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Does the Supreme FX card allow you to connect SPDIF to a Nvidia gfx card?
ASUS MAXIMUS III Formula Review
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I love the design of this mobo, especially the low profile heatsinks.
Another really great review sacha
Another really great review sacha
Caporegime
Nice review as always Paul. Top work mate. 
As above I'm interested in the GENE as well.
As above I'm interested in the GENE as well.
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My Nvidia 260 has Spdif in which allows me to run HDMI from the 260 to my telly for blurays etc, with sound and video. It's damn handy and the quality is great from my experience, although I don't have a multi speaker setup.
a lot of these type sound cards don't offer that facility but there are ways round it albeit a bit of a pain.
a lot of these type sound cards don't offer that facility but there are ways round it albeit a bit of a pain.
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I do like the look of it! Nice red!
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Well written review - especially with all the CPU/Mem testing!
GRATZ!!
[Now do one for the Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel :>} ]
GRATZ!!
[Now do one for the Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel :>} ]
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As the sisterboard uses a 1xPCI slot doesn't this mean your graphics are always going to be limited to 8x?
Today I managed to get the cascade to run a little wormer with some 2P coins used as spacers between the Evap and CPU as -130c was far too cold for i5, the end result was having a Die temp of around -100c give or take a few c.
After playing with a few settings I managed to run Supper PI 32M at 4970Mhz with a final time of 7M 36s which is not that great but considering the Supper Pi was run on a very old windows 7 O/S with no tweaks at all I do think the end result was too bad, but will try a few tweaks on a good OS next time to see what sort of improvements can be made.
Sorry for the black background but as said this was a very old copy of win 7 that needed activating so did not have the option of changing the screen background.
After playing with a few settings I managed to run Supper PI 32M at 4970Mhz with a final time of 7M 36s which is not that great but considering the Supper Pi was run on a very old windows 7 O/S with no tweaks at all I do think the end result was too bad, but will try a few tweaks on a good OS next time to see what sort of improvements can be made.
Sorry for the black background but as said this was a very old copy of win 7 that needed activating so did not have the option of changing the screen background.
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Cracking stuff Paul.
Is it just the chip you've got that doesn't like the cold?
Is it just the chip you've got that doesn't like the cold?
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5.0 Ghzzz ...... BLIMEY....I'm wondering if this is worth getting with a i7 860? I will be overclocking but it will be my first time. Any set pre-clocks in bios?
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Anyone?
there are presets available but it will not offer you 5Gig as this was done with some extreme cooling, but it will be very easy to hit 4Gig on stock air cooling with this motherboard.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18055026
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18055026
Max CPUz and supper Pi 1M at the moment, but still playing so more to come.
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=714717
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=714717
No sorry not paid as of yet, but working on it
, the temp was around -98c I would think as I had to use copper spacers on my -130c cascade so it is very hard to tell you what temperature I was actually reading.