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Why the maximus v formula?

lochsloy
Level 7
Tell me what you like about the maximus v formula?This is the board i want to buy.This will be my first asus board.I would like to try a Rog motherboard.It's funny that some hardware sites don't like the board but i would like to hear from maximus v formula owners.If you need my current hardware i will gladly give it.This will only be my second build.
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HiVizMan
Level 40
I have both the MVE and the MVF and also the Gene version.

The MVF is the most suitable all round board of them all. It does not have the fiddly extras of the Extreme that no one will use unless they go sub zero on a regular basis.

Well made, looks awesome and has built in water cooling for the vrm's if you want to go hard on the clocking.

Perfect in fact.
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Thanks for the reply.Looks like i'm going from an 680i evga to an Asus maximus v formula.Hope the board rocks my world yes i will be overclocking.Will be in a coolermaster haf 932 full tower cooled by corsair h100i.Keeping the thermaltake 850 w power supply modular.Putting in the 3570k i'm a gamer retiring the q6600.16gb of 1600 memory either gskill or corsair dominator haven't decided.Keeping the evga 560ti superclocked for now till i can afford a 660ti or better.Try an ssd drive and switch from windows vista 64 to windows 7 64.One 500gb sata3 harddrive.Thanks hivizman.Seen your name around a lot and i know you know what your talking about.

HiVizMan
Level 40
Your parts selection is very sound. The CPU is perfect for gaming, best performance/price in fact.

A SSD as your OS and applications will make the biggest difference you have ever seen and I can not recommend it enough.

VGA well that is such a personal choice that I tend to stay out of any discussion about them. Just going to add that both AMD and nVid high end cards are very good and quite equal at the minute. It comes down to personal preference to how stuff looks. Your 560 will be good for some time still, and with a new VGA model (both red and green) some time in the near future it would be prudent to hold off buying now.

Your cooling solution is good so nothing needs be said there.

Ram on the Z77 is pretty much any 16GB kit that you can get at a good price. Most of the vendors use the same chips and the ram all performs the same in real world. Size is now more important than speed in real world, with 16GB being the current sweet spot.

And lastly enjoy. 🙂
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Alex-Ro
Level 10
I have to agree with hivizman,maximus V formula is the best board for daily use! I had maximus V gene,V formula and V extreme.Gene is very good too but is m-atx,V formula is just perfect,first pci-ex 16x slot is distant from socket so you can have a bit of a distance between cpu-cooler and video card,great onboard sound,overall just perfect.V extreme lacks the quality onboard sound,has that PLX chip,first X16 slot is very close to socket,also if you use the plx slot you loose performance and the plx chip will get HOT,it has lot's of features for extreme overclock but not for daily use...

Thomas
Level 10
Not sure why this hasn't been mentioned yet but the SupremeFX IV audio chip is a really nice step up from normal on-board audio solutions, well suited for anyone wanting use their system for gaming, movies or music!
Thomas Jenner
Asus UK

chilinmichael
Level 10
I can tell you I'm about the average gamer. When I get free time, I enjoy a good way to vent. I enjoy music and movies as well. This motherboard was the only one with enough USB ports, enough SATA-III ports, the durability and options I was looking for, and yes, the nice onboard audio (even though I have a Xonar phoebus) . It had everything I wanted, and not too much more that I had to pay for. It's just right as they say.
Asus G20CB - Core i7 6700, Nvidia GTX980, 16GB Ram, 256GB SK Hynix SSD, 1TB Samsung SSD.