IntroductionBuying a motherboard these days is quite a difficult task because, in terms of performance, there is very little to choose between the top contenders. Brand loyalty is one way, but leaves the feeling that something good can be missed by lack of knowledge of different offers. The industry has had a difficult time and most have been forced into a “arms race” of adding more features to their boards stand out. A recent example is the tendency to place great amounts 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 viewing data in a quantitative way. We believe that the much larger value for the customer can not be achieved through features (software and hardware) in the package that gives them tangible benefits. ASUS is a great example. Their strategy is to lead through innovation and not follow the herd. Readers will already be familiar with products like the Eee and other home entertainment products, they have developed. The ROG (Republic of Gamers) branded fast gaining popularity with extreme gaming and workshops and seminars overclocking held in many countries. The selection of prizes awarded at these events shows how close ASUS understand the needs and aspirations of their target audience. We were impressed from a time with the game based ASUS motherboards and I think it is now time to examine them with an emphasis on features and not a multitude of benchmarks comparing + 20 boards to make that happen less than 1% on the other. Today, the board in question is the Maximus III Gene, making Intel’s flagship product for 1156 i5 and i7 (8XX series) processors. FeaturesA Council brief summary of the main features include: Deleting save space – please visit www. ASUS. com for more detailsBoard LayoutThe box comes in a pretty package that highlights the ROG logo showing that it is an enthusiastic player and mother. He is really ready to Windows 7 and everything was detected correctly during our 64-bit Windows Setup Pro 7. Installation of additional drivers and utilities that come with the CD is still highly recommended though. The board X-Fi supports EAX 4 . 0 for HD advanced audio and comes with a filter to remove background noise while recording. We tested in both. 5 1 and 7. 1 channel modes without distortion and a good channel separation. There so many features that the front and back of the box are not sufficient and an additional component is used to develop further. It also adds to the gift box “effect and can make a nice gift for the holidays. All these features on a board that is not cluttered and mATX! As SLI / CrossFire capabilities, we can see that it is passively cooled with a radiator big bottom right. There is a conception of power to twelve participants consists of eight CPU phase, two central and two ATVs phase power memory phase. There are 7 SATA-2 ports and a header E-SATA port. The four DDR3 slots operate in dual-channel memory support up to 16 GB DDR3-2133 by the BIOS. The red button allows you to recover without erasing the BIOS if the settings are too extreme during overclocking. Adding an on / off switch allows testers or those not using a classical case. A legacy PCI slot is there for that so old RAID PCI controller, you can not bear to separate. RAID 0 and 1 is supported on SATA-2 ports and will pay up ‘that the SSD is widespread. connectors PS / 2 are the past and look only to the 8-channel audio is fully supported and configurable when the complete 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 Firewire connector on the other side of the Committee for cases that have these connectors on them) are included. Adding a clear CMOS button on the rear panel will please overclockers and record the voltage reaches to a jumper with a pair of long nose pliers while holding a flashlight between the teeth and to the manipulation of language…. Included in the box are the SATA cables with metal bars to make them easier to removing and keeping them in place against accidental removal – a long way from that first SATA cables are included with many motherboards today. ROG The cable is just a USB port (male to male) Lead . padding on the rear bumper is a good fit with the edge of the plate is thick and 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 case (hard drive, power switch, rest, etc.) so they can be installed there and all the connector taken as needed for access. This is the kind of time-saving feature which leaves people wondering why nobody thought of before. SetupRemoved Test to save space – Please refer to the html version of the article to detailsOverclockingSocket 1156 processors, like their brothers and sisters are socket 1366 known for their overclocking capabilities so we started with high hopes for our i7-870 on this forum using the many available options in the BIOS. The BIOS is too detailed for us to explore in this review, but we should read this YouTube video here and if your appetite is whetted for more information you can download the manual from ASUS support site. Our first objective was 3. 5 GHz, which was achieved without significant increase in the temperature (the water fountain sealed Corsair H50 processor is truly remarkable and completely silent). All the markers were performed without problems. Incredibly, the system posted and booted into Windows to 4GHz on stock voltage. The execution of Far Cry 2 item caused a deadlock and we even increased the CPU voltage to 1. 35V CPU before completing all the tests without any problem. Even so, 1. 35V is still on the low side compared to some extremes, we have seen with a simple cooling system. We conducted our tests at stock speeds but to allow readers to make comparisons on a fixed basis. ResultsWe test should explain why we selected certain tests and why we have repeated for 1, 2, 3 and 4 cores. People buy motherboards for different uses and if you’re a player who can do with 2 cores or Avid video editor that max 4-core processor that determines you pair with the board. We recommend still not skimp on the selection and purchase of a high-end motherboard, as a fully featured Gene Maximus III (high-end socket by 1156 standards – half the price of a socket Council 1366) provides maximum flexibility as we shall see. Benchmarks show which processor is best suited for particular uses. We compare the ASUS Maximus III Deluxe with ASUS Gene M4A79T. The advantage of DDR3-2000 compared to DDR3 -1600 and dual channel memory can be clearly seen. Synthetic benchmarks eliminate bottlenecks and to show the true potential of nuclei increases. Only users of the AMD platform will be able to replace their current processors with a 6-core “Bulldozer” next year. It is not intended for the 6-core Gulftown “(aka i9) processors that can fit into a socket 1156 motherbaord. similar situation with a call to very linear scale. The number of nuclei has no effect on memory bandwidth (fortunately there is no single core Athlons in the configuration AM3). The results are quite interesting and stabilization after 2 cores for i7-870 but more linear slow the AMD X4. The results are above average for the advice of these chipsets. Far Cry 2 is widely recognized as the game to any system to its knees and we deliberately tried to Higher settings for each resolution and anti aliasing 8x. cadences are perfectly playable at all resolutions (we do not have 30-inch ultra high resolutions). contrasting the FPS Far Cry 2 Tom Clancy’s HAWX, which is a cross between a flight simulator and air combat game and we achieved more than 60 frames per second in all resolutions. horror games are currently popular and Resident Evil 5 has a large calibration feature built in. The Board very well in this test. ConclusionWe’ve deliberately avoided getting bogged down with dozens of benchmarks comparing many motherboards as it is a component where the performance generally varies less than 1 % across the range. readers who want to see these types of benchmarks are pointed in the direction of AnandTech and similar sites. We have already explored in depth and be assured that the Maximus III Gene is in the top 3 in virtually all standard tests available. Instead we focus on the added features and bundled software that add unique value to each motherboard. ROG mothers never disappointed in terms of features and the Maximus III Gene 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 board to be used for small form factor and easy to carry systems for players to use in LAN parties and gaming conventions Overclocking etc. used in the field of amateur requiring great skill and experience and tenacity with nerves of steel required and the constant threat 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 make it easy for everyone (and no longer can we convince women at celebrations in ourselves as PC overclockers ….) with STEPUP PC IROG connect MemPerfect and a host of utilities within Windows makes it easy to get professional results in a fraction of the time and with low risk or zero. When everything is taken into account, we believe that the ASUS Maximus III Gene is the best motherboard socket 1156 is now available and strongly to its target market price.