 Maximus for extreme this is a p67 motherboard it is evidently designed for overclocking It is part of the republic of gamers brand from asus it supports the latest intel core i7 core i5 and Core i3 processors if for whatever reason you're putting a core i3 on extreme motherboard, which you shouldn't be doing On the lga 1155 platform it features the intel p67 chipset It is fully sli ready and ati crossfire x ready although that should probably be called AMD crossfire x at some point it features the i direct which is Hold on a gosh darn minute a bluetooth no well like you know what we'll get into that later Rog connect which I am familiar with so you use a USB cable to plug into a third-party computer using a utility to overclock your PC 3d mark Vantage is included 10 USB 3.0 ports 2 at the front 8 at the back and we've also got a bluetooth module accessory card which is included Rg connect which we talked about already supports a three-way sli and crossfire x so not four-way But three-way is just plenty for an lga 1155 socket anyhow I mean remember the cpu only has 16 PCIe lanes built into the the controller anyway Oh, you know what I have to show you the whole package yet there we go So more of the same information here. Oh Okay, I direct here. We go tune your PC from your iPhone or iPad now nice Just in case you want to extreme engine digi plus so that is Powerful combination of analog and digital design elements for the VRM. There's the motherboard itself. Let's get this baby opened up so Accessories box first because I always tease you guys like that Here we go lots of accessories. This is a high-end board so it has all the accessories so this is that Bluetooth module okay, this is our three-way sli bridge Here's our two-way Rather crossfire bridge here's our two-way sli bridge. We're going to put those all together this didn't seem organized right to me All right, we've got some zip ties. We've got the q connectors We've also got Voltage checkpoints so probe it quick installation thing so you can check the voltages and we'll cover that when we have a look at the board itself I oh shield a couple temp probes three to be exact Maximus for extreme user guide including sticker and installation DVD as well as labels for your SATA cables So you can keep track of which or which once you've already routed them in your case finally exclusive feature guide So rog connect rc bluetooth and rogi direct Overclocking from your iphone next I'm expecting them to include utility that lets you overclock your iphone We've got that weird case sticker the big huge one that I did eventually find someone who had installed it on their case that was That was interesting next we've got the rog connect cable which is a usb cable with rog stamped on it essentially Okay, we've got four SATA 3 6 gigabit per second cables Which are only different from the other ones and the fact that they're white They're all right angle and then we have four more right angle SATA 2 connectors We have rear usb 2.0 bracket and that is it for the accessories Now let's close that back up and have a look at the board itself so Asus has had the whole republic of gamers color scheme thing just figured out for a while now I mean look at this this looks fantastic Oh you're in the light camera man way to go all right so from that angle this should look pretty darn impressive Which is what it looks like in person so why don't we start at the middle of the board Here's our lga1155 socket surrounded by the digi plus vrm so you can see here that they're using a fairly different looking design For the for the voltage regulation modules remember that clean voltage to your cpu is very important For achieving the highest possible over clocks we've also got i mean they've done such a good job of these on the last few generations of boards Really neat looking mosfet heatsinks as well as the heat pipes that tie them into the northbridge heatsink and then Nothing connected but you can see that the southbridge heatsink is stylized similarly as well now i do know they're not called northbridge and southbridge anymore But i'm old school like that you're not going to break that habit sorry guys all right we've got our 8 pin power supply Connector up here at the top of the board right where it belongs top left ideal location now we don't have dual 8 pins but i would go as far as to say that's completely unnecessary on a p67 board All right we've got let's move this way so we have four ddr3 slots supporting dual channel these are the easy install slots so they only have clips on the one side you put your module in like this then you clip it closed All right we've got built in start and reset switches we have liquid nitrogen mode switch on and off so that might be handy if you're benchmarking with liquid nitrogen this this is smart this is a much better place for the post led because you can actually see this when you have graphics cards installed love it Start reset also we have the pcie 16x switches these i'm a big fan of as well especially if you have water cooling installed full cover blocks it can be a real pain to troubleshoot which card is on the fritz so you can turn off your pcie lanes and boot to whichever card you want Here are all the voltage checkpoints so we have ram cpu nf200 chip even pch pll pch cpu io cpu pll cpu oh sorry this is a cpu sa All right moving down we have the go button we have a 24 pin power connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board we have SATA IO so Do this red ones red ones are say to three six gigabit per second these ones are running off the intel chipset these ones are running off a third party chipset these are say to two three gigabit per second and since this is a b3 revision board they are not affected by the bug that affected the original p67 boards Here's a bios switch so we have two dedicated hardware bios chips you can save one set of settings in the other one and then if you're experimenting you can switch over to your other bios boot up to that one and then play around with whatever it is you want to do here's all your front panel connectors moving right along we've got clear cmos somewhere there's a little arrow pointing somewhere not sure what in the heck Okay you know what just don't want to to disable enable one two to three disable to clear seem like I don't know what this does okay forget it okay we've got four USB 2.0 front panel headers because they didn't really have any room for them on the back since it's full of USB 3 couple fan headers we've got a couple of easy plugs so one two easy plugs so if you are installing a ton of graphics cards I would definitely recommend using those because they will help provide some supplementary power to your cards we have one two three four four PCIe 16x slots they're all wired for no hold on one two three of them are wired for 16x so those ones are going to be running off the NF 200 chip this one is only wired for 8x so if you install three cards you're going to be using up this this and this you will have no room for additional expansion cards now this one right here is PCIe 1x that one's going to have full bandwidth regardless this is a PCIe 4x that's running off the chipset so that one will have full bandwidth regardless of what you install in all these slots so these are going to run in I could check the manual but I'm just going to guess correct me if I'm wrong should be 16 16 16 or it could also be 8 8 8 8 but you can't run four way SLR crossfire anyway so I don't really see the point of doing that unless you're folding folding at home okay USB 3.0 rear panel header so that's an interesting location for that I guess if you're going to put like a PCI bracket in that would be useful and then finally I think that's pretty much it so here's where the Bluetooth module installs the one that was in the packaging and one more thing back out from the board so this is not a standard 8x board like many Republic of Gamers boards in the past it is slightly wider so an 8x board would end right here this board ends right here so while you don't need an E8x case you do need an 8x case that is a little bit wider than the farther far right most mounting holes to make sure that you'll be able to install this board now another thing I want to talk about is we have one two three four up here back out because you're not going to be able to see where I'm pointing one two three four five six seven eight PWM fan headers on this motherboard so you can plug in a ton of fans to this motherboard without overloading it alright let's have a look at the back I O plate last but not least we've got a PS2 keyboard mouse combo port one two three four five six seven eight USB 3.0 ports two eSATA ports a clear CMO switch optical audio out two Intel gigabit network connections so these are not using third-party controllers we have the ROG connect button as well as the ROG connect port as well as 7.1 audio out on the back of the board we find a couple of heatsinks for the MOSFET so those are going to give you an additional little bit of heat dissipation on the back of the board and also have noticed the fact that all of the heatsinks on this motherboard are using screws spring-loaded screws with plastic washers to ensure no shorting out and also no disengaging like you can have happen from time to time with those plastic clips thank you for checking out this unboxing of the Maximus 4 Xtreme don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips all the suns in my eyes for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos