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Introduction Welcome to the performance review of the new 890FX chipset and more specifically, the Asus Crosshair IV Formula motherboard. We have already done an extensive pictorial preview of the board and today we are going to concentrate more on the performance of this board. We are going to compare the board to the MSI [...]

Introduction Asus launched the first of the Republic of Gamers (ROG) series for the AMD platform way back in 2007, calling it the Asus Crosshair for the AM2 platform, which was based on the Nvidia nForce 590 chipset. The second in the series was the Asus Crosshair II Formula, which was based on the Nvidia [...]

A pair of ATI 5770 1Gb in Crossfire vs. a single ATI 5870 1Gb. One could call it a fair fight considering the price point of both setups. They will be put through their paces in some of today’s game titles… Test Setup Hardware Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE (4,2GHz CORE/2,9GHz [...]

Hello again! Sorry about few days delay here, but what you can do about it. Nothing really… So i bough used PSU & Cellshock Black Edition C7-12800 4x1gb sticks. Okay, well first ill introduce my pc: Phenom II x2 550BE , True Black, Radeon HD3850 512mb, Asus M4A78T-E. Let’s start with PSU, bought it for [...]

Hey my first day here! Well i dunno where to start, eh? Uhmm yes, i got few days ago new memorys for my AMD AM3 platform… choice were easy, just pick up cheap and fast memory. I ended up on G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-2000 F3-16000CL9D-4GBRH kit, price tag of 125 euros. I though now i can [...]

INTRODUCTION Hello and welcome to the review of the ASUS CROSSHAIR III FORMULA motherboard. I was thinking about doing a new review for a while, and it struck me that a number of us have picked up new AM3 CPU’s over the last couple of months with the 550 BE being one of the favorites. [...]

I was recently offered a choice by a certain individual…… You take the blue pill and it’s over, you wake up tomorrow and continue life as you know it and you believe what you want to believe. You take the Green pill and I show you a world you never could have imagined in your wildest dreams [...]