Asus maximus viii extreme is discovered on camera

The first images of the Asus flagship, the highly anticipated Asus Maximus VIII Extreme for the LGA 1151 socket and the Intel Z170 chipset, have already begun to leak. Like the reviewed Asus Maximus VIII Hero it presents a small armor for the cooling of the phases up to the sound controller.

Asus Maximus VIII Extreme motherboard and Asus ROG Matrix GTX 980 Ti Platinum graphics card

The design slightly changes from that used in the Republic Of Gamer (ROG) series with a color combination of gold orange and titanium silver together with an E-ATX format. The board with respect to cooling has two good heatsinks (similar to those of its younger brothers), 1 6 power phases, 24-pin power and 8 EPS pins plus 4 aux pins that will push the i5-6600k and i7-6700k up to your limit.

It also features 4 64GB 3600mhz compatible DDR4 sockets, four PCIe x16 slots, and two other PCIe x1 slots. Regarding connectivity, it has two Intel LAN 10/100/1000 cards, a Wifi 802.11 ac 2 × 2 connection and Bluetooth 4.0.

As storage it has 8 SATA connections at 6Gb / s shared with two SATA Express connections, an M.2 slot at 32GB / s and another M.2. with the SFF-8639 Gb / s connector. As expected, it has a double BIOS and a control panel on the board to monitor the voltage.

Bahia 5.25 ″ SupremeFX 2015

It was time for Asus to incorporate in the Extreme boards a sound card that was up to the task, as is the case of the SupremeFX 2015 (includes 5.25 ″ bay). I remind you a little that it has high-end components that include DA SS ES9023P converters with Hyperstream technology, a clock with an ultra- reduced jitter, Nichicon capacitors, headphone amplifier with 2 V rms power, and SonicSense Amp, which detects and optimizes the output impedance for any type of headphones (32-600 ohms). SupremeFX 2015 also incorporates the intuitive Sonic Studio II application, which allows you to enjoy different audio effects and houses the Perfect Noise noise cancellation technology.

Exact price and availability are still unknown but it is expected that during these weeks it will land in Spain and we will have the first samples for analysis.

Source: techpowerup