From what I understand, I believe they currently have exclusive rights to it for now. I am unsure who creates the chipset to pull this off, but it’s not ASUS. However, I don’t have any reason to believe that the feature will not function as promised. Sadly, I do not have any ATI cards on hand, so I will be unable to test out the feature. Well first, we have better Crossfire capabilities, thanks to the usage of a special chipset called CrossLinx, which effectively makes each PCI-E slot function as 8x, instead of the 16x 4x combination that we saw with the ASUS Commando. But what exactly is here that makes me say such a thing? The boards should both be called Bling Extreme. The Blitz boards use Intel’s P35 chipset and pack more features than you can shake a stick at. I am glad to see that they kept things similar here. This is different from how ASUS handled their own P5K3 and P5K boards, which used slightly different passive heatsinks and DIMM colors. Other than that, finding physical differences between the two boards is difficult. Personally, I’m happy with anything in the ~450FSB area, especially for a 24/7 rig.Īll of that doesn’t matter though, because ASUS has come along and released two new motherboards geared towards the enthusiast overclockers, Blitz Extreme and Blitz Formula, both of which we will be taking a look at today.īoth boards look identical, the only difference is that the Extreme uses DDR3 while the Formula utilizes DDR2. Enthusiast overclockers have hit well over 500FSB on other boards, so 475FSB is considered modest by some, although it’s far from it. Though not incredible, both the P5K and P5K3 hit 475FSB with relative ease, though could go no further. One area where the board performed well was with overclocking. Being of the Deluxe variety, they also included WiFi capabilities, which is nice to see on a consumer motherboard. ![]() They offered superb performance compared to the competition and came feature-packed. ASUS themselves had seven right off the bat, two of which we’ve already taken a look at. When Intel first launched their P35 chipset, it took little time before the market became saturated with many offerings from motherboard manufacturers.
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