ASUS Maximus III Formula P55 SLI LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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997 words · ~4 min read
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so today on my video blog we've got the Maximus 3 formula so this is A's premium
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p55 LGA 1156 board you can see from the
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logos on the front it supports NVIDIA SLI and ATI Crossfire X technology so
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this is a republic of Gamers board which
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means you've got all of ausa's high-end features so you got a black red and
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white color scheme for the board we're going to get that out in a minute here
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but let's talk about a couple of the basic features that uh you will find on
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it so it also features something that's new for their p-55 boards their mem
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technology which basically allows you to press a button and make sure that your
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motherboard is going to select the most compatible possible settings for your
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memory to ensure that you can post even with more exotic RAM so that's kind of a
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cool feature well let's take out the matte black box here that has all of the
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accessories and there are a lot of accessories so here we've got Q connect
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which allows you to plug in all your individual little pins and then plug in
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into the board as an entire brick then we've got uh what appears to be an SLI
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Bridge that's a very short SLI Bridge actually um the spacing must be a little
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bit on the different side here's some zap zip ties then we've got the user
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guide including oh this is this is interesting so there's your your drivers
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and um your driver DVD and then here so
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this is for labeling all of your SATA connectors I've actually never seen this
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included in in a motherboard box before so you can all of the the SATA
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connectors that go to all of your different drives that's that's very
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unique that's uh very helpful for managing your cables and this is a
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sticker oh this is a republic of Gamers sticker for the side of your of your
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case that's very cool as well here we have a USB cable mhm and then we have
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the io Shield right there then we've got a
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whole lot of SATA cables so we' got 1 2 3 4 5 six SATA
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cables and then on the back panel we've got a two USB and one
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EA um IO plate and last but not least
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we've got the Supreme FX uh XF PCIe 1X
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audio board so that'll install in the
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top slot so we're all done with the
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accessories so let's get into the board itself here ah as I mentioned before
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this is a premium board from Aus so it
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will have almost all if not all of the high-end
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bells and whistles sorts of features so let's get it uh kind of in a more
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comfortable place here so we can have a look at it here all right so let's start
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with the basic layout here's our two PCIe 16x slots so like almost all p-55
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boards they're going to run at 8X 8X if you're running SLI or Crossfire so you
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can see you've actually got another PCI e6x slot that one will run at 4X now in
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terms of SATA ports you've got a ton of SATA port ports on this board you've got
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two here that are labeled for optical drives you've got two here that are
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labeled for um hard drives and then you've got another six these are the
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ones you're going to want to use first cuz these are the ones coming off the actual chipset of the board the Intel
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chipset so those can be used for anything then for power connectors we've
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got the power connectors in their usual locations with the 24 pin on the right
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and then the eight pin over at the top left now in terms of the power design
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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
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16 uh this is probably a 16 plus three phase power design based on checking out
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how many phases there are so the three phases are actually for the uncore of
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the CPU now one thing I noticed right away about this board is that all of the
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fan headers oh and the cameraman's having a look at the uh at the cool
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glowing logo on the North Bridge that's pretty sweet actually I really like the
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uh the the fashionable sort of color choices they've gone with for this board
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it's uh Far Cry better than what we've seen in the past from everyone actually
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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
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headers so there are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight
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of them on this board all over the place that's a really cool thing to see like
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all p55 boards you got support for dual Channel DDR3 memory and let's have a
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look at what's available on the back so here we go we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 N9
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USB ports one PS2 keyboard port a simos
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reset button then we've got fire wire East SATA 1 GB Ethernet port and then we
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have the ASUS uh what is this thing even called actually it's called R OG connect
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so you've got a port for that feature as well this button will turn that on so
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anyway thank you for checking out my blog on the Maximus 3 formula