ASUS Crosshair IV Formula review

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ASUS Corsshair IV Formula

Lovely to observe is how component usage has improved ever since the past two year. Good quality ESR capacitors and solid core chokes are a perfect example of this. It will help in extreme overclocking, but obviously also with the lifespan of the motherboard. The board has a 8+2 phase design.

ASUS Corsshair IV Formula

Here we stumble into a plethora of things. First up  the DIMM slots, DDR3 of course. Up-to 16GB may be installed and the board will actually support 1866 MHz straight out of the BIOS (though overclocked). AMDs BEMP  profiles are detected properly and if desired, optionally activated. What you'll notice is that everything is just positioned really well. But let's zoom in a little.

ASUS Corsshair IV Formula

All the way below we can spot Asus ProbeIt feature pins, allowing you to measure the major power sources on the motherboard, e.g. voltage measuring points. To the left we can still see a couple of status leds.

ASUS Corsshair IV Formula

You'll have eight SATA connectors. Six of them SATA 6G, then one SAT2 and an on the rear IO there is another (external) eSATA2 connector. You'll have plenty of options for SSD/HDD/ODD connectivity alright, summing up to eight SATA ports.

The little button there, is the GO button. The Go Button allows your motherboard to boot even if there might be some compatibility issues between the motherboard and the memory. All the user has to do, is to simply hold this buton, at first a "MemOK!" function will start, with a red LED that begins to blink. The motherboard will now take charge of a self-memory patching process, and fix the memory compatibility before your very own eyes, till the system is finally able to boot up. Once the system completes the system POST, this button will then become the quick and easy OC button, which overclocks your system to your desired settings once pressed.

ASUS Corsshair IV Formula

We flip the board around again 90 degrees and stumble into internal low-level connectivity like front panel headers, fan headers and more USB headers.

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