Hi,
Asus is preparing to launch new Asus Crosshair III Formula motherboard based on AMD 790FX chipset. This motherboard is especially optimized for Phenom II and extreme-overclocking and is part of ROG series:
- 8+2 phases
- TweakIt with keyboard
- two PCI Express x16 for CrossFireX
Will be launched during Computex 2009 in June and price will probably be ~200 euros.
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looking good..
System #1:
i7 975 for bench, W3540 @ 4,4 Ghz HT On, Asus P6X58 Premium, 3x2048 Corsair Dominator 2000CL7, Sapphire 5970 @ stock, Corsair HX1000, 1xOCZ Vertex2 120GB, 3x1TB WD Green
Cooled by:
Loop 1: Watercool HK rev 3.0, Laing Ultra 18W /w XSPC Res Top, Thermochill PA120.3 /w Phobya Fans @ 5V Pull
Loop 2: EK 5970 Nickle, Laing Ultra 18W /w XSPC Res Top, Thermochill PA120.3 /w Phobya Fans @ 5V Pull
Loop 3: EK Asus NB/SB, Mips Asus Mosfet 1 + 2, Laing Ultra 18W /w XSPC Res Top, Thermochill PA120.2 /w Phobya Fans @ 5V Pull
4,6Ghz (21x220) 1,42Vcore with Single Stage (HT enabled)
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1251/83962063.jpg
AMD @ testing
X4 955, Asus Crosshair III, same Rams as on Intel Setup, Sapphire 4870X2 @ Stock, PC Power&Cooling 910W
less slots and worse slot placement than m4A79t deluxe
this board looks worse (in terms of components used / placment) than 790FX UD5; DFI 790 M3H5 and the GD-70)
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Why is this a crossfire mobo, the previous crosshairs were SLI?
Thats what I was wondering when I saw the spec. Certainly is odd, maybe Asus thought of adding another fruity flavour from the red team to add to the fray.Originally Posted by Wadkiller
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Custom Watercooling
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true facts.. didn´t realised this first, doesn´t look so good anymore :|
System #1:
i7 975 for bench, W3540 @ 4,4 Ghz HT On, Asus P6X58 Premium, 3x2048 Corsair Dominator 2000CL7, Sapphire 5970 @ stock, Corsair HX1000, 1xOCZ Vertex2 120GB, 3x1TB WD Green
Cooled by:
Loop 1: Watercool HK rev 3.0, Laing Ultra 18W /w XSPC Res Top, Thermochill PA120.3 /w Phobya Fans @ 5V Pull
Loop 2: EK 5970 Nickle, Laing Ultra 18W /w XSPC Res Top, Thermochill PA120.3 /w Phobya Fans @ 5V Pull
Loop 3: EK Asus NB/SB, Mips Asus Mosfet 1 + 2, Laing Ultra 18W /w XSPC Res Top, Thermochill PA120.2 /w Phobya Fans @ 5V Pull
4,6Ghz (21x220) 1,42Vcore with Single Stage (HT enabled)
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1251/83962063.jpg
AMD @ testing
X4 955, Asus Crosshair III, same Rams as on Intel Setup, Sapphire 4870X2 @ Stock, PC Power&Cooling 910W
tweakit with keyboard, so it can be accessed via ps2 and usb keyboards? that would be nice!
good cpu pwm apparently, any word on what the max vcore is? i mean max tested, not max theoretical
only 1 phase memory... but looks like a beefy phase, so thats good too
good slot layout...
colors... a bit boring traditional asus style, heatsink, same... imo the board looks quite boring somehow, not really impressive...
6 fan headers, good
only4 sata and only 1nic... a bit scarce for an rog highend board?
unfortunately i dont think we will see a highend amd socket sli board anytime soon.
nvidia doesnt allow sli on amd chipsets, not even with an nf200 bridge and license fee, but all they can offer are old chipsets which run hot and dont clock as well as the amd chipsets, at least afaik... :/
i hope nvidia changes their policy about this soon and will at least allow nf200 sli if not 5$ license sli on amd chipsets...
Last edited by saaya; 05-13-2009 at 12:29 AM.
looks good
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I agree not enough sata headers.
Its even worse when you consider alot of people use SATA optical drives. There's also only 6 usb, only a single ethernet port, missing a floppy(a good thing). This things starting to look like a budget board.
M4A79T blows this thing out of the water and is likely cheaper.
But man I see 8 fans headers. That nice, but almost kind of ridiculous.
Last edited by tajoh111; 05-13-2009 at 01:24 AM.
Needs moar SATA, and the PCB looks really bare, actually...although PWM looks good.
Rig specs
CPU: i7 5960X Mobo: Asus X99 Deluxe RAM: 4x4GB G.Skill DDR4-2400 CAS-15 VGA: 2x eVGA GTX680 Superclock PSU: Corsair AX1200
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although i am happy with the news of this, i just dont get the crossfire part
and for a crossfire board that single PCI slot is in a stupid place, i personaly wouldnt pay £50 for this board.
i had such high expectations for this release as well, as was told by my sources that it would be a Tri SLI board, so much for sources.
ahh well
slots are just.... odd..
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Needs moar sata and usb.
LCD Poster finally on AMD
I dream of the day when every single mobo from every manufacturer has LCD Poster header.
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Test bench: empty
Looks a lot like the Rampage Extreme 2 cooling wise and OC options...
Puzzled why they ditched SLi for Crossfire though.. along with the lack of SATA connections..
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EVGA GTX460 768MB 850/1700/2100Mhz SLi
EVGA 8800GT SSC 730/1800/2000Mhz
Corsair HX850W
Looks awesome to me, optimized trace lengths, maybe 8 layer, great VRM and no FAT i don't need.
bring it on
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Looks like it's more aimed at high end benching that feature endulgence like the old corsshair/ROG boards...
looking Good I ll waiting this .....!!!
on the way to me ...
It's because Nvidia is repeating it's mistakes from the past, just like they didn't allow sli on intel chipsets (before x58) they are now not allowing it on AMD chipsets, but as brutally outdated as nvidia chipsets for amd are there can't really be a decent high end board based on a nvidia chipset, so say goodbye to SLI and AMD Cpu combo.although i am happy with the news of this, i just dont get the crossfire part
whau, whau, nice
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on the way to me ...
same me too....
Looks a bit uncomfortably clean, like a value board (slightly)
Yes, you can proceed to kill me now /ducks
then where should it be? anywhere else and it would block the second vga if you run xfire or sli...
huh? why? you can run 2 dualslot vgas, plus a pci card, plus a pciE x1 card... what more do you guys want???
lets see...Puzzled why they ditched SLi for Crossfire though.. along with the lack of SATA connections..
amd
new chipset
best ocing options
overdrive
active support from amd
nvidia
costs more
runs hotter
old chipset
not the best ocing options
ntune lacks a lot of features and doesnt work as good as overdrive
i think it was right of them to go for the amd chipset... its unlikely that people who spend a lot on 2 nvidia highend vgas buy an amd platform which is slower and cheaper than intel platforms...
yeah i feel the same... too small heatsink i think... and more sata... a bigger heatsink covering some more of the pcb, maybe in some nice design and colors, and more sata plugs and it would look a lot more like a real highend board.
single ethernet, 6 usb, 5 sata... it really looks more like a value board from the specs and from the layout/design...
if it would be matx i could understand this, but full blown atx...
it has all it needs, but it doesnt really look like an rog highend board...
Last edited by saaya; 05-13-2009 at 04:10 AM.
no vdroop, i hope
IMHO the newest MSI is still the best flagship AM3 board there is to date, followed by the GBT.
Where is Foxconn in all of this BTW?
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