Connectors and I/O

Totally ASUS equipped the Maximus VI Gene with eight angled SATA ports. All ports offer 6Gbps bandwidth and six out of eight SATA III ports are natively wired to the Z87 PCH. The two additional SATA 6Gbps ports are wired to an ASMedia ASM1061 chip. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons on this board and there is also a debug display. Additionally you will also find voltage read-out points on this board. ASUS equipped this board with their SupremeFX audio solution. In this case the manufacturer electrically isolates the audio chip from the rest of the board and they put ELNA capacitors aside of the audio chip.

 

Totally you'll find five header on the Maximus VI Gene which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped mATX system with fresh air. The fan headers are located around the CPU socket as spread over the motherboard. ASUS decided to use 4-pin PWM headers in all five cases. Therefore it is possible to adjust rotation speed in the BIOS or in Windows.

  

Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel ASUS equipped the Maximus VI Gene with six USB 3.0/2.0 ports, four USB 2.0/1.1 ports, one gigabit ethernet port, an HDMI connector as well as an optical out and an analogue audio panel. Furtheremore you'll find also a clear CMOS button and a ROG Connect switch.