Asus Maximus Formula Special Edition X38 S775 Motherboard
Compression & Encoding Results
Published: 6th November 2007 | Source: Asus | Price: £170 - £180 |
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Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
God that took some reading!
It doesn't perform much better than the P35 dfi and is almost identicle to the blitz, bar a few extra insane/unusable voltage options so I feel no inclination to buy this. Nice to see the score being penalised for the pretty outragous price! Overall, ROG ftw! |
But as a purchase for a new rig it's one hell of a beastly board - and I'm real glad that watercooling isn't a requirement anymore. That was a pretty big downer on the Blitz.Quote
I guess it's lucky I had w/c for the blitz! That is a marked improvement, did you actually state that in the review? That water was no longer required? Must have missed that.
The only additional thing I would have liked to have seen is the removal of the nb waterblock just so you could further comment on its construction...
Re. cards worth CF'ing, I hope there are some I have this desire to CF or SLI even though I know its not really worth it!Quote
The only additional thing I would have liked to have seen is the removal of the nb waterblock just so you could further comment on its construction...
Re. cards worth CF'ing, I hope there are some I have this desire to CF or SLI even though I know its not really worth it!Quote
Bah ive just had to fork out for one of these to pop my QX9650 in 
But the board looks good to me
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But the board looks good to me
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Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
I guess it's lucky I had w/c for the blitz! That is a marked improvement, did you actually state that in the review? That water was no longer required? Must have missed that.
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Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
The only additional thing I would have liked to have seen is the removal of the nb waterblock just so you could further comment on its construction... Re. cards worth CF'ing, I hope there are some I have this desire to CF or SLI even though I know its not really worth it! |
As for the construction, the heatpipe side of things is the same as the blitz, but the finned heatsinks around the block and on the 'fets feel much thicker aluminium.Quote
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It doesn't perform much better than the P35 dfi and is almost identicle to the blitz, bar a few extra insane/unusable voltage options so I feel no inclination to buy this.
Nice to see the score being penalised for the pretty outragous price!
Overall, ROG ftw!Quote