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May 2012
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The editors liked
Very powerful mATX offering
Many items within the bundle
Feature laden
Leader in almost all performance benchmarks
Features to cater basic to advanced users
Overclocking yields huge benefits
USB 3.0 Turbo Boost is effective
Great stock performance
Impressive feature list on a micro board
Quality auto
Overclocking
The editors didn't like
The only current Z77 ROG motherboard available is MATX
Can't quite keep up with the Sabertooth Z77 in the overclocking stakes
Abstract: With Haswell's IGP Intel had set itself ambitious goals. One for example is that they want to heat up the competition with AMD when it comes to integrated grahics performance. Wether Intel is going to succeed or not and how Intel's HD 4600 as well as AMD'...
Abstract: In April we published a round-up of 20 motherboards with Z77 chipsets compatible with the new Intel Ivy Bridge processors. Those CPUs weren't available yet at the time so we had to do the tests with the previous generation Sandy Bridge processors. Almos...
ly the ASUS Maximus V Gene's Layout has been very well thought Once more practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the power and resetbuttons There is also a debug display which is very useful in case you should have issues with a component in y...
So where do I start for a conclusion. I've already covered the majority of the board in my previous Sandy Bridge based review and thus I don't want to tread over the same grounds twice putting in information that would repeat myself and make for to much o...
If you want to build a new high performance media center then the Asus ROG Maximum V Gene Z77 motherboard should without question be right at the top of your shortlist. When paired up with the latest Intel Core i7 3770k this builds the foundation for a ve...
Very powerful mATX offering, Many items within the bundle, Feature laden, Leader in almost all performance benchmarks, Features to cater basic to advanced users, Overclocking yields huge benefits, USB 3.0 Turbo Boost is effective
The only current Z77 ROG motherboard available is MATX
Although Intel’s Z77 motherboards have been on the market for many weeks now, without the launch and availability of their 3rd Generation of CPUs codenamed Ivy Bridge the true potential of these motherboards has been somewhat a mystery. We have delibe...
Abstract: We will have to wait another couple days for Intel's third generation Ivy Bridge processors, but the related Z77 motherboards are officially available since last weekend. So, what's new and what's different about this new 7 series? A lot of information ...
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Published: 2012-04-10, Author: Jeremy , review by: techradar.com
Great stock performance, Impressive feature list on a micro board, Quality auto, overclocking
Can't quite keep up with the Sabertooth Z77 in the overclocking stakes
A lot of power and features expertly crammed into a compact board, with great performance at default settings...
after a quick word on Lucid's VirtuMVP. All of the boards tested today support this technology. For anyone using a modern, discrete GPU from AMD or NVIDIA we suggest you do no install the software. AMD and NVIDIA's latest cards, on their own, provide...
