are validated for SATA 2
or SATA 3 speed operation their Q connector feature which I feel is for
lazy people or people with very very fat fingers can be handy for that plugging
in your front panel connectors a republic of Gamers SLI bridge that is
optimized for the short distance in between the two PCI Express 16x slots
and yes those my friends are full PCI
Express 16x slots because this is LGA 2011 and for anyone who thinks that
lga11 50 is getting more than four dim
slots or more than PCIe 8X by 8X SLI or
Crossfire support anytime soon no no no no no no no not without things like sort
of weird Bridge chips and cluggy solutions like that next up we've got an
IO Shield like padding on the back it's kind of cool a user guide the Rog
connect guide the SATA HCI RAID Mode
notice as well as an enormous sticker that I personally wouldn't put anywhere
near my computer but if you really want to have a huge Rog logo on your uh
system hi JJ just bugging um anyway that's up
that's up to you that's up to you why don't we just leave it at that all right
so features other than the fact that ASUS
reserves the very best quality components for their Republic of Gamers
class of products what do you actually get for spending so much on a
motherboard that inherently doesn't do that much more than another
motherboard well for one thing especially when you're trying to build a
smaller class of system using very high quality components in the voltage
regulation modules is incredibly important so ASUS is using 10K black
caps that are rated for 105° C operation so that means that in a
cramped case no matter what sort of bad stuff is going on with this system you
are not going to be in a situation where it's going to be running out of spec and
it's not going to last for very long so that is not what this is about you've
also got a nice little heat pipe that connects all of the various voltage
regulation module components that are above the socket as well as beside the
socket using higher quality components also reduces things like coil wine so
for example when you hear that noise when you're underload that
can be attributed to lower quality components all right so what else do you
get you get a better audio solution generally speaking on an ASUS R board
than you get on almost anywhere else right here is their Redline audio
concept so you can actually see that instead of including like they did with
Supreme FX2 a separate PCB Riser card
that goes into one of your PCI Express slots they have a little illuminated red
line that separates the sound card PCB on the motherboard from the rest of the
PCB there's an aluminum Shield as well as the fact that the sound processor is
as far away from the other components as possible to reduce interference and that
right there is A500 microfarad
like massive capacitor in addition to the audio grade capacitors elsewhere
that compensates for a couple of things so if you have like a sudden explosion
or something like that and it's drawing more power than normal you might with a
normal audio solution see something like uh clipping or or it because it's not
able to deliver enough power this is designed to smooth out those things so
better Audio Solutions are something that I personally do feel are help
justify a more expensive board even though you could buy less expensive board and dedicated card but of course
ASUS has Zonar cards for that you also get better PCB design so you've got your
PCI Express 8 pin connector still in its ideal top location as well as the 24 pin
connector in its ideal right hand location this is more difficult and it
does take adding more layers to the PCB in order to maintain an optimal layout
and still have it fit in a smaller form
factor now I did mention this is a bit of an older board so the SATA ports uh
feel a little bit dated at this point but you've got four SATA 3 6 GB per
second ports two running off the Intel chipset two running off a third party as
media chipset and then two say to 2 3 GB
per second ports I probably should have mentioned that the CPU is entirely
digitally powered so all the vrm is fully Digi I think they call it what is
it Digi plus 2 so that means you have all the tweakability that you could
possibly want that's another thing that you get with Rog boards that you don't get with other boards is that going to
help you overclock better unless your name is Andre Yang possibly no but if
you want to feel better having all the bells and whistles there's the way to do
it actually there's another SATA 3 or SATA 2 3 GB per second connector down
here and that's uh y say 3G and then
we've got our front panel connectors to front USB 2 as well as onboard start
reset and go button switches you can
actually H there get your front audio connector and then that leads us to the
PCI Express lot so dual PCIe 16x this
guy right here is wired only for 8X and this one is wired for Forex so you could
fill this up with a full complement of graphics cards and other expansion cards
and you would get very very satisfactory
performance indeed it supports up to DDR3 2400 MHz however you will have to
overclock in order to achieve that and moving along to the rear AIO we've got
eight USB 2.0 ports again this is a bit of an older board two USB 3.0 ports a
clear seos button the Rog connect button as well as BIOS flashback functional is
built into this board so if you do brick the board the power goes out in the
middle of a BIOS flash you can restore it simply by following the instructions
on the ASUS website optical digital audio out a PS2 port in Intel NYX so you
can use that to prioritize game packets
um using the aiite software and then 7.1
audio out as well as an eat Port you it
includes a copy of demon tools standards as well as kasperski antivirus and
something that I'm sure JJ is watching this video and I'm sure was ready to
write me an email telling me I had forgotten about I have not Supreme fx3
in spite of the fact that I've mentioned several times now this is an older board
is still getting updated so their new uh sound radar or whatever they call it
basically it's a visual indicator on your screen that actually points out
where sounds are coming from in game in real time it's basically cheating as far
as I can tell but hey every Advantage right um has been added to Supreme
effects 3 re boards even older ones like
this one so you pair this up with an ivybridge E processor and a couple of
GTX Titans and you have one powerhouse of a system in a very small form factor
thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the Maximus 4 genan did
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