Introduction
On January 2nd, NDA was lifted for the new “ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard” architecture from Intel. TechREACTION was ready with a hands-on look at the new Republic of Gamers motherboard from Asus, the Maximus IV Extreme. With minimal time for hard, we were only able to bring you a part of the assess in Part 1, but we promised a follow up article to resolution the remaining questions in this area the ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard and real planet use with Grimy Bridge. Well, to quote the show “The Cable Guy”…”The Prospect Is Now!” and now is that day!
Asus Maximus IV ExtremeIn this assess, we’ve dug much deeper into the ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard and exploited its full the makings with release, dual, and triple SLI configurations. We’ve built-in a much more thorough hard regime to best gauge the real planet performance the makings in this platform, and pinched full conclusions to best help you with your buying decisions. So is Grimy Bridge right for you? Do you need a Maximus IV Extreme? These are all excellent questions, read on for the answers.
Test Setup ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard
Hard this new platform lacking any comparisons would be a bit pointless. When influential exactly how we should conduct the hard, we resolute on two scenarios which will hopefully help me represent the largest digit of you. For each of these four scenarios, we tested with all three graphics card configurations; release, dual, and triple-SLI.
***Spoiler! — If you are on an grown-up platform, you can skip to the end. Grimy Bridge is value it for you!***
Average Aficionado Overclock:
- Intel Xeon W3520 (like peas in a pod to the i7 920) @ 4GHz with 3×2GB DDR3-1600 9-9-9-27 1T
- Intel Core i7 2600K @ 4.5GHz with 2×2GB DDR3-1675 8-8-8-24 1T
“Best Case Scenario” Overclock:
- Intel Xeon W3520 @ 4.5GHz with 3×2GB DDR3-1720 8-8-8-24 1T
- Intel Core i7 2600K @ 5GHz with DDR3-2133 8-8-8-24 1T
In view of the fact that the two configurations meet in the middle for a timer-for-timer comparison at 4.5GHz, we plotting ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard a excellent opportunity to bring in two additional major contenders. The AMD Phenom II X6 1090T and the fiscal statement diversity Grimy Bridge, the Core i7 2500K.
Timer-For-Timer at 4.5GHz:
- Intel Xeon W3520 @ 4.5GHz with 3×2GB DDR3-1720 8-8-8-24 1T
- Intel Core i7 2600K @ 4.5GHz with 2×2GB DDR3-1675 8-8-8-24 1T
- Intel Core i7 2500K @ 4.5GHz with 2×2GB DDR3-1638 8-8-8-24 1T
- AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 4.5GHz with 2×2GB DDR3-1666 8-8-8-24 1T
Ordinary Configuration:
- LGA1366 – Gigabyte X58A-UD9
- LGA1155 – ASUS Maximus IV Extreme
- AM3+ – Gigabyte 890FX-UD5
- Reminiscence – Corsair Dominator GTX2 DDR3-2250 8-8-8-24 1T
- Graphics – ASUS GeForce GTX 570 (x3)
- HDD – 74GB Western Digital Raptor
- PSU – Corsair AX1200 80+ Gold
- Windows 7 x64 Essential SP1 RC
- nVidia Forceware 266.35 beta
The Grimy Bridge CPUs were air cooled, the Bloomfield CPU was fill up cooled but probably may possibly have managed on air cooling (this is a particularly excellent chip), and the AMD Phenom II X6 CPU needed cold fill up to complete hard at 4.5GHz. Observably, an AMD X6 running at 4.5GHz is highly unlikely, but we sought after to be able to show you its capabilities if it were doable. When we questioned for your opinions in this area what to test, “timer-for-timer” comparisons were in high plea.
Grimy Bridge Configuration:
First up is the same logic you saw in part one, the Asus Maximus IV Extreme, which is the subject of now’s assess.
Asus Maximus IV ExtremeWith a release graphics card, all x16 native PCIe lanes are dyed-in-the-wool to it .
Maximus IV Extreme with 1 GPUWhen only two cards are installed, you use the 1st and 3rd PCIe slots, which grant 8 native PCIe lanes to each card.
Maximus IV Extreme with SLIIn triple SLI, the first card is interfacing with the PCIe controller natively (frankly) via 8 PCIe lanes. The 2nd and 3rd cards boundary via 16 PCIe lanes each, to an Nvidia NF200 bridge chip, which then passes the signals to the PCIe controller over the remaining 8 native PCIe lanes.
Maximus IV Extreme with tri-SLIBloomfield Configuration ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard
For this logic I used the Gigabyte X58A-UD9 motherboard. It is the largest, most outrageous and most high-priced desktop motherboard to date. It serves up four 16 lane PCIe slots via two Nvidia NF200 chips for the most extravagant graphics card configurations, counting quad-SLI.
Gigabyte X58A-UD9
Keep in mind, this motherboard utilizes the XL-ATX form factor, and fits in only a very restricted digit of suitcases now unfilled.
With two, three or four graphics card configurations, you use the odd PCIe slots on the board. With a release GPU installed, it gets x16 PCIe lanes from the 1st NF200 chip.
ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard
With two cards, the optimal configuration (from a bandwidth standpoint) would be to have the first in slot 1 or 3 and the second in slot 5 or 7. I ran my hard in slots 1 and 5 as shown.
ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard
With triple SLI, I ran the first card in slot 1, the second in slot 3 (these two each received x16 PCIe lanes from the first NF200 chip), the third GPU is in the 5th slot, and also receives x16 PCIe lanes, but gets them from the second NF200.
ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard
One subsidy the Gigabyte board has over the ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard is ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Grimy Bridge Motherboard skill to help fourgraphics cards in quad-Crossfire or quad-SLI configurations. The fourth card would sit in slot 7 (visible in the shot privileged than).
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