ASUS Crosshair III vs. MSI 790FX-GD70

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ASUS Crosshair III vs. MSI 790FX-GD70?

Poll ended at Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:22 pm

ASUS Crosshair III
5
83%
MSI 790FX-GD70
1
17%
 
Total votes : 6

ASUS Crosshair III vs. MSI 790FX-GD70

Postby Skippman » Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:22 pm

I'm getting ready to begin a new project and I cannot decide which of these two boards to use. The MSI board has room for 4 PCIe cards which could equate to one heck of a Crossfire setup later but may turn out to be completely useless.

The ASUS board has the ASUS name and quality reputation in addition to the better sound card of the two machines.

Which of the two boards do you guys like and why?
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Re: ASUS Crosshair III vs. MSI 790FX-GD70

Postby camaroguy1998 » Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:38 pm

I have an MSI and and a few ASUS boards up and running but,
IMHO ASUS will be my first choice everytime!
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 - AMD 965BE
16G GSkill RipJaw - CoolerMaster V8 HSF
Corsair HX750 - OCZ Agility II 240GB SSD
Lite-On 20x DVD-RW : ASUS 24x DVD-RW
EVGA 560ti SC
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Re: ASUS Crosshair III vs. MSI 790FX-GD70

Postby Skippman » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:01 pm

Which Crosshair are you running?
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Re: ASUS Crosshair III vs. MSI 790FX-GD70

Postby camaroguy1998 » Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:38 pm

Skippman wrote:Which Crosshair are you running?


First Generation!
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 - AMD 965BE
16G GSkill RipJaw - CoolerMaster V8 HSF
Corsair HX750 - OCZ Agility II 240GB SSD
Lite-On 20x DVD-RW : ASUS 24x DVD-RW
EVGA 560ti SC
Hauppauge HVR-2250 - Seagate 500G
Samsung 22" SyncMaster LCD (226BW)
CoolerMaster 690 II Advanced
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Re: ASUS Crosshair III vs. MSI 790FX-GD70

Postby camaroguy1998 » Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:15 am

So what board did you finally go with?
I am considering the Crosshair III Formula with an AMD 965BE
Not sure is there anything out there better?
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 - AMD 965BE
16G GSkill RipJaw - CoolerMaster V8 HSF
Corsair HX750 - OCZ Agility II 240GB SSD
Lite-On 20x DVD-RW : ASUS 24x DVD-RW
EVGA 560ti SC
Hauppauge HVR-2250 - Seagate 500G
Samsung 22" SyncMaster LCD (226BW)
CoolerMaster 690 II Advanced
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Re: ASUS Crosshair III vs. MSI 790FX-GD70

Postby NomadicX » Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:57 am

I'm seriously considering the Crosshair III as well for my next upgrade it looks sweet.
Asus M4A79 Deluxe
Phenom IIx3 720 @3.5
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eVGA GTX 260
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