ROG MAXIMUS XII APEX first shots:

[Leeghoofd]

Just received this beauty on my doorstep, thanks to ASUS Benelux!

Here are some pictures I took with my smartphone.

First impressions: She feels solid, the heatsinks combo weighs a ton, can't wait to fire her up! Where's mee seepeeuuuu?

 

 

[kicsipapucs]

I prefer the XI Apex's clean cut look over this, but this board still looks awesome! Very nice pictures too Alby, thanks!

[speed.fastest]

Looks very good, i may can afford to buy 10900K but cant buy any board lol

[Cancerogeno]

Looks really good man, can't wait to see it in action 

[websmile]

Those 16 phases ??

[Bullant]

Looks great, thanks for sharing

[Alex@ro]

Gogogo grandpa

[Kashtan]

Just beatiful!

Practical question: holes near the socket, are they identical in size to those in Apex XI? I mean, from Apex XI, I still have the 9th Gen Direct to Die frame from rockitcool. Do I need to buy a separate frame for comets? I already have two in the collection, from Kaby and CFL-R.

[flanker]

Very nice board. Im spending money for Rocket Lake i7/i9, this CPU gen skip off and will only watching what happens in records

 

 

[chispy]

Awesome piece of hardware , thanks for sharing Alby ?

[AKM]

Awesome looking board. I kinda like that they went back to the weird x shape cutout style haha. Thanks for sharing! ?

[safedisk]

you are lucky 

I do not have a retail motherboard. haha

[Lucky_n00b]

Beauty!

[ozzie]

beefy looking board , will be very interesting to see how she goes

[Leeghoofd]

6 hours ago, safedisk said:

you are lucky 

I do not have a retail motherboard. haha

I'll make you a good price for them heatsinks :p

[3urner]

Does anyone know when this board will be for sale? I heard it will be launched later and it isn't listed in any german shop as all other boards. 

[Rauf]

It's listed in sweden. around 600€. Seeing as people are showing retails already my guess it will be available at launch

https://www.inet.se/produkt/1903164/asus-rog-maximus-xii-apex-z490

[Bullshooter]

Nice old man i become today a retail Asrock Taichi and 3x 10900K reatil from a vendor

 

[Leeghoofd]

2 hours ago, Bullshooter said:

Nice old man i become today a retail Asrock Taichi and 3x 10900K reatil from a vendor

 

Cool Frank open another thread man in the Z490 thread... Daddu ShihShih loves you

[Alex@ro]

6 hours ago, Bullshooter said:

Nice old man i become today a retail Asrock Taichi and 3x 10900K reatil from a vendor

 

Frank each time a generation launches you transform in hardware ?

[Falkentyne]

What's your opinion about the changes to the 12 Apex vs the 11 Apex visually or build quality?  Are the VRM phases the same, besides increase in power stages to 70A?

[ZeR0_Dan]

Wait 10900k

[sabishiihito]

On 5/7/2020 at 2:21 PM, flanker said:

Very nice board. Im spending money for Rocket Lake i7/i9, this CPU gen skip off and will only watching what happens in records

 

 

That's not a bad plan, especially considering those may be coming before next year right?

[ThrashZone]

Hi,

Probably should of waited until early July for the Apex but copped out for the formula in 5 days instead

I don't buy boards from newegg only amazon or locally better customer support.

[flanker]

On 5/19/2020 at 12:06 AM, sabishiihito said:

That's not a bad plan, especially considering those may be coming before next year right?

I think, paper launch this year is very possible ? Also I heard rumors about frequency :)...