ASUS BOARD

Before you all get overexcited: this Marine Cool LGA775 P45 motherboard is not going to be released on the market; it's more of a concept design, hence why Asus decided to implement So-Dimm memory on the motherboard. The backplate you see on the left is supposed to be attached to the back of the motherboard to decrease the overall temperature of your system.


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The very cool looking northbridge heatsink


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We have a new player on the µATX overclocking market; next to Dfi's JR series we now have the Asus Maximus II Gene, a P45 chipset based motherboard which allows frequent visitors of LAN parties to have a small, yet very powerful and tweakable system. We already noticed this motherboard a couple of days before the Cebit convention and already have requested our sample to compare it the Dfi JR series, which is the proof that µATX doesn't not equal µOC.


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This picture would seem meaningless to most of you readers, but what if I told you this is a picture of the socket of the Rampage II Gene, the small X58 motherboard? And what if I pointed out that the really interesting part is located four times around the socket? Yes, correct, Asus now also has added LGA775 mounting holes; exactly like the Bloodrage we reviewed in our X58 motherboard round-up. It's not really original, but who cares: it's handy