With the recent announcements of second generation threadripper CPUs and the NVIDIA 20-Series GPUs it is easy to lose track of what is currently available on the market. The Intel Coffee Lake Core 8000 series processors were released late in 2017 and from my perspective the market was slow to follow. 300 series montherboards were available at launch however; many custom motherboards were not released until several months later.

In this review I’ll be going over the ASUS ROG Maximus X Formula motherboard. This board is built on the Intel Z370 chipset supporting LGA 1151 Coffee Lake processors. While this processor shares the same socket as the LGA 1151 Kaby Lake they are not cross compatible. Being that this is a ROG (Republic of Gamers) motherboard is also comes with a rather long list of additional features designed to transform a normal gaming motherboard into a luxury product that checks all the boxes.