Asus Maximus IV Extreme. Preview

Asus company has began supply of new P67-based motherboards supporting the latest Sandy Bridge processors. The first lucky owners of Asus Maximus IV Extreme has published a photo session of the board (see below) to reveal more design detail and mobo specs.

Preliminary specification of Asus Maximus IV Extreme mother board:

• Supports Intel Core processors with LGA 1155 Socket
• Bootstrap using UEFI
• PCIe support via NVIDIA NF200 and PLX PEX8608-BA50BC controllers
• 8-channel integrated audio codec ALC889
• Bluetooth V2.0v2.1+VDR
• Extended ATX form factor
• 4 x PCIe 2.0 x16 supports NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX (x16 / x8 + x8 / x8 + x16 + x16)
• 1 x PCIe 2.0 4x
• 1 x PCIe 2.0 1x
• 2 x Intel Gigabit LAN (Intel 82579)
• 2 x SATA 3 (Intel P67)
• 2 x SATA 2 (Intel P67)
• 2 x SATA 3 (Marvell 88SE9128)
• 2 x External SATA 3 (JMicron 362) connectors
• 8 x External USB 3.0 /2.0(2 x NEC D720200F1, 2 x VIA VL 810)connectors
• 2 x Internal USB 3.0 / 2.0 (2 x NEC D720200F1, 2 x VIA VL 810)connectors
• 8 x Internal USB 2.0 (Intel P67)connectors
• 1 x External USB 2.0 ROG (Intel P67)connector

Back panel I/O ports:

• 2 x SATA 2
• 8 x USB 3.0 / 2.0
• 1 x PS/2
• 2 x LAN (RJ45)
• 1 x USB 2.0 / 1.1
• Audio ports (8 channel)
• 1 x S/PDIF optical output
• 1 x RC Bluetooth switch
• 1 x Clr CMOS switch

Gallery:

Source: xfastest.com