It definitely has the chops to handle the workload of a student and it could even be a solid choice for certain business users. more

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At the end of the day, you have a well rounded motherboard that looks spectacular with the latest ROG color scheme. It fits into any chassis designed for Mini-ITX motherboards and can be built as mild or wild as you want. Fitted with a high end GPU, Core i7 6700K. and some high speed memory and storage, and you have a killer rig that starts with a retail price of $238. more

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At the end of the day, you have a well rounded motherboard that looks spectacular with the latest ROG color scheme. It fits into any chassis designed for Mini-ITX motherboards and can be built as mild or wild as you want. Fitted with a high end GPU, Core i7 6700K. and some high speed memory and storage, and you have a killer rig that starts with a retail price of $238. more

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The Maximus VIII Formula is a heavily modified Maximus VIII Hero, armored up and ready to go into battle. As we all know, glamor isn't cheap, but the ability to choose your color theme is priceless. more

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The Maximus VIII Formula is a heavily modified Maximus VIII Hero, armored up and ready to go into battle. As we all know, glamor isn't cheap, but the ability to choose your color theme is priceless. more

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Usually when we are talking Republic of Gamers motherboards, we are generally thinking about boards that cost a lot. This ASUS Maximus VIII Gene comes in at $210. While that is not "cheap" in the motherboard spectrum, that is far from expensive for a motherboard with such a list of features. You get an excellent audio solution, you get great cooling, you get FanXpert 3 technology, Intel Gigabit Ethernet, and all on a motherboard that will run Prime95 for three weeks at 4.5GHz. more

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Usually when we are talking Republic of Gamers motherboards, we are generally thinking about boards that cost a lot. This ASUS Maximus VIII Gene comes in at $210. While that is not "cheap" in the motherboard spectrum, that is far from expensive for a motherboard with such a list of features. You get an excellent audio solution, you get great cooling, you get FanXpert 3 technology, Intel Gigabit Ethernet, and all on a motherboard that will run Prime95 for three weeks at 4.5GHz. more

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Overall, the ASUS Maximus VIII Impact is a well-balanced board that offers an extensive feature set and comes with a solid accessories and software bundle. At the time of writing, the board retails online for about $235 USD. Compared to other Mini-ITX offerings, you will be paying a premium price for all the luxury! However, the Maximus VIII Impact showed outstanding performance out of the box and achieved overclocking levels compared to larger boards without breaking a sweat. Keeping that in mind, this little beast is a steal at $235 in my book! more

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Overall, the ASUS Maximus VIII Impact is a well-balanced board that offers an extensive feature set and comes with a solid accessories and software bundle. At the time of writing, the board retails online for about $235 USD. Compared to other Mini-ITX offerings, you will be paying a premium price for all the luxury! However, the Maximus VIII Impact showed outstanding performance out of the box and achieved overclocking levels compared to larger boards without breaking a sweat. Keeping that in mind, this little beast is a steal at $235 in my book! more

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We reward the Bjorn3D.com Gold Award because it is pretty easy to see, in the compact world of mITX the MAXIMUS VIII IMPACT is ready to be crowned, all bow before King IMPACT VIII. more

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We reward the Bjorn3D.com Gold Award because it is pretty easy to see, in the compact world of mITX the MAXIMUS VIII IMPACT is ready to be crowned, all bow before King IMPACT VIII. more

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The extra features on the Impact are certainly worth the increased cost, but it's all a question of use. Thankfully, when we did use it, it came top in pretty much all our system/CPU benchmarks in our Z170 motherboard testing so far, and that is quite hard to ignore. more

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The extra features on the Impact are certainly worth the increased cost, but it's all a question of use. Thankfully, when we did use it, it came top in pretty much all our system/CPU benchmarks in our Z170 motherboard testing so far, and that is quite hard to ignore. more

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