Every generation of chip-sets manufacturers carefully design and implement their Flagship offering and we wait with bated breath to see whats been put on the offering plate. The ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME is the top dog Flagship simply crammed with every feature a person can think of from micro-fine alloy chokes to the coolest of features the OC Panel. Every inch of the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME is covered with the best hardware ASUS has to offer and to many it represents the pinnacle of boards bar none. You can mate the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME with any of Intel's Skylake chips but it is as close to a Nerd Sin as you can get if you don't pair it with one of the ?K? series Slylake chips. In a pinch the 6600K will work but to justify a board of this magnitude you really need to strap a 6700K Skylake 4.0GHz (turbos to 4.2 GHz) chip. Once you have clamped the 6700K into place and strapped your best cooling solution on it just stand back for a minute and soak up the ambiance. It's not often you stand in front of a un-christened ASUS Flagship board.

The ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME is geared toward the hardest core enthusiasts just for starters you get Built in WI-Fi, USB 3,1, a M.2 slot, well-heeled VRM's to make the staunchest geek drool and support for the fastest DDR4 Dual Channel kit you can dream of. We will be running the top Skylake processor the 6700K on the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME and the boards amenities promise to give the 6700K all the infrastructure it needs to nestle down into the 1151 socket and prepare to kick some benchmark butt. Our 4 core 8 thread 92W Intel Skylake 6700K with its 14nm fab almost leaped out of our hands to get a shot at the ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme.