DHL came by my office and delivered this to me last week

some teaser for u guys 1st... will continue with the OC testing soon.


The nicely designed box


The Monster within the box


Accessories in da box


Accessories


The Maximus unleashed!!!





Back of the Maximus


CPU socket backplate

This post has been edited by sup3rfly: Jan 14 2010, 10:53 AM

Better view of the whole board


X-Fi sound card bundled


CPU socket area


Powered by 16+3 Phase solid caps!!!


Dual Channel DDR3 memory slots


ICS Chipset heatsink with ROG logo on it


Extreme Engine???


Better view of the ICS chipset heatsink

This post has been edited by sup3rfly: Sep 4 2009, 05:48 PM

This post has been edited by sup3rfly: Sep 4 2009, 03:18 PM

nice

huhu..clear picture there..huhu.. asus always bring good looking mobo..huhuh

i wonder y is there still NB for p55 board?

to be frank i dont know how should i call it... perhaps a P55 chipset heatsink??? i was just a name of it btw
guess i need to change the name of the picture to avoid confusions

im jz wondering wats underneath the heatsink?
i don think there is stil chip, do u mind checking wat is it actually?

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Added on September 4, 2009, 5:23 pmalso dude, where do u get this board, n how much?

This post has been edited by WhiteFlag: Sep 4 2009, 05:23 PM

i need to open it up and check... checked the diagram.. shdnt have a chip... if have also a small ones...
i got it from asus... no pricing yet

wow..cool....planning to get this too....
cant wait for ur review...
which procs will u use? i5 750,i7 860 or i7 870?
+1 for ur effort

no pricing? u get for freE? ? XD

dont know which cpu to get yet... hopefully its a 870

just opened up the heatsink... underneath the nb area is the ICS chip, and on the sb side is where the p55 located at... played too much of 775 got confuse liao haha

will post more pic of the naked board on weekend... gonan work now

sorry for the wrong info

wat is a ICS chip?
n u still haven explain wat do u mean by no pricing yet

ICS chips are mainly the clockgen chipset for the mobo... its used to control the frequency of the cpu, usually we use clockgen to squeeze more frequencies but its usually for extreme overclocking purposes, else u wont get much from using the clockgen, a normal bios settings will do

asus gave me this mobo for review and testing purposes

do u get to keep the mobo? or purchase it?

the north bridge is ICS chip??

what is ICS chip?

the ICS chip is inside the P55 chip??

explain more?

This post has been edited by AlexLee277: Sep 4 2009, 11:16 PM

Do they take the mobo back?? Omg if they really give u then sell me cheaper, provided you don't wanna keep it =)

i think no need to give back and no will to sell it haha

This post has been edited by sup3rfly: Sep 5 2009, 02:19 PM

I see a backplate on the back of the cpu socket...
Just wonder, can we install a cpu cooler that has its own backplate like TRUE 120 ???

This post has been edited by shawnlut: Sep 5 2009, 03:49 PM

i believe u will need to buy a mounting kit for it, TR shd come out with something to cater for this, perhaps during i7 they did come out with a new mounting.