ASUS Maximus II GENE mATX Motherboard
Introduction & Specifications
Published: 29th July 2009 | Source: Asus | Price: £132.24 |
It wasn't so long ago that the mATX motherboard was deemed only acceptable for use inside HTPC setups or budget builds. Most came with shoddy low-end integrated graphics and nasty on-board sound chips and no enthusiast in their right minds would consider going anywhere near one. However, on the 27th February 2009 ASUS shocked us all. By splicing the features of their high-end Republic of Gamers Rampage II motherboard along the standard mATX form factor, the first ever performance i7 X58 mATX motherboard was born. Named the ASUS RoG Rampage II Gene, the board was received well by both enthusiasts and the press. Not only did it possess all the features of it's larger ATX counterpart but it was also more affordable, better at overclocking and took the lead in many benchmarks.Intel® Socket 775 Core™2 Quad/Core™2 Extreme/Core™2 Duo/Pentium® dual-core/Celeron® dual-core / Celeron® Processors Support Intel® 45nm Multi-Core CPU
* Refer to www.asus.com for Intel CPU support list
Chipset
Intel® P45 /ICH10R
Front Side Bus
1600/1333/1066/800 MHz
Memory:
4 x DIMM, Max. 16 GB, DDR2 1300/1200/1066/800/667 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory
Dual Channel memory architecture
*Refer to www.asus.com or this user manual for the Memory QVL(Qualified Vendors Lists).
Expansion Slots
2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (single max @ x16,dual @ x8 speed)
1 x PCIe x1
1 x PCI 2.2
Multi-GPU Support
Support ATI CrossFireX™ Technology
Storage
Intel ICH10R controller
6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports
Intel Matrix Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10
JMicron® JMB363 PATA and SATA controller
1 xUltraDMA 133/100/66/33 for up to 2 PATA devices
1 xExternal SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
1 xSATA 3.0 Gb/s port
LAN
Gigabit LAN
Audio
SupremeFX X-Fi built-in
8 - Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- EAX® Advanced™ HD 4.0
- X-Fi CMSS®-3D
- X-Fi Crystalizer™
- Creative ALchemy
IEEE 1394 2 x 1394a ports (1 port at back I/O, 1 port onboard)
USB 12 USB 2.0 ports (6 ports at back I/O, 6 ports onboard)
Overclocking Features
Keyboard-TweakIt
CPU Level Up
iROG
Extreme Tweaker
Loadline Calibration
Power Design:
- 8-phase CPU power
- 2-phase DRAM power
- 2-phase NB power
Intelligent overclocking tools:
- TurboV
- O.C Profile
- COP EX (Component Overheat Protection - EX)
- Voltiminder LED
- ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall)
Special Features
ASUS MyLogo 3
ASUS EZ Flash 2
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
ASUS Q-Connector
External LCD Poster
MemOK!
One DIMM latch
Onboard Switches: Power / Reset / Memok / Clr CMOS (at rear)
ASUS EPU-6 Engine
ASUS Fan Xpert
Most Recent Comments
Ghost: Just noticed your Q. Bit hard to say without being able to say much about the P55, but I think it's going to all lay in the overclocking. Some say the i5 chips will be crap overclockers because Intel will have learned from their i7 920 'mistake', but I personally don't know.
Personally I'm looking forward to i9 and 6 core optys. Competition is deffo hotting up.
(smoke screen for, "if u want faster, pay more money" - prices we can now fix)
picking up this board tommorow from ccl :D got a q9650 on the way from ebay aswell it shal be epic!
Awesome dude!
Pix of course and OC screenies ;P
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will get beauty shots once my e5200, e8500 and q9650 arrive in the post :D overclocking madness anyone?!!?
ohh and thanks OC3D for the review you just drained my wallet
ohh and thanks OC3D for the review you just drained my wallet
Its only paper....look what you got in return :p


And with good cause !
Great stuff.