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The packaging design that Asus have used for the Crosshair V Formula reflects the high-end nature of the motherboard. The red colour scheme used for the box is standard across the Republic of Gamers series of products and will really help it to stand out on the shelves.
On the top of the box there is a flap which contains a breakdown of some of the motherboards features on the inside. When it's opened it also reveals the motherboard within the box, through a plastic window.
The rear of the box contains a detailed table which displays the motherboards' specification alongside a few product images.
One of the key areas in which Asus differentiates their RoG motherboards from the competition is in the extensive bundle they include.. It consists of a manual, a quick start guide, a driver CD, six SATA cables, a CrossfireX bridge, both 2-way and 3 way SLI bridges, a selection of cable ties, a sheet of labels to help you identify different SATA cables, a large RoG sticker, a USB cable for RoG connect, a Q-Shield (I/O shield) and a couple of Asus Q-connectors.
Great looking board that, as usual from Asus. We need the new processors however the current range is looking seriously dated.
quality products. love this company. Only thing I will say is that their pricing is normally a fair bit more compared to some others. more so recently I think
Will be the center of my next system, with a bulldozer CPU. not sure how long this will be, probably a few months off from the rumors online
This is going to sound like such a minor point, but I regret not buying ASUS for my last system. The reason being that I love their support website. Many of the other east makes download files at 5k. it drives me nuts for updates.
Asus just have the whole package right from the start
As much as this looks ‘great’, im all about the bios and overclocking and their products are very hard to match overall. UEFI bioses are so easy to use too.
cant go wrong with red and black 😉 ROG FTW
Read a few reviews of this now and it seems an all round good board. no faults of note.
I dont think ill be moving to AMD tho. waiting on the new intel platform end of year.
What they didn’t test or even mention in the review is that SLI or Crossfire do not work at all yet no drivers have been released to work with the new chipset so you may have two cards but they won’t work together till they release the software to use them with the new board. I was all set to buy this board a few weeks ago when it first came out till I found this out. If this if fixed I will pick one of these up asap.
what? the crossfire is not working properly? F ** k! I already buy one of these with 2 XFX RADEON HD 6870.
crossfire is ok no prob with me with 2x xfx 6770
the driver currently available working fine