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Old 05-24-09   #1 (permalink)
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Default *****[THE OFFICIAL] Asus CrossHair III Formula AM3 Club*****

Welcome To the Asus CrossHair III Formula club

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This club is for all your AMD and Asus fans. AMD and Asus have joined forces to make this motherboard for all you enthusiasts alike.

Due to the early post of the new club you may reserve post spots when you get the motherboard this June

THAT'S RIGHT THIS BOARD WILL BECOMING TO YOU THIS JUNE

Please post that you will be getting this board so you can be in the Club Members list.

Also please post and ideas you have for making the OP look cooler. This is the first time making a club thread on here so any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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Model ROG Crosshair III Formula
CPU AMD socket AM3 Phenom™ II / Athlon™ X4 / Athlon™ X3 / Athlon™ X2 processors
Chipset AMD® 790FX Chipset
System Bus Up to 5200 MT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0
Memory 4 x DIMM, Dual Channel, up to 16GB
DDR3 1600(O.C.)/1333/1066 MHz
Expansion slot 2 x PCIe2.0 x16 slot
3 x PCIe2.0 x1( the PCIEx1_1 (black) is compatible with audio slot)
1 x PCI 2.2
Multi-GPU ATI CrossFireX™
Storage 5 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s
1 x eSATA 3.0 Gb/s
1 x UltraDMA 133
LAN Gigabit LAN
Audio SupremeFX X-Fi 8-Ch. Audio with EAX4.0 support
Other I/O ports 1*PS/2, 1*eSATA, 1*IEEE1394a, 1*Clr CMOS, 1*LAN, 6*USB
USB / IEEE1394a 12 x USB2.0 / 2 x 1394a ports
Fan connector 8 (1 x CPU / 1 x PWR / 3 x Chassis / 3 x Optional)
Software (Full version) Kaspersky anti-virus, Futuremark® 3DMark™06 Advanced Edition
Features MemOK!, SupremeFX X-Fi, CPU Level Up, Keyboard-TweakIt, Extreme Tweaker, iROG, Loadline Calibration, LCD Poster, Voltiminder LED
Form Factor ATX, 12"x 9.6" (30.5cm x 24.4cm)

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We all know that Intel doesn't destroy faulty chips; they sell them to AMD and they become the new Phenom II X4.

Water cooling and Cooler Master Storm Sniper Black Edition Coming Soon."

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Intel Core i7 920 D0 Batch 3920B535
Motherboard
EVGA CLASSIFIED E760 X58 (RMA)
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G. Skill Tridents 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 2000mhz
Graphics Card
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Corsair HX1000
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CPU cooling
Noctua NH-D14 w/ 2x High spd Gentle Typhoons
GPU cooling
Stock Nvidia Cooling Fan @ 55% w/ MX-3 TIM
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Old 05-24-09   #2 (permalink)
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It's pretty "meh" to me. It's far too late.
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It's pretty "meh" to me. It's far too late.
what do u mean its to late???
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System: The AutoBot
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Intel Core i7 920 D0 Batch 3920B535
Motherboard
EVGA CLASSIFIED E760 X58 (RMA)
Memory
G. Skill Tridents 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 2000mhz
Graphics Card
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Hard Drive
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Sound Card
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Power Supply
Corsair HX1000
Case
Open Air Sits on Motherboard Box
CPU cooling
Noctua NH-D14 w/ 2x High spd Gentle Typhoons
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Stock Nvidia Cooling Fan @ 55% w/ MX-3 TIM
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Asus should have waited to do a 890fx ROG board. 890fx is almost ready and 790fx is just sort of showing its age.

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This board any good? OC and CF?
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The guys on XS are saying this is a great ocing board. But its pretty much the same as the M4A79-T, Just a little more overclocking optimized.

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Creative X-FI Titanium w/ heatsink mod.
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a few questions

1. will this board come with a sound card?

2. how much is this board gona cost? any ideas yet?

3. when is the release date?
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Havent seen a high end board with only 2 PCI-E slots in a while
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a few questions

1. will this board come with a sound card?

2. how much is this board gona cost? any ideas yet?

3. when is the release date?
1. The one you see in the pic is the one you will more then likely get.
2.Well the M4A79-T is $200.00 so expect this to be $250+.
3. Early to mid june.

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Optimus Prime.
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why would they make an enthusiast board with only 2 pci express slots... just seems like they cut a few corners on this.. it has alot of potential, but it seems like asus held back....
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