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ASUS Maximus VI Extreme Review
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If you don't feed it, your PC will die.
Still where is uncore overclocking, where is BLK, where is RAM. Where is??? This is the most delibrate attempt to cramp the positives of a board by limiting the scope.
I wonder if ASUS asked the reviewer for the board back after the review was completed when he normally gets to keep the board?? maybe he took the huff???
Interesting!!!
Hey on another point the OC panel is costing very little. Compare the price of this board to the top end Giga and MSI and its more than competitively priced. The Giga is actually around £480.
The OC panel for me is great. RAM on LN2 and all the buttons on the board freeze up and become unusable. The panel means you can do everything and more without issue. It also allows for two temp probes. Four Fans and VGA hotwire at no extra cost to a comparable High end board.
I wonder if ASUS asked the reviewer for the board back after the review was completed when he normally gets to keep the board?? maybe he took the huff???
Interesting!!!
Hey on another point the OC panel is costing very little. Compare the price of this board to the top end Giga and MSI and its more than competitively priced. The Giga is actually around £480.
The OC panel for me is great. RAM on LN2 and all the buttons on the board freeze up and become unusable. The panel means you can do everything and more without issue. It also allows for two temp probes. Four Fans and VGA hotwire at no extra cost to a comparable High end board.
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Chopper3
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Still where is uncore overclocking, where is BLK, where is RAM. Where is??? This is the most delibrate attempt to cramp the positives of a board by limiting the scope.
I wonder if ASUS asked the reviewer for the board back after the review was completed when he normally gets to keep the board he took the huff???
Interesting!!!
Hey on another point the OC panel is costing very little. Compare the price of this board to the top end Giga and MSI and its more than competitively priced. The Giga is actually around £480.
Interesting or baseless speculation?
I'm a big Asus ROG fan, I've got a VI Gene right now in fact but after reading computer product reviews for nearly 35 years now I'm not sure I've come across someone I trust as much in this respect as TTL. If you watch any of his videos it's quite clear that if he had any predetermined intent about a product he simply wouldn't be able to hide it, it'd spill out at some point during his reviews/rambles
I trust the guy, even in the face of my own very positive VI ROG experience - whereas you, well you've just popped up and have only commented on this subject. I'm not saying you're an Asus plant, perhaps just a zealot - but you and your behaviour on this board, so far, leave nothing but a strong taste of bitterness or untrustworthiness - sorry but I don't think anyone's going to pay you or your opinions a jot of respect.
^^LOL!!
Come on man!! You trust him more than yourself??
Buy the top rated board by TTL try it against M6G which you have. Then you will see.
Try CPU Overclock, RAM overclock, BLK, Uncore.
Tune the RAM abit. See what performance increase you get with M6G.
Dont discount my opinion unless you can test what I am saying. The problem is most cant test what the reviewers say. If they could then maybe there opinions would be different.
I.E Just test the fundamentals of Haswell overclocking is that too much to ask.
Come on man!! You trust him more than yourself??
Buy the top rated board by TTL try it against M6G which you have. Then you will see.
Try CPU Overclock, RAM overclock, BLK, Uncore.
Tune the RAM abit. See what performance increase you get with M6G.
Dont discount my opinion unless you can test what I am saying. The problem is most cant test what the reviewers say. If they could then maybe there opinions would be different.
I.E Just test the fundamentals of Haswell overclocking is that too much to ask.
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Still where is uncore overclocking, where is BLK, where is RAM. Where is??? This is the most delibrate attempt to cramp the positives of a board by limiting the scope.
I wonder if ASUS asked the reviewer for the board back after the review was completed when he normally gets to keep the board?? maybe he took the huff???
Interesting!!!
Hey on another point the OC panel is costing very little. Compare the price of this board to the top end Giga and MSI and its more than competitively priced. The Giga is actually around £480.
The OC panel for me is great. RAM on LN2 and all the buttons on the board freeze up and become unusable. The panel means you can do everything and more without issue. It also allows for two temp probes. Four Fans and VGA hotwire at no extra cost to a comparable High end board.
You are obviously tied to Asus in some way. Even I can see that.
WillSK
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You also have to consider that a big point TTL made in the video was the factor of price/performance ratio. As others have already mentioned there are boards that are arguably as good for the uses we would have for half the price. You mention LN2 etc. but none of us game, render etc. on LN2
Feronix
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- You just say that cause you know none of us is going to buy a new motherboard just to compare it to ROG stuff.
- TTL Overclocked the CPU; It was nothing better than the G1 Sniper M5 or MSI GD65 Gaming. In other reviews it also performed on par as Asus' own Gryphon board and even the Intel DZ87KLT-75K.
Please allow me to post some benchies from other reviewers:
- The RAM had trouble even going 2400 MHz. Surely it could be a faulty board or bios issue, but don't blame the reviewer when Asus sends them a product that doesn't work properly.
- Why do we have to test what YOU'RE saying? If you want to prove your point, you have to do the work. Then come back and go jehova on us some more
Whoever wrote this review did not go into it with an unbiased point of view. This is clear just from the condescending tone.
"For £330 this thing had better be good!"
"According to the ASUS website the Maximus VI has five PCIe 3.0 slots, which obviously isn't the case. Someone needs to proof read."
"Considering the price we'd have liked to see a little more flair in the heatsink design too, rather than just a heavily-finned black lump."
"Someone needs to teach the R&D department about levers and the centre of gravity."
"For £330 this thing had better be good!"
"According to the ASUS website the Maximus VI has five PCIe 3.0 slots, which obviously isn't the case. Someone needs to proof read."
"Considering the price we'd have liked to see a little more flair in the heatsink design too, rather than just a heavily-finned black lump."
"Someone needs to teach the R&D department about levers and the centre of gravity."
vorticalbox
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i don't see how any makes it a biased review.
1) for double the price it should be better than products half it's price
2) it says 5 and it has 4, they do need to proof read.
3) he commented that lower priced products went and made their heat sinks look better than just fins.
4) if that hand device thing can't stand up when connected, they do need to rethink the product.
out of all the reviews about about Tom is by far the "fairest" of them all.
Feronix
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Wonder how much these guys are paid.
Maybe we should just ignore these employees/affiliated people/enormous fanboys...
It might even be the same guy
NRG!
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Still where is uncore overclocking, where is BLK, where is RAM. Where is??? This is the most delibrate attempt to cramp the positives of a board by limiting the scope.
I wonder if ASUS asked the reviewer for the board back after the review was completed when he normally gets to keep the board?? maybe he took the huff???
Interesting!!!
Hey on another point the OC panel is costing very little. Compare the price of this board to the top end Giga and MSI and its more than competitively priced. The Giga is actually around £480.
The OC panel for me is great. RAM on LN2 and all the buttons on the board freeze up and become unusable. The panel means you can do everything and more without issue. It also allows for two temp probes. Four Fans and VGA hotwire at no extra cost to a comparable High end board.
It was outperformed by the other boards.
Everyone knows that every gen the maximus extreme is a bit of a joke, cmon be serious. I had the iv z68 version and I got exactly the same cpu overclock on a zz7a gd65 from msi (for half the price).
That's why normally it gets the performance award, but if it arrives for review and clearly has issues it's not going to get that, is it? TBH the board must have been faulty..
TTL reviews for a community with a large ability range, not a select few hardcore overclockers that frankly DON'T NEED to watch the review. His advice would always be to buy an appropriately priced board because the vast majority of those watching are gamers.
The ROG branding needs to be stripped off these boards and applied to better priced boards with actual gaming features and not pointless LN2 overclocking guff
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stargatesg1fan
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According to TTLs review and everything, there are 5 pci slots, plus the mini one for the wifi/m.2 stuff. I'm looking at the board and counting 6 lanes plus the mini slot. Who is lying TTL or the product? TTL, I think you might need to go back to school and learn to count on this one. Either that or you need some binoculars for those eyes. Take a look at a damn picture of the product, and to be honest this biased review even calls into question the results that TTL got.
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vorticalbox
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i think you need to go back to school and learn to read. the review said and i'll quote it for you
"According to the ASUS website the Maximus VI has five PCIe 3.0 slots, which obviously isn't the case. Someone needs to proof read."
asus said it had 5 PCIe 3.0, anyone can see there are 5 slots but they are NOT all PCIe 3 as asus website said.
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stargatesg1fan
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4 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8 or x8/x16/x8 or x8/x16/x8/x8)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x4
1 x mini-PCIe 2.0 x1
That is a copy and paste FROM his review. Now please take a look at a picture of the board for me, and count all the PCI slots that you see. All reds are 3.0, the single full slot black is 3.0 and only used in dual GPU setup. The single 2.0 slot is the x4 slot. Have you seen the board yet, without slots populated? I can count, can you. 6 slots lower, one mini-pcie for the wifi/m.2 module. How many does that make? 7. How many does TTLs review state, 6. Please continue to look like an ass.
psst, do you one better.
Dude, you really don't want to get into this.
http://www.pcper.com/files/imagecache/article_max_width/review/2013-05-26/M6E 3D_0.jpg
count the slots for me. 6 down low, one high = 7. 4xred 3.0, 1xblack 3.0 (full length native to CPU afaik) used for dual gpu setup, and then the 2.0 x4, and the mini up top for the wifi/m.2 module.
From TTL review
4 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8 or x8/x16/x8 or x8/x16/x8/x8)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x4
1 x mini-PCIe 2.0 x1
Pictures are worth a thousand words, count for me, please, I want you to.
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Feronix
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Dude, probably best to let it go. They/He keep(s) making new accounts just to mention the same thing over and over again and when you prove them wrong they ignore your post and continue to bitch over the same thing.
Guess we should just let them be stupid and if it gets too bad (spammy) a mod will have to clean up the thread. Ignoring them would be best
stargatesg1fan
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Dude, probably best to let it go. They/He keep(s) making new accounts just to mention the same thing over and over again and when you prove them wrong they ignore your post and continue to bitch over the same thing.
Guess we should just let them be stupid and if it gets too bad (spammy) a mod will have to clean up the thread. Ignoring them would be best
I am not spamming, nor am I someone else. I made this account fresh and have never had an account with this forum. Come check me out on Linustechtips (afa7336), and accusations like that are made by people that have nothing to defend with. The moderators are more then welcome to compare IPs to me and anyone else. Hell I will even tell you outright, I currently reside in Northeast Raleigh, NC, USA and am not affilated in any way shape or form with Asus. Hell totally different fields of business for crying out loud. Baseless accusations should be frowned upon. I came up with that information on my own after looking at pictures, and the review. Its sad when someone has to try and get someone banned from a forum because they don't agree with them.
