Review Asus Maximus VIII Hero Complete with explanation

Skylake Intel's presence, making the motherboard manufacturers competing to bring motherboards based on chipset Intel Z170 into the market, especially the themed Gaming, not least through the sub-brand ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG). A few days ago one of the sub-brand motherboard ROG, the ASUS Maximus VIII Hero stop by our office. Before we do the testing details, let us review briefly beforehand what is offered this motherboard.

Packaging Sales

Retained a distinctive design on the packaging ASUS ROG motherboards her. This packaging also presents the specifications and wide range of features available on this motherboard, such as:

- GameFirst Technology
- SupremeFX 2015 by Sonic Studio II
- Intel Ethernet
- ROG Cover
- lighting Control
- ROGRAMCache
- LANguard
- KeyBot II
- Extreme Engine Digi +
- Overwolf App
Curious especially offered by this motherboard? Let's look at this motherboard closer on the next page!

Completeness Package

ASUS Maximus VIII Hero comes with a complete sales package are complete. Following the sales package that is included on the ASUS Maximus Hero VIII.

- Cable 6x SATA 6 Gb / s
- 1x SLI Bridge
- 1x Bolts for M.2 slot and Mini PCIe
- 1x Q-Connector
- 1x CPU installation tool
- 1x ROG Door Hanger
- 1x 12-in-1 ROG Cable Label
- 1x IO Panel Shield
- 1 set manual book and CD-Driver
- ROG 3x Fan Label

The Board

Although the color scheme is dark, ASUS ROG motherboards are no longer dominated by black and red. Now ASUS use a combination of black and silver color dark enough to dominate this motherboard. This time you will also find ROG cover that covers the VRM heatsink up to the audio system.

The motherboard comes with a large heatsink over the VRM and above Chipset Intel Z170. The components of Extreme Engine Digi + is also present to provide high durability on this motherboard.

In the IO panel on the back, this motherboard provides abundant variety of connectors including connectors USB 3.1 Type-C and a LAN port RJ-45 Gigabit LAN chipset is handled by Intel I219V and equipped with LANguard.

With four DDR4 DIMM slots, this motherboard can handle DDR4 memory with a maximum capacity of up to 64 GB. In addition, all four slots capable of handling that DDR4 memory speeds up to 3800 MHz (overclocked).

Audio system SupremeFX 2015 is equipped with a DAC chip ESS® ES9023P ready to pamper your ears.

There is a power button on / off, reset, Clear CMOS, and also MemOK. There is also a 2-digit Debug LED for quick information about the condition of the system.

This motherboard comes with three PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot and three PCI Express x1 slots. The abundance of PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot allows you to use multiple graphics card configurations 3 way SLI / CrossFire. There are also M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 slot that is capable of presenting a high speed for storage media.

This motherboard has two connectors and four SATA Express connector SATA 6 Gb / s connectors. Both connector SATA Express connector can also provide four SATA 6 Gb / s, so the total of this motherboard has eight SATA 6 Gb / s.

That features and fittings offered ASUS Maximus VIII through its Hero.

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