ASUS Maximus Extreme Review @ Bjorn3d
Bjorn3d reviews the ASUS Maximus Extreme motherboard which features Intel’s X38 chipset and supports PCIe 2.0 and DDR3 memory only. Bjorn3d gives this board a final rating of 8.5/10 and writes:
The Asus Maximus Extreme is one board which rewards you for your time and effort. If you like to endlessly tweak and fiddle with settings then you will have a field day with this board. Remember though that if you are new to overclocking than you will want to proceed with caution as the BIOS offers enough voltage to fry the board immediately. But Asus has a solution for those of you that are new as well and it comes in the form of the “CPU Level UP” setting. With the flick of a BIOS setting the board will adjust the necessary parameters to have your CPU run at the faster speeds of the processors listed. Assuming, of course, that the CPU can handle it. Turning to the audio portion of the board, I have used the on-board sound for the entire time I have spent with the Maximus Extreme and I really like it. Even though it may not have performed as well as the discrete sound cards I haven’t heard any noticeable difference in sound quality.
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