gerard1021
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All that money and you still can't run two video cards at pcie x 16...What a waste...Four out of five voices agree.
ASUS Maximus VI Extreme Review
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murphy7801
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Agreed the chip to do would be justified on cost.
badtaylorx
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tom dont be supprised if Asus isnt hedging their bets on the Max6 gene and the brand new for ROG Max6 Impact...
please dont skip those two lil ones based on the performance of its father still drunk off of past glory....
please dont skip those two lil ones based on the performance of its father still drunk off of past glory....
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I just got my Maximus 6 Gene through the door yesterday. This review made me nervous, although the pricing is obviously a big factor to why the review was so bad for the Extreme. A mobo must be pretty sick to be worth £300+
murphy7801
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I think you ment lga1150?
Chopper3
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Have you OC'ed the Gene yet? I have one too, with a 4770K, and when I use the 4-way Optimisation thing it will happily sit at 4.6Ghz running OCCT at around 88C but it sets the voltage to 1.3v - which everyone seems to think makes it run too hot. Just wondering if you've had any similar experiences? Thanks.
Feronix
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Ohdear, Asus employees creating forum accounts to rage now?! :lol:
Feronix
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Then what exactly is it good at?
PS: If you actually don't work for Asus (and you're actually just a massive fanboy), maybe you shouldn't type 'we' as if you created the board
Ease of Overclocking.
Getting the full benefits from hardware with minimum fuss.
Great AUTO rules in Bios for Uncore and DRAM overclocking.
Great AUTO rules for BLK clocking. Haswell has BLK option did OC3D know???
DDR2600 - DDR3200 efficient.
Excellent and endless tuning options.
Perfect for LN2 and other extreme cooling.
The list is actually very long if you actually test the board correctly.
I mean come on ES4770K are vastly different to retail and this review still includes ES!!! Oh dear me!!!
Getting the full benefits from hardware with minimum fuss.
Great AUTO rules in Bios for Uncore and DRAM overclocking.
Great AUTO rules for BLK clocking. Haswell has BLK option did OC3D know???
DDR2600 - DDR3200 efficient.
Excellent and endless tuning options.
Perfect for LN2 and other extreme cooling.
The list is actually very long if you actually test the board correctly.
I mean come on ES4770K are vastly different to retail and this review still includes ES!!! Oh dear me!!!
Feronix
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Oh really? Cause from what I've read the board has issues even running 2400MHz RAM! Let alone that the MSI GD-65 Gaming and even a Gigabyte m-ATX board overclock better than the MVIE :lol:
Who the ef actually uses LN2 for an everyday/gaming rig? As Tom said, only extreme overclockers use that and they get their hardware for free from sponsors (like Asus themselves)!
The ES4770k may be different to retail, I honestly don't know, but he used the same chip on the MSI and Gigabyte boards and they both performed better
What are you even trying to accomplish by posting here? :huh:
Who the ef actually uses LN2 for an everyday/gaming rig? As Tom said, only extreme overclockers use that and they get their hardware for free from sponsors (like Asus themselves)!
The ES4770k may be different to retail, I honestly don't know, but he used the same chip on the MSI and Gigabyte boards and they both performed better
What are you even trying to accomplish by posting here? :huh:
Xavi C
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I was quite surprised about Tom's negative review, so I went ahead and checked other reviews online:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_maximus_extreme_vi_z87_review,1.html
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Motherboards/ASUS-ROG-Maximus-VI-Extreme-Motherboard-Review
http://www.overclockers.com/asus-maximus-vi-extreme-motherboard-review
That's a total of 3 good reviews and 1 bad. Awaiting HardOCP's.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_maximus_extreme_vi_z87_review,1.html
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Motherboards/ASUS-ROG-Maximus-VI-Extreme-Motherboard-Review
http://www.overclockers.com/asus-maximus-vi-extreme-motherboard-review
That's a total of 3 good reviews and 1 bad. Awaiting HardOCP's.
vorticalbox
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tom will get the hardware as is and then test, if asus sent him a bad one that is their fault. tom can only post results based on the testing of the hardware he was given, to say his results are "incorrect" is totally with out justification.
Feronix
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I was surprised too and normally I would believe many voices over one but a few points are making me insecure about this.
One review didn't even post benchmarks, one compared it to the Gryphon who's performance was on-par and the last one compared it to the Intel board that was on par as well!
'Not to mention that one of them started their conclusion with 'I would like to thank our friends at Asus for sending us the board'...
It's still a nice board with an awful lot of features, but if it performs the same as boards half the price then where does this price tag come from? It does come with a shit tonne of accessories and I guess the OC panel adds to the cost as well but really? How many people will actually USE that panel? Cause in my own personal opinion, it's just a little toy that you don't really need :s
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Xavi C
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The price represents exclusivity, and since most mid-range Z87 boards are packed with features, they had to take different angle. I would never use the OC panel, but I wouldn't let that amount of money go for a motherboard either.
In general, it feels like Asus arrived late: that OC panel doesn't look like it was well thought, and the software (bios) is probably still under heavy development.
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