Asus crosshair IV formula

It's one of the best AMD motherboards you can buy, but I'd wait for Bulldozer boards to appear on the market and buy one of those. You'll be able to run your current chip and upgrade to Bulldozer when the chips are released.

Backwards compatibility is awesome :)
 
Mine confuses the hell out of me. It is a high end board though, no doubt. It may have a lot of features aimed towards overclockers, but until I replace it(mine shorted out or something) I won't know for sure. It supports dual crossfire in x16/x16 mode and tri xfire in x16/x8/x8, has 6 sata6 ports, supremefx x-fi 7.1 onboard 8channel audio, usb3 ports, auto overclock button, and 16gb of up to 2000mhz ram. It is a performer as you'd imagine any ROG certified product to be, but man it's kind of expensive! Mine came well packaged in this almost briefcase like box, they really tried to jazz this thing up as far as cosmetics are concerned, but the amount of accessories coming with it explained why. I have read the northbridge gets pretty hot, but i'll have to see more about that when I get it going and play in the bios a bit. From a board capable of all that, it kind of goes with the territory yeah?
 
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It's definitely a great MB, easily the best AMD board out there(there's the Crosshair IV Extreme but that's a bit much for me). It's on my list for my upcoming build, it may be pricey but the MB is IMO the most important part of any computer.

According to ASUS website there will be a BIOS update to make this board compatible with AMD's new Bulldozer CPU's(socket AM3+), so it's not like the board will be outdated any time in the near future.

In short, if the price isn't a deal breaker, get it now. I can't think of one good reason to pass it up.
 
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