Once upon a time, order and monotony reigned in the ranks of Asus motherboards. Do you need something of high quality, but inexpensive? Take Asus TUF or Prime. Do you want to squeeze all the juices out of the processor with a graphics card? Order Asus ROG. But now the ROG series has grown so much that it is just right to turn it into a separate brand. In 2021, this series sells "ordinary" ROG Strix motherboards, advanced ROG Maximus for extreme overclocking, as well as extremely cool ROG Zenith and ROG Rampage, created with the expectation of assembling a high-performance HEDT system.


If we take HEDT systems out of brackets, which are with specialized processors like Ryzen Threadripper and Intel Xeon, it is the ROG Maximus models, in fact, that are the most technically sophisticated motherboards that ASUS can offer for the Intel platform. Their price tags are biting (most often 500 – 1000 dollars), the potential for overclocking is sky-high, and the layout is such that you don't see it every day. For example, some Maximus models are simultaneously friends with Thunderbolt, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 and PCI Express 4.0 standards, and also support RAM overclocked to 5333 MHz.

The potential for overclocking also goes far beyond the capabilities of conventional motherboards in general and ROG Strix models in particular. The use of integrated power subsystems for 16-20 phases, specialized chokes and elite Japanese capacitors enable ROG Maximus boards to keep powerful and hot Intel Core i9 processors under control. Thanks to the dedicated launch buttons and the POST-code indicator, which are placed directly on the textolite, many models of this series are perfectly adapted for demonstrations at an open stand.