Asus has previewed its first P55 Republic of Gamers motherboard: the Maximus III Formula.While the board looks spectacular (as you can see below), its features are far more than skin deep. It should be a brilliant overclocker, thanks to a new feature called RoG Connect. This feature allows the (usually resource heavy) overclocking and monitoring software to be run on a second machine, which may result in higher overclocks (the overclocking can be performed in real time).
This board also has other novel features such as two dedicated SATA ports for hardware RAID (the red SATA plugs at the bottom of the board), in an attempt to avoid the sometimes shoddy drivers provided by RAID controller manufacturers for software RAID, and a reset button to load a known good memory profile, to try to prevent unrecoverable memory error crashes.
Whilst there is no doubt this board will be at the higher end of the spectrum of P55 motherboards, for overclockers its additional features could prove invaluable, and as a result it has the potential to be very popular amongst some members of the Folding community!
Source: HardwareCanucks
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On: 09/07/09
