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ASUS ROG Maximus VI Formula Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1150 by leeghoofd @ 2013-11-04

ASUS delayed the release of the Maximus VI Formula till after Computex 2013. We got a glimpse of the board at the ASUS booth and it looked at first glance like a TUF/ROG hybrid. The ROG series are renown as high end motherboards, stunning looks and high performance; however not engineered solely for gamers, but the enthusiast and extreme overclockers get their sweets too. Usually the ROG series had 3 members: the mATX Gene, the midrange Formula and the flagship, the Extreme board. With the Z87 series, ASUS throws an entry level priced ROG in the mix with the Maximus VI Hero board and even a mITX board, the Impact. The Hero is comparable as being the vanilla board of the Republic of Gamers line up. The small mATX Gene VI gives those with small cases the option to install a top class motherboard; the Formula for those that seek a full ATX board packed with features, yet still at an affordable price level. The flagship Extreme board is the most expensive and targeted at those that want either the best of the best or the ultimate board that can push the envelope, no matter the cooling method used.

Stock Test Methodology and Setup

Especially since the release of Sandy Bridge, Intel's first socket 1155, most hardware vendors are no longer respecting the Intel specifications regarding the Turbo policy. Most were imposing the same Turbo ratio to all the cores instead. This makes the lives of us the reviewers even harder as we needed to adapt our reviewing method. With Haswell nothing has really changed, however finding it very weird that some other hardware websites list they are using out of the box boards with no Bios alterations whatsoever besides loading the usual XMP profile. There are big differences between some brands dear reviewers.

For our stock tests we go out of the box and just go into the Bios and load the XMP profile for our 16GB Dual channel CORSAIR Vengeance Pro kit. Audio and LAN ports are disabled too.

The hardware setup comprises out of:

Intel i7-4770K cooled by Scythe Mugen 4
Intel DZ87KLT Mainboard
ASRock OC Formula ( 1.51 bios )
ASUS Z87 MAXIMUS VI Formula ( 0039 bios )
Gigabyte Z87X-OC ( F5v bios)
MSI Z87 XPOWER ( 1.19 bios )
16GB CORSAIR Vengeance Pro 2400C10 Dual Channel kit
ATI HD7970 GPU
CORSAIR AX1200 PSU
Western Digital Green Caviar 1TB HDD

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