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The ASUS Republic of Gamers(ROG) has announced 3 motherboards. These are Maximus VII Gene mATX, Maximus VII Hero ATX, and Maximus VII Ranger ATX gaming motherboards. These motherboards are all Intel Z97 chip based. They feature the LGA 1150 socket. All these support the Intel 4th, 5th Gen processors(Haswell, Haswell Refresh).
Asus Launches Gaming Motherboards
They are all colored with black and red color scheme. They also have a matte black and red finish which looks cool. The Maximus VII series boosts good amount of advanced networking and audio for gaming. The ROG Maximus VII series motherboards are having latest Intel Gigabit Ethernet.
Specifications of the motherboards
| Maximus VII Gene | Maximus VII Hero | Maximus VII Ranger | |||
| Socket | Intel® LGA1150 4th, New 4th & 5th Generation Core™ i7/Core™ i5/Core™ i3/Pentium®/Celeron® Processors Ready | ||||
| Chipset | Intel Z97 Express Chipset | ||||
| Power Phase Design | Extreme Engine Digi+ III | Extreme Engine Digi+ III | Fully Digital VRM | ||
| Memory | DDR3 3300MHz (O.C.) | DDR3 3200MHz (O.C.) | DDR3 3200MHz (O.C.) | ||
| 4 DIMM, up to 32GB, non-ECC, un-buffered memory[1]Dual-channel memory architecture,Supports Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) | |||||
| Expansion slots | 2 xPCIe 3.0/2.0 x161 x PCIe 2.0 x41 x mPCIe 2.0 x1 | 2 xPCIe 3.0/2.0 x161 xPCIe 2.0/x163 x PCIe 2.0 x1 | |||
| Multi-GPU support | Quad-GPU NVIDIA SLI/ AMD CrossFireX™ | ||||
| Storage | 8 x SATA 6Gbit/s1 x M.2 (PCIe x2) socket 3 with M key, supports type 2260/2280 | 8 x SATA 6Gbit/s1 x M.2 (PCIe x2) socket 3 with M key, supports type 2260/2280 | 6 x SATA 6Gbit/s1 x M.2 (PCIe x2) socket 3 with M key, supports type 2260/2280 | ||
| USB | 6 x USB 3.07 x USB 2.0 | 6 x USB 3.07 x USB 2.0 | 6 x USB 3.07 x USB 2.0 | ||
| Networking (LAN) | 1 x Intel Gigabit Ethernet, ROG GameFirst III, LANGuard | ||||
| Audio | SupremeFX Impact II add-in card, 8-Channel High-Definition audio codec, Sonic SoundStage, Sonic SenseAmp, Sonic Radar II, Sonic Studio, DTS Connect | SupremeFX 20148-Channel High-Definition audio codec, Sonic SoundStage, Sonic SenseAmp, Sonic Studio, Sonic Radar II, DTS Connect | |||
| Form Factor | mATX | ATX | ATX | ||
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The prices of these motherboards are:
Maximus VII Ranger – Rs. 14900/-
Maximus VII Hero – Rs. 18050/-
Maximus VII Gene – Rs. 16710/-
We will keep you informed about any new additions or launches from Asus. Till then stay tuned on Technary!
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