CONCLUSION
Let’s get this one out quick and painless, we’ll break down the scores and get to the point already. 🙂
Performance. The motherboard shows it can handle a great array of tasks with relative ease but results are erratic. The board flexes its muscle in benchmarks but flounders along real-world applications and most comes up middling in most of the tests. We still won’t rule that it managed to get us some very good overclocks and the results show it can push components much farther than what they normally can.
Build Quality. Excellent components. Excellent build. Excellent everything. It can’t be denied that ASUS attention to details is incredible and their choice of components, impeccable. This does raises a few concerns in terms of passing down the costs to the consumer but that’s for later. Ultimately, the board shows off what great board engineering is.
Functionality. The MAXIMUS VI EXTREME is an example of every functionality a board can offer culminated into one. Although it does compromise in a lot of department, it makes up for this in terms of flexibility. With support for quad-GPU configuration, a heavy overclocking arsenal, built in WIFI/BT with support for NGFF SSDs the MAXIMUS VI EXTREME is ready to grow with you.
Bundle. A rich assortment of overclocking extras already set the ASUS MAXIMUS VI EXTREME apart but the inclusion of the OC Panel is both a blessing and a curse for this board but more on that later. ASUS puts in a lot of extras in this bundle, both in hardware, software and accessories.
Value. Straight to the point: ASUS is asking for ₱22,690 for the privilege to own this motherboard. As stated earlier, you get a solid performing motherboard, excellent components, a highly-scalable motherboard packed with a rich set of accessories and of course the privilege of being a Republic of Gamers owner. So big question is of course, is it worth it? Let’s get on to the closing statements.
The ASUS MAXIMUS VI EXTREME is another example of a motherboard with a serious identity crisis. It tries to cram so much into a single item that its major function as a motherboard gets diluted in its positioning and that is an overclocking tool. As an overclocking tool itself, for LN2 and extreme benchmarking purposes the board puts itself far too out of reach for most overclocking relegating itself for the privileged, the sponsored or the lucky people who may obtain such a board from being financially capable, being sponsored or purely getting it off a raffle. In such instances, the cost will already be a blockade for extreme usage scenario as possible destruction of the board is going to be a major wastage… unless you’re under the employ of a company hurting for an overclocking world record.
There is no way in God’s green earth we’d recommend this motherboard for anyone. The score we give it for value is 2: that number representative of the only 2 kinds of person we believe would benefit from this motherboard:
- Someone who needs a quad-GPU platform and is also after some major overclocks, or;
- An ASUS fanboy who has been bullied so much in life, he needs to overcompensate for his lack of self-esteem by purchasing the most expensive things around him to assert himself online as a capable person TL;DR – e-peen enlargement
You have to forgive us for the last bit but in all seriousness, it is a sad reality in our world. The ASUS MAXIMUS VI EXTREME is a great motherboard burdened by great purpose: to become the poster boy of a brand which has long forgotten what its name stands for. Regardless, the ASUS MAXIMUS VI EXTREME carries itself the banner of an overclocking board and performs as such warranting itself a seat in the ranks of the best performers we’ve seen here in Back2Gaming earning itself our beloved B2G Performance Award.
The ASUS MAXIMUS VI EXTREMEÂ is backed by a 3-year warranty.