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R.O.G Crosshair is the latest ASUS creation. It's a whole new series of motherboards directly intended for gamers and overclockers. ASUS will launch this motherboard the upcoming days and NordicHardware has some nice photos to show. Here is a short summarize of the board's features.


Light system tweaking - LCD Poster
ASUS has introduced a small LCD panel that is placed on the back on the motherboard's i I/O panel. With this LCD you will be able to see directly what phase of the boot process the system is currently in, which of course makes it very easy to search for errors if there are any. A big step forward compared to the small sign LEDs used today with many motherboards.



Performance and Stability - 8 stage EL Cap-less Power Design
To optimize the motherboard's performance and stability ASUS has gone over its power designs. This has resulted in that it has exchanged the cylindric capcitors and replaced them with polymer aluminum electrolyte capacitors; small chips. Through a 8 stage design you will get a both reliable and stable voltage supply for the processor.





Work in the dark- EL I/O
G.O.R Crosshair has a truly unique I/O panel, except from the LCD it has integrated lighting around the various connections so that you will be able to connect units also when working in the dark. Also the motherboard has well placed diodes to simplify the installation of new connectors.



Clear Sound - SupremeFX and Array Mic
ASUS has also gone with a high quality sound circuit placed on an external sound card where we notice 8 channel sound and 24bit/192KHz. Array Mic is a microphone specially developed for online games where small disturbing noises and artefacts will be filtered out.

ASUS R.O.G Crosshair also comes with Futuremark's 3DMark06 Advanced Edition so that you can tune your system to perfection.

Specifications:
  • AMD Socket AM2
  • NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP
  • Dual channel DDR2 800/667/533
  • 2 x PCIe x16, sports NVIDIA SLI at full x16 + x16 bandwidth
  • 8 x SATA 3.0 Gb/p with two external connectors / 1 x Ultra DMA
  • Dual Gigabit LAN
  • SupremeFX sound card with ADI 1988b High-Definition Audio with 8 channel surround sound.

ASUS R.O.G series board is expected to appear on the market sometime in July/August at about $330.

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...What is an Nvidia chip doing in a motherboard with "Crossfire" in its title?
 

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zekrahminator said:
...What is an Nvidia chip doing in a motherboard with "Crossfire" in its title?

:wtf: , in my dreams ASUS has changed the chipset so it can support both, need to see some reviews
 
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I like the glowing rear panel, along with rear LCD, great ideas! I don't like how that heatsink practically surrounds the processor. Not a big fan of all those lights on the mobo either, I hope they have an on off switch.
 

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I say it looks fantastic, but I agree with NamesDontmatter about the lights. It would suck if they were on even when the system was off, or if you couldn't turn them on and off as you please. I don't mind the surrounding copper heatsink over the 8 phase power design as it just adds a unique look to an otherwise plain everyday motherboard. These mobo's do add a feeling of more bling bling, but the cost suggested is atrocious. :(
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I'm ok with the lights, since they're blue and would match everything else I got. But they better turn off when I shut the system down.

But yeah, why is it called "R.O.G. CrossFire" when it has an nForce 590 SLI chipset?
 

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pt said:
:wtf: , in my dreams ASUS has changed the chipset so it can support both, need to see some reviews

That would be really cool.
 

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I hope the lights would go off when the machine is turned off, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. They are meant to be used when working in the dark inside of the case...but you wouldn't be working on it and connecting connections while the machine is running, or at least most people probably wouldn't be.
 

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Até os comemos!
Depois veio a França e o arbitro comeu.nos a nós.

Do you speak Portuguese???
 

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The correct name is: ASUS R.O.G Crosshair, and not Crossfire.
And R.O.G is short for Republic of Gamers.

Very nice motherboard, but too expensive :(
 

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Stinger_PY said:
The correct name is: ASUS R.O.G Crosshair, and not Crossfire.
And R.O.G is short for Republic of Gamers.

Very nice motherboard, but too expensive :(
My mistake...sorry guys, fixed.
 

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Looks like a very nice board, if I win the lottery I shall buy one.
 
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I wish I could afford this...If they had this open-box for $250:rolleyes:...Nice board though...really nice and packed with features. But one thing is that I would never go to the back I/O shield and look at the LED there...
 

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LED on backpanel

Yeah I would never look at the backpanel for LED postcodes...
But I do like abit's solution with their Guru panel or Guru clock which does the same thing except it is on the front panel. It also gives fan control options, temp monitoring and so on. Nice christmas tree, but definitely not as nice as the abit Fatal1ty AN9-32X.
 

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The only thing i don`t like about it is the LCD panel. I have a water cooling kit attached to mine and having to look behind the case would be a pain. Would have been better if it was able to mount to the front of a tower, in one of the floppy drive bays..
 
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