ASUS Maximus II Formula (Intel P45)
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Date: 26.09.2008 |
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ASUS Maximus II Formula uses the ICH10R south bridge with a radiator. Therefore, the board supports 6 SerialATA II ports and allows merging disks into RAID arrays of levels 0,1,5 and 10.
Besides, the motherboard supports one Parallel ATA link with an additional 88SE6121 controller made by Marvell. The same controller provides support for one more SerialATA link which is brought over to the rear panel. Moreover, there is a dual-channel SerialATA/RAID controller Sil5723 made by Silicon Image. Therefore, as many as 11 hard disks (9 SATA + 2 PATA) altogether can be plugged in to ASUS Maximus II Formula.
Then, the board uses 12 USB2.0 ports: six on the rear panel, with 6 more plugged in with brackets (the board comes bundled with 1 bracket for 2 ports). Besides, the motherboard supports the IEEE1394 ("Firewire"). For that, there is an additional onboard VT6308P controller made by VIA. Therefore, the board offers support for 2 Firewire ports: one mounted on the rear panel, with the other one connected with a plate (available in the package bundle).
A few words on the network support: the board uses two high-speed Marvell 88E8056 (Gigabit Ethernet) controllers connected to the PCI Express (x1) bus. Both the RJ-45 connectors are brought over to the rear panel of the following configuration:
Engineers at ASUS have completely given up support for the LPT and COM ports. Missing is also a PS/2 connector to plug in a mouse. On the other hand, there is abundance of USB2.0 ports, a FireWire port, an eSATA, as well as a button to clear the CMOS settings. Besides, ASUS Maximus II Formula uses a button to power-on and reboot the system:
Traditionally, here is the diagram of components:
Now on to the BIOS settings.
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