Wednesday, September 5th 2007

ASUS Maximus Formula (ROG X38) Mainboard Preview

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Pictures from the latest ASUS Republic of Gamers motherboard, known as Maximus Formula. It is based on the Intel X38 chipset with support for the latest Intel 45nm processors, DDR2-1066 and two x16 PCIe lines.
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20 Comments on ASUS Maximus Formula (ROG X38) Mainboard Preview

#1
Wile E
Power User
Holy my-chipset-heatsink-needs-a-backplate, Batman! That's a lot of heatsink.

I still eagerly await the OC benchmarks on these things.
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#2
DrunkenMafia
jeeeeeezussssss.... lol

I wonder how well that lonely little heatpipe works??

Looks friggin sick but..
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#4
xylomn
Random Murderercrossfire or sli?
well its an intel chipset so I would expect crossfire
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#5
Unregistered
thats a big ass ugly heatsink,kill it.joking aside,i bet its a pretty nice prformer tho'.
#6
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
My sentiments exactly Wil E. I was beginning to think that with each new Intel Chipset, more cooling is needed, which scares me. For the die shrink and what not, it seems to add more heat sinks.
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#7
Agility
I wouldn't be suprise for intels next gen after X-38 to be fan cooled chipset.
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#8
Weer
The REAL hot ticket will be 780i SLi (because AMD is dead).

Just like 680i SLi, it will be just as good as the current Intel chipset, but with SLi support.
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#9
LiveOrDie
intel chipset only support Ati crossfire because nvidia wont just hand it over to intel with out the cash to back it by im waiting for the next nvidia chipset :rockout:
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#10
JacKz5o
An ASUS RoG board with only 2 heatpipes? All the others RoG boards are loaded and have heatpipes in all direction :p
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#11
pbmaster
That thing better stay cool for having such beastly heatsinks. On a side note, heat pipes are good, but they can only cool so much....I hope the single ones are enough to keep the chipset cool.
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#12
Ketxxx
Heedless Psychic
HS is ugly as hell. Personally I think Asus should ditch that heatpipe and instead use some high quality low noise fans with copper heatsinks, they would save a shitload in material costs, then be able to pass the saving on to the consumer.
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#13
Unregistered
i agree ketxxx,heatpipes are expensive,and some of them boards laced with them look pugly
#14
kwchang007
Jesus....one day we're going to be seeing northbridges that use a current stock intel hsf for cooling if this keeps up.
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#15
Ketxxx
Heedless Psychic
tigger69i agree ketxxx,heatpipes are expensive,and some of them boards laced with them look pugly
Yup they do. Most manufacturers are moronic these days with "silent heatpipe technology". Its effective on chipsets that arent mini ovens, other than that their useless. One example is the silent heatpipe solution the AW9D Max uses for the 975 chipset, its an admirable attempt, but it still sucks. Bang a fan on it and things cool down drastically. No shit my CPU lost 10c when I made my custom chipset cooler, it was getting THAT toasty.
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#16
Chewy
WeerThe REAL hot ticket will be 780i SLi (because AMD is dead).

Just like 680i SLi, it will be just as good as the current Intel chipset, but with SLi support.
I wuv you :toast: :P ( Im looking for a new board/cpu down the road probably.. and I want it to be sli).
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#17
Weer
ChewyI wuv you :toast: :P ( Im looking for a new board/cpu down the road probably.. and I want it to be sli).
Hehe.
I wuv you too :toast:

You really don't need to upgrade anything to run Crysis on MAX.
Wait until Yorkfield is out and under 300$. By then 780i will already have it's A1 revision.
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#18
MarcusXP
no eSATA ports on this mobo ? no Wi-fi ?
omg.. and it's going to be a $300 mobo..
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#20
MarcusXP
I think I'll go for P5E WS Pro.. it's gonna be with DDR2, also
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