There's two voices argueing in my head right now... a female voice is just.. well.. talking a lot, and the male voice demands to know where the female has hidden the wallet.
well the P5Q3 is to be pre-ordered from oc's for £160 which is fair for a new high range board, but no sign of the maximus formula 2, but i reckon it'll see the £250 mark.
it looks sexy....one thing i probably thought i'd never say about a mobo.
Jipa - they should come out, just pop one end and half on the other. It's because all these boards are trying to force 2 or 3 phase power regs in a small space.
That maximus formula 2 is something I want. I'd get rid of my striker in a heart beat.....but can't be bothered. It's a step in a good direction though, very impressed.
wow, now that Maximus2 is what motherboards should look like!
only problem though, is that how's Asus RoG board's fan controllers? i have now degraded to relay heavily on the Abit's uGuru fan controller, and i found my friend's P5K series fan controlling BIOS are basically no existence.
Both of these boards look amazing. ASUS gets an A+ for aesthetics as usual. The feature set seems to be pretty damn nice as well. I can't help but sense an upgrade in my future...
That maximus is definitely beautiful! Seems odd to have such a great colour scheme for the heatsinks, then still use blue and white for the sockets. Would have looked better if the mem sockets were red and black and the PCI sockets were black and grey! The blue and white looks out of place...
Am I right in thinking that all P45 boards have their 16x slots as 16+1 or 8+8 only? Seems a waste of 16x slots but hey, chipset limitations...
Hopefully that heatsink style will be carried over to other boards with 2 PCIe at 16x phys, 16x elec!
Originally Posted by Bindibadgi The new fan controllers from the Asus EPU 6-engine are excellent - there's tons of options to play with.
photo/screenshot when reviewing the board would be much appreciated!
if it is as easy to use and as solid as the Abit uGuru, the Maximus 2 Formular will be my last LGA775 board, along with an mouse upgrade (need a better mouse than a value PS2 mouse)
WOW I have to say that the Maximus II Formula II looks tasty, they both do. As for Asus I have had quite a mixed bag recently when buying Asus mobo's :|
Dont quite understand why in so many respects the Maximus II Formula II looks so incredible, but at the same time still uses blue and white connectors (scratches head.....). If they were black and red people would be dizzy in love!
Originally Posted by SubtleOne There article at Toms Hardware in which Gigabyte said that ASUS's MoBo power consumption claims, among others, were blatant lies.
There is a LOT of "official" **** flinging at the moment and I have been told stuff from both companies which I can not repeat - one thing to say is at least the TWese are gentlemen about it, even if written text does sound cutting. BOTH companies claims the other is wrong though - the slides on Toms are completely contradicted by slides I have from Asus. What I will be doing at Computex is trying to get to the bottom of it, or, at least learn how to test their claims properly in real world situations the bit-tech way.
To be honest, I hadn't expected the tons of new software features being released and it's inevitably going to put my reviews back because I will want to try to do them as complete as possible.
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I agree, they look awesome and to the ASUS standard they are way too expensive. DFI all the way.
There's two voices argueing in my head right now... a female voice is just.. well.. talking a lot, and the male voice demands to know where the female has hidden the wallet.
it looks sexy....one thing i probably thought i'd never say about a mobo.
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fatman
I would love to know what this little wire is though:
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/05/first-look-asus-p5q3-maximus-ii-formula/max2-8.jpg (bottom left)
It seems a bit out of place and seems to suggest there is a fan under there
edit:unless that just lights up I suppose
But that's a small problem, it's still one hell of a beauty :) And most likely will perform accordingly..
Yea, it's backlit.
Jipa - they should come out, just pop one end and half on the other. It's because all these boards are trying to force 2 or 3 phase power regs in a small space.
Asus should really get the memory slots further away from the pci-e x16 slot though.
only problem though, is that how's Asus RoG board's fan controllers? i have now degraded to relay heavily on the Abit's uGuru fan controller, and i found my friend's P5K series fan controlling BIOS are basically no existence.
Beta bios is useful, but only if you can download them from Asus's website in less than a month.
Am I right in thinking that all P45 boards have their 16x slots as 16+1 or 8+8 only? Seems a waste of 16x slots but hey, chipset limitations...
Hopefully that heatsink style will be carried over to other boards with 2 PCIe at 16x phys, 16x elec!
;)
photo/screenshot when reviewing the board would be much appreciated!
if it is as easy to use and as solid as the Abit uGuru, the Maximus 2 Formular will be my last LGA775 board, along with an mouse upgrade (need a better mouse than a value PS2 mouse)
Dont quite understand why in so many respects the Maximus II Formula II looks so incredible, but at the same time still uses blue and white connectors (scratches head.....). If they were black and red people would be dizzy in love!
Have a great weekend :D
There is a LOT of "official" **** flinging at the moment and I have been told stuff from both companies which I can not repeat - one thing to say is at least the TWese are gentlemen about it, even if written text does sound cutting. BOTH companies claims the other is wrong though - the slides on Toms are completely contradicted by slides I have from Asus. What I will be doing at Computex is trying to get to the bottom of it, or, at least learn how to test their claims properly in real world situations the bit-tech way.
To be honest, I hadn't expected the tons of new software features being released and it's inevitably going to put my reviews back because I will want to try to do them as complete as possible.
what does this actually means
Seems like most BIOS revisions from ASUS are beta these days. Is there even a non-beta BIOS revision for the original Maximus Formula yet?