ASUS Maximus III GENE

Introduction

Earlier this year (2009) ASUS introduced a motherboard that has all of the capabilities, and features that only the full sized counterparts had. These motherboards were all based upon the micro-ATX standard design, during my time using these micro ATX motherboards these little "Bad Boys" quickly became known as the "Mini Monsters" around these parts. In short not only did they keep up with there full sized brethren, they were able to out clock and in some cases out perform full sized motherboards.

These motherboards were known as the ROG (Rebuplic Of Gamers) series GENE, they still carried their bigger brothers name ie. Rampage II, Maximus II. Today ASUS, adds another one of these "Mini Monters" to their line up. I am proud to bring you ladies/gents another ROG GENE motherboard, the ASUS Maximus III GENE.

This time the Maximus III GENE motherboard is based on the ever popular (and cheaper) Intel Socket 1156 CPU. With my past experiences with the previous GENE motherboards that I personally played with, I have high hopes for this little motherboard. I got a feeling I will not be disappointed. Lets break out "Minor Me" and throw in my ever cranking Intel Core i5 750 CPU, in the Maximus III GENE and find out exactly how far I can crank the CPU.