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ASUS Crosshair II Formula |
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Written by Fedja Drndarski
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Friday, 15 August 2008 |
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Specifications ASUS Crosshair II Formula
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N° sockets, max. memory
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4 x DDR2 (max 8GB) |
| Chipset |
nVIDIA nForce 780a SLi |
| Sound |
ADI 1988B 8-Channel High Definition Audio |
SATA support, N° connectors
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6 x SATA2, 1x PATA |
| LAN |
Dual Onboard LAN Supports 10/100/1000 Mb/s
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| RAID |
0,1,0+1,5 |
| Connectors |
3 x PCI Express 16x 2.0, 1 x PCI Express x1,
2x PCI 2.2, 10 x USB, 2 x Firewire, HDMI,
D-Sub, CLR cmos |
| Test Results ASUS Crosshair II Formula |
| Wolfram Mathematica 6.0 |
2.55 |
| ScienceMark 2.0 |
1.510 |
Divx 6.8 compression
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173 fps
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x264 compression
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187.6 sec
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| WinRAR 3.7 |
1.458 KB/s
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| 3D Mark03 CPU |
1.653 |
| 3D Mark05 integrated GPU |
2.509 |
| 3D Mark06 default |
9687 |
| Crysis (low) 800x600 |
101 fps
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| WIC (low) [Min / Avg / Max] |
40 / 97 / 198 fps
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WIC (medium) Integrated GPU
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5 / 9 / 19 fps
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| Sandra 2008 |
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Memory Bandwith Int / FP
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9.615 / 9.548 MB/s
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Latency Random
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106ns |
Test Configuration: AMD Triple-Core X3 8750, 2x1GB Kingston HyperX 1066 DDR2 4-5-5-15-2T,
ATi HD3850 , Win XP PRO SP2
Conclusion
ASUS Crosshair II Formula is motherboard that impressed us with its overall quality but you should head over to ASUS site and check if newer version of BIOS is released. Of course Crosshair II Formula is top of the range motherboard and it will be very hard to find better AM2+ motherboard on the market. If you are a fan of AMD we recommend you to take this motherboard into serious consideration.
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