With the Crosshair V Formula-Z, ASUS has expanded their profolio for high-end AMD motherboards by a new flagship model. This board features AMD's 990FX Chipset and AMD's SB950 southbridge. Using this board one should not only be able to squeeze the maximum out of an AMD CPU and thanks to the SB950 southbridge, there are no less then six SATA III ports.

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The Crosshair V Formula-Z is ASUS' most recent high end motherboard regarding AMDs 990FX chipset. Therefore we're very curious what this thing is capable of from a layout, design and performance perspective.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 8 - Futuremark
Page 2 - Specifications / Delivery	Page 9 - SiSoft Sandra 1
Page 3 - Features	Page 10 - SiSoft Sandra 2
Page 4 - Layout	Page 11 - Super Pi / wPrime
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O	Page 12 - Games
Page 6 - BIOS	Page 13 - Overclocking
Page 7 - Test setup	Page 14 - Conclusion

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