Layout of Asus Crosshair Formula IV

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After Asus has introduced the "Rampage Extreme III" is a visually appealing board really, now is also the "Crosshair Formula IV" in a similarly exquisite outfit. The color scheme is limited to red, gray and black tones. A really good mix. Another optical cream piece is the continuous North-and Southbridge cooler, which extends through the voltage converter. Its massive and angular appearance is simultaneously elegant and aggressive. But the cooler not only looks good, it does its job reliably and keeps the said components at a pleasant temperature. Besides the visual aspects, the board also has technical features.

Thanks to AMD's 890FX chipset and the 850 Southbridge, the board has six SATA 3 ports are located along with a remaining SATA 2 port on the lower right side. The latter is controlled by a JMicron chip, since the new South Bridge SATA 2 no longer supported. Asus implemented for eight 4-pin fan connectors, and are adjustable via BIOS or software. These include three ports for optional temperature sensors. Another innovation in the form of "Q-dimming" technology can find the buyer in the 4 ram slots. This means that only the upper locks are mobile. This avoids a collision with large graphics cards. Bottom left on the board shimmering Surpreme-FX sticker that is affixed to the sound chip. If this is removed, we see that there is no full-fledged X-Fi, but a VIA VT2020 block underneath it. Thanks to the new North Bridge has the "Crosshair Formula IV" has four PCI-E slots, two of whom are working in full 16 lanes. Thus Crossfire configurations can be easily achieved at maximum power.

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The I / O panel provides connectors to fill. Besides the six USB 2.0 ports found two more blue in color, corresponding to the USB 3.0 standard and soldered on the board of the NEC controller can be controlled. Then there are the usual connectivity options, such as Firewire, E-SATA, PS / 2, Optical S / PDIF out, and the 6 audio inputs and outputs. In addition, by pressing a button, the BIOS will be reset. A "Republic of Gamers" feature of the ROG-connect port should be to switch that allows you to overclock the current system with a laptop or other computer. Unfortunately, these high-end board only a LAN connection, which is controlled by a Marvell 8059 controller. Even the board layout is very well thought out. Thus are the matching Ram ports are not exactly next to each other but offset. Therefore, the improved cooling is ensured. Also the board with heat sink expands its not very 3cm high. This allows sweeping processor cooler.

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Since this board is also intended for overclockers, not to have these features. Side next to the RAM slots, per meter, the voltage of the individual components can be measured. Below, right after the ATX power connector fitting a small red button which has two functions. First, before booting the feature "MemOK" run be activated and the other a pre-configured OC Setup under Windows. This means that the last megahertz out of the system settings are crushed and loaded, under the operating system will not be bootable. At the edge of the board, below the last PCI-E slots are next to the reset and start button a overclocker button to load the different OC settings and the Core-Unlocker-button with which allows the cores and the cache enable certain processors . What may not be missing, the CMOS reset jumper is next to the Bios block. After removing the spring screws, the heatsink on the motherboard can be removed. Accordingly, the user can create a view of the North and South Bridge.

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Asus put the motherboard in the "Republic of Gamers" normal, burgundy-red box. This are provided in addition to the specifications and features of course the name as well as important details. A little gem located in the hinged front, in which a view can be thrown on the main board and further details are printed. After opening this package, the user has access to two black boxes. In the one is the Crosshair Formula IV, protected by a strong plastic cover and the other in the included accessories. These include the following matters:

• 4x SATA2 cable (of which 2 are angled on one side)
• 2x SATA3 cable (of which one angled side)
• 1x ROG-Connect Cable
• 1 x CrossFire bridge
• 1x Slot plate with 2x USB 2.0 + 1x FireWire
• ROG ATX panel
• Q-Connector
• Manuals
• Driver DVD

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As the name advises, the Crosshair IV Formula (C4F, hereafter) is of the gamers camp, and supporters of that party may also memorize that the Crosshair name to be inclined to functional to AMD motherboards. In fact, the first RoG motherboard still was the Crosshair that we first saw back in January 2007. It should be of modest revelation that the C4F is based around the newly commenced AMD 890FX chipset and supports the new six-core Phenom II X6 as well as up to four graphics cards teamed in CrossFireX. However, while the C4F has four high-speed PCI-E slots, the lowermost slot only supplies four PCI-E lanes, so at best we'd only advise three-card CrossFireX. The slots are evidently labeled so that you know that if you only want to bring into play two graphics cards, you know that it’s the top two that will furnish you full bandwidth per card. A pair of graphics cards will likely get toasty though, as Asus has only placed a PCI slot in flanked by the primary and secondary 16x PCI-E slots. There’s another PCI slot underneath the secondary graphics slot.