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ASUS Crosshair V Formula 'Bulldozer' Motherboard Review

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:44 am
by Apoptosis
ASUS Crosshair V Formula 'Bulldozer' Motherboard Review

The ASUS Crosshair V Formula uses the AMD 990FX/SB950 chipsets and is the first ROG motherboard with AM3+ CPU support. It is also the first AMD motherboard to support both 3-Way NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX as well as offering an advanced UEFI BIOS and DIGI+ VRM design. Legit Reviews benchmarked this board with both the AMD FX-8150 'Bulldozer' and the Phenom II X6 1100T 'Thuban' processors to see how both CPU's perform on this enthusiast board.

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This particular article, we went a little bit of a different route. We compared the ASUS Crosshair V Formula with the latest AMD FX-8150 'Bulldozer' processor, to itself with an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T. We wanted to see if there was much of a difference in performance between the two core architectures on the AMD 990FX chipset. The article inadvertently felt more like a shoot out between the two processors, when the focus was meant to be on the ASUS Crosshair V Formula. The performance between the two systems was entirely too similar for my tastes. The AMD FX-8150 didn't run the circles around the Phenom II X6 1100T that I had hoped it would.
Article Title: ASUS Crosshair V Formula 'Bulldozer' Motherboard Review
Article URL: www.legitreviews.com/article/1748/1/
Pricing At Time of Print: $229 shipped

Re: ASUS Crosshair V Formula 'Bulldozer' Motherboard Review

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:08 am
by jebo_4jc
I would have loved to see how far it could overclock that 1100T so we could compare it to other boards.

Looks good though.

Re: ASUS Crosshair V Formula 'Bulldozer' Motherboard Review

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:01 am
by XstollieX
jebo_4jc wrote:I would have loved to see how far it could overclock that 1100T so we could compare it to other boards.

Looks good though.
Nate and I were just talking about that this morning. Going to put the 1100T in and see what it can do with that. I will be updating the article as soon as I complete that.

Re: ASUS Crosshair V Formula 'Bulldozer' Motherboard Review

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:10 am
by Kaos Kid
Yes please do, I would be interested in seeing what extra performance this board could pull out of an 1100T over what my ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 can.

Re: ASUS Crosshair V Formula 'Bulldozer' Motherboard Review

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:00 pm
by XstollieX
The article has been updated with the results from overclocking the Phenom II X6 1100T
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1748/13/

Re: ASUS Crosshair V Formula 'Bulldozer' Motherboard Review

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:28 pm
by jebo_4jc
XstollieX wrote:The article has been updated with the results from overclocking the Phenom II X6 1100T
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1748/13/
329MHz that's insane