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Asus ROG Maximus XII Extreme

IT’S FAIR TO SAY that the wind has certainly been taken out of the sails of Intel’s latest chipset and processors. In fact, at the time of writing, it’s been four months since it launched those 10-series CPUs, and it feels like a eternity ago.

That said, even when it launched, Z490 was a bit underwhelming. Although many boards supported PCIe 4.0 by default (something AMD has had since July 2019), the processors themselves don’t. What’s worse, that connection standard

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