Specifications

ASUS MAXIMUS VII GENE
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Chapter 1
Product introduction
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1.1 Special features
1.1.1 Product highlights
Republic of Gamers
The Republic of Gamers offers you the best of the best. We offer the best hardware
engineering, the fastest performance, the most innovative ideas, and we welcome the best
gamers to join in. In the Republic of Gamers, mercy rules are only for the weak, and bragging
rights means everything. We believe in making statements and we excel in competitions.
If your character matches our trait, then join the elite Republic of Gamers and make your
presence felt.
LGA1150 socket for 4th, New 4th, and 5th generation Intel
®
Core™ i7/Intel
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Core™ i5/Intel
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Core™ i3, Pentium
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and Celeron
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processors
This motherboard supports 4th, New 4th, and 5th generation Intel
®
Core™ i7/Intel
®
Core™
i5/Intel
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Core™ i3, Pentium
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, and Celeron
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processors in the LGA1150 package. It provides
great graphics and system performance with its GPU, dual-channel DDR3 memory slots, and
PCI Express 2.0/3.0 expansion slots.
Intel
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Z97 Express Chipset
Intel
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Z97 Express Chipset is a single chipset that supports the LGA1150 socket for 4th,
New 4th, and 5th generation Intel
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Core™ i7/Intel
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Core™ i5/Intel
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Core™ i3, Pentium
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, and
Celeron
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processors. It utilizes the serial point-to-point links, which increases bandwidth and
enhances the system’s performance. It natively supports up to six USB 3.0 ports, six SATA
6 Gb/s ports, and M.2 support for faster data retrieval. It also enables the iGPU function for
Intel
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integrated graphics performance.
PCIE
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3.0
PCIE
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3.0 (PCIe 3.0) is the PCIe bus standard that provides twice the performance and
speed of PCIe 2.0. It provides an optimal graphics performance, unprecedented data speed
and seamless transition with its complete backward compatibility to PCIe 1.0/2.0 devices.
SLI
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/CrossFire™ On-Demand
This motherboard supports multi-GPU SLI
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/CrossFireX™ graphics cards for an unrivalled
gaming performance. With the Intel
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Z97 platform to optimize the PCIe allocation of multiple
GPUs, it supports up to 2-WAY Quad-GPU SLI
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or CrossFireX™ conguration.
Chapter 1: Product Introduction