ASUS R.O.G Crosshair is the a bit odd name of the motherboard giant’s latest creation belonging to a whole new series of motherboards directly intended for gamers and overclockers. ASUS will launch this motherboard the upcoming days and we are one of the first medias able to report about ASUS new R.O.G series. R.O.G is short for Republic of Gamers, which pretty much says it all. R.O.G Crosshair is the result of ASUS’ hottest motherboard features and the best components for optimal overclocking capabilities.
ASUS R.O.G Crosshair also looks quite promising on paper, and on camera as well, and even if we perhaps should try to hold the expectations down at the moment it gets really hard when see how much time ASUS has spent perfecting this motherboard. Here is a short summarize of the board’s features;
Light system tweaking – LCD Poster
ASUS has introduced a small LCD panel that is placed on the back on the motherboard’s i I/O panel. With this LCD you will be able to see directly what phase of the boot process the system is currently in, which of course makes it very easy to search for errors if there are any. A big step forward compared to the small sign LEDs used today with many motherboards.
Performance and Stability – 8 stage EL Cap-less Power Design
To optimize the motherboard’s performance and stability ASUS has gone over its power designs. This has resulted in that it has exchanged the cylindric capcitors and replaced them with polymer aluminum electrolyte capacitors; small chips. Through a 8 stage design you will get a both reliable and stable voltage supply for the processor.
Work in the dark- EL I/O
G.O.R Crosshair has a truly unique I/O panel, except from the LCD it has integrated lighting around the various connections so that you will be able to connect units also when working in the dark. Also the motherboard has well placed diodes to simplify the installation of new connectors.
Clear Sound – SupremeFX and Array Mic
ASUS has also gone with a high quality sound circuit placed on an external sound card where we notice 8 channel sound and 24bit/192KHz. Array Mic is a microphone specially developed for online games where small disturbing noises and artefacts will be filtered out.
ASUS R.O.G Crosshair also comes with Futuremark’s 3DMark06 Advanced Edition so that you can tune your system to perfection. The overall specifications for the motherboard are as follows;
Specifications:
-AMD Socket AM2
-NVIDIA nForce® 590 SLI™ MCP
-Dual channel DDR2 800/667/533
-2 x PCIe x16, sports NVIDIA SLI at full x16 + x16 bandwidth
-8 x SATA 3.0 Gb/p with two external connectors / 1 x Ultra DMA
-Dual Gigabit LAN
-SupremeFX sound card with ADI 1988b High-Definition Audio with 8 channel surround sound.
ASUS hasn’t hold back to any degree when it comes to its R.O.G series and the new flagship R.O.G Crosshair. The card is expected to appear on the market sometime in July/August at about $330. Hardly a budget model, but if you looked at the features you should’ve been prepared for the price.
