Asus Crosshair IV Extreme Motherboard, Unlimited Performance for Overclocking

Asus motherboard in the yard Crosshair Extreme IV (AM3), an AMD 890FX + SB850 (Phenom II X6 1090T, tests of the six-core AMD processor) chip and Hydra Lucidlogix. Asus has already submitted in the past Crosshair IV Extreme (IV Asus Crosshair Formula, 890FX to overclock). Hydra is a SoC (system on chip) that handles most video cards, enabling configurations in CrossFireX, SLI, or hybrid, with both ATI and Nvidia cards with it.

The board integrates five PCI Express x16 slots, four DDR3 slots, nine SATA ports (the red ones are SATA III), Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio.

The motherboard, which is part of the Republic of Gamers (ROG), can unlock the dormant core of a CPU Phenom / Athlon X2/X3/X4 II and integrates the functionality ROG Connect, designed for overclocking via Bluetooth. There are also buttons for power, reset and MemOk. There are also points of contact to measure the voltage with a voltmeter.

Asus ROG Crosshair IV Extreme will be available to the public in may with a price of $ 250,00.