May 10, 2011 19:31 GMT  ·  By

Asus is currently working on expanding its ROG series portfolio with the introduction of two new motherboards based on the Intel Z68 chipset, the Maximus IV Extreme-Z and Maximum IV Gene-Z, and both of these should be launched at the Computex 2011 fair.

Starting with the more powerful model, the Maximus IV Extreme-Z, this is expected to come as a Z68 refresh of the current Maximum IV E, meaning that it will most probably lack any sort of display outputs.

Just like all other Z68 motherboards however, the Extreme-Z will come with support for Intel's Smart Response SSD caching technology, and Asus could even enable Quick Sync, just as it has done for the P8Z68 Deluxe, which also doesn't hold any display outputs.

Moving to the Maximus IV Gene-Z, things become a little more tricky as Asus hasn't released any LGA 1155 Gene motherboard to give us an idea how this new solution will look like.

However, since we are talking about a new design, it is possible that the card will feature some sort of video outputs for the integrated graphics.

Such a move will indeed make sense since the Gene is a micro-ATX motherboard and consumers could definitely be interested in the energy saving obtained form using switchable graphics.

Other details are not available at this time, but since the two motherboards will belong to the ROG series they should pack an impressive array of features and technologies.

These will most probably include support for both Nvidia SLI and AMD CrossFireX setups, Extreme Engine Digi+ power, the ROG Connect and ROG iDirect technologies as well as a wide series of other overclocking orientated features.

As mentioned earlier, the Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z and Maximus IV Gene-Z are expected to make their debut at Computex 2011, but no information regarding pricing is available at this time. (via VR-Zone)