Asus Maximus Formula Desktop Motherboard - Intel X38 Express Chipset - Socket T LGA-775

Solid as a rock in a cops face.

Strengths: Solid board from top to bottom. I tried some other value series type boards that weren't close to this one's quality. Nice bundle. Sound card is okay. Great reviews from Toms Hardware.

Weakness: No sli available. Heat pipes might be a tight fit for any after market cooler. I used the coolermaster hyper tx2 for ease of installation and decent cooling. Price may be a little steep for some.

Searching for the right mobo is tough. I did a lot of research and a couple trial and errors. I tried a gigabyte p35 ds3l but the cold boot issues plagued that chipset across all manufacturers. The x38 is a lot more stable then the p35 chipset. No cold boots whatsoever. There are so many little things that make this package great.You definitely get what you pay for. This is a keeper. I'm running...
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Searching for the right mobo is tough. I did a lot of research and a couple trial and errors. I tried a gigabyte p35 ds3l but the cold boot issues plagued that chipset across all manufacturers. The x38 is a lot more stable then the p35 chipset. No cold boots whatsoever.

There are so many little things that make this package great.You definitely get what you pay for. This is a keeper.

I'm running a q6600 with 2 gb corsair 8500, 8800GTs 512, 2 seagate 250 GB drives in RAID 0.

By CoreNA; - Mar 6, 2008

Maximus Formula

Strengths: x38 with DDR2

Weakness: NB and SB temperatures, no eSATA

I am running this board with Intel E6850, 4GB Crucial Ballistix RAM and Vista x64. North Bridge and South Bridge chips have temperatures 45-50C idle, and it is impossible to tell if this is motherboard reporting wrong temperatures or it is true. Case is full tower with a lot of fans. I thought that it was because BIOS automaticaly overclocks NB and SB under Auto option, but even manually changing...
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I am running this board with Intel E6850, 4GB Crucial Ballistix RAM and Vista x64.
North Bridge and South Bridge chips have temperatures 45-50C idle, and it is impossible to tell if this is motherboard reporting wrong temperatures or it is true. Case is full tower with a lot of fans. I thought that it was because BIOS automaticaly overclocks NB and SB under Auto option, but even manually changing voltages did not help.
Motherboard comes without eSATA ports, which forced me to add pci-e card, I think for nowadays every high level mobo has to have at least 1 eSATA, instead of zillion USB ports.
I love separate sound card, but this one had problems with Vista x64.Had to replace it with ASUS Xonar.

By dimgeoch - Feb 16, 2008

Quality Motherboard

Strengths: Lots of features

Weakness: Overpriced, Very picky with ram. The northbridge/southbridge get VERY hot.

I bought this motherboard mostly due to wanting a motherboard that has a lot of features. Normally I don't spend this much on a board, but did this time. If I had to do it again, I would buy a less expensive board which overclocks just as easily. This board does have a lot of fan connections, which is very nice. It also has a nice lcd screen for debugging. My Transcend DDR2 ram doesn't appear...
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I bought this motherboard mostly due to wanting a motherboard that has a lot of features. Normally I don't spend this much on a board, but did this time. If I had to do it again, I would buy a less expensive board which overclocks just as easily.

This board does have a lot of fan connections, which is very nice. It also has a nice lcd screen for debugging.

My Transcend DDR2 ram doesn't appear totally compatible with this board. So I purchased some Corsair XMS2 ram... they too gave me errors, but then I exchanged them at Corsair (with their great warranty support) and the replacement sticks work fine so far.

Its a quality made board, and you get a lot of accessories which I suppose you are paying for. But its still way overpriced in my opinion... and I paid a lot less than what its selling for now. And the bios updates are SLOW.... although its been reported that the newer Rampage Formula motherboard bios works on this board also.

By tc17 - May 8, 2008

Asus Maximus Formula

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