Maximus V Extreme announced

[MaadDaawg]

Looks hot ... maybe one of our resident insiders can get us a release date?

http://rog.asus.com/114332012/maximus-v-motherboards/maximus-v-extreme-pushing-lga1155-to-its-limits/

[Kal-EL]

Whats does the vga hotwire, oc key, intel thunderbolt thingys do?

[Gunslinger]

hotwire= hook your voltmod to the motherboard and have voltage control through the OC key

OCkey= small device that hooks between VGA and monitor connection, also has a connection to the mb. This allows for an video overlay on the monitor that can display and adjust bios volts and such

not sure what thunderbolt is, maybe a sound card/LAN feature

[Kal-EL]

Rapidfire gunny with the answers, thx :)

[punx223]

Thunderbolt is a daisy chainable high speed connection.

First seen on MAC. can daisy chain up to 6 devices and even a DP monitor as 7th device in chain.


uses 2x pcie Link

[Kal-EL]

Thx Shannon, so basically a networking tool or forwarding interwebs connection.

[MaadDaawg]

supposed to be considerably faster than USB or SATA III. The high end ASUS Z77 board has one too.. I read up on it on the egg :P

[Splave]

no need for this unless you like hotwire / want to run 4-way :)

[punx223]

yeah I have a couple Thunderbolt boards from ASUS recent.

Basically a faster than USB 3.0 interconnect.... but also daisy chainable so that you can hook up to 6 Thundebolt devices daisy chained from a single cable from IO..

then at the end of that line can use a Displayport display since thunderbolt interface also carries DisplayPort signal.

[kikicoco1334]

dear god! seems like that board is made to go sub zero!

[Witchdoctor]

Sick board