Asus Maximus IV Extreme Intel P67

Seany84 · 14 Jan 2011 at 10:58

Thanks for the heads up. Unfortunately, it is useless to me. No support of 2x PCI2.0 x16 lanes

Thanks all the same

Durzel · 14 Jan 2011 at 12:47

Seany84 said:
Thanks for the heads up. Unfortunately, it is useless to me. No support of 2x PCI2.0 x16 lanes Thanks all the same

Do we even know the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 actually does 2 16x/16x native? It's using the same NF200 chip as the Maxi 4 Extreme, and SB only supports 8x/8x on die anyway so unless the Gigabyte board is doing some kind of magic to create pipelines (note: different to bandwidth) then I don't see how it's going to work any differently? :confused:

NathWraith said:
Just a heads up but the MAximus 4 is due instock today!

How sure are you of that? Keen to place a big order but I know you guys take payment in advance.

Seany84 · 14 Jan 2011 at 13:42

Durzel said:
Do we even know the Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7 actually does 2 16x/16x native? It's using the same NF200 chip as the Maxi 4 Extreme, and SB only supports 8x/8x on die anyway so unless the Gigabyte board is doing some kind of magic to create pipelines (note: different to bandwidth) then I don't see how it's going to work any differently?

I was hoping the specification was correct:

Expansion Slots: 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1, PCIEX16_2), 2 x PCI Express x16 slots, running at x8 (PCIEX8_1, PCIEX8_2), 1 x PCI Express x1 slot, 2 x PCI slots

What do yous think?

Durzel · 14 Jan 2011 at 13:50

I honestly don't know to be honest so wouldn't want to advise you one way or the other.

What I do know is that the Sandybridge P67 spec supports either PCI-E 2.0 16x or 2 x 8x (see here). Both Maximus IV Extreme and that Gigabyte board utilise the same chip (NF200) to provide more bandwidth for those PCI-E lanes.

I'm fairly sure they don't magically add lanes because of the limitations of the SB/P67 spec.

On that basis I would presume both boards operate identically in terms of how many lanes & bandwidth is available to the slots.

Durzel · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:21

Site showing in stock now!

Glad I pre-ordered

NathWraith · 14 Jan 2011 at 15:25

Durzel said:
Site showing in stock now!

Glad I pre-ordered

Seany84 · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:09

Asus Maximus IV Extreme Intel P67 Review:

It features the same black and red color scheme of the ROG series, and is well designed. It has four dual-channel DDR3 memory slots, and a whopping four PCI-E x16 expansion slots. The Nvidia NF200 chip on this board increases the number of PCI-E lanes to 32. This means users can run dual-SLI in a x16/x16 configuration, or triple-SLI in a x16/x8/x8 configuration. The board also has one PCI-E x1 and one PCI-E x4 slot. The board supports the ROG Connect feature, which allows users to connect two different computers and receive real-time POST readouts, and achieve overclocking control from the second computer.

Link here

Ok, who is telling me porky's? ASUS, this site and a couple of others or the hardcore techies here?

EDIT:

Straight from the horses mouth

.. ASUS

4 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (single @x16, dual @x8, triple @x8, x16, x16 )