ASUS Crosshair IV Formula ATX AMD Motherboard

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Rapid set up Quickly SPEED rapidly just out appropriate fast NONE oh did i say there was any. i ment theres is NONE !!! for years i used DFI and MSI they are a really fantastic boards. but wanted to try one thing new. and got this 1. And i can say is "HOOlY FREAKIN COW". I' I' I' I' I ----- must of purchased ASUS years ago. bet you thought i was gonna say a dell Wrong dells i use for target practices or door stops in my Computer shop

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The add to cart button was grey for as long as I wanted to buy this board, I ultimately got it following sniping and camping next my old pc for days, I’m glad I had adequate marshmallows on my camping trip, It was worth it. Just before reviewing this board I want to thank Newegg for their fast shipping, I was going to betray them and go with that business named after the biggest river in south America considering that they had it in stock at that time for the similar price but their shipping and processing was a nightmare, you acquire the solution and wait and wait for it to ship for days at finish, they don’t even course of action and charge your card for days, which is very good cause I canceled my order as soon as I saw it readily available on the egg. It kinda reminded me of when I was obtaining my outdated now ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 ATX AMD Motherboard. It was often out of stock and when it showed up it disappeared once more promptly just before you even enter you shipping info. This board is the deal to beat today because AMD X6 is the king now for its value/performance ratio, AMD genuinely came up with a processor to worry Intel, I can’t say much more than anybody else it terms of how great of a performer or more than clocker this board is, but I inform you this: This Formula four and AMD 1090T or much better yet 1100T is a really nice formula that won’t be obsolete for years to come. And if you’re not significantly of an more than clocker it’s still a sweet board to have, Assume of it as if you’re purchasing a Lamborghini for its power that you’ll under no circumstances going to use at complete, but it puts a smile on your face when you know what’s under your hood. The Intense version of this board has a Bluetooth adapter and a chip that makes it possible for you add mismatched video cards for SLI or CFX, although it sounds fantastic on paper it’s nevertheless a new technologies that demands to mature before adoption or you could run into problems like with the Intel sandy bridge and P67 boards.If you see in stock just click add to cart and feel about it later, mainly because by the time you accomplished considering it won’t be in stock any longer.

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My 2nd complete make, and second ASUS Mobo to fantastic impact. CrosshairsIV has numerous entertaining capabilities, can't wait to experiment. Almost everything worked the first time, and just as the book mentioned. New style memory stick locks (lock only on a single side) are a lot more difficult to see when a stick is not in right, in particular beneath a cooling tower. Took many attempts to be certain it was in absolutely. CrosshairsIV, 1090 X6, GSkill 7-7-7-21 2x4gb, Sapphire 6590 VC, Scythe CPU cooler, Lite-on 3D Blue Ray burner, in old Ammo case tends to make it a sleeper.

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ASUS. Constantly had great luck with them. I bought a COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1 aftermarket cooler. With how the CPU and memory is configured, two of my four memory slots are covered up by the cooler. I kind of anticipated this so I bought RAM that had little heatsink. Some of the RAM sticks with huge heatsinks WOULDN'T fit with my configuation.I could use much more than 7 SATA ports, especially with no IDE (PATA) ports, on a board in this price range. Excellent so far!

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Arrived on schedule. Packaging wasn't negative and included lots of extras such as SATA2 and SATA3 cables. No issues mounting the processor or the stock cooler that came with my Phenom II X4 965. Lots of functions for overclocking (haven't attempted to overclock with it yet). MemOK is a cool feature in case a memory incapatability crashes your program, and the mobo supports my 2 year old 2X2GB Crucial Ballistix so it seems to have very good help for even older RAM. Integrated a lot of added software (other than the essential drivers) on the included CD-ROM. No crashes hence far. The factors I didn't give it 5 eggs are in my cons (obviously). The most annoying and frustrating problem I've had is with the audio drivers. The documentation states that the mobo has integrated Sound Blaster X-Fi audio codecs and hardware (or at least that's what it implies), but the actual hardware is By way of manufactured, which is not only unnerving from a consumer point-of-view, but when I have the By way of drivers installed, I have issues with sound. These aren't severe concerns but they are beyond annoying and it's not what you'd anticipate from a higher-end ASUS board. Problems are as follows and go on the assumption that I've installed the By means of driversɅ. Just before ANY Windows sound (such as the startup tune, UI sounds while navigating, and so forth) plays there is an nearly inaudible pop, and then a short pause that happens prior to the sound truly plays. This also occurs when playing music from mp3. I don't knowledge the pops even though playing games (New Vegas, for example) but the DELAY is there, which is merely unacceptable for a gamer. Cons continuedɆ. The advertised Sound Blaster X-Fi codecs are not constructed-in to the motherboard at the hardware level, but just come included on the CD. I can't tension this adequate: This motherboard DOES NOT have any Sound Blaster hardware "built-in" and I am certain (after troubleshooting for 2 or 3 hours) that the By means of DRIVERS are what is causing these annoying pops and audio delays.The remedy the audio difficulty was to absolutely Uninstall all audio devices in Device Manager, then either restart the Computer or "Scan For Hardware Modifications" which Must lead to Windows (I'm making use of Win 7 x64) to set up generic drivers for the sound hardware. Windows DOES recognize the audio bus as high-definition, and the pops and delays are entirely gone.The only downside to this is that I can not use the Sound Blaster computer software (which has some quite neat functions) unless the Through drivers are installed. I just hope By way of and/or ASUS releases some much better drivers for this Through hardware.