Anschlüsse und I/O

Totally ASUS provided the Maximus III Formula with six angled SATA ports as well as four straight. Two of them are located below the memory slots and two other at the bottom edge of the motherboard. Therefore every office-PC or gaming-system can be equipped with plenty of drives. Furthermore the angled SATA connectors allow you to install even todays biggest graphic cards without encountering incompatibilities. Looking at the ports below the memory slots it is possible to use them with a graphics card installed. If you think about setting up a triple SLI or CrossFire system and you want to use the SATA connectors at the bottom edge you'd need to plug a short card into the third PCI Express slot. Nearly standard with ASUS motherboards these days are the Start, Reset, CLR-CMOS and MemOK! buttons which can be very useful, especially if you do overclocking. With the ROG series you even get a special feature, the ROG Connect port. Using it you have the opportunity to overclock your Maximus III Formula motherboard remotely from another PC or notebook.

  

Totally you'll find eight fan connectors on the Maximus III Formula which is far more than enough, to provide a well equipped midrange or high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located around the CPU socket as well as at the bottom edge of the mainboard.

  

Looking at the external connectors ASUS provided the Maximus III Formula with one Gigabit Ethernet Port, eight USB 2.0/1.1 connectors, a firewire port as well as the ROG Connect port.