Maximus 5 Gene Preview/Review 8 Pack style

[bhk1004]

curious, dont know if you can answer this question, but maybe are in contact with people that might be able to answer.

I was wondering if Asus was planning on implementing the PCIE 3.0 PLX PXE chip on this? I have the z68 gene-z, and was thinking of upgrading to ivy bridge, and would want to upgrade the board as well if I can get this chip for 32 pcie 3.0 lanes. currently I am not seeing any mATX boards with it, and was hoping Asus would be possibly planning on implementing in the future.

Thanks for any help!

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curious, dont know if you can answer this question, but maybe are in contact with people that might be able to answer.

I was wondering if Asus was planning on implementing the PCIE 3.0 PLX PXE chip on this? I have the z68 gene-z, and was thinking of upgrading to ivy bridge, and would want to upgrade the board as well if I can get this chip for 32 pcie 3.0 lanes. currently I am not seeing any mATX boards with it, and was hoping Asus would be possibly planning on implementing in the future.

Thanks for any help!

Not sure about future revs of the board but currently two cards on this board run at 8x 8x on this board,

[Cygnitr0n]

Hello, I don't know of this question already is asked...

I want this new Maximus V Gene-Z motherboard but can I use my Mosfet Waterblock from EK (Maximus IV)? Is it compitable?

Thanks for answering.

[8 Pack]

I would check with EK on this mate. Just e-mail them direct they will give you the definitive answer. I have both those boards but have never taken off the stock cooling so am not 100& sure whether they are the same underneath.

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So here you go!!! as promised I have done some testing with the Maximus V Gene and the Ivybridge 3570K to show what this board is capable with the 3rd Gen Intel Core CPU. All tests are on WIndows 7 64 Bit. All DRAM overclocking appart from max frequency has been tested memtest stable before booting into windows at that frequency.

Firstly some BLK clocking results with CPU at stock and memory controller at stock so we can see what the board can do BLK wise. Almost 112 blk.



These are the max pi1mb and stable into windows clocks I achieved.



Now Some DRAM overclocking Max mem frequency DDR 2920. These GSkill Trident may go higher at these timings but this was the limit of the CPU's IMC



Some Gskill Pi low latency DRAM clocking (2 x 2gb). These DIMMS default is DDR1600mhz 7-8-7-24 -2T. These benches are all using the PSC profiles from within Bios and are tuned for performance with 1T command rate.





Cas 8 with 1T






Using Max memory profile for PSC to test High BLK with these DIMMS 111 achieved and stable.



GSkill DDR2400 (4x4gb) DRAM overclocking at Cas 11 did not go any higher as for max memory frequency I had the higher Binned Trident sticks. With this I wanted to show stable overclocking on the Gene of DDR3 rated at 2400mhz 4 x 4gb (All slots populated) all the way up to 2826mhz. is possible. Showing its flexibility with DRAM types and amounts, whilst remaining stable.

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GSkill Trident DRAM overclocking these are 2666mhz 11-13-13-35-2T ,1.65v dimms. These DIMMS achieved 2920mhz as I showed earlier in my Maximum memory frequency screen shot and may well be capable of more just my CPU IMC was not.

They also achieved DDR 2875 stock timings XMP loaded stable.



Stability testing next CPU 5100mhz, DDR2800 Gskill Trident XMP. (This would be my 24/7 setting)

Prime



Hyper Pi amd Wprime



Aida system stability.



2D next with CPU at 5250mhz and GSkill Trident at 2800mhz XMP. The CPU would clock higher but only by trimming back the memory frequency which I wanted to keep high to show what the board could do in terms of high CPU frequency and high memory frequency which is much more demanding on the board than just one or the other. These are the highest stable CPU and RAM at the same time overclocks I achieved and infact in most benchmarks produced a better score than RAW CPU mhz with lower frequency but very tight Timings DRAM. The DRAM frequency and bandwidth more than making up for higher CPU MHZ.

32mb Pi and UC Bench 2011



Cinebench



AIDA and Maxx MEM



PC Mark 07 with one 7970



PC mark Vantage 64 bit single 7970

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3D benches single 7970














2 x 7970 Xfire

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3D benches single 7970














2 x 7970 Xfire

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Some higher CPU mhz Benchmarks with tight timings GSKill PSC based dimm modules using the tight PSC profile from BIOS.








As you can see from the results this Board is simply superb with Ivy Bridge offering a comprehensive Bios and feature. Its truly stable with several RAM configurations and types and overclocks RAM very well obviously CPU IMC does make a difference here. Its also totally stable with all PCI Ex slots populated running two card crossfire. I can say for all the gamers that the cards worked very well in Crossfire and at Gen 3.0 which is supported by the Ivy Bridge CPU and was confirmed to be enabled by GPU -Z. I intend to next try a retail CPU which are supposed to have stronger IMC to test and post further results. Any questions you may have please do ask, or anything you think needs clarifying again please ask. Thanks to GSkill for providing the RAM for this review which performs very stable and clocks fantastically on this board.

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More results:

Memory Overclocking DDR3065 (GSkill Trident)


CPU Overclocking 6ghz