ASUS ROG Series Maximus III GENE

ASUS sent me another Intel P55 Express chipset motherboard for testing, the Maximus III GENE, it is small but perform like a monster. =)

Lets do some introduction about ASUS ROG.

About ASUS ROG (Republic Of Gamers)

The ROG Creed

The Republic of Gamers is committed to delivering the most innovative and best performing PC solutions to enhance the gaming experience of power users.

Rise To Power - A History of the Republic of Gamers

The Birth of a Republic – The Republic of Gamers (ROG) was formed in 2006 with the sole purpose of bringing gaming and overclocking specific hardware to gamers and overclockers the world over. Through technological innovation, design, extensive gaming and overclocking research and development, ROG hardware - specifically motherboards and graphics cards – have been on the frontline of performance and dependability, the preferred choice of champions everywhere, setting 4 new 3DMark Vantage World Records for Entry, Performance, High and Extreme presets.

Website: http://rog.asus.com/

Features:
MemOK!
MemPerfect
ProbeIt
Onboard Switches: Power / Reset / Clr CMOS (at rear)
ASUS Q-LED (CPU, DRAM, VGA, Boot Device LED)
ASUS Q-Connector
ASUS Q-Slot
ASUS Q-DIMM
ASUS EPU
ASUS Fan Xpert
ASUS MyLogo3
ASUS EZ Flash 2
ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3

Overclocking Features:
CPU Power Design
- 8-phase CPU power
- 2-phase VTT power
- 2-phase Memory power
ROG Connect
CPU Level Up
iROG
Extreme Tweaker
Loadline Calibration
Intelligent overclocking tools:
- ASUS TurboV EVO
- O.C. Profile
Overclocking Protection:
- COP EX (Component Overheat Protection - EX)
- Voltiminder LED
- ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall)


CPU Socket Area


Memory slot, the Dual Channel DDR3 is back!!!


Dual PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots, supports nVidia SLI as well as ATI CrossFire


Onboard SupremeFX X-Fi sound card


Nice looking Power and Reset button, essential for open bench


Come with POST diagnostic LED and voltage measurement points, a true overclocking motherboard


Simple and nice IO Ports


Back of the motherboard

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Accessories that come with the motherboard

BIOS Screens


Main Screen with ROG logo


BCLK 80 - 500






OC Tuner Profile


DRAM Timing







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CPU Clock Skew


PCH Clock Skew


Enable OV to use Overvolt on CPU vCore


Enable to improve sub-zero boot




Set Enable to avoid vdroop

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vCore 0.85V - 1.7V


vPLL 1.6V - 2.5V


vIMH 1V - 2V


vPCH 1V - 1.35V


vDIMM 1.2V - 2.5V


ASUS OC Profile is same page as all the overclocking setting, very convenient

This post has been edited by sup3rfly: Jan 14 2010, 10:42 AM

Overclocking Test

Test Bed
CPU: Intel Corei7 860
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus III GENE
Memory: ADATA XPG Plus Series DDR3 2200+ v2.0
GPU: MSI 9800GTX+ MOA Edition
Cooling: AquaXtreme MP-05 Waterblock

Test Method
Benchmarks that we are gonna use would be 3DMark03, 3DMark05, 3DMark06, 3DMarkVantage, Everest Bandwidth test, SuperPI. All the test will be perform at the same speed, 200 x 20, which is 4GB, and memory speed were set at DDR2000 CL7-8-7-20-1T.


3DMark03 77642


3DMark05 33584


3DMark06 24806


3DMarkVantage P14876


SuperPI 1M 10.265s


SuperPI 32M 8m 57.531s


Everest Bandwidth Test

This post has been edited by sup3rfly: Jan 14 2010, 10:44 AM

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nice

Nice demonstration

Good ram you have there.

-pWs-

yeah i love the ram... thsi ram rox... =)

wish i had money for the rams.

btw sup3rfly, can ur rams do this speed at cl8?

http://www.ocxtreme.org/opb/m3g/bench/b2418cpuz.png

i did 1280 cl8 with 1.85v lo...

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1267340

oh.. 1.35k huh? damn...

Those rams are sick!

takan sick jerk, beli lar wehh....

Ko cerita kat aku mane nk beli, aku dok cari2 gak nih...

K aku order, ko siap duit jerk



btw, ada satu jual kat sales thread....

is it possible that i'm having a bug with my bios or cpu-z?

i've set 7-10-10-28 for my rams in bios but on cpu-z and everest it shows that i'm running 10-10-10-28

hmmm what bios are using??? weird case

bios 1202