ASUS R.O.G. Maximus II Formula (Intel P45) Up Close and Personal

btarunr · May 10, 2008

erocker said:
I agree. So I take it this board uses 2 8x lanes? It's such a shame for the way it looks and it's layout.

Yes, that's Crossfire at x8, x8. So, HD3870 (or make that HD4870) won't bottleneck at x8. You may think that if two HDx870 X2's are installed, they won't bottleneck either since the board is PCI-E 2.0 but the catch here is, when you install a PCI-E 1.1 card, the system operates that way, so two PCI-E 1.1 cards will operate at PCI-E 1.1 x8. So you fall short of bandwidth there. I would be furious if they priced this on par with X38 boards such as Maximus Fmla.

Fitseries3 · May 10, 2008

from what i read it is 16x 16x 8x.

btarunr · May 10, 2008

fitseries3 said:
from what i read it is 16x 16x 8x.

It's x8, x8 when in Crossfire. http://www.dvhardware.net/article25361.html

btarunr · May 10, 2008

On a side-note, did anyone notice this board includes the new SupremeFX X-Fi ?

And no, I don't think it uses a CA20K1.

thebeephaha · May 10, 2008

btarunr said:
It's x8, x8 when in Crossfire. http://www.dvhardware.net/article25361.html

What about if I have an 8800 Ultra in one slot and an PCI-E 8x RAID card in the other?

Would it kick my GFX card down to 8x as well? Because that would kill the deal for me.

btarunr · May 10, 2008

thebeephaha said:
What about if I have an 8800 Ultra in one slot and an PCI-E 8x RAID card in the other?

Would it kick my GFX card down to 8x as well? Because that would kill the deal for me.

Yes, irrespective of which type of device is installed, they'll run x8 x8. The P35 had a 20 lane hub, I'm sure it's the same with this. In P35 boards which had two long slots that did x16, x4, the four lanes to the second slot would come from the southbridge. In this case, the NB just does x8 x8 if a device is installed on the second blue slot.

What's more, your 8800 Ultra would do PCI-E 1.1 x8 since it isn't a PCI-E 2.0 device.

thebeephaha · May 10, 2008

Well crap. I guess I'll stick with my Striker Extreme. Meh.

imperialreign · May 10, 2008

yet another nice looking board from ASUS. I'd really like to see the full list of specs, but it looks to be a decent upper mid-range board.

Wile E · May 10, 2008

Morgoth said:
now this is what i want for layout design

Unless you want to install 2 double slot gfx cards AND an aftermarket sound card. Don't even think about putting a full size sound card in the top PCI slot. It will hit your ram. (Trust me, original Maximus is laid out the same way.)

nflesher87 · May 10, 2008

Wile E said:
Unless you want to install 2 double slot gfx cards AND an aftermarket sound card. Don't even think about putting a full size sound card in the top PCI slot. It will hit your ram. (Trust me, original Maximus is laid out the same way.)

Easy fix, don't dual channel your ram.

Wile E · May 10, 2008

nflesher87 said:
Easy fix, don't dual channel your ram.

lol. Ummmmm, no.

Gam'ster · May 10, 2008

Well the good thing is i suppose that u aint got to buy the top of the line boards to get a decent looking one...in this case anyway.

Gam

Sent1nel · May 10, 2008

Is that a 16 phase voltage regulator design around the CPU ?

VIPER · May 10, 2008

I wonder: does anybody buys a MB because "it looks damn sexy" or because is good, has a good layout and good specs? Is it for display only? :laugh:

sinner33 · May 10, 2008

It sure looks pretty...

DeathTyrant · May 10, 2008

Well, it certainly looks interesting. Especially the X-Fi module. My Fatality card I have now is a huge PCI monster.

REVHEAD · May 11, 2008

I find the 16 phase Power a little funny , Asus said the Gigiabyte 12 phase was overkill and that there 8 phase on there X38 maximus series was adequate, now look all of a sudden Asus have 16 phase :nutkick:

TheLostSwede · May 11, 2008

First of all, that X-Fi card is the same crap that MSI uses and it's not the real deal, it doesn't do EAX 5.0 among other things.
You might also want to check out the real source of these pictures for some more info http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,6...a_-_die_neuen_P45-Mainboards_von_Asus/&page=2 as Hardspell is a bunch of theifing bastards anyhow and they never ever link back to the source.

breakfromyou · May 12, 2008

tkpenalty said:
Woah those heatpipes are damn thick.... 8mm pipes!

And whats up with the 16 power phases which are installed like as if they are there for decoration? NB recieves three phases... RAM 2... whoa. Comes with Wifi and an XFI card... overkill much? I'd get it for the fact it comes with an XFi tho.

The hell?!

Is that really 16 phase??! thats the first thing i did...counted. SIXTEEN??? WTF

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