Board Software

ASUS has a huge software package on the support DVD of the ASUS MAXIMUS IX FORMULA, including the well-known AI Suite III, which includes a huge number of utilities to make use of available board-level functions and features. There's also GameFirst IV, a tool for LAN-traffic shaping.


AURA is for LED control, Clone Drive is a hugely useful tool for drive cloning and back-up duties, and MemTweakIt is ASUS's long-standing tool for memory-timing optimization.


ASUS Keybot II offers macro programming for hardware-level features. ASUS even includes a skinned version of CPU-Z for you to check your CPU clocks with.


There's ASUS RamCache and RamDisk for those who like to dabble in making use of the full 64 GB of RAM this platform offers.


There's a tool to access some free Web-based storage hosted by ASUS for ASUS product owners, along with a trial version of Win-Zip. I do not like trial versions of software, but it is on the disc.


You'll also get trials for Deamon Tool Pro and Kaspersky Antivirus.