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Asus Maximus VI Hero (Z87) Motherboard Review

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As has been the case with all other ASM1061-equipped Z87 motherboards that we have tested, the native PCH SATA 6Gb/s ports offer restriction-free performance, while ASMedia's offerings limit drive bandwidth to around 400MB/s.

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8 comments

  1. lovely board and nice to see a more reasonable price point for the majority of us. While the maximus extreme was impressive, it was also priced at a years car insurance for me!

  2. ROG boards are excellent, well built and nicely designed. I do think ASUS are facing more competition in the high end with Z87 however from MSI and gigabyte and even asrock. any chance of a review of the asrock OC formula high end?

  3. Ben, keep your eye out for that board in the coming days ;-)!

  4. awesome, I like asrock too, good prices. This board is a good setup, interesting to see the 3,000mhz memory didnt work. but its £400 right? cant see too many people buying that.

  5. Good reviews Luke, nicely detailed. DO you think its worth the money to get the ROG extreme over this? I would ideally like to use 3,000mhz next year. I wonder if they can fix the bios, or if its just not as good as the extreme for this kind of support.

  6. Hi Barry, That’s a tough question to answer, and one that depends entirely on personal preference and usage. If you’re going for extreme overclocking with extreme cooling, the Maximus VI Extreme is a great choice and well optimised for those conditions.

    If it’s high-speed memory support that you’re specifically after, I would think that compatibility will be improved with future BIOS updates. The Maximus VI Hero does support 3000MHz kits, according to the DRAM QVL, just not quite the one that we tested (not with two sticks, at least).

  7. Thank you for the review.

    But I am looking forward to the Formula review more ^^

  8. If I buy this board will I get banned in fps games like cod?

    Is Sonic radar is a reason for ban?