Maximus VI Formula here in a few days and its a beauty!!

Is this worth the £80/£90 more than the hero(£260 vs £170/£180)? My PC(2500k, 6950(unlocked to 6970) xfire) has been on the blink for a few months and I've been meaning to see if I can fix it but been lazy, thinking of going with haswel and have been looking at the hero or the gigabyte oc.

By the by does this have the cmos rest button that the hero lacks?

But then get thinking if you're spending this sort of money would it be better to spend the little extra(like another £50-£60) and go with the extreme?


benji182 said:
Cheaper?! Its only $300 bucks over in the States. I know taxes here mess it up but I'm paying a lot more for this than I had hoped.

No motherboard for 2 months though so had to buy it after waiting so long.
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Well if you take the current exchange rate(£1 = $1.55, its been stuck around this for awhile) $300 is just under £200(£193.55), but then you have to remember to add the vat @20% which makes it ~£232 if my calculation is correct so even tho its more expensive than in the USA its not that much more expensive .
 
the usb3 header should have been the same orientation as the sata ports, apart from that looks sweet. Is that a water cooling thingy ma bob at the top?
 
benji182 said:
Cheaper?! Its only $300 bucks over in the States. I know taxes here mess it up but I'm paying a lot more for this than I had hoped.

No motherboard for 2 months though so had to buy it after waiting so long.
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Depending on which state your in that 300 bucks could be a lot more, prices found on the likes of newegg for example that currently has the vi up for 400 does not include the us sales tax due to it varying between states

The average us sales tax is around 10% thats up to $440 or about £283 taking the $400 though the current exchange rate makes it 258 we pay 20% not 10% that makes it 290 quid without the shipping costs to this country, 260 quid is a bargain
 
fowler002 said:
Well if you take the current exchange rate(£1 = $1.55, its been stuck around this for awhile) $300 is just under £200(£193.55), but then you have to remember to add the vat @20% which makes it ~£232 if my calculation is correct so even tho its more expensive than in the USA its not that much more expensive .
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stuie said:
Depending on which state your in that 300 bucks could be a lot more, prices found on the likes of newegg for example that currently has the vi up for 400 does not include the us sales tax due to it varying between states

The average us sales tax is around 10% thats up to $440 or about £283 taking the $400 though the current exchange rate makes it 258 we pay 20% not 10% that makes it 290 quid without the shipping costs to this country, 260 quid is a bargain
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I didn't really do the maths but on first glance when I saw it was released there yesterday $300 vs £260 just seemed way off.

I've ordered it regardless though as I've been using this laptop for over two months now and it's driving me crazy lol/
 
Very tempted by this, why are these new boards not doing 2x X16 PCI-E slots these days? seems a bit of a step back going to 2x X8 if you SLI\XFire.
 
Andrew Moore said:
Memory
- 4 x DIMM, Max. 32GB, DDR3 3100(O.C)/3000(O.C.)/2933(O.C.)/2800(O.C.)/2666(O.C.)/2600(O.C.)/2500(O.C.)/2400(O.C.)/2200(O.C.)/2133(O.C.)/2000(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1800(O.C.)/1600/1333 MHz Non-ECC, - Un-buffered Memory
- Dual Channel Memory Architecture
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No Quad Channel and only 32GB, bit of a let down for a £250 board :/
 
Roady said:
No Quad Channel and only 32GB, bit of a let down for a £250 board :/
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Memory channels are a chipset limitation, all z87 boards are dual...if you want quad channel and more memory you need to be looking at x79 ;)

A fair few x79 boards should do 128gb @ quad.
 
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