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Today we are using the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition processor to test the Crosshair V Formula motherboard.
Test System
Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
Motherboard: Asus Crosshair V Formula
Cooler: Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro
Memory: 4GB (2x 2GB) Kingston HyperX Genesis 1600MHz
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6950
Power Supply: Thermaltake ToughPower XT 750W
Optical Drive: Samsung B083L Blu-Ray Drive
Chassis: Corsair Obsidian 650D
Monitors: Viewsonic VX2260WM
Boot Drive: Intel 320 Series 160 GB
Secondary Drive: OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS 240 GB (For CrystalDiskMark)
Software
Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
FRAPS Professional
SiSoft Sandra 2011 SP3
CPUz
GPUz
CPUID Hardware Monitor
Cinebench R11.5 (64-bit)
Cyberlink PowerDVD 11 Ultra
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.5
CrystalDiskMark
3DMark 11
PCMark 7
VLC Media Player
Performance Monitor
Games
DiRT 3
F1 2010
Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City
Dead Space 2
Call of Duty Black Ops
All the latest BIOS updates and drivers are used during testing. We perform under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru tests across five closely matched runs and averages out the results to get an accurate median figure.
Overclocking
The Asus Crosshair V Formula has an automatic overclocking feature which enables users who don't have the technical knowledge or confidence to overclock their system to do so painlessly. Using this feature we were able to achieve a clock speed of 3.7ghz which represents a 16% overclock. This is sure to give your system a reasonable boost in performance and it takes less than a minute.
We decided to see how far we could push the system manually and achieved an impressive overclock of 4.21 GHz using a baseclock of 200MHz and a multiplier of 21x. This was achieved using a core voltage of 1.45V. This wasn't completely stable, though, as the system crashed after a few seconds of running a Prime95 blend test. We tried upping the voltage to 1.475V but the system was still unstable.
So we were forced to drop the multiplier down one level to 20x, leaving the baseclock at 200Mhz, giving us a stable clock speed of 4.01 GHz, using a voltage of 1.45V. The was completely stable under load so we used this overclock throughout our benchmarks.
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