Motherboard
In fairness, a
￡250
LGA1150 board was always going to be a non-starter as a value proposition. That
Haswell-E comparison is a little unfair too, especially when you consider the
erratic pricing of DDR4 memory right now. Until that normalises, any
properlyconfigured Haswell-E rig is going to be pretty pricey.
Anyway,
the overall spec is pretty hot. There’s a water block for the VRMs, a pair of
SATA Express ports (oh, okay, you’ll probably never use ‘em), isolated audio
circuitry, a metric tonne of USB 3.0 ports, an LED debug, power, reset and
clear CMOS buttons, M.2 and, well, you get the idea.
In
that context, let’s put thoughts of Haswell-E and LGA2011-v3 aside and assess the
Maximus VII Formula’s chops as something akin to the ultimate LGA1150 solution.
First up, we’re really pleased to see full body armour a la Asus’ Sabertooth
series. We can’t fully justify it objectively; at best, it probably only
prevents a little dust build up in critical areas, and it probably helps to prevent
distortion from thermal cycles over the years, too. But it just makes the thing
feel so much more substantial. It was always a little hard to swallow the
pricing of high-end Asus boards that lacked it, while the Sabertooth was fully clad
for a lot less cash.
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