PsySc0rpi0n
12-01-2007, 12:11
Asus Crosshair Overview:
Support for all Socket AM2 AMD Athlon 64/FX/X2 and Sempron processors with Cool 'n' Quiet technology;
Four DDR2 memory slots supporting up to 8GB of DDR2-800 memory;
NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP;
Northbridge: NVIDIA C51XE;
Southbridge NVIDIA MCP55PXE;
Silicon Image Sil3132 providing two eSATA ports;
Integrated dual PHY Gigabit MAC: two Marvell 88E111E;
Two PCI-Express x16 slots with SLI support (both slots run with a full x16 lanes), one PCI-Express x4 slot and three PCI expansion slots;
7.1 channel ADI SoundMAX High-Definition audio with jack sensing and digital optical S/PDIF in and out, six 3.5mm jacks and Dolby Digital options;
Six native SATA 3Gbps ports, supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD;
Support for ten USB 2.0 ports (four on back I/O panel and six via on-board pins/expansion brackets);
Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A providing two IEEE1394a Firewire ports with both from internal headers;
One ATA133 connector;
One floppy connector.
Test Setup:
AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (operating at 2800MHz - 14x200); 2 x 1GB Corsair XMS2-8500C5 (running at DDR2-800 in dual channel with 3.0-3-3-9-1T timings at 2.3V); BFG Tech GeForce 7900 GTX OC video card (operating at 670/1640MHz); Sapphire X1900XTX in CrossFire; Seagate 7200.9 200GB 7,200RPM SATA 3Gbps hard disk drive; OCZ GameXStream 700W power supply unit; Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2; DirectX 9.0c; NVIDIA Forceware 93.71 WHQL; ATI Catalyst 6.9 WHQL.
Algumas imagens:
http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/asus_crosshair/leds2.jpg http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/asus_crosshair/leds1.jpg Gaming Experience http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/asus_crosshair/CoD2-high.png
http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/asus_crosshair/Q4-high.png
http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/asus_crosshair/HL2Ep1-high.png
High resolution performance is pretty good on average, and as fast as both top performing nForce 590 SLI boards we've previously tested, even beating the rest by a good 6fps when SLI is enabled in Half-Life 2: Episode One. Overclocking it
Overclocking & Stability:
The board overclocked well, providing 325MHz FSB Prime95 stable with a little bit of voltage increases on DDR controller, HyperTransport and CPU (6x multi). At 330FSB it reached windows but locked up. Overall there's generally a lot of play for those with lower end CPUs that have lower multipliers.
Stability, however, is by far a greater factor than absolute performance, because without it, how can you successfully navigate through long gaming sessions? Any gamer knows the absolute last thing you need is an unstable system when you're in the zone. We ran FarCry looping for 24 hours and it was fully stable, still running when we got back to it a day later.
Unfortunately, our standard torture stress test proved a bit too much for the board: with FarCry, two instances of Prime95 (one per core) and IOMeter running, we found that our FarCry timedemo would lock up after around seven or eight hours, but IOMeter and Prime95 would keep running in the background. This was consistent across two different boards, two different memory kits and two different CPUs.
Final Thoughts
Performance: 7
Features: 9
Value: 7
Artigo completo (http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2007/01/12/asus_crosshair/1.html)
Overall: 7
Support for all Socket AM2 AMD Athlon 64/FX/X2 and Sempron processors with Cool 'n' Quiet technology;
Four DDR2 memory slots supporting up to 8GB of DDR2-800 memory;
NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP;
Northbridge: NVIDIA C51XE;
Southbridge NVIDIA MCP55PXE;
Silicon Image Sil3132 providing two eSATA ports;
Integrated dual PHY Gigabit MAC: two Marvell 88E111E;
Two PCI-Express x16 slots with SLI support (both slots run with a full x16 lanes), one PCI-Express x4 slot and three PCI expansion slots;
7.1 channel ADI SoundMAX High-Definition audio with jack sensing and digital optical S/PDIF in and out, six 3.5mm jacks and Dolby Digital options;
Six native SATA 3Gbps ports, supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD;
Support for ten USB 2.0 ports (four on back I/O panel and six via on-board pins/expansion brackets);
Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A providing two IEEE1394a Firewire ports with both from internal headers;
One ATA133 connector;
One floppy connector.
Test Setup:
AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (operating at 2800MHz - 14x200); 2 x 1GB Corsair XMS2-8500C5 (running at DDR2-800 in dual channel with 3.0-3-3-9-1T timings at 2.3V); BFG Tech GeForce 7900 GTX OC video card (operating at 670/1640MHz); Sapphire X1900XTX in CrossFire; Seagate 7200.9 200GB 7,200RPM SATA 3Gbps hard disk drive; OCZ GameXStream 700W power supply unit; Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2; DirectX 9.0c; NVIDIA Forceware 93.71 WHQL; ATI Catalyst 6.9 WHQL.
Algumas imagens:
http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/asus_crosshair/leds2.jpg http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/asus_crosshair/leds1.jpg Gaming Experience http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/asus_crosshair/CoD2-high.png
http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/asus_crosshair/Q4-high.png
http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/asus_crosshair/HL2Ep1-high.png
High resolution performance is pretty good on average, and as fast as both top performing nForce 590 SLI boards we've previously tested, even beating the rest by a good 6fps when SLI is enabled in Half-Life 2: Episode One. Overclocking it
Overclocking & Stability:
The board overclocked well, providing 325MHz FSB Prime95 stable with a little bit of voltage increases on DDR controller, HyperTransport and CPU (6x multi). At 330FSB it reached windows but locked up. Overall there's generally a lot of play for those with lower end CPUs that have lower multipliers.
Stability, however, is by far a greater factor than absolute performance, because without it, how can you successfully navigate through long gaming sessions? Any gamer knows the absolute last thing you need is an unstable system when you're in the zone. We ran FarCry looping for 24 hours and it was fully stable, still running when we got back to it a day later.
Unfortunately, our standard torture stress test proved a bit too much for the board: with FarCry, two instances of Prime95 (one per core) and IOMeter running, we found that our FarCry timedemo would lock up after around seven or eight hours, but IOMeter and Prime95 would keep running in the background. This was consistent across two different boards, two different memory kits and two different CPUs.
Final Thoughts
Performance: 7
Features: 9
Value: 7
Artigo completo (http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2007/01/12/asus_crosshair/1.html)
Overall: 7