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I love how the newer boards have a small "Start" and "Reset" button easily accessible. Nice sleek looking board, I'm sure it will perform well, I've had many Asus boards and have been rarely disappointed (and that's when I get a DOA board).

We've just been leaked some exclusive photos of Asus' new Maximus III Formula motherboard, that shows that the company may be toning down the excesses of its previous Republic of Gamers boards with the recession in full swing.

Unlike its predecessor, the new board only has one Ethernet port and, unlike the original Maximus Formula, it won't be based on a top-end X-series chipset either.

Instead, it's based on Intel's forthcoming P55 chipset, the board comes with four DIMM slots for dual-channel memory, but it also has three PCI-E graphics slots.

Asus hasn't revealed which multi-graphics standards will be supported, but the top two PCI-E graphics slots are sensibly spaced, so you can install two dual-slot graphics cards and still use the PCI slot in the middle.

Source: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/motherboards/in-pictures-asus-maximus-iii-formula-608402