 The Corsair Carbide Air 540 High Airflow Cube Case is great for air cooling or liquid cooling. Check the link in the video description to learn more. I would make the argument that the Rampage 4 gene is still the most extreme grade motherboard for an MATX system, that is MicroATX. It uses LGA 2011, which at the time of filming this, only supports up to 2nd gen Intel Corsair series processors, so that's Sandy Bridge. However, Ivy Bridge E is coming soon, meaning you'll be able to slap a 6 core extreme edition or non-extreme edition Ivy Bridge, so that's 3rd generation Corsair series processor, onto this, as well as up to 32GB of memory, up to 2 dual slot graphics cards, an SLI or Crossfire, as well as pretty much anything else you would want to put on it. This is an extremely powerful little motherboard, and the emphasis of course being on the fact that it is little, it's MATX. I mean look at that, the socket takes up like most of the motherboard. So anyway, let's go through the accessories. First of all, there's Do Not Disturb, I am gaming, Go Away, Republic of Gamers door hanger, awesome, love it. There's the ROG Connect cable, so this allows you to tweak BIOS options at a hardware level using a secondary machine such as a notebook, by plugging into the ROG Connect enabled USB port on the back of the board. We've got 6 SATA cables, so 3 of them are right angle and 3 of them are straight. These are validated for SATA 2 or SATA 3 speed operation. Their Q-connector feature, which I feel is for lazy people or people with very very fat fingers can be handy for that, plugging in your front panel connectors. A Republic of Gamers SLI bridge, that is optimized for the short distance in between the two PCI Express 16x slots and yes, those my friends are full PCI Express 16x slots because this is LGA 2011 and for anyone who thinks that LGA 1150 is getting more than 4 DIMM slots or more than PCIe 8x by 8x SLI or Crossfire support anytime soon, no, no, no, no, no, no, not without things like sort of weird bridge chips and kludgy solutions like that. Next up we've got an IO shield, like padding on the back, which is kind of cool. A user guide, the ROG connect guide, the SATA AHCI RAID mode notice, as well as an enormous sticker that I personally wouldn't put anywhere near my computer, but if you really want to have a huge ROG logo on your system, hi JJ, I just bug in. Anyway that's up to you, that's up to you, why don't we just leave it at that. Alright so features, other than the fact that Asus reserves the very best quality components for their Republic of Gamers class of products, what do you actually get for spending so much on a motherboard that inherently doesn't do that much more than another motherboard? Well for one thing, especially when you're trying to build a smaller class of system, using very high quality components in the voltage regulation modules is incredibly important. So Asus is using 10k black caps that are rated for 105 degrees Celsius operation, so that means that in a cramped case, no matter what sort of bad stuff is going on with this system, you are not going to be in a situation where it's going to be running out of spec and it's not going to last for very long, so that is not what this is about. We've also got a nice little heat pipe that connects all of the various voltage regulation module components that are above the socket as well as beside the socket. Using higher quality components also reduces things like coil whine, so for example when you hear that noise when you're under load, that can be attributed to lower quality components. Alright so what else do you get? You get a better audio solution, generally speaking on an Asus ROG board than you get almost anywhere else. Right here is their red line audio concept, so you can actually see that instead of including like they did with Supreme FX 2, a separate PCB riser card that goes into one of your PCI Express slots, they have a little illuminated red line that separates the sound card PCB on the motherboard from the rest of the PCB. There's an aluminum shield as well as the fact that the sound processor is as far away from the other components as possible to reduce interference, and that right there is a 1500 FF massive capacitor in addition to the audio grade capacitors elsewhere that compensates for a couple of things. So if you have like a sudden explosion or something like that and it's drawing more power than normal, you might with a normal audio solution see something like clipping because it's not able to deliver enough power, this is designed to smooth out those things. So better audio solutions are something that I personally do feel help justify a more expensive board even though you could buy less expensive board and a dedicated card, but of course Asus has Zonar cards for that. You also get better PCB design, so you've got your PCI Express 8 pin connector still in its ideal top location as well as the 24 pin connector in its ideal right hand location. This is more difficult and it does take adding more layers to the PCB in order to maintain an optimal layout and still have it fit in a smaller form factor. Now I did mention this is a bit of an older board, so the SATA ports feel a little bit dated at this point, but you've got four SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports, two running off the Intel chipset, two running off a third party as media chipset and then two SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports. I probably should have mentioned that the CPU is entirely digitally powered, so all the VRM is fully digi, I think they call it, what is it? Digi plus two, so that means you have all the tweakability that you could possibly want, that's another thing that you get with ROG boards that you don't get with other boards. Is that going to help you overclock better unless your name is Andre Yang? Possibly no, but if you want to feel better having all the bells and whistles, there's the way to do it. Actually, there's another SATA 2 3 gigabit per second connector down here and that's SATA 3G and then we've got our front panel connectors, two front USB 2 as well as on board start reset and the go button switches. You can actually get your front audio connector and then that leads us to the PCI Express laws, so dual PCIe 16x, this guy right here is wired only for 8x and this one is wired for 4x, so you could fill this up with a full complement of graphics cards and other expansion cards and you would get very, very satisfactory performance indeed. It supports up to DDR3 2400 megahertz, however, you will have to overclock in order to achieve that. And moving along to the rear IO, we've got eight USB 2.0 ports, again, this is a bit of an older board, two USB 3.0 ports, a clear CMOS button, the ROG connect button, as well as BIOS flashback functionality is built into this board. So if you do brick the board, the power goes out in the middle of a BIOS flash, you can restore it simply by following the instructions on the ASUS website. Optical digital audio out, a PS2 port in Intel NICs, so you can use that to prioritize game packets using the AI Suite software and then 7.1 audio out as well as an eSATA port. It includes a copy of Demon Tools standards as well as Kaspersky antivirus and something that I'm sure JJ is watching this video and I'm sure was ready to write me an email telling me I had forgotten about, I have not. Supreme FX3, in spite of the fact that I've mentioned several times now, this is an older board is still getting updated, so their new sound radar or whatever they call it, basically it's a visual indicator on your screen that actually points out where sounds are coming from in game in real time. It's basically cheating as far as I can tell, but hey, every advantage, right? Has been added to Supreme FX3 boards, even older ones like this one. So you pair this up with an Ivy Bridge E processor and a couple of GTX Titans and you have one powerhouse of a system in a very small form factor. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the Maximus IV Gene. Did I say Maximus because I meant Rampage IV Gene? Sorry JJ. From Asus, don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos. Don't forget to like the video if you liked the video or dislike it if you don't, I don't care and leave a comment under the video letting me know why you liked or disliked it. I'll read it, but no promises will change anything, but I might.