IntroductionBuying a motherboard these days is a difficult task since, in terms of performance, there is very little to choose between the top contenders. Brand loyalty is one of the roadmaps but feel that something good could be missed by lack of knowledge of different offers. Manufacturers have had a difficult time, and most were forced into an arms race “to add more features and more to their boards stand out. A recent example is the tendency to put large quantities of copper on board with a performance gain little to show for it but at a disproportionate cost. Why did they do? Just because people choose motherboards based on reading the specifications quantitatively. We believe that the much larger value for the customer can be achieved through functionality (software and hardware) in the package that gives them tangible benefits. ASUS is a great example of that. Their strategy is to lead through innovation and does not follow the herd. Readers will already be familiar with products such as line Eee and other entertainment products at home they have developed. The ROG (Republic of Gamers) brand has quickly gained popularity games and extreme overclocking workshops and seminars taking place in many countries. The selection of prizes awarded at these events shows how ASUS understand the needs and aspirations of their target audience. We have been impressed lately with the function set of ASUS motherboards and think it is now time to examine them with an emphasis on those characteristics and not a plethora of benchmarks comparing 20 + boards that come to perform in within 1% of the other. Today, the board in question is the Maximus III Gene, taking a flagship product of 1156 for Intel i5 and i7 (8XX series) processors. Council FeaturesA brief summary of the main features include: Deleting save space – please refer to www. ASUS. com for more box detailsBoard LayoutThe comes in a package of Nice, which highlights the ROG logo showing that he is an enthusiast motherboard and players. It is really Windows 7 ready and everything was detected correctly during our 64-bit Windows 7 Pro installation. The installation of additional drivers and utilities that come with the enclosed CD is still highly recommended though. The onboard X-Fi supports EAX 4. 0 for its advanced HD and comes with a filter to eliminate noise during recording. We tested in both 5. 1 and 7. Modes 1 channel without distortion and a good channel separation. There are so many features that the front and back of the box are not sufficient and an additional component is used to comment further. It also adds to the box “gift” effect and may make a gift this summer holiday. All these features on a board that is not cluttered and is mATX! As SLI / CrossFire capabilities, we can see that it is passively cooled with a heatsink important in the lower right corner. There are twelve participants design a power plant consisting of eight phase CPU power phases two and two bike power of memory phase. There are 7-port SATA-2 and E-SATA port header. The four DDR3 slots operate in dual channel mode and memory support up to 16GB DDR3-2133 through the BIOS. The red button allows recovery without erasing the BIOS if the settings are too extreme during overclocking. The addition of an on / off switch allows testers or those who do not use a classic case. A legacy PCI slot is here for, so old PCI RAID controller you can not bear to separate. RAID 0 and 1 is supported on the SATA-2 ports and will be profitable until SSDs become common. PS / 2 keyboard connectors are only looking at the past and the 8-channel audio is fully supported and configurable when the full audio drivers are installed. The USB port on the side is actually the ROG connector and allows a notebook to monitor and configure the remote PC. In practice, this works well with our Eee PC 901 using the supplied cable. Firewire and E-SATA (there is another e-SATA and FireWire connectors on the other side of the commission for matters that have these connectors on them) are included. Adding a Clear CMOS button on the rear panel you please overclockers and record the voltage to achieve a jumper with a pair of long nose pliers while holding a flashlight between the teeth and aiming with the handling language. . . . Included in the box are SATA cables with metal bars to make them easy to remove and keeping them in place against accidental removal – a long way from the first SATA cables that are included with many motherboards Today ‘hui. The cable ROG is just a USB port (male to male) lead. Padding on the back shield forms a good fit with the edge of the plate and is densely built making it easy to install and remove without bending. The SLI bridge is easy to install and the most notable thing is the Q-Connector for the son of cases (HDD, power, switch off, etc.) so they can be mounted there and the connector together subscribed for access requirements. This is the kind of time-saving feature that leaves people wondering why nobody has thought before. Test SetupRemoved to save space – please refer to the HTML version of the article for detailsOverclockingSocket 1156 processors, like their brothers and sisters socket 1366 are known for their overclocking capabilities so we started with great our hopes for i7-870 on this forum using the options available in the extensive BIOS. The BIOS is too detailed for us to explore in this review but you should read this video on YouTube here and if your appetite is whetted for more information, you can download the manual from the ASUS support site. Our first goal was 3. 5GHz and this was achieved without significant increase in temperatures (the Corsair H50 watercooler sealed processor is truly remarkable and completely silent). All objectives have been implemented without problems. Incredibly, the system posted and booted into Windows at 4GHz voltage of stock. Running the Far Cry 2 benchmark caused blocking well and we’ve increased the CPU voltage to 1. 35V before the processor completed all tests without any problem. Even so, 1. 35V is still on the low side compared to some extreme, we have seen with simple cooling. We conducted our tests at stock speeds but to allow readers to make comparisons on a fixed base. Test ResultsWe should explain why we selected certain tests and why we have repeated for 1, 2, 3 and 4 cores. People buy motherboards for various uses and if you are a player who can make do with 2 cores or Avid video editor, which will max out 4 cores processor determines what you will pair with the board. We always recommend not skimping on selecting and buying a motherboard upscale, fully describes the former as the gene III Maximus (high-end socket standards in 1156 – half the price of a socket 1366 Board ) provides the greatest flexibility as we shall see. The benchmarks show which processor is best suited for particular uses. We compare the ASUS Maximus III gene with the Deluxe ASUS M4A79T. The advantage of DDR3-2000 compared to DDR3-1600 dual channel memory can be clearly seen. Synthetic benchmarks eliminate bottlenecks and to show the true potential of cores increases. Only users of the AMD platform will be able to replace the existing processor with a 6-core “Bulldozer” next year. There are no plans for 6-core Gulftown “(aka I9) processors that can fit into a motherboard socket 1156. Such a position, with a very linear scale. The number of cores has no effect on memory bandwidth (fortunately, there is no single core Athlons in the configuration AM3). The results here are very interesting and stabilization after 2 drivers for the i7-870, but more linear for the slower CPU AMD X4. The results are above average for councils of these chipsets. Far Cry 2 is widely recognized as the game to bring any system to its knees and we have deliberately tried to highest settings for each resolution and with 8x antialiasing. Frame rates are quite playable at all resolutions (we do not have a 30 “monitor for ultra-high resolutions). Contrasts between FPS Far Cry 2 is Tom Clancy’s HAWX, which is a cross between the simulator flight and air combat games and we have reached more than 60 frames per second at all resolutions. horror games are currently popular and Resident Evil 5 has a function analysis; built in. The board very good results in this test. ConclusionWe’ve deliberately avoided getting bogged down with dozens of benchmarks comparing several motherboards because it is a component where performance varies depending generally less than 1% throughout range. Readers looking to see these types of benchmarks are pointed at AnandTech and similar sites. We have already explored in depth and be assured that the Maximus III gene is in the top 3 in almost all test benchmarks available. Instead, we focus on the added features and bundled software that add unique value to each motherboard. ROG motherboards have never disappointed in terms of functionality and Maximus III gene n ‘is no exception despite its mATX form factor that puts pressure on available “real” estate. The choice of what appears to be to enable the Commission to be used for the compact form factor and easy to transport systems for players to use in LAN parties and gaming conventions etc. Overclocking used to be the realm of amateur requiring great skill / experience and tenacity with nerves of iron required and the constant danger of destruction of equipment adding the voltage on the hours it took to get a stable overclock. This is not the case, now that ASUS has made it easy for everyone (and we can no longer impress women at parties by themselves present as PC overclockers ….) with StepUp PC Iroga connect MemPerfect and a host of Windows utilities making it easy to get professional results in a fraction of the time and with little or no risk. When everything is taken into account, we believe that the ASUS Maximus III gene is the best motherboard socket 1156 is currently available and the price is much for its target market.