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Asus announces ROG Crosshair IV Extreme motherboard
The Crosshair IV Extreme supports up to 16GB of DDR3 2000MHz RAM spread across four DIMM slots and it has five PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (quad configurations run at x16 x16 x8 x8). Other I/O includes one PCI slot, six SATA 6Gb/s, two SATA 3Gb/s and two eSATA 3Gb/s ports, two USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports on the rear panel, Bluetooth v2.0/2.1+EDR, and gigabit Ethernet. US pricing and availability is unknown, but TechConnect reports that it's available for preorder in Europe for €290 -- the rough equivalent of $378.
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BMfan
on September 20, 2010 2:45 PM |
This will be a nice replacment board for my CHIII when it comes down in price. |
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red1776
on September 20, 2010 2:47 PM |
...Ummm, anyone want to buy a slightly used Crosshair IV Formula? This is the one I really wanted, but of course it gets delayed until right after I purchase the CIVF. |
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TomSEA
on September 20, 2010 2:48 PM |
I'm kinda scratching my head wondering why one would need a "remote tweaking" option. |
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Matthew
on September 20, 2010 3:01 PM |
I'm not sure how the feature would be useful either. Anyone? |
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princeton
on September 20, 2010 3:30 PM |
Matthew said: I'm not sure how the feature would be useful either. Anyone? If it works for gpus it would have been useful when nvidia sent out those drivers that messed up the fan controller :P |
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FLHR
on September 20, 2010 3:41 PM |
Hopefully this will bring the prices down for the Crosshair IV Formula MB..As I'd like one ,, |
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Guest
on September 20, 2010 4:05 PM |
What game needs a 5 crossfire config?, Crysis 4? |
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red1776
on September 20, 2010 4:08 PM |
I'm kinda scratching my head wondering why one would need a "remote tweaking" option. Hi Tom , the RC tweak is for hard core OC'ers. It is so when the settings you implement crash the machine, it saves the last settings and setup. They gave me a short USB cable to hook up a laptop and tweak from it. @ guest, the 5 PCIE slots are for options, if you need to make use of that Pci slot, you have the lower PCIE slot to use for example....and folding I suppose. |
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Guest
on September 20, 2010 4:26 PM |
is it possible to replace my crosshair iv that i just bought few months ago to this one??? |
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KG363
on September 20, 2010 4:27 PM |
I'm interested in the numbers for lucid hydra. I wanna see how well it performs |
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red1776
on September 20, 2010 6:03 PM |
Guest said: is it possible to replace my crosshair iv that i just bought few months ago to this one??? ummm, yeah....purchase one. |
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Guest
on September 20, 2010 6:10 PM |
Meh. Sure looks nice and seems feature packed by AMD standards but the sandy bridge platform will mop the floor with this in a few months. |
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DokkRokken
on September 20, 2010 6:20 PM |
You'd really have to love AMD to purchase this board. Even that price would be too crazy for an X58 board, let alone the 890FX. I cannot discount the amount of technology that has been packed into this board though, and on those merits, this is one badass board. |
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Lokalaskurar
on September 21, 2010 2:32 AM |
Imagine it playing Tetris with 40 000 FPS! |
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Guest
on September 21, 2010 9:13 AM |
@red1776 I meant...swap my current one to this one? I heard from a friend that Asus allows you to do that? |
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red1776
on September 21, 2010 9:23 AM |
@red1776 I meant...swap my current one to this one? I heard from a friend that Asus allows you to do that? I have never heard of that program, was this something you read having to do with the NB/SB/PWR heatsink issue maybe? and did you have the standoff issue when you got your Crosshair IV? |
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DokkRokken
on September 21, 2010 3:14 PM |
EVGA has a 'step-up' program where you can upgrade to a higher model within a certain timeframe and only pay the difference. Not sure if Asus does the same, but I'm sure the answer is only a phone-call away! |
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EXCellR8
on September 21, 2010 5:54 PM |
that is a lot of money for a motherboard alone... but damn it looks sexy |
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