We now have two out in the wild: the Asus Zenbook Fold 17 and the ThinkPad X1 Fold Gen 2. The two devices share a lot in common, even beyond the fact that they both have a screen that can fold in ...

A key motherboard from Asus is the Maximus IV Extreme which utilised the P67 platform and was able to push sandybridge based systems to the top.

The quality of Asus’ Crosshair boards has been relatively constant ever since, and the Crosshair V Formula’s predecessor, the Crosshair IV Formula, was a highly desirable Socket AM3 motherboard.

Asus AM3 motherboards that get Bulldozer support after a BIOS update are as follows: Crosshair IV Extreme, Crosshair IV Formula, M4A89TD PRO/USB3, M4A89TD PRO, M4A89GTD PRO/USB3, M4A89GTD PRO.

Here the Asus Crosshair IV Extreme was a fraction quicker than the Formula. However, the Phenom II X4 1090T is considerably slower than the Core i5 and Core i7 processors in this game.

We installed the following: Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875w PSU, Asus Crosshair IV Formula motherboard, 4GB OCZ memory, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T processor, Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus cooler, three ...

When it comes to how the board performs, it's pretty impressive. Not quite as fast as Asus's 'pure' 890FX board, the Crosshair IV Formula, but it's pretty close in terms of overall performance.

On top of all that, however, Polywell throws a curveball into the mix by including a ROG Connect port, which is unique to the system’s Crosshair IV Formula AM3 motherboard (by Asus).

3DMarks 06, which means a great graphics performance. In PCMark 05, the score was 10243, so it is a decent performer when it comes to basic office apps. In CineBench, the scores were 14303 CB-CPU, ...

The AMD 890FX-based Republic of Gamers Crosshair IV Formula motherboard has also gained from extreme testing and envelope pushing, featuring the first high performance dual channel DDR3 for AMD users.

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.