ASUS Maximus 4 Extreme Review
First Look
Published: 3rd January 2011 | Source: ASUS | Price: £300 tbc |
First Look
Externally the M4E keeps up the standard ROG style packaging, with clear and concise information provided throughout. Also nice to see is the de rigueur flap with a clear panel to enable you to get a good look at the board prior to purchase.
One element that the ROG boards always do well is the inclusion of extensive documentation. Whilst we could berate them for not having sufficient information upon the various BIOS settings or a troubleshooting guide that extends to more than "check it's plugged in" these are faults that occur with every single motherboard manual on the planet and so it would be churlish to single out ASUS.
The stickers that can be used to identify the SATA cables are highly useful especially if you've got multiple storage identical devices. I'm sure we've all accidentally formatted our backup drive at some point in our lives.
The IO Shield is gloriously padded. No more do we end up looking like we've sparred with Jason Vorhees after installing it.
As you can see the board itself is very similar to the rest of the ROG lineup. Black and red abounds, although the heatsinks aren't quite as outre as they were on the Rampage III.
Most Recent Comments
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Originally Posted by Zeals
Will you do an update or anything when they release a more stable BIOS? |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
Possibly, depends if they have taken the board back by then. |
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.
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Originally Posted by coolgame
will the nh-d14 fit on the other asus p67 boards?can u plz review them as well???? |
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Originally Posted by coolgame
will the nh-d14 fit on the other asus p67 boards?can u plz review them as well???? |
Tim
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