Asus was attempting to one-up the very popular LAN Party series from DFI that has gained attention as the best overclockers motherboard with extremely minute BIOS settings and detail. As we showed you in a TON of screenshots and in lots of detail earlier in the review, the BIOS on this motherboard has more tweaks and settings than even we could explain. This is one area where the Asus Crosshair board really excels.
Though the Crosshair board didn’t beat any records with the USB and FireWire tests, it did well enough and should be more than fast enough for any user.
Subsystem testing is a different story though - as motherboards often use different SATA and RAID controllers as well as different FireWire chips, data and I/O performance can differ greatly. Since that is the case, the performance benchmarks that look at video encoding, audio encoding, gaming and applications testing all show the boards using the FX-62 processor to be at the same level. Even though AMD has moved to DDR2 memory with the AM2 processor socket, the performance between motherboards of the same and other chipsets is still negligable, as the memory controller is still on the processor. Let’s summarize the various aspects of the board to get a good overview of what it offers the gamer and enthusiast.Īs expected, the performance of the Asus Crosshair motherboard is on par with, or ahead of, the other nForce 590 SLI motherboards we have tested, as well as the XPress 3200 AM2 reference board from ATI. That’s a lot of information to digest at one time, but the Asus Crosshair motherboard was worth the time it took to completely test it. The Asus Crosshair motherboard brings a ton of new features and an expansive BIOS to the world of AM2 motherboards - could this be the new top overclocker’s motherboard for AMD processors?.
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