Asus Maximus VI Hero (Z87) Motherboard Review

According to EA, Battlefield 3 garnered 3 million pre-orders by the day of its release. It is unknown at present whether these figures are worldwide or just for the US. The pre-order total makes it “the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history”, according to the publisher. The engine is beautiful on the PC and very demanding of the partnering hardware.

We used the game's demanding ‘Ultra' setting and a 1920 x 1080 resolution to push today's gaming hardware.

As Futuremark's set of tests suggested, gaming performance seems to be very competitive on the Maximus VI Hero. The gaming-intended ROG motherboard is able to offer chart-topping performance in Battlefield 3, although the marginal advantage could be related to the testing procedure's systematic and measurement errors.

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