Gadgetory

so today we're gonna be having a quick look at the Maximus 3 Jean this is part of the Seuss's Republic of gamers line of motherboards so it includes cool features like ROG connect plugin overclocked we get the hardcore way whatever that means men perfect which is optimizing your memory without lifting a finger actually I've never heard of either of these but what are you gonna do them ok this one I know this is the button that you press to make sure that you run any memory at bone-stock settings at kind of a safe setting to make sure that you can post and then after you post you can tweak the memory afterwards okay you've got supreme FX x5 built in so it includes all of those high-end features but what we haven't shown you is that this is a micro ATX motherboard so this is part of their LGA 1156 line of motherboard so it supports core i7 and Core i5 it also supports core i3 although I can't imagine buying a really expensive board like this and putting a core i3 on it it does support SLI and crossfire so if you're doing like a small extreme gaming rig like in a Sugo or another small form-factor case this would be a perfect motherboard for it it's Windows 7 ready and we'll flip it around to the back where it says basically the same thing as it said on the inside so why don't we get this box opened up and have a look so the first thing we find inside is the motherboard BAM just like that like all of their republic of gamers boards it has a very very cool catchy color scheme but we're gonna actually take it away from you ha look at the accessories first so we have a USB cable ok thank you for that just your standard a 2a there's got to be something in here plugs into there's no reason for that SLI bridge remember if you need a crossfire bridge it should come with your video card ok then you've got some zip ties for cable management you've got the users guide as well as the ok this is interesting so you've got a user's guide you've got a drivers and installation DVD as well as a Republic of gamers sticker don't use this DVD download the latest off asus calm alright and then this is neat so they've included little stickers for labeling your hard drives so and color coded to so that way you don't have to when you've routed all of your cables through the case you don't have to fuss around with which one connects to which drive so you can make a little label like oh this is my 750 gig and this is my 500 gig and this is my SSD very cool and then your users guide is all English and very thick so I'm not even gonna try to go through that alright then we have a huge Republic of gamers sticker that goes all the way over to the to the other side here and it's kind of come off a little bit hopefully we can get that off without damaging it too much okay there you go so that's I guess for your case window alright very nice then you have your iof shield which is their black premium looking i/o shield with the kind of poofy shiny stuff on the back then we have six SATA cables three of which are right angle and three of which are straight and then we have our Q connectors okay so I don't actually see what that USB cable is for but I guess we'll get to that later so here's the Maximus - Jean like all p55 motherboards and I hope I mentioned its p55 you do have support for an LGA 1156 socket and you do have support for dual channel ddr3 memory and you should use the color-coded slots this board does have a Seuss's unique feature where this side of the memory mod slot is not a clip only the other side is an actual clip so what you do is you slide the memory in this side with the clip open push it down and clip it shut with just one side it's in theory makes installing memory a little bit easier your power connectors are in their ideal locations at the top left corner of the board where you have an 8 pin power and then over on the right-hand edge of the board where you have your 24-pin power one thing that I really like that asus is doing with their Republican gamer boards is they're starting to include way more for pin fan connectors so if you look at this board we've got 1 2 3 4 5 4 pin power connectors so that means you can PWM control all the fans in your case without any additional hassle we've got 2 PCI Express 16x slots that will run at 8 X 8 X if you're running in crossfire one PCI Express 4 X and one PCI slot for expansion you've got kind of a little cover here on the chipset that looks pretty neat it's got like a mesh here so that gets a little bit of ventilation and then you've got your onboard start and reset buttons you got the premium ones that look kind of like cool then you've got - I was gonna say too but I guess it's three USB headers and here is a plug for the OSI station which I believe is available separately it doesn't actually come with it here's your onboard supreme x5 FX and let me see if I'm missing anything here oh yeah yeah over on this side okay so you've got six SATA cables running off the chipset and one additional one here running off a third-party chipset here is your go button I think that's the mem ok button actually I hope it is anyway alright so let's go around to the back and we'll find out why we have like a random lone SATA port here and I'm gonna assume it's because yes there's eSATA on the back of the board so that's where the other SATA port from that controller is you've got a ps2 keyboard port then you've got one two three four eight USB 2.0 ports as well as another USB port here which I guess is what that cable was for it must do something specific something to do with this I think it's their little overclocking thing okay and then you've got a CMOS clear switch I love this this is great means you don't have to fish around in your case especially because it's a micro ATX board that's going to be a real hassle so you can just press this to clear the CMOS digital audio is provided by optical only then you've got firewire eSATA Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio those look like gold plated connectors too so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Maximus 3 Jean