Test – Asus ROG Maximus XII Extreme Z490 + vidéo. Version 0707 was used for all testing and screenshots. Realistically, the difference between these two won't amount to much (true audiophiles will use an offboard audio solution or sound card, anyway), but it is a curiosity. Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. UserBenchmark will test your PC and compare the results to other users with the same components. We are going to start with application and system benchmarks for comparisons, these are the kind of benchmarks that provide an overall performance score to compare with. The MSRP lines up exactly with Asrock and MSI's flagship boards (assuming you ignore Asrock's truly bonkers Z490 Aqua), and it undercuts Gigabyte's by $50. Im Idle kratzt das ASUS ROG Maximus XI Extreme an der 50-Watt. After having seen some things regarding Asus motherboards supposedly having cheaped out on the VRMs, I started wondering whether anyone have heard of better motherboards without the issue. But if you are going to include an EZ Mode, that should probably be what the board boots to first. You'll also spot another string of RGB LEDs tracing down the right side of the board. Sign up for What's New Now to get our top stories delivered to your inbox every morning. It's functional, nice-looking, and responsive, but it does have one quirky aspect. This is obviously AMD’s domain. ROG Maximus XII Extreme is the flagship motherboard of the premium range, with the greatest set of features. The ROG MAXIMUS XII EXTREME achieves a score of 46,650MB/s at stock speeds. Here, we are looking at each CPU’s ability to perform rendering and encoding tasks. While I would’t get such an expensive board, I’d love to see the M2 "dimm" slots on other mobos. You also get two RJ-45 jacks and two wireless-antenna hookups on this back panel for the aforementioned networking hardware. Installing M.2 solid-state drives onto the motherboard is mildly bothersome, as I noted earlier, but only if you try to install an M.2 drive into one of the board-flush slots last or late in the system assembly process. This being a single thread test favors higher clock speeds and a 5.1GHz all-core overclock limits the single-core clocks by up to 200MHz. The ROG Maximus XII Extreme has features like an OLED display 2.5G and 10G ethernet, and four M.2 slots but that only scratches the surface of what Asus packed into the board. Made to be extreme as the name suggested, is positioned for … The PCB for the ROG Maximus XII Extreme complies with the Extended-ATX (E-ATX) form factor, which makes it too large for all but the roomiest computer cases. The BIOS on this board has both an EZ Mode menu and an Advanced menu, but upon first entering the BIOS you are taken directly to the Advanced menu. You also get an ROG-branded version of the seminal CPU-Z for core component monitoring. When overclocked, there was a solid improvement with the results reaching 51,214MB/s. No doubt about it: Among Intel Z490 motherboards, Asus' ROG Maximus XII Extreme is an absolute carnival of features. If you prefer to use Wi-Fi, the board also has an Intel Wi-Fi 6 controller (the usual AX201). In this test, we see a result of 47,777MB/s from the ROG MAXIMUS XII EXTREME. The added surface area might help some with cooling, but if Asus' designers had run separate spreaders directly between the two PCI Express x16 slots, or sectioned it into smaller removable pieces, then only a card installed in the primary PCIe x16 slot might get in the way of removing it. This is not that. Installing drivers for the Z490 ROG Maximus XII Extreme took just a few minutes after booting to Windows. This Extended ATX dreamboat is stable and easy to work with; just make sure you really need most of the extras before paying the premium price. I've seen panels like this on a few high-end motherboards before (MSI has put them on some of its Godlike-branded ones), and it's an awesome feature from both a practical and a bling point of view. In this test, the ROG MAXIMUS XII EXTREME was actually slower when overclocked. In this test, we see a pretty substantial difference between the ROG MAXIMUS XII EXTREME and the MSI MPG Z490. When he isn't gaming or tearing apart gadgets to learn how they work, he can usually be found reading history. You won't spot here any integrated fans to help keep the VRMs cool, though, which is a bit of a bummer. https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/asus-rog-maximus-xii-extreme, Includes Thunderbolt 3 add-on card and DIMM.2 module, Strong cooling loadout and high-speed memory support, Parts are well-spaced to make plugging in cables easy, Included fan controller is overkill, given 11 onboard fan headers, E-ATX form factor rules out many common PC cases. The VRM heatsinks are spaced out enough that they don't really block access to either. The rear I/O panel of the Maximus XII Extreme is one busy place, exactly as it should be on a top-shelf board like this one. ROG Maximus XII Extreme includes the new Fan Extension Card II, which adds six headers that area controllable via FanXpert 4. There were Maximus boards before this one, so that makes it easier. Beyond that, Asus offers compatible software for memory tweaking (Mem Tweakit), RAM cache, audio EQ, AI-assisted overclocking (if you don't want to go full-manual), and much more. These are also benchmarks that may either test the system as a whole, including many different real-world workloads, or stress the CPU in ways real-world everyday workloads are performed to produce a performance result. A case-fan header and a water-block header sit directly beside the CPU power connector, and these are tricky to get at, but I don't consider this a major issue as they aren't essential for all users, and you can get to them if you make a point of plugging things into them first. There is a massive improvement over the old 9900K based system. But that's fine—it works well; why change what isn't broken? However, at stock speeds the ROG MAXIMUS XII EXTREME achieves the highest result. You get a whole army of USB ports, including six USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, and two legacy USB 2.0 ports. It does have a substantial list of options for overclocking the system. You'll need a video card from moment one. At 4K, we see virtually the same behavior. Products certified by the Federal Communications Commission and Industry Canada will be distributed in the United States and Canada. If you want to do more than that, then you will need to dive into the Advanced menu. Though it can't match the speed of the wired networking hardware, with a maximum data rate of 2.4Gbps, the AX201 is certainly no slouch. This Blender Benchmark allows you to download multiple demos for rendering and render up to six of them in sequence. Unsurprisingly, the Maximus XII Extreme was slower overclocked. Asus makes up for this somewhat by including a small fan that you can attach to one of the VRM heatsinks, and this probably helps some. It's also a lot easier to just grab this card and add an M.2 SSD to it than to pull out all of your PCI Express cards to get at the surface-mounted M.2 slots integrated into the board. This vertical-mount module uses a custom-made slot on the motherboard (parallel to the bank of memory DIMM slots) and can hold two additional PCI Express 3.0 M.2 drives. The only changes made to the application were disabling of GPU acceleration. Asus doesn't go wholly overboard (pun intended) in terms of software utilities with this model, though there's plenty; you can use your discretion in what to install. It is a multi-platform test that is comparable across different CPU architectures. I think it would have made more sense sticking the card vertically rather than horizontally, but either way its fine, I’d gladly give up pci-e slots or even memory dimm slots in exchange for say a 4way pci-e 4.0 x4 m2 dimm slot, I’m surprised there isnt a pci card that does this – since it’s PCI lanes in the first place. Due to the limited room on the motherboard, this often isn't possible (Asus is hardly alone in being guilty of this kind of design), but realistically there isn't any need for this heat spreader to wrap around the PCIe slots. In the write or upload test, we saw transfer speeds of 343.26MB/s minimum, 377.06MB/s on average, and 427.79MB/s maximum. Aujourd’hui 15 heures, c’est la fin du NDA concernant les processeurs Comet Lake-S, ce qui nous permet de vous proposer le test complet de cette Asus Maximus XII Extreme. With the screw holes in the board, you can mount it in a 2.5-inch drive bay. Michael Justin Allen Sexton is a life-long tech enthusiast and gamer. You won't have to worry about PCB flex when struggling with ornery, stiff cables like the main 24-pin power connector. The fan expansion card in particular feels like an unnecessary extra, and, realistically, the Thunderbolt 3 card could have been an opt-in. ROG Maximus XII Extreme Expertly tuned by our ROG Engineers to bring you the ultimate performance. Audio going to the front I/O panel is also pumped through an RC4580 OP-AMP, which is ostensibly better for headphone listening. Nothing revolutionary, and expected on a tip-top board like this, but these kinds of buttons are always extremely useful to have. Weirdly, the MSI MPG Z490 does much better here despite being worse on the read test. Asus bringt mit dem ROG Maximus XII Extreme einen passenden Begleiter für Intels zehnte CPU-Generation. Welcome to our freeware PC speed test tool. The processor arithmetic Dhrystone and Whetstone performance results are represented in GFLOPS. As Asus' flagship motherboard on Intel's mainstream desktop platform, it should come as no surprise that the Maximus XII Extreme comes equipped with top-notch networking hardware. The ESS ES9023 appears on paper to be a high-quality component, but its SNR is lower than that of the Realtek ALC S1220. ROG makes the best hardware for PC gaming, eSports, and overclocking. As this spreader comes off as one large, solid piece (and because it wraps around all of the PCI Express slots), you won't be able to remove it without first pulling any PCI Express cards you may have installed. That’s only 1,000 points or so and not even a 1% difference. The trend continues here. However, in this case, it does very well when it comes to maximum frame rates and not just minimums and averages. This is the Blender Open Beta Benchmark version 2.04. This makes the fan controller included with this board somewhat moot, as few cases are able to hold 10 or more case fans, but at least you won't have to worry about not having enough places to plug them in. ROG Maximus XII Extreme als 999-Euro-Flaggschiff mit Thunderbolt 3. Best of all, they all installed without issue even before updating Windows 10. You can follow him on Twitter @EmperorSunLao. This could come in handy if your PC case doesn't have an integrated fan controller. When overclocked, the Maximus XII Extreme achieves a result of 51.484MB/s. Once again we see a rather small gap between our Intel test systems. That said, the overclock does increase the score here as it should. You'll just want to have a Wi-Fi 6-compatible wireless modem to leverage it. Of course, when the Maximus XII Extreme is overclocked, it achieves a result of 46,865MB/s which is below that of X570 test systems at DDR4 3200MHz. I find the use of this secondary audio codec a quirky decision on Asus' part. Just make sure you'll use all or most of the extra hardware in the box, and need all that headroom for memory and overclock, or you're paying for way more board than you need. You may unsubscribe from the newsletters at any time. Lately, I've seen more than a few competing boards that have dedicated, albeit small, fans built in to actively cool the power circuitry. One thing to note: You won't find any video-out ports on the rear I/O panel, so don't plan on relying on Intel's UHD Graphics from the CPU. Generally, Intel has an advantage here, but we don’t see a lead in 3DMark 10 from the ROG MAXIMUS XII EXTREME without overclocking. The ROG MAXIMUS XII EXTREME does very well in the minimum and average ranges, but the maximums are rather low. Das Verbrauchsmessgerät zeigte im Detail 49,5 Watt an, die für eine High-End-Platine im grünen Bereich liegen. How easy it is to mount inside of a case will vary greatly depending on the case, but after it's in, things go quite smoothly.