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At Last, I have found an Asus motherboard that is user friendly and so far, trouble free. This is my 3rd Asus motherboard.The first 2 were and still are junk at best!! This one is runnig flawlessly thus far and it "looks cool" too. I bought this motherboard on ebay as a used product as I have older components (bought new a little over a year ago) and did not want to start all over again at a cost of over $1500.00 to just have a comparable system!! I could care less about "keeping up with the Jones"!! I just want a good system that allows me to do the things that I have always done with my computer! This motherboard (thus far) has stepped up to the plate!! Although I have many doubts about Asus being able to build a motherboard that lasts, so far I am happy with this one!!Read full review
This is a cool board with lots of bells and whistles. This is an x38/ICH9R board that supports firwmare raid and ECC memory. This is probably the best hotstage board I've ever worked with: power and reset buttons are on the board, as well as a button on the I/O panel for clearing BIOS ram. Memory support is DDX2. I use 800MHz; I'm not sure if the board can take faster, but the chip set definitely can. These are becoming rare, but there's good news: a better ASUS board is still available: P5E3 deluxe, which can run with 1.333 DDX3 ECC memory (possibly the only board that can do that).
I lost my previous Rampage formula so no surprises, clocks well, adjustable of voltages and parameters. Water cooled and high performance accessories like Sata3, USB3, Watercooled, can clock stable at 4.24 on a Q9650 Quad 3.0 CPU.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
X38 based board is nice for budget minded gaming build, Maximus Formula is nicely designed and use less expansive DDR2 memory rather than force to get new DDR3. The extreme sound card work beautifully. This board is well layout, put it in the Rosewill Wind Knight with Z5 CPU heat sink, it gives good performance without the noise. Also had OCZ ModXstream Pro power supply in the system. The BIOS menu provide load of options to tweak the system, still playing with the options so it's not done yet.
The package came with EVERYTHING including cables, disks, IO shield lcd poster. all in original box. in separate package a very neatly packaged heavy duty heat sink.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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