RGB, Built-in Water Cooling, and MUCH more...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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thank you to Squarespace for sending us the CES 2017 for the past few years getting
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excited about a motherboard has actually been a little difficult other than like
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adding on rgbs and a few extra fan headers there hasn't been a ton that
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they've even been able to do because the chip manufacturers AMD and Intel have
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taken a lot of the work onto themselves and moved everything onto the chip but I
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think they might have figured it out that the maxim is 9 extreme this is an
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amazing freaking board and not just because everything lights up in whatever
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freaking color you want there's a ton of other cool things as well it comes with
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water cooling built onto it right away but not just water cooling water cooling
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with a built-in flow rate meter in the block and leak detection these little
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rings around the main G and a/ qu inch slots will actually detect if there's a
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leak and will send information to your computer to a user configurable shutdown
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timer cool but that's not it that's not
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it at all below that there's an extra little panel if you remove the screws on
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that there's an m.2 slot that is cooled by this little metal piece right here so
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it's all built in no need to point fans at your motherboard and across on the
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other side something that I really like I hate USB 3.0 headers they they just
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the too many pins the little tiny things they suck this right here is a USB 3.1
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Gen 2 header which will be available on newer cases coming up I think inwin and
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Leon Lee are currently kind of pushing cases and tons of other people will in
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the future it looks like a much better more robust header and I'm excited to
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use it there's a bunch of other cool stuff as well like dual bioses 12 fan
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headers most of which are in the bottom right hand corner or upper right hand
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corner with one on the left hand side just in case you have a back case fan
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and one kind of in the middle up there bunch of right angle stuff as well a
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four pin Molex on the bottom so you can throw more power into the graphics cards
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a right angle 24 pin which is pretty Sleek right angle SATA cables although
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those are fairly standard these days and then one of the now I'm going to call it
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old school although it's basically current generation USB 3.0 header as
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well two of those fan headers can be used to power your pumps and they are
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labeled accordingly and then just to the right of that there's another header for
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another flow rate meter just in case you want to have a second Loop in your
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system for audio in the bottom left hand corner you'll see the Supreme FX s1220
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chip so that you have nice onboard audio
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and then that brings us to the io where no stone was left unturned either at the
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top you have a BIOS update button a Coss clear button two antennas for Wi-Fi a
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DisplayPort and HDMI connection two USB
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3.1 Gen 2 ports one in type A and one in
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type c and then six USB 3.1 gen 1 ports
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Ethernet optical audio and a new audio
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Bay now this is what we're used to if you guys can see this right here this is
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a standard audio Bay where everything is just colored on the outside this is the
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new bay notice how everything is just gold that could be a little frustrating
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to figure out what you need to plug in but no they're all are RGB lit just like
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everything else on the motherboard so in it's default configuration everything's
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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
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could change it if you wanted to I think the Maximus 9 extreme kind of redefines
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what it means to have an extremely high-end motherboard and it's in the
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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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