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Asus Crosshair III Formula motherboard review

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On June 29, 2009, 5:23 AM

Roughly a year ago we reviewed the Asus Crosshair II Formula, based on the Nvidia nForce 780a SLI chipset. This board provided those who were brave enough to pick up a Phenom processor with a stable platform that sported a number of impressive features such as Triple-SLI. At the time we said the Crosshair II Formula was a well designed motherboard that was let down by a power hungry chipset and sub-par processors.

But AMD managed to turn things around when they released the Phenom II X4 with models clocked at 2.8GHz and 3.0GHz. And now with the Phenom II X4 955 in their arsenal, AMD is finally starting to look like they mean business.


Now after much anticipation AMD has a processor that really deserves a quality high-end motherboard. The new Crosshair III Formula dumps the Nvidia chipset for the popular AMD 790FX and as a result drops SLI support for CrossFireX. This latest Asus motherboard comes stocked with just about everything in traditional ROG (Republic Of Gamers) fashion.

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  1. June 29, 2009 10:15 AM
    Burty117
    Burty117, TechSpot Chancellor, said:

    This is pretty sweet! I will be ordering one very soon =)

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  2. July 25, 2009 5:43 PM
    Guest said:

    Just ordered one and it should be in Monday.

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  3. July 25, 2009 5:49 PM
    LinkedKube
    LinkedKube, TechSpot Project Baby, said:

    This is a great board, I love the RoG's logo as well.

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  4. April 3, 2010 8:49 AM
    Guest said:

    a great board supporting any game on the market today. Definitly the hardware worth having for any pasionate gamer; I realy enjoy it )

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  5. April 19, 2010 11:16 AM
    Guest said:

    I really don`t know what to choose :

    Crosshair III Formula or M4A89GTD PRO/USB3

    Any advice , maybe a VS Review? :>

    Thanks

    Reply

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