Asus Maximus III Gene

This is an Micro-ATX board on the LGA1156 socket. Memory support covers 4 DDR4 slots up to 16GB total. Expansion covers 2 M.2 slots and 2 PCIe slots. Pick the board for its socket before anything else — chipset niceties come after. At $349.99 it sits in the high-end motherboard bracket.

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