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ASUS sent us their next entries in their Republic of Gamers series of motherboards. The Blitz Formula and Blitz Extreme boards are both P95/ICH9R based motherboards, but check this out. The stock heatpipe-based northbridge cooler can also be utilized as a waterblock as well!

H2O ready: The next step in thermal solution. - The Fusion Block System is a more efficient thermal solution compared to competing followers with complicated looks. It is a hybrid thermal design that combines the ROG´s renowned heatpipe design with the additional ability to connect to a water cooling system. By taking the entire integrated solution into design considerations, the user can enjoy exceptional thermal improvement to north bridge, south bridge, Crosslinx, and even VRM with a single connection. The Fusion Block System is the most versatile, efficient, and the most advanced thermal system there is on a motherboard.
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Interesting strategy with the built in WC on the chipset. I'd like to see some tests to see how it works both with and without the WC operational.
 
kirbyrj said:
Interesting strategy with the built in WC on the chipset. I'd like to see some tests to see how it works both with and without the WC operational.
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That will be happening FOR SURE. :D
 
Kind of off topic, but have you guys gotten Evga's Black Perl series mobos to review? I know Dan was talking about them a while ago.
 
jmackay said:
Kind of off topic, but have you guys gotten Evga's Black Perl series mobos to review? I know Dan was talking about them a while ago.
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Nope, have not seen any of them and it has been slim around here in terms of mobos lately. Guess I could off my lazy ass and ask for one! :eek:
 
Nice. Maybe other OEM heatsinks will come with built in watercooling connections. I don't care if the performance isn't as great as something from dangerden, getting something that I can watercool without voiding the warranty is awesome.

Maybe AMD can save face by employing built in water cooling on the stock heatsinks for Phenom.
 
this is great, I hope others pick up on it. my next PC I plan to build will be silent, fanless and the more things that come with waterblocks the better.
 
Do I dare ask if ASUS gave you a release date for that board? I've had my eye on it for a bit now.
 
Are there smaller pipes inside those larger ones on the pictures? I have no experience in water cooling but the pipes seem to be "one way", there's no circulation if you know what I mean.. I'm not saying it won't work, just curious to how.
 
Quantum said:
Are there smaller pipes inside those larger ones on the pictures? I have no experience in water cooling but the pipes seem to be "one way", there's no circulation if you know what I mean.. I'm not saying it won't work, just curious to how.
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It appears that the heatpipes still functions with the same heat transfer to the watercooled block, from there with wc takes over. ie. the whole loop is not wc, only the main block.
 
Are the voltage regulators at the top not in the loop? Weird.

Might be a good for beginner watercooling but I see hardcore watercoolers replacing it with individual blocks.
 
The Q-connector is actually the biggest hooray for me.. I have made something similar myself in the past for pc's with little room to move my hands around in.. It is good to finally see someone including one..
 
The "Fusion" waterblock is an evolutionary step in thermal control from a motherboard manufactures standpoint. It is good to see Asus as the front runner in this arena.

Kyle...now how bout' you cutting the top off that block to give us a peak inside eh? ;)
 
Why are all the seemingly "cool" new p35 boards all supporting crossfire instead of Sli?
ATi's solution is limp to say the least
 
Leadslinger said:
Why are all the seemingly "cool" new p35 boards all supporting crossfire instead of Sli?
ATi's solution is limp to say the least
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Because Crossfire been supported on Intel chipsets since the 955X chipset. This was before AMD brought ATI out. Even now, AMD/ATI needs the Intel chipsets for Crossfire until they get a chipset out that can support Crossfire on both platforms and is actually good. ATI in the past had some good stable chipsets and hopefully AMD didnt change any of this when they brought ATI.
 
not true, nvidia and intel have had a falling out, i think its time intel and nvidia kiss and make up, imagine how many more intel boards the could sell if sli worked on these solutioins.
 
I sure it will perform exceptionally, seeing as Asus sent it to you (most probably hand-picked to ensure the best review). Since my experience with Striker Extreme, I am very leery of Asus products. In my opinion, any product provided gratis by a manufacturer is suspect.
 
Lazy_Moron said:
Because Crossfire been supported on Intel chipsets since the 955X chipset. This was before AMD brought ATI out. Even now, AMD/ATI needs the Intel chipsets for Crossfire until they get a chipset out that can support Crossfire on both platforms and is actually good. ATI in the past had some good stable chipsets and hopefully AMD didnt change any of this when they brought ATI.
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I was under the impression that SLI would work on any board with two PCI-E 16x slots, as long as it has driver support (ie. old or hacked nVidia drivers).
 
Arctucas said:
I sure it will perform exceptionally, seeing as Asus sent it to you (most probably hand-picked to ensure the best review). Since my experience with Striker Extreme, I am very leery of Asus products. In my opinion, any product provided gratis by a manufacturer is suspect.
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Then I suggest you not buy one for sure. In my opinion noobies that sign up to complain about reviews generally have an agenda. If that is all you want to use our forums for, you can take it somewhere else.
 
Choder said:
I was under the impression that SLI would work on any board with two PCI-E 16x slots, as long as it has driver support (ie. old or hacked nVidia drivers).
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Good luck with old hacked drivers and new games that need SLI support. My suggestion is that if you want SLI, you buy a motherboard with a chipset that supports it unless you just want a bunch of headaches.
 
Kyle,

Sorry if you feel that way. I was merely offering my opinion, as are you. And no, given my experience with exceptionally well-reviewed Striker Extreme that has been nothing but trouble, I will not be buying one, thank you.

To be absolutely clear, while I am a newbie, I most certainly did not 'sign up to complain about a review'

This is your forum, if you feel I'm out-of-line, ban me. I really should take offense, but I won't.

I have always respected you as one of the more honest and reputable reviewers, I do not wish to think otherwise, but if you truly trust Asus to provide you with an untested, random, off the assembly line mobo...
 
Arctucas said:
Kyle,

Sorry if you feel that way. I was merely offering my opinion, as are you. And no, given my experience with exceptionally well-reviewed Striker Extreme that has been nothing but trouble, I will not be buying one, thank you.

To be absolutely clear, while I am a newbie, I most certainly did not 'sign up to complain about a review'

This is your forum, if you feel I'm out-of-line, ban me. I really should take offense, but I won't.

I have always respected you as one of the more honest and reputable reviewers, I do not wish to think otherwise, but if you truly trust Asus to provide you with an untested, random, off the assembly line mobo...
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My question to you is "how many boards did you have a headache with versus how many boards were reviewed that showed no signs of problems"?
 
I'm also weary of Asus products. some of us have gotten stuck with their shitty rma and customer service dept and the long rma wait. I had to rma my p5n-sli deluxe(220$ when it came out) and when i received my board from them a week later, it was someone else's board that was all screwed up had the wrong chipset cooling and burn marks on it. so i had to pay to send that back and wait another 2 weeks before I got my replacement.
 
Too bad to be party pooper but early tests on Extremesystems and Coolaler forums have shown this crosslink chip is not so good as published :( but the boards look the works, if it performs on par it would be fab... but not eagerly awaiting to go DDR3 anyway

Als it would be nice to have temp read outs again Asus on the chipsets via the bios without adding extra sensors ourselves , just to verify the temp/voltage situation when overclocking....


And where is that 2900XTX ATI ?

Hope to see ya review soon Kyle...
 
StealthyFish said:
nope. just rename your games relicCoh.exe and stuff, haha. That's what I do :p
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Even doing that you will still run into potential image quality problems and possible stability issues in some games using dated drivers. As I also stated before, most of the newer cards won't work with those older drivers either and therefore it won't do anyone with a newer card and good to try SLI on a non-NVIDIA nForce series motherboard.
 
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