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We're back once again with the modding masters! Let's take a look at some of the best the modding forum has generated up this month. Mods featured include: Onwards & Upwards, Project 1949, Project Redefine 2.0, Project Enter_prise update and 8 Pack's mATX LAN gaming rig.

UEFI installation is primarily needed for two things. The first is getting TRIM to work under RAID using the original, unmodified ASUS UEFI BIOS (i.e. without a patched OROM) as BIOS version 3404 on the Rampage IV series has the Intel UEFI driver. The second reason is speeding up Windows boot as only with a UEFI installation you can completely disable CSM (compatibility support module). Here we detail exactly how to setup your Rampage IV motherboard a new install of Windows 7 or 8 OS in UEFI mode.

If you're using a Rampage IV or Maximus V motherboard (or any X79 or Z77 for that matter) along with RAID0 SSDs, you can now get TRIM support by upgrading to the 11.x (currently 11.2) Intel RST drivers. Anandtech tested the latest driver in a recent article. If you're unsure what TRIM is and why you need it, Anandtech covers that too in the 'Why does TRIM matter?' section.

It would be an understatement to say everyone here at ROG is delighted (and surprised) to receive the honor of Anandtech's Editors Choice Gold Award. Thank you, Anandtech for your kind words and recognition. While I'm only cutting the conclusion for your titillation above, it would be a disservice to not thoroughly encourage reading all the thoughts and weighted arguments in the full article linked below. Click inside to read more.

SupremeFX has been a staple addition to Republic of Gamers motherboards ever since the very first Crosshair. Its design is focused on improving sound quality beyond the standard that most motherboards included, by putting the audio onto a separate sound card that plugged into a PCIe x1 slot. Isolating the analogue sounds in this way helped improve audio quality. In the intervening 5 years, SupremeFX has evolved into its third revision. First added to the Rampage IV Series late last year, it's now following onto the Maximus V GENE as well.

Do not let the GENE's mini size fool you into thinking its performance is in anyway lacking, as the guys over at TechSweden found out. They seemed suitably impressed, and gave the Rampage IV GENE a top mark rating of 5/5 and classified it as "A Performance Monster" motherboard.

The newly launch Rampage IV GENE is a small and MIGHTY motherboard. With so much awesome-ness hiding inside, Atomic PC reviewed the Rampage IV Gene and found it to be 'small but perfectly formed', then awarded it with their prestigious Hot Award.

The Rampage IV GENE launched earlier this month, and if you're thinking about building a micro ATX monster of a system but are wondering what else you get with the GENE - below we're unboxing it to show you what else you get in its bundle.

The ASUS Rampage IV GENE has been awarded as the world's first Intel X79 motherboard formally certified as USB 3.0 ready by the USB International Forum (USB-IF).