With that in mind, let's see if the Crosshair IV Formula from ASUS is worth your time and money. ASUS has followed the same box design as for the other high-end Republic of Gamers products.

So today we'll cover that 890FX chipset, but do so by reviewing the all new ASUS Crosshair IV Formula motherboard. The Crosshair IV Formula is the Mc Daddy of AMD 890FX motherboards, the alpha dog ...

The 890FX underpinnings mean that ASUS already has a good start with the Crosshair IV Formula, but the RoG brand is all about adding the proverbial kitchen sink to an already-impressive specification.

We found that the Asus Crosshair IV Extreme, which was using the GeForce GTX 480 graphics card, produced the same performance as the Formula. Unlike Just Cause 2, Far Cry 2 relies on both the GPU ...

Some images have surfaced on the web of a couple upcoming 890FX based boards from ASUS which go the full hog in features and power under its ROG series. Dubbed the Crosshair IV Formula and Extreme ...

Click to enlarge As the name suggests, the Crosshair IV Formula (C4F, hereafter ... A pair of graphics cards will likely get toasty though, as Asus has only placed a PCI slot in between the ...

Costing some £60 less than the ASUS, the Gigabyte also ships with USB 3.0 and FireWire, although not as much attention has been paid to cooling and overclocking.

We tested the game using the 64-bit executable under and DirectX 10 with the 1.21 patch applied. We used a custom time demo recorded on the Harbour map which is more representative of gameplay ...

But let's zoom in a little. All the way below we can spot Asus ProbeIt feature pins, allowing you to measure the major power sources on the motherboard, e.g. voltage measuring points. To the left ...

There's defnitely no coincidence in AMD sending out the review chips of its hex-core processor snugly secured in Asus' Crosshair IV Formula board. It's the finest current example of the 890 chipset.