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Asus CrossHair Motherboard
Price Range
$229.00 - $287.52
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: Hugh2
Updated:03-23-08
Duration of ownership:3 Months
Strengths: What do you get when you cross a Corvette with a Cadillac? This Mobo has more bells and whistles than the Good Ship Lollipop! Just what you would expect from any mobo that carries the Republic of Gamers Logo!
Weaknesses: Unfortunately, it is last year's Corvette, and last year's Cadillac! Many problems reported DOA are due to older BIOS! In order to run the AMD Phenom AM2+ Quad Core CPU, or some of the newer released Dual Core AM2 CPU's it is necessary to flash the BIOS to update 0904, or to replace the BIOS chip! NOTE! There is no charge for the BIOS chip, it is covered under the warranty, but you still have to pay the shipping costs! $20.00 for Fed Ex Overnight Delivery!
Overall Evaluation: High quality and workmanship, but even with an AM2+ Phenom CPU, it is still not very futureproof! You are still limited to a maximum of DDR2 800 MHz memory, and the mobo is not compliant with the new PCIE 2.0 specifications so this will be a bottleneck when you try to get the maximum performance out of the latest generation of video cards! If AMD CPU's and nVidia SLI is what floats your boat, I would highly recommend that you save your money! On March 28th nVidia has promised to unveil it's New GeForce 9800 GT, and release the drivers for Quad SLI! They also will unveil many new motherboard chipsets, to include two for AMD based SLI operation! Home this helps, Hugh-MANN
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: valpoaj
Updated:04-13-08
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Strengths: LCD readout; good design; easy installation; Q-connector a nice bonus
Weaknesses: Price has not gone down over past year, making this motherboard a bit more costly than some of its peers
Overall Evaluation: Had a tough decision to purchase this mo-bo since it was still $230. However, had no problems whatsoever when booting up for the first time and with updating the BIOS. Credit the built in cooling system for helping to keep my Athlon 6400+ at a reasonable temperature with the stock fan/heatsink combination. Q-connector was pretty handy and made the installation slightly easier. Not a no-brainer of a purchase, since there are mo-bos out there that would perform almost as well for less coin, but this is still one of the best products out there for AMD users.
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by: Octets
Updated:06-20-07
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Strengths: Stability, overclocking ability, LED board lighting
Weaknesses: CPU speed & RAM speed are linked together (i.e., unable to manually change the FSB/DDR ratio)
Overall Evaluation: For few year I stopped using ASUS for motherboards because of some bad experiences. However, deciding now to give them another chance i am glad i did. The board not only has been rock solid, it also sustained my overclocking and occasional mishaps in that regards. I should also add that it is performing flawlessly with my ATI X1950 card. this used to be an issue with nForce based boards. The board also comes with 6 Nvidia SATA2 ports (and 2 external SATA2 ports). the Nivida ports can be individually configured for RAID/non-RAID. Using these ports, I am running 2 different RAID-1 arrays and 1 single non-RAID SATA2 HDD. overall, i am quite pleased with this board. something i could not say for the previous 3 boards i got from other manufacturers.
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by: edthemag
Updated:05-19-07
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Strengths: Love the lighted back panel connections! This baby is LOADED with geek goodies. Super for OC'ers.
Weaknesses: Price seems a little steep until you consider what you getting.
Overall Evaluation: If the back of your system is in the dark then the lighted back panel alone may be enough to sell you on this MB. You can even check the time while your back there. Plenty of SATA plugs w/raid. Super fast
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by: Luke Spragg
Updated:01-24-07
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Strengths: LCD error posting panel, LED plug indicators, cool, overclocking ability, expandable, 8GB RAM limit!
Weaknesses: It doesn't make ice cream or candy... :'(
Overall Evaluation: I would highly recommend this board to any avid gamer or geek looking for an extreme motherboard that is easy to overclock and beautiful to the eye. This motherboard is packed full of powerful features as well as plenty of eye candy that will keep you drooling for hours on end. I myself was drawn to the unique LCD poster on the back and the LED plug indicators. There are many other features as well such as the heat pipe and being able to pack 8GB of RAM into this sucker! I am only using 2GB right now due to lack of spending money, but I would max it out if I could and enjoy the hickup-free system and smooth ride. Pop in a DirectX 10 card and then you are all set for loads of fun, exciting gaming and movies. I give it two thumbs up and 5 stars.
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by: CBFREEMAN
Updated:01-11-07
Duration of ownership:1
Strengths: LCD posting, LED board lighting, overclocking ability.
Weaknesses: None
Overall Evaluation: Really good all around board with lot's of goodies! This board is truelly one of the few good all around boards with plenty of potential. Recommend it to anyone looking to build a new system on a budget.
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by:
Updated:12-13-06
Duration of ownership:40 Days
Strengths: Extreme Speed Speed Speed SPEED/Accessibility/layout/Temp cooling/590 SLI/ 8 GIGS OF FREAKIN RAM!!!
Weaknesses: How my knees get every time I turn on my computer because it is a babe. Sexy sexy sexy.
Overall Evaluation: This mother board is the Top Snot. I purchased it along with a 5000 + windsdor Socket AM2 AMD X2 / Geforce 7950 GT / 2 Kingston DDR2 EXtreme 1066 mhz (and even though this mother board says it doesnt support 1066 ram it works on mine just fine, runs it in 800 mhz mode.) My computer is a rockin knockin speed devil from hell, everything I bought including this Crosshair motherboard is working like a lucky charm, and fast fast fast!!! Did I say fast? I can play Medieval II with 7000 + units all graphics set to Highest available setting and still get 15 - 30 FPS, not even using 2 GT 7950's for dual SLI. Highly, Highly recommended. Web pages open instantly, Downloads are insanely fast, Photo shop renders/Cubase music Renders are all insanely fast as well. I rendered a higly multiple sound bit poly phony (several instruments at the same time) 12 minute song in Cubase and FL studio pro 6 at 256 sinc depth (which is supposdly very high quality but VERY SLOW to render) and it only took my computer about 5 freaking minutes. Do you understand how fast this is. On my old computer that song took almost half an entire day to render. (12 hours).Just make sure you lay your contacts correctly while installing the board so you dont fry it, cause that would be a crime against computer - ity.
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Overall Rating
1 Star Review
Reviewed by: RRhoads
Updated:09-08-06
Duration of ownership:1
Strengths: Wouldn'T know can't get system to post keep getting error message.
Weaknesses: Doesn't Work, lots of bells and whistles, but they don't ring or sing a tune
Overall Evaluation: Brand new board, Brand new CPU, Brand new system. Called customer support at ASUS got the usual runaround finally talked to a tech, and much to my surprise he couldn't help me but he did tell me that they are having a problem with the bios chips on these new boards. So he transferred me to a voice mail so i can order a new bios chip and a new beta version chip, i was also informed that i will have to pay for these chips! WAIT i have to pay for their screw up. Would not recommend this board to anybody Googled the board and found plenty of problems from other users. Piece of crap!!!!!!!
