New Asus & Intel P35 mobos - Blitz Extreme & Blitz Formula

[MsB]

I'd guess that the cross fire chip is there to provide greater lockability and Isolation, in relation to NB and SB, of the PCI-e lanes while OCing . I just bought the gigabyte p35. O well theres always something newer and cooler just around the corner. can't wait to see how this thing oc's

[onewingedangel]

Yes, but what would the added latency of going through a tunnel chip do for performance?

[lawrywild]

I want one.. lol

[SharkerSk]

I was first
http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=145660
Asus Rocks
Fusion wb on chipset looks really sick!

[Johnny Bravo]

The fusion block is a good idea - but - it is interesting that this is the direction that manufacturers are starting to take, the requirement for water cooling. The board does look good tho, I hope it's not got a massive price premium however. With the advent of the x38 chipset with x16 + x16 we should see two tiers of Intel based motherboards that could challenge Nvidias stronghold on the SLi market.

[Thorry]

lol loving the cmos clear switch in the back.

I've had one of those for years on my K7S5A _/-\O_

[screwtech02]

Need to see some "crossfire" performance on this board at x8-x8.. Rumor is the X38 chipset at x16 is going to go for a premium price, but if this crosslink stuff works, and there is no hit in performance, then why not??

[Zytek_Fan]

I want the DDR2 version

I like the Crazy option for the CPU

[[XC] Lead Head]

That chip is probably extremely similar to the one on the 7950GS, or whatever it was called, the one with dual GPUs.

[vudoodoodoo]

lol @ "Crazy" setting.

[Bounc3y]

man the watercooled chipset is awesome.. wonder how much the board will cost >.>

[STaRGaZeR]

1/2" barbs? If not, provide an adapter, plz Asus...

[perkam]

lol @ "Crazy" setting.

If only because they have NO idea what crazy really is

Sick board though...one more day, one more reason to go intel X(

Perkam

[Zytek_Fan]

X38 will be awesome if NVIDIA approves SLI support for it

[virtualrain]

I guess I stand alone when I say ASUS boards just rub me the wrong way... flashy gimmicks don't make up for bad BIOS and poor Vcore stability/droop.

They are one step away from becomming the Thermaltake of motherboards IMHO.

[Zytek_Fan]

I guess I stand alone when I say ASUS boards just rub me the wrong way... flashy gimmicks don't make up for bad BIOS and poor Vcore stability/droop.

They are one step away from becomming the Thermaltake of motherboards IMHO.

If Abit can produce a board like those Asus ones, I'll more than willing get that...

DFI really needs to get their P35 board out on time...


I have heard of problems with Asus boards, but that doesn't stop the P5B Deluxe from selling like hot cakes.

[ronaldor9]

i actually i heard the p35 chipsets have extremely good vcore stability/drop

[ronaldor9]

yea no kidding i would hate another 400 dollar board cant wait til the x38 chipsets if they support nvidia sli

but this board looks very good colorshceme unlike thier curent p35 that looks like a circus of colors

[lawrywild]

Yeh the ASUS P5K's have a vcore damper option which pretty much totally eliminates any vdroop

[black_edition]

i actually i heard the p35 chipsets have extremely good vcore stability/drop

In "Blitz" family R.O.G. Advanced Capability of "load line calibration" "CPU Level UP" "Voltiminder LED" and so on is introduced into also the over clock setting which is the concept of of the importance of the series. With load line calibration, when load becomes heavy, revising the CPU core voltage which is in the tendency which decreases it prevents degradation by the fact that it maintains fixed core voltage.

Regards

[MsB]

Now that I look closer at the pictures I hope it means better scaling of crossfire cards when together. Even if ATI doesnt compete as well with single cards if they improve the scaleability of 2xCF compared to NV's SLI by even 30 percent it could give folk more reason to buy thier cards.

[Tony]

You have to implement a bridge chip, much like PCIE to agp, this splits the 16X lanes into 8x8 with abaility for P2P writes.

This was totally possible on all 965 boards also with many people including myself begging for it to be implemented.

So to say the chipset supports it is not quite right, with a bridge chip yes it does just as 965 does.

[irev210]

You have to implement a bridge chip, much like PCIE to agp, this splits the 16X lanes into 8x8 with abaility for P2P writes.

This was totally possible on all 965 boards also with many people including myself begging for it to be implemented.

So to say the chipset supports it is not quite right, with a bridge chip yes it does just as 965 does.

7950gx2 comes to mind.

[Drager2]

Dont understanding how cross linx can do some extra fps. Is it cause of sb too slow?

[safan80]

they need two fully working 16x slots to convice me to go ROG.
I hate to link to THG but here's one of my reasons for wanting full speed slots. untill then it looks like I'm going to use the p5k deluxe which will allow me to test 4x vs 8x on an areca card.