ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z Review
Up Close
As always with ASUS ROG products the box is instantly recognisable in the modern classic red with silver lettering. It’s worth noting that the box is barely bigger than the motherboard itself, ensuring no wasted packaging.
Unlike many ROG motherboards there isn’t a flap revealing the motherboard, rather the top flap opens to give an extended look at the many features. Opening this gives us our first glimpse of the Gene-Z which we’ll look at in a moment.
As is always the case with ROG boards there is a plethora of accessories from ROG connect cables through stickers to identify your SATA drives and all the usual paraphernalia.
As expected the Gene-Z follows the design ethos of the ROG line-up perfectly, being a mixture of black and red. The mATX format always compresses things due to the smaller footprint, but the Gene-Z does appear to be more squished than normal.
We’ll look closer on the next page.
