Once again we pop in a Phenom II processor and have a look at it's performance, which will be the same as it has been for a year now. This reviews details the € 289,- ASUS Crosshair VI Hero. We have tested and reviewed all Ryzen 7 processors, now it istime to zoom into the motherboards. At $799, ASUS offers an all-black, all-sweet X570 motherboard loaded with features like 10 Gbit LAN and AX WIFI 6E, as well as a des. The ASUS Crosshair VIII X570 Extreme is the subject of this review. Head on over to the next page, where we'll head deeply into the AMD 890 FX chipset and the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula motherboard that has the 890FX chipset embedded.īut first have a look at one of the most attractive looking motherboards of all time. based on this motherboard.Īll in all we got a thing or two to tell ya. The Crosshair IV Formula oozes with features and performance, the six-core Phenom II X6 processor review which you probably just read was overclocked towards 4.1 GHz on a cheapo CPU air-cooler. and get this four PCIe x16 slots and even core unlock functionality by pressing a button. The Crosshair IV Formula is the Mc Daddy of AMD 890FX motherboards, the alpha dog motherboards loaded with features like the aforementioned, but also USB 3.0, automated overclock switches. So today we'll cover that 890FX chipset, but do so by reviewing the all new ASUS Crosshair IV Formula motherboard. It's that kind of flexibility that allows ODMs like ASUS to make little gems motherboards out of that chipset. PCI-Express is key in the AMD 890FX release as we get PCIe 42 lanes at our disposal! Next to that, the chipset will be paired with the SB850 which we already covered in the 890GX review, it offers 14 USB 2.0 ports, up-to six SATA 6G ports and an integrated Gigabit Ethernet controller.
As such the FX chipset is aimed at the more enthusiast segment of the AMD motherboard market. Not a huge deal, but if you pop in a nice Radeon HD 5870 you certainly would like it to run over a x16 link, and not a x8 link. You see, when you pop on more USB controllers, SATA6G controllers and multiple x16 graphics cards, your average motherboards run out of bandwidth real fast as often there are only 16 PCIe links available. Now we were already fond of the 890GX chipset when it got released, the FX chipset however ups the ante even a little more as next to the integration of SATA6G we see something really interesting, a massive increase in PCIe lanes allowing 890FX motherboards to become very flexible in their bandwidth needs versus component usage. This review will entail the AMD 890FX chipset, initially to be paired solely with Thuban based processors but obviously intended for the entire AMD Phenom II and Athlon II processors. And the opinion-splitting chipset fan has been ditched in favour of a passive heat exchanger.As if the launch of two six-core processors was not enough, AMD today also has updates on their motherboard chipset line-up of products, and quite interesting ones as well. Asus' unique OC Panel is included in the bundle. Audio and connectivity gets upgraded to the ‘high-end 2013′ standard, along with the storage interfaces. As the name suggests, the colour is different, for starters.
Twenty-four months later and here we are with Asus' new-and-improved X79 flagship – the Rampage IV Black Edition.Ĭompared to the Rampage IV Extreme, the Black Edition's layout is very similar 4-card CrossFire and SLI configurations are supported, the power delivery system is squeezed between two pairs of 4-DIMM banks, and we still have a partial ‘bling' factor from the LED-magnifying northbridge-style heatsink. Respected the world over by overclockers and enthusiasts alike, Asus' Rampage IV Extreme was one of the trend-setters for the point that an X79 motherboard has to reach before it is considered truly high-end. Have the upgraded components and IVB-E tweaks resulted in yet another rampaging master class? Asus has updated its critically-acclaimed Rampage IV Extreme X79 motherboard to ‘Black Edition' status. How does a company make a multiple award-winning, enthusiast-grade motherboard even more ‘extreme'? By making it into a black edition version, of course.
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