The Crosshair III Formula is up till now one more addition to the Asus Republic of Gamers array, but this moment it's based about AMD's newest AM3 socket as well as 790FX chipset, not like earlier Crosshair boards which make use of Nvidia chipsets. The AMD chipset get with it DDR3 as well as Crossfire X support with a pleasant revelation in the outline of a more reasonable cost label.

The third generation of Crosshair motherboards is compactly place out with abundance of gap around the main gears in spite of it being filled to the gunwales with features. There's sustain for up to 16GB of 1600MHz (by overclocking) DDR3 memory in four DIMM slots, two complete speed x16 PCI-E graphics card slots, built-in Gigabit Ethernet, Firewire, e-SATA along with five SATA II ports with RAID support.

If you doubt about the strange digit of SATA ports, the respond is somewhat simple: AMD's SB750 Southbridge supports six SATA ports, other than as ASUS has assemble an e-SATA on the back I/O panel it leaves just five ports to be assemble onto the board itself.

One look at that back I/O panel as well as you'll observe somewhat is misplaced: yes, that's right, there are no audio ports. In its place of relying on a built-in explanation for the audio, Asus has bundled a realistically high-end SupremeFX X-Fi audio card which calls the top PCI-E x1 slot home. But don't be anxious; there are two outstanding PCI-E x1 slots for your ears...oh yes, your TV card, possibly.

If you are one of persons who like to have control as well as reset buttons on the motherboard then you'll be somewhat satisfied by the huge red power button as well as its additional black reset button. Beside these sits a helpful small 'MemOK' key which loads reliable memory settings, so if you make a decision to go emotional with overclocking the memory as well as the board reject to boot, pushing this push button will allow you to obtain into the BIOS again to cool things down. There is also a helpful 'Clear CMOS' push button on the back I/O panel.

As you may wait for a ROG board there is appealing complete BIOS, so citizens who like to fiddle about with their motherboards are fine catered for, as well as for those taking their first cautious steps into the dark world of overclocking the CPU, Level Up profiles will mechanically overclock the CPU for you.

A characteristic that is occasionally overlooked by motherboard producers is support for casing cooling fans, but that is somewhat no-one can charge ASUS of with the Crosshair III Formula, as there are no less than eight fan headers on the board. All are four-pin, which allows PWM fan control, offering superior thermal control of any casing fans.

Bundled in the box is a helpful small thing in the form of an external LCD Poster, which plugs into the motherboard with an adequately long wire to permit the small screen to sit on the top of your computer as well as show any POST problem in English in its place of the common codes.

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