Within the relatively small self-building segment, the market for high-end boards with full-on feature sets and pricing to match is itself a minority sport. What to make, therefore, of the imposing Asus Republic of Gamers Maximus III Extreme? Pricing wise, it sails straight past expensive, pauses briefly at exotic and settles finally for punitive. The price tag of £265 is a huge amount for any motherboard, but in the context of a board with the mainstream LGA1156 socket, rather than the high-end LGA1366 item, it looks, well, unsustainable. At the very least it finds itself in a tiny niche. It had better be bloody good.



Link: TechRadar