Review: ASUS Crosshair V Formula
Published by Marc Büchel on 04.10.11Page:
Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| ASUS Crosshair V Formula is overall a very interesting and at a first glance also a very good board. The ROG color scheme belongs to the nicest the industry offers and therefore there are not many other motherboards that play in this league. Furthermore the positioning of the different parts has been well done too. We also like that ASUS equipped this board with a SupremeFX Audio-Chip. In this case you get nice an clear sound from the back panel audio plugs. | - Design - Supreme FX Audio-Chip |
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| Layout | + | - | |
| Generally the ASUS Crosshair V Formulas layout is well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors. There also are practical power/reset buttons onboard but what you wont find is a debug display. The last expansion slots is a PCI-Express x4 slot which which comes in full length. If you should choose to install a dual slot graphics card at this place you're going to cover the connectors at the bottom edge of the board. | - Angled SATA connectors - Onboard Power/Reset Button |
- No Debug display | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| A closer look at the performance values shows that on average the Crosshair V Formula ranges in the center span. This boards strengths can be found when testing Crysis and SiSoft Sandras memory bandwidth as well as cache and memory access benchmark. | -
Sandra Cache and memory access - Sandra memory bandwidth |
- Resident Evil 5 | |
| BIOS / Overclocking | + | - | |
| Overclocking the Crosshair V Formula is piece of cake but we didn't expect anything different from an ASUS ROG board. Meanwhile alle the ROG boards have a very good reputation for overclocking. Therefore it is no surprise that we reached 4'350 MHz with our test CPU which is the second highest value in our comparison charts and it's very close to the best value we've reached using a Crosshair IV Extreme board. Furthermore the ASUS UEFI-BIOS is very well structured and very pleasant to look at. You'll quickliy find the settings needed and even the tool tips provide useful, additional informatino. | -
4'350 CPU Clock-Speed - Well structured BIOS - UEFI-BIOS |
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| Recommendation | + | - | |
| If you should be looking for a good and solid basis for a gaming PC or an overclocking rig, then the Crosshair V Formula definitely is worth considering. You can get this motherboard for about CHF 240.- (est. EUR 200.-). | - Gaming PC - Overclocking |
- Desktop PC | |
| Rating | |||
| We give the Crosshair V Formula good four out of five stars. | |||
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