ASUS Maximus 4 Extreme Review
CineBench and wPrime
Published: 3rd January 2011 | Source: ASUS | Price: £300 tbc |
CineBench
Once again the sheer number crunching capabilities shine through as we see the highest CPU score we've seen by some distance. Even at stock the Maximus IV setup is on a par with a heavily overclocked Rampage III Extreme, but once you do the single-click overclock it's romping off into the distance with a massive 9 CPU pts.
Of slight concern is that once again the OpenGL abilities seem to be in question. We'll run some games on the next page to see.
wPrime
As if to emphasise the main strengths of this setup being about the ability to crunch numbers at an incredible speed, the wPrime result is the fastest Quad-Core we've seen and not far off some of the hex-core results we've got.
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I like the UEFI as a change from bios
glad to see IDE and PCI has finally gone and them new BIOS look SWEET!
Will you do an update or anything when they release a more stable BIOS?
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Will you do an update or anything when they release a more stable BIOS? |
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Possibly, depends if they have taken the board back by then. |
Feedback for your graphs.
You should add static values to each bar to make it easier to compare between them. There are so many graphs associated with reviews such as yours, would be nice to be able to move more quickly through them.
And especially in cases like the wprime95 in your new LGA 1155 review where the 1024M values are so high they stretch the scale, leaving almost no resolution for displaying the 1M results. So you have to hover the mouse over each of them.
Also just post them as pictures, the animations don't really add anything to it and pictures will probably load faster. But most importantly you gain compatibility with non flash compatible mobile devices.
I mostly read review and do research when commuting and being out of the house. Most other sites work for that, but yours.
Other than that, thanks for a great site. I appreciate the amount of detail you out into your work.
Looking forward to see how far you can get the i7-2600K on boards like the new UD7 from Gigabyte. I don't really trust the Digi+ VRM and UEFI bios yet.
You should add static values to each bar to make it easier to compare between them. There are so many graphs associated with reviews such as yours, would be nice to be able to move more quickly through them.
And especially in cases like the wprime95 in your new LGA 1155 review where the 1024M values are so high they stretch the scale, leaving almost no resolution for displaying the 1M results. So you have to hover the mouse over each of them.
Also just post them as pictures, the animations don't really add anything to it and pictures will probably load faster. But most importantly you gain compatibility with non flash compatible mobile devices.
I mostly read review and do research when commuting and being out of the house. Most other sites work for that, but yours.
Other than that, thanks for a great site. I appreciate the amount of detail you out into your work.
Looking forward to see how far you can get the i7-2600K on boards like the new UD7 from Gigabyte. I don't really trust the Digi+ VRM and UEFI bios yet.
So is EFI just a new bios with a GUI or does allow for really fast boot times too?
It should be faster in theory, although it doesn't appear to be so far..
Could you review some P67 Gigabyte boards also? Before release date?? 
will the nh-d14 fit on the other asus p67 boards?can u plz review them as well????
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will the nh-d14 fit on the other asus p67 boards?can u plz review them as well???? |
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will the nh-d14 fit on the other asus p67 boards?can u plz review them as well???? |
I have the same question, i.e. will the NH-D14 fit and allow for RAM with heat sinks.
Tim
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Tim
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Woops. Looks like that is what you used in your review. Now I know it fits.
Thx!
Tim
Thx!
Tim
Still love my Fatal1ty P67 Professional
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