RECENTLY, SOME NETIZENS EXPOSED A SPECIAL ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XIII MOTHERBOARD, WHOSE MEMORY SLOTS ARE NOT THE SAME AS THOSE OF CONVENTIONAL DESKTOP MOTHERBOARDS, BUT INSTEAD USE NOTEBOOK MEMORY SLOTS, AND THE NUMBER OF SLOTS REMAINS AT 4. The motherboard is clearly labeled with the Kingston label, and the Southbridge chipset also has a numbered code with the word "TEM14280" on it. The book next to it is written in Chinese, and the shooting location should be from China.
According to the other two test environment pictures from netizens, we can further know that the display and power supply of the test platform are from ASUS. The motherboard BIOS screen shows that the platform is equipped with an Intel Core i5-10600K CPU and 8GB of DDR4-2133 RAM with a memory voltage of 1.217V. The words "Kingston" FURY can also be seen on the platform's boot screen. Therefore, we are guessing that this should be an in-house test motherboard from an ASUS or Kingston manufacturer. Let's briefly compare it with the regular version, and basically we can see that the two are only different in appearance in the design of the memory slot.
Desktop motherboards are equipped with notebook memory slots, which can actually be seen in a small number of compact solution motherboards, which are usually used in thin mini ITX versions, and monster board manufacturers ASRock has also tried such a notebook memory slot design on its X299E-ITX and other models, but this design is really rare in ATX versions, and it is likely that it will only be used for testing and will not be launched for the consumer market.
As a flagship Z590 motherboard released in 2021, the ROG Maximus XIII features a daisy-chained design for its A2 and B2 memory channels, effectively reducing memory latency and increasing overclocking limits, with four DIMM slots supporting DDR4 memory up to 128GB and up to 5333MHz. IN ADDITION, THE ROG MAXIMUS XIII CONTINUES THE TRADITION OF THIS SERIES, WHETHER IT IS THE POWER SUPPLY SCALE, THERMAL DESIGN, OR HARDWARE CONFIGURATION, IT REVEALS A HIGH-END ATMOSPHERE EVERYWHERE. In the past, we paired it with the Core i9-10900K, and it was able to overclock to 5.2GHz relatively smoothly, which is very good, and it can be regarded as a more classic ROG product.