First Look at ASUS Maximus Extreme

malware · Sep 17, 2007

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tkpenalty · Sep 17, 2007

wtf? Two phase power independent for the RAM? seperate power phase for NB as well! Look at the size of that southbridge cooler as well!

Grings · Sep 17, 2007

Very nice, wonder if they'll (ASUS) be doing a ddr2 x38

OnBoard · Sep 17, 2007

Anyone else think they should come up with cooler running chipsets ?) That's more heatsink and heatpipes than in many CPU coolers

But surely those with a water cooled rig will like it.

erocker · Sep 17, 2007

What all gets cooled with water?

OnBoard · Sep 17, 2007

erocker said:
What all gets cooled with water?

Well everything is connected to each other, so yes. Wonder though will that run also with boxed cooler, seem like water cooling would just be an option.

xnox202 · Sep 17, 2007

i think it looks awesome. way awesome.

*probarbly hopes this comes with ddr2*

Weer · Sep 17, 2007

Why oh why doesn't it have SLi

Urbklr · Sep 17, 2007

Because the 2900 is the way of the future

newtekie1 · Sep 17, 2007

I never really liked the boards with built in waterblocks, they usually use 1/4 inch connectors, which make them pretty useless.

tkpenalty · Sep 17, 2007

newtekie1 said:
I never really liked the boards with built in waterblocks, they usually use 1/4 inch connectors, which make them pretty useless.

true... still...you still get pretty decent peformance from this though

nflesher87 · Sep 17, 2007

must be one heck of a south bridge! lol that's a massive HS

and yeah I don't care for the whole stock wc block on the NB...just jacks up the price so they can charge even more of a premium for their top board...

FreedomEclipse · Sep 17, 2007

I am Decimus Maximus Motherbordus - Leader of the North & South bridges....

what? a D.P system for the ram???? thats f**king awesome but is ram even that fragile to fluck-chew-ations in voltage? would it be more cost effective to just manualy volt mod the Vram instead of adding a complete new unit & adding a crapper onto of the original price?

But yeah - geat for less experienced users who want to overclock their ram without the hassle of running the risk of burning their fingers on a soldering iron.

at the same time - If faster ram runs on less voltage while running faster & the Bios contains more Vram options then what would be the added benefit of having a extra D.P.S built in???? (D.P.S - Dual Power System)

EastCoasthandle · Sep 17, 2007

I can't find a 12V connection? :wtf:

Simri · Sep 17, 2007

xnox202 said:
i think it looks awesome. way awesome.

*probarbly hopes this comes with ddr2*

Asus Maximus Formula = DDR2
Asus Maximus Extreme = DDR3

EastCoasthandle said:
I can't find a 12V connection?

nflesher87 · Sep 17, 2007

Simri said:
Asus Maximus Formula = DDR2
Asus Maximus Extreme = DDR3

nice spot, wonder why it has that plug in it?

WarEagleAU · Sep 17, 2007

where are yall seeing a dual phase power deal for the ram? Im simply not seeing it.

This is one sweet looking bad mofo mobo <snigger>
Price wise, probably 500 bucks. There is more copper, HS, etc on this mobo, than my whole pc has!!!!

newtekie1 · Sep 17, 2007

nflesher87 said:
nice spot, wonder why it has that plug in it?

Because it is an 8-pin connector, they put the little black plug in it so people with 4-pin power connectors on their power supplies know which 4-pins on the motherboard to use. You take it out if you have an 8-pin power supply.

nflesher87 · Sep 17, 2007

newtekie1 said:
Because it is an 8-pin connector, they put the little black plug in it so people with 4-pin power connectors on their power supplies know which 4-pins on the motherboard to use. You take it out if you have an 8-pin power supply.

haha yikes an 8 pin in addition to the 24 pin...apparently intel wasn't worried about power consumption when they had the X38 on the drawing board :laugh:

newtekie1 · Sep 17, 2007

My 680i motherboard has the same thing, it is actually for the processor not the motherboard. Boards that support the Pentium Extreme processors are required to have an 8-pin connector, IIRC. The P965 based ASUS Commando has the same thing also.

JacKz5o · Sep 17, 2007

Hmm, is it just me or does the northbridge heatsink look like colored aluminum and not copper?

Is this like the only non-100% copper heatsinked ASUS board?

newtekie1 · Sep 17, 2007

It certainly does look like anodized aluminum to me.

PVTCaboose1337 · Sep 24, 2007

Pretty sexy.

hat · Sep 24, 2007

WTF... I see few people buying this. A low, low percentage of the market are enthusiasts, and even lower are the people who have watercooling...

erocker · Sep 24, 2007

You don't have to use watercooling with it. I would.

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