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the corsair carbide air 540 high airflow cube case is great for air cooling or liquid cooling check the link in the video description to learn more I would make the argument that the rampage for Jean is still the most extreme grade motherboard for an M ATX system that is micro ATX it uses LGA 2011 which at the time of filming this only supports up to second gen Intel Core Series processors so that's Sandy Bridge however Ivy bridge-e is coming soon meaning you'll be able to slap a six core Extreme Edition or non Extreme Edition Ivy Bridge that's third generation Core Series processor onto this as well as up to 32 gigabytes of memory up to two dual slot graphics cards in sli or crossfire as well as pretty much anything else you would want to put on it this is an extremely powerful little motherboard and the emphasis of course being on the fact that it is little it's n ATX I mean look at that the socket takes up like most of the motherboard so anyway let's go through the accessories first of all there's do-not-disturb I'm gaming go away Republic of gamers door hanger awesome love it there's the ROG connect cable so this allows you to tweak BIOS options at a hardware level using a secondary machine such as a notebook by plugging into the ROG connect enabled USB port on the back of the board we've got six SATA cables so three of them are right angle and three of them are straight these are validated 4 SATA 2 or SATA 3 speed operation they're cute connector feature which I feel is for lazy people or people with very very fat fingers can be handy for that plugging in your front panel connectors a Republic of gamers SLI bridge that is optimized for the short distance in between the two PCI Express 16x slots and yes those my friends are full PCI Express 16x slots because this is LGA 2011 and for anyone who thinks that LGA 1150 is getting more than four dimm slots or more than PCIe 8 X by 8 X SLI or crossfire support anytime soon no no no no no no no not without things like sort of weird bridge chips and clutch solutions like that next up we've got an i/o field like patting on the back it's kind of cool a user guide the rog connect guide the SATA HDI raid mode notice as well as an enormous sticker that I personally wouldn't put anywhere near my computer but if you really want to have a huge rog logo on your system hi JJ yeah I just plug in um anyway that's up that's up to you that's up to you why don't we just leave it at that all right so features other than the fact that asus reserves the very best quality components for their republic of gamers class of products what do you actually get for spending so much on a motherboard that inherently doesn't do that much more than another motherboard well for one thing especially when you're trying to build a smaller class of system using very high quality components in the voltage regulation modules is incredibly important so asus is using 10k black caps that are rated for a hundred and five degrees celsius operation so that means that in a cramped case no matter what color the bad stuff is going on with this system you are not going to be in a situation where it's going to be running out of spec and it's not going to last for very long so that is not what this is about you've also got a nice little heat pipe that connects all of the various voltage regulation module components that are above the socket as well as beside the socket using higher quality components also reduces things like coil whine so for example when you hear that noise when you're under load that can be attributed to lower quality components alright so what else do you get you get a better audio solution generally speaking on an asus rog board then you get almost anywhere else right here is their redline audio concept so you can actually see that instead of including like they did with supreme FX to a separate PCB riser card that goes into one of your PCI Express slots they have a little illuminated red line that separates the sound card PCB on the motherboard from the rest of the PCB there's an aluminum shield as well as the fact that the sound processor is as far away from the other components as possible to reduce interference and that right there is a 1,500 micro farad like massive capacitor in addition to the audio grade capacitors elsewhere that compensates for a couple of things so if you have like a sudden explosion or something like that and it's drawing more power than normal you might with a normal audio solution see something like clipping or or it's because it's not able to deliver enough power this is designed to smooth out those things so better audio solutions are something that I personally do feel are help justify a more expensive board even though you could buy less expensive board and a dedicated card but of course Asus has owned our cards for that you also get better PCB design so you've got your PCI Express 8 pin connector still in its ideal top location as well as the 24 pin connector in its ideal right hand location this is more difficult and it does take adding more layers to the PCB in order to maintain an optimal layout and still have it fit in a smaller form factor now I did mention this is a bit of an older board so the SATA ports feel a little bit dated at this point but you've got 4 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports to running off the Intel chipset to running off a third party as media chipset and then to say 2 to 3 gigabit per second ports I probably should have mentioned that the CPU is entirely digitally powered so all the vrm is fully digi I think they call it what is it digi plus 2 so that means you have all the tweak ability that you could possibly want that's another thing that you get with rog boards that you don't get with other boards is that gonna help you overclock better unless your name is andrey yang possibly no but if you want to feel better having all the bells and whistles there's the way to do it actually there's another state of three SATA to three gigabit per second connector down here and that's the opposite of 3g and then we've got our front panel connectors to front USB 2 as well as onboard start reset and the Go button switches you can actually add this ok your front audio connector and then that leads us to the PCI Express slot so dual PCIe 16x this guy right here is wired only for 8x and this one is right wired for 4x so you could fill this up with a full complement of graphics cards and other expansion cards and you would get very very satisfactory perform indeed it supports up to ddr3 twenty four hundred megahertz however you will have to overclock in order to achieve that and moving along to the rear i/o we've got eight USB 2.0 ports again this is a bit of an older board two USB 3.0 ports a clear CMOS button the rog connect button as well as bios flashback functionality is built into this board so if you do brick the board the power goes out in the middle of a BIOS flash you can restore it simply by following the instructions on the issues website optical digital audio out a ps2 port in Intel Nick so you can use that to prioritize game packets using the AI suite software and then 7.1 audio out as well as an e SATA port you it includes a copy of daemon tools standards as well as Kaspersky antivirus and something that I'm sure JJ is watching this video and I'm sure was ready to write me an email telling me I had forgotten about I have not supreme fx3 in spite of the fact that I've mentioned several times now this is an older board is still getting updated so there new sound radar or whatever they call it basically it's a visual indicator on your screen that actually points out where sounds are coming from in-game in real time it's basically cheating as far as I can tell but hey every advantage right has been added to supreme effects three boards even older ones like this one so you pair this up with an Ivy bridge-e processor and a couple of GTX Titans and you have one powerhouse of a system in a very small form-factor thank you for checking out my unboxing an overview of the Maximus 4 Jean did I say Maximus because I meant rampage 4 Jean sorry JJ from Asus don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos don't forget to like the video if you liked the video or dislike it if you don't I don't care and leave a comment under the video letting me know why you'd like to disliked it I'll read it but you know no promises I'll change anything but I might