Upcoming 890FX Motherboards - Due April 26th

I recieved mine today, will be another day or two when I've finished all my benchmarks for 790FX vs 890FX.

Hidden link on the Asus website: http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?content=specifications&P_ID=kPGmtxee5RsQVsXG

Gives full details of what comes with the Asus Crosshair IV Formula i.e. features, spec, downloads, memory/cpu support list, the link was available yesterday but they have hidden it for now, luckily I saved it. ;)
 
alexp999 said:
Am I allowed to link to the article on my website, so you guys can see all the pics Ive taken of the Crosshair?
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Did you sign a Non-disclosure agreement? if not then you shoudn't have any worrys.

You are a customer of Asus, not someone paid to do a review of a freebie sample & sign an agreement.
 
Yes please!

I recently won a CIIIF in a competition, but now I'm sorely tempted to get the CIVF as it's so cheap, and has a nice lot of new features.
 
Thanks alexp99. Looks like it has the ROG connect features? Pretty cool, and the 'X-fi' is onboard, nice.

Looks like a very nice board, I'm extremely tempted. I hope £166 isn't going to go upwards at all!
 
alexhull24 said:
Thanks alexp99. Looks like it has the ROG connect features? Pretty cool, and the 'X-fi' is onboard, nice.

Looks like a very nice board, I'm extremely tempted. I hope £166 isn't going to go upwards at all!
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Yeah has rog connect, and been really impressed with sound quality of the "X-Fi" chip, in reality, its a VIA VT2020 under there, and the X-Fi bit is done on the CPU, but lower end X-Fi cards do that anyway afaik.

Havent tried the ROG Connect out yet. I tried the core unlocker feature to make the sempron into an Athlon X2, but it wouldnt boot, so I guess i didnt get lucky with my cpu.

Only thing I have noticed, is that the mainstream 890FX is on for more than I paid for the Crosshair, just glad I got it when I did. Hope its not too much more if it does go up for those guys who didnt get it :(
 
Yeah, it'd be awesome if it comes out at that price. The CIIIF is still £150 at OcUK, I know there's not a lot of substantial difference, but USB3 (though it's life may be limited) and SATA 6 are always good for possible future upgrades. If I'm buying a high end board I want it to last.
 
alexp999 said:
Lets you plug the motherboard into another PC as a device, and then access many of the bios features remotely, even if the PC has booted into windows. You got realtime hardware overclocking, all sorts.

Good vid on it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGCguyAczfk
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Interesting lol.
Hmm..
Still a weird board IMO.
I'll need help when OC'ing my 1090T lol.
 
Helios1234 said:
More here: http://www.vortez.co.uk/contenttell...ampage_iii_extreme_motherboard_review,13.html

4 pages of it covering the use of bluetooth and a mobile phone as well.
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Afaik, the Crosshair IV only support ROG connect via USB. But still an interesting read. Got to rem the Rampage III Extreme is nearly £100 more after all.

I think Crosshair IV has just right balance of enthusiast features, meaning its nicely priced, without tonnes of unnecessary stuff.

Crosshair IV Extreme will be out some point, but its e-ATX i think.

Martini1991 said:
Interesting lol.
Hmm..
Still a weird board IMO.
I'll need help when OC'ing my 1090T lol.
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You think you'll need help? The amount of menus in this Crosshair BIOS is insane, and Im only use to overclocking Intel CPUs!
 
Asus boards fluctuate with voltage.
And at the moment it's reporting voltage incorrectly..
It reckons it's putting 3.76v into my chip /facepalm.

I'm used to Gigabyte boards. Gigabyte voltage is stable, completely.

Give me a gigabyte board and a Phenom II, I'll clock it in seconds, give me an asus and I'll be stuck at the load line calibration.
 
alexp999 said:
Afaik, the Crosshair IV only support ROG connect via USB. But still an interesting read. Got to rem the Rampage III Extreme is nearly £100 more after all.

I think Crosshair IV has just right balance of enthusiast features, meaning its nicely priced, without tonnes of unnecessary stuff.

Crosshair IV Extreme will be out some point, but its e-ATX i think.
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Ah didn't realise it didn't have the Bluetooth kit. But the RG Connect is always covered :). I have to say I'm really impressed with the looks of the Crosshair IV. As you say it has many of the features of the R3E at half the costs!
 
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