Recent content by tstaff

To answer your original question, no it is not worth it to get the Extreme just for the OC panel. The OC panel's cable is only about 2 feet long and does not attach securely to the motherboard. So unless you're going to have your case sitting on your desk, you will be sitting on the floor to...

Given that you're watercooling your system and only running a single GPU, I would recommend the Maximus VI Formula, it is designed for watercooling. The only reason to pay the additional money to go up to the Extreme would be if you're planning on running a tri or quad SLI configuration. The...

Per the Maximus VI Formula manual, the Intel Rapid Storage utility supports a maximum of 4 SATA disks in RAID configuration. Based upon that, I would assume that you can do what you are proposing though I'm not sure you would get the throughput that you're expecting.

There is actually a very simple solution to your problem without having the change any of your components (to include your CPU cooler). The ROG armor (as it's referred to on the Maximus VI Formula) is consumer removable by simply unscrewing the screws from the backplate. These screws go...

Ok, so I'm building a new gaming system (my current system is so old it needs a walker or a wheelchair) and I have decided on the Intel i7-4770K cpu paired with an ASUS Maximus VI Formula motherboard which is of course utilizing the Z87 chipset. I wanted 36MB of DDR3 Memory running at 2400MHz...