ASUS MAXIMUS VI EXTREME Motherboard

Other Features

The MAXIMUS VI EXTREME comes with several features aimed on overclock and tweaking. In Figure 8, you can see the on-board power and reset buttons, the “MemOK!” button, which allows you to test the compatibility of the memory modules that are installed, four switches that disable each PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (to test which video card is failing without the need to remove any of them), a two-digit POST diagnostics display, two BIOS chips, and a “slow mode” switch that rises the chances of an extreme overclocking to work. There is also an “LN2” jumper, to be used with liquid nitrogen cooling that ensures the system will boot even at subzero temperatures, and probe points to directly measure the motherboard voltages using a voltmeter.

Figure 8: Buttons and switches

Figure 9 shows one of the coolest features of the MAXIMUS VI EXTREME: the “OC Panel,” which can be used to monitor and adjust overclocking settings. It can be used in “normal mode”, inside a 5.25” bay, as shown in Figure 10, or in “extreme mode”, with more controls and options, if you are using your system without a case. In the normal mode, it will show the temperature of the CPU, the speed of the CPU cooler, the CPU base clock and the CPU clock multiplier, and allow you to apply preset overclocking configurations.

Figure 9: The OC Panel

Figure 10: OC panel in the bay adapter

In Figure 11, you can see the accessories that come with the ASUS MAXIMUS VI EXTREME.

Figure 11: Accessories