Looks like another quality board from ASUS. The price of their ROG boards can't be justified in my book IMHO. I like how they have made part of their heat pipe array removable so you can add your own water blocks if need be. A much better idea that having those crappy Fuzion blocks as standard.
Asus should stick with this styling (maybe, as said by many people many times before, with red and black/grey slots) as they're definitely onto a winner! Stunning looking board, however P45 isn't worth the money when compared to X48. Then again, I suppose if you are only looking for a single GPU solution (or single card in the case of X2's) then it's all you really need...
I still want to see a set of FlexXLC II plugged into this board - almost identical heatsink fin design would fit right in! Do you have them lying around still? Just for a photograph's sake? ;-)
Originally Posted by Cupboard I appear to have missed something - what has happened to abit?
They quietly exited the performance mobo market earlier this month, although there was no "announcement" so to speak but we've heard it coming for a while.
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Originally Posted by ChaosDefinesOrder I still want to see a set of FlexXLC II plugged into this board - almost identical heatsink fin design would fit right in! Do you have them lying around still? Just for a photograph's sake? ;-)
I don't actually, OCZ took them back and actually found them faulty :o and we haven't yet got replacements.
I disagree about P45 versus X48 unless you're 4870 X2 X2ing, in which £140 is cheap :p or I'd probably go for the DFI LT then although that's a completely different kettle of fish. You can always overclock the PCIe bus to make up for some of the bandwidth loss.
"however after this it was about as functional as a taxidermied dog: it just sat there with a faux attention, and didn't want to play any more"
that made me chortle!
<pedant mode> but taxidermy isn't the stem for a verb... </pedant mode>
One interesting stability question: Does this board remain stable with 2 HD 4800/4500/3800 Radeons in crossfire? bit-tech has noted repeatedly in the past that Radeon cards in crossfire tend to crash on several of the newer Intel chipsets. If I remember right, such a crash has been reproduced on an AMD chipset as well. Why did bit-tech skip this particular aspect of stability...?
I still can't justify spending this much on a mobo, I feel the price difference would be better spent on a graphics card, cpu, or mobo and then buying a $100 mobo. sure they might not over clock quite as nice but the performance differnce will be in the stock parts
stuffed is so... unimaginative. Taxidermy is the art of stuffing and putting animals into lifelike poses. It's something someone does
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Originally Posted by bhanja_trinanjan One interesting stability question: Does this board remain stable with 2 HD 4800/4500/3800 Radeons in crossfire? bit-tech has noted repeatedly in the past that Radeon cards in crossfire tend to crash on several of the newer Intel chipsets. If I remember right, such a crash has been reproduced on an AMD chipset as well. Why did bit-tech skip this particular aspect of stability...?
Time. I was up stil 1:30am last night finishing the review for this morning and stability testing simply takes days to do. I will give it a go shortly though.
that $186 price sucks cause it's an open box mobo so you get none of the goodies or wires (cause people steal that stuff) and the board has been "touched" by people and possible used and returned (cause they messed it up i would bet). its $269 for the retail "virgin." That's a large increase in price.
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I still want to see a set of FlexXLC II plugged into this board - almost identical heatsink fin design would fit right in! Do you have them lying around still? Just for a photograph's sake? ;-)
+1
If you allready have a decent computer its not really worth it atm with nehalem being so close.
They quietly exited the performance mobo market earlier this month, although there was no "announcement" so to speak but we've heard it coming for a while.
I don't actually, OCZ took them back and actually found them faulty :o and we haven't yet got replacements.
I disagree about P45 versus X48 unless you're 4870 X2 X2ing, in which £140 is cheap :p or I'd probably go for the DFI LT then although that's a completely different kettle of fish. You can always overclock the PCIe bus to make up for some of the bandwidth loss.
that made me chortle!
<pedant mode> but taxidermy isn't the stem for a verb... </pedant mode>
looks like a tasty board tho :)
try stuffed ;)
taxidermy is a noun
still, seems like a nice board!
stuffed is so... unimaginative. Taxidermy is the art of stuffing and putting animals into lifelike poses. It's something someone does
Time. I was up stil 1:30am last night finishing the review for this morning and stability testing simply takes days to do. I will give it a go shortly though.
on my list i could only get that one due to the other ones being ddr3 motherboards