Assembling Pc with i5-6600k with Asus maximus VIII ranger
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Product Description
Assembling Pc with i5-6600k with Asus maximus VIII ranger
Intel Skylake Core i5-6600K Processor 6M Cache up to 3.90 GHz
ASUS MOTHERBOARD MAXIMUS VIII RANGER
Corsair ram ddr4 16gb 3000mhz cmk
Samsung SSD 850EVO 500GB Hard Disk MZ-75E500Z
SEAGATE 2TB SATA HARD DRIVE
ASUS DVD R/W 24X SATA INTERNAL
ASUS VGA CARD STRIX-GTX980TI-DC3OC-6GD5-GAMING
NZXT PHANTOM 410 (WHITE W/BLUE)
Corsair RM1000 Power Supply Unit 80 Plus Gold
Corsair Hydro Series H100i GTX High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler CW-9060021-WW
Assembling with Cable Management Free
Free Led lights
ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Ranger RushKit
The ASUS Republic of Gamers brand has always been about delivering
enthusiasts components which deliver both a high quality hardware and
software experience, which over the years has gave the ROG brand great
renown among PC gaming and overclocking enthusiasts.
Last year the Republic of Gamers brand became much more mainstream with the release of the
ASUS Z97 Maximus VII Ranger,
which gave users the same ROG quality and style at a price-point which
was much lower than ever seen before from an ASUS ROG product. Even with
it’s relatively low price the MAximus VII Ranger never sacrificed on
it’s reliability or it’s quality, making it a motherboard which was more
than worthy of the ROG name.
Today we take a look at it’s successor, the
Maximus VIII Ranger, which supports
Intel’s newest Skylake CPUs
on their Z170 socket and delivers many significant upgrades over over
it’s predecessor while maintaining it’s affordable price of just
£139.99.
From the outside of the box you could be forgiven for thinking that
this board has the same old Republic of Gamers red and Black Style, but
you would be wrong. ASUS’s new Z170 series of ROG motherboard utilizes a
more subtle black and red colour scheme, which makes this board look
much more unique.
Today a wide variety of Red and black motherboards are available from
almost all manufacturers, so this change goes a long way to
differentiate ASUS’ latest line of ROG motherboards.
Moving to the Z170 chipset we get some very significant upgrades in
terms of storage capability, with the help of some PCI 3.0 express lanes
on the chipset the M.2 slot on this motherboard operated at PCIe 3.0
speeds, allowing it to take full advantage of ultra fast NVMe based SSDs
like
Samsung’s SM951.
Moving to the rear IO we see a lot of new things, first we see the
addition of two USB 3.1 ports, one of which is full sized USB (the red
USB port) and the other is using the new USB Type-C connector. In
addition to this this motherboard contains 2 USB 3.0 ports, 4 USB 2.0
ports, an anti-surge Intel Gigabit LAN port, a PS/2 Keyboard/mouse port,
external audio ports and an HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 port for
connecting an external display to Intel Integrated Graphics.
This board comes with 2 SATA Express connections, which also double
as 4x SATA 3.0 connections, which gives this motherboard the ability to
be connected to 6 SATA 3.0 drives at once (2 dedicated SATA 3.0
connections and 4 from the 2 SATA Express connections). Alongside this
motherboards ultra fast M.2 connection this motherboard is able to
handle almost any of your storage needs.
Supreme FX 2015 Audio
This year ASUS has been working hard to deliver a greater on-board
audio experience than they have ever before, featuring cutting edge
isolation technologies to prevent electromagnetic interference and
adding several new components in order to deliver a premium audio
experience.
ASUS has added premium ENichicon audio capacitors, ESS Premier Stereo
DAC ES9023, Dedicated clock, RC4580 2Vrms Driver, Impedance Sense IC,
and De-pop Relay , to provide precision-engineered audio that is
designed to deliver an experience which is on par with dedicated
soundcards, and that is only the changes on the hardware side.
This Generation of ROG Maximus motherboards features new and improved
ROG audio technologies such as brand Sonic Studio II audio tuning
suite. With SmartEQ for enhancing the details of the music while casting
or streaming, Perfect Voice to reduce noise artifacts and stabilize
overall voice volume and Sonic SenseAmp, which detects headphone
impedance and automatically adjusts the built-in amp all are designed to
deliver the best audio experience ever placed inside a ROG motherboard.
Water Cooling Pump Header
One feature which is all new to this generation of ASUS motherboards
is it’s dedicated water cooling Pump header, which can function like a
normal fan header or be used as a dedicated pump header for your water
cooled PC.
Right now this function is exclusive to ASUS, allowing you to more
directly control your pump with 4-pin PWM adjustment and dedicated water
cooling options in the BIOS.
ASUS ROG Fan Stickers
One novel addition to ASUS’ ROG motherboards is a nice set of ROG fan
stickers, which can be used with your fan of choice to cover up an
unwanted logo or the rather ugly stickers at the rear of most fans. This
addition may be seen as entirely unnecessary by many of you but it is
nonetheless seen by us as a very welcome addition, especially if you are
looking to sneak a little more red and black into your build.
ROG RAMDisk and RAMCache
On the Software side ASUS has been working hard to allow their users
to make the most out of their system, now offering their users free
software so that users can use their own RAM Disk or RAM Cache solution,
both of which will allow users to dramatically speed up their storage.
With RAMCache users will be able to dramatically speed up their
existing storage solutions by allocating a cache of RAM to your Slower
drives, this will allow frequently used files to be placed in the much
faster RAM Cache which will allow these files to be processed much
faster. RAMCache is very simple to use, requiring the user to simply
decide how much RAM to Allocate to he cache, with everything else
running in the backround.
RAMDisk will allow the user to allocate RAM as it’s own storage
device, which allows all files inside it to be read exceptionally
quickly, speeding up loading times dramatically. All files inside the
disk will be moved to specific locations on your hard drive, so that it
can be quicly loaded onto your RAMDisk after your system boots.
One new addition to the 2015 version of ASUS’ RAMDisk software is its
Dynamic Memory Allocation, which allows unused memory in the RAMDisk to
be dynamically released back in the system for use for traditional RAM
tasks.
Gamer’s Guardian
When spending money on a premium product, most people want to be
provided with a premium user experience and be delivered a product which
is highly durable, simple to use and has measures in place which will
protect devices which are used alongside it. This is not too much to
ask, right?
ASUS has created this generation of ROG boards to deliver the best
user experience yet, with a new z170 CPU installation tool and their
Q-connector and PCI-e Q-slot to allow users to more safely and easily
install their CPU, GPU and external IO, provide TureVolt USB and DRAM
Overcurrent protection to help prevent any damage being done to your RAM
or external devices due to power fluctuations, providing additional
backplates and a stainless steel rear IO to provide additional strength
and longevity to the motherboard and even thicker Black Nickel plating
to the IO in order to prevent scratches or cuts when it is used.
As ASUS’ cheapest Z170 Republic of Gamers motherboard, it certainly is not lacking when it comes to premium features.
Conclusion
For the asking price of £140.99 the Republic of Gamers Maximus VIII
Ranger is an easy sell, while it has a reduced featureset when compared
to the more premium Z170 motherboard like the
Maximus VIII Hero or the Z170 Deluxe it offers much more than any previous generation motherboard of this price.
With a PCIe 3.0 M.2 slot it is capable of running the fastest storage
available at it’s full speeds and with rear USB 3.1 connection and USB
Type-C support it can even be used with the latest and greatest external
options aswell.
The Audio side is one of the greatest talking points of this
motherboard, receiving significant upgrades from the last generation of
ROG motherboards, which on both the hardware and the software side
should help make this motherboard’s onboard audio be on par with
dedicated solutions.
This motherboard is undoubtedly up to the high standards which are
required to be part of the Republic of Gamers brand, with a highly
premium look and feel and being backed up by fantastic software
solutions like Sonic Studio II, RAMDisk and RAMCache, the ROG Maximus
VIII Ranger is undoubtedly one of the most impressive Z170 boards that
we have seen so far.
With a high quality aesthetic and a featureset to match, the Maximus
VIII Ranger is a motherboard which we cannot wait to put through our
motherboard testing procedure. As you can see in our main review,
Intel’s Skylake is a very impressive chip and we cannot wait to see what
it can
Product Description
Assembling Pc with i5-6600k with Asus maximus VIII ranger
Intel Skylake Core i5-6600K Processor 6M Cache up to 3.90 GHz
ASUS MOTHERBOARD MAXIMUS VIII RANGER
Corsair ram ddr4 16gb 3000mhz cmk
Samsung SSD 850EVO 500GB Hard Disk MZ-75E500Z
SEAGATE 2TB SATA HARD DRIVE
ASUS DVD R/W 24X SATA INTERNAL
ASUS VGA CARD STRIX-GTX980TI-DC3OC-6GD5-GAMING
NZXT PHANTOM 410 (WHITE W/BLUE)
Corsair RM1000 Power Supply Unit 80 Plus Gold
Corsair Hydro Series H100i GTX High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler CW-9060021-WW
Assembling with Cable Management Free
Free Led lights
ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Ranger RushKit
The ASUS Republic of Gamers brand has always been about delivering
enthusiasts components which deliver both a high quality hardware and
software experience, which over the years has gave the ROG brand great
renown among PC gaming and overclocking enthusiasts.
Last year the Republic of Gamers brand became much more mainstream with the release of the
ASUS Z97 Maximus VII Ranger,
which gave users the same ROG quality and style at a price-point which
was much lower than ever seen before from an ASUS ROG product. Even with
it’s relatively low price the MAximus VII Ranger never sacrificed on
it’s reliability or it’s quality, making it a motherboard which was more
than worthy of the ROG name.
Today we take a look at it’s successor, the
Maximus VIII Ranger, which supports
Intel’s newest Skylake CPUs
on their Z170 socket and delivers many significant upgrades over over
it’s predecessor while maintaining it’s affordable price of just
£139.99.
From the outside of the box you could be forgiven for thinking that
this board has the same old Republic of Gamers red and Black Style, but
you would be wrong. ASUS’s new Z170 series of ROG motherboard utilizes a
more subtle black and red colour scheme, which makes this board look
much more unique.
Today a wide variety of Red and black motherboards are available from
almost all manufacturers, so this change goes a long way to
differentiate ASUS’ latest line of ROG motherboards.
Moving to the Z170 chipset we get some very significant upgrades in
terms of storage capability, with the help of some PCI 3.0 express lanes
on the chipset the M.2 slot on this motherboard operated at PCIe 3.0
speeds, allowing it to take full advantage of ultra fast NVMe based SSDs
like
Samsung’s SM951.
Moving to the rear IO we see a lot of new things, first we see the
addition of two USB 3.1 ports, one of which is full sized USB (the red
USB port) and the other is using the new USB Type-C connector. In
addition to this this motherboard contains 2 USB 3.0 ports, 4 USB 2.0
ports, an anti-surge Intel Gigabit LAN port, a PS/2 Keyboard/mouse port,
external audio ports and an HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 port for
connecting an external display to Intel Integrated Graphics.
This board comes with 2 SATA Express connections, which also double
as 4x SATA 3.0 connections, which gives this motherboard the ability to
be connected to 6 SATA 3.0 drives at once (2 dedicated SATA 3.0
connections and 4 from the 2 SATA Express connections). Alongside this
motherboards ultra fast M.2 connection this motherboard is able to
handle almost any of your storage needs.
Supreme FX 2015 Audio
This year ASUS has been working hard to deliver a greater on-board
audio experience than they have ever before, featuring cutting edge
isolation technologies to prevent electromagnetic interference and
adding several new components in order to deliver a premium audio
experience.
ASUS has added premium ENichicon audio capacitors, ESS Premier Stereo
DAC ES9023, Dedicated clock, RC4580 2Vrms Driver, Impedance Sense IC,
and De-pop Relay , to provide precision-engineered audio that is
designed to deliver an experience which is on par with dedicated
soundcards, and that is only the changes on the hardware side.
This Generation of ROG Maximus motherboards features new and improved
ROG audio technologies such as brand Sonic Studio II audio tuning
suite. With SmartEQ for enhancing the details of the music while casting
or streaming, Perfect Voice to reduce noise artifacts and stabilize
overall voice volume and Sonic SenseAmp, which detects headphone
impedance and automatically adjusts the built-in amp all are designed to
deliver the best audio experience ever placed inside a ROG motherboard.
Water Cooling Pump Header
One feature which is all new to this generation of ASUS motherboards
is it’s dedicated water cooling Pump header, which can function like a
normal fan header or be used as a dedicated pump header for your water
cooled PC.
Right now this function is exclusive to ASUS, allowing you to more
directly control your pump with 4-pin PWM adjustment and dedicated water
cooling options in the BIOS.
ASUS ROG Fan Stickers
One novel addition to ASUS’ ROG motherboards is a nice set of ROG fan
stickers, which can be used with your fan of choice to cover up an
unwanted logo or the rather ugly stickers at the rear of most fans. This
addition may be seen as entirely unnecessary by many of you but it is
nonetheless seen by us as a very welcome addition, especially if you are
looking to sneak a little more red and black into your build.
ROG RAMDisk and RAMCache
On the Software side ASUS has been working hard to allow their users
to make the most out of their system, now offering their users free
software so that users can use their own RAM Disk or RAM Cache solution,
both of which will allow users to dramatically speed up their storage.
With RAMCache users will be able to dramatically speed up their
existing storage solutions by allocating a cache of RAM to your Slower
drives, this will allow frequently used files to be placed in the much
faster RAM Cache which will allow these files to be processed much
faster. RAMCache is very simple to use, requiring the user to simply
decide how much RAM to Allocate to he cache, with everything else
running in the backround.
RAMDisk will allow the user to allocate RAM as it’s own storage
device, which allows all files inside it to be read exceptionally
quickly, speeding up loading times dramatically. All files inside the
disk will be moved to specific locations on your hard drive, so that it
can be quicly loaded onto your RAMDisk after your system boots.
One new addition to the 2015 version of ASUS’ RAMDisk software is its
Dynamic Memory Allocation, which allows unused memory in the RAMDisk to
be dynamically released back in the system for use for traditional RAM
tasks.
Gamer’s Guardian
When spending money on a premium product, most people want to be
provided with a premium user experience and be delivered a product which
is highly durable, simple to use and has measures in place which will
protect devices which are used alongside it. This is not too much to
ask, right?
ASUS has created this generation of ROG boards to deliver the best
user experience yet, with a new z170 CPU installation tool and their
Q-connector and PCI-e Q-slot to allow users to more safely and easily
install their CPU, GPU and external IO, provide TureVolt USB and DRAM
Overcurrent protection to help prevent any damage being done to your RAM
or external devices due to power fluctuations, providing additional
backplates and a stainless steel rear IO to provide additional strength
and longevity to the motherboard and even thicker Black Nickel plating
to the IO in order to prevent scratches or cuts when it is used.
As ASUS’ cheapest Z170 Republic of Gamers motherboard, it certainly is not lacking when it comes to premium features.
Conclusion
For the asking price of £140.99 the Republic of Gamers Maximus VIII
Ranger is an easy sell, while it has a reduced featureset when compared
to the more premium Z170 motherboard like the
Maximus VIII Hero or the Z170 Deluxe it offers much more than any previous generation motherboard of this price.
With a PCIe 3.0 M.2 slot it is capable of running the fastest storage
available at it’s full speeds and with rear USB 3.1 connection and USB
Type-C support it can even be used with the latest and greatest external
options aswell.
The Audio side is one of the greatest talking points of this
motherboard, receiving significant upgrades from the last generation of
ROG motherboards, which on both the hardware and the software side
should help make this motherboard’s onboard audio be on par with
dedicated solutions.
This motherboard is undoubtedly up to the high standards which are
required to be part of the Republic of Gamers brand, with a highly
premium look and feel and being backed up by fantastic software
solutions like Sonic Studio II, RAMDisk and RAMCache, the ROG Maximus
VIII Ranger is undoubtedly one of the most impressive Z170 boards that
we have seen so far.
With a high quality aesthetic and a featureset to match, the Maximus
VIII Ranger is a motherboard which we cannot wait to put through our
motherboard testing procedure. As you can see in our main review,
Intel’s Skylake is a very impressive chip and we cannot wait to see what
it can
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