Wednesday, April 15th 2009
ASUS Expands its GENE Pool with Second mATX Motherboard
Giving the Rampage II GENE a competition, ASUS has now unveiled Maximus II GENE - the second high-performance micro ATX motherboard that is part of the company's Republic of Gamers line-up. Based on the Intel P45 Express Chipset, the Maximus II GENE delivers overclocking friendly environmnet for the Intel Core 2 Extreme/Quad/Duo platform. The board has four DDR2 1300/1200/1066/800/667 MHz memory slots (up to 16 GB), two PCI-Express x16 slots for CrossFire setups, 7 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports, a built-in SupremeFX X-Fi 8 channel sound from Creative and a lot more. As with the ROG Rampage II GENE, the Maximus II GENE offers a wealth of other high-end features including MemOK!, CPU Level Up, Keyboard-TweakIt, Extreme Tweaker, iROG, Loadline Calibration, LCD Poster, EPU-6 Engine, and Voltiminder LED. Also, inside the package of every motherboard, ASUS has kindly included full-version of Kaspersky anti-virus, and a license for Futuremark 3DMark06 Advanced Edition. ASUS is mum on the pricing and availability date of the Maximus II GENE mATX board.
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20 Comments on ASUS Expands its GENE Pool with Second mATX Motherboard
Of course i d prefer the girl but this would be welcome to!!!
It would look ridiculous in my HAF though...U need a small case for it to look impressive!
Nice lookin' board.
Same with SATA - if someone is buying a mATX board are they really going to have the space for 8 hard drives? I'd appreciate it if the manufacturers dropped these extraneous features and concentrated a bit more on cooling instead.
my DFI JR P45 mATX is still in my heart. I wonder why Asus didn't space out the memory slots.
Great to see 775 Maximized.
Until they start manufacturing fairly decent sized hard drives ( 100Tb+ ), i believe they can never have enough sata ports. Granted this is something i would throw into a HTPC, so thats why its nice to see a whole lot of USB ports for the external drives.
perfect for a gaming rig in a media centre case!
yeah.
I got the juniours, and got 4 Ghz down on a Phenom 1 on 790GX M2RS (LP JR) and 5 ghz on PHII.
Tried the P45 for abit on water, did 4.7 on a 8600.
Respectable results, i do not know much about asus, but i know atleast juniour motherboards can be about as good as the big ATX boards.
There is one downside on the dfi boards, you get more EMI from stuff, due to size, and stuff is closer together, this is mostly hearable when you clock much, running stock on all, run spread thingy, and its almost gone.
Thats my experience on M-Atx, got a m-atx box at home, and its ACE!
Waiting to see more m-atx boxes, i know this is what we will only buy in future, when SSD get more popular :)
You can buy Dominators, you can buy D9's, what perform best?
D9.
They use small coolers usually, and you do nice 1200 mhz easy on them without sick cooling.