The Asus Crosshair motherboard brings a ton of new features and an expansive BIOS to the world of AM2 motherboards -- could this be the new top overclocker's motherboard for AMD processors??
An initial glance at the motherboard itself shows nothing extremely out of the ordinary. The Crosshair uses a silent heatpipe cooling design for the motherboard's core logic and the board has support for dual NVIDIA GPUs in an SLI configuration.
The most noticeable feature is the small LCD screen that is seen above the Firewire and eSATA connections. When powered up, this LCD is a bright blue in color and is mainly used to display full-text POST diagnostic messages. This is in stark contrast to the dual-digit POST displays that other motherboards have that require the referencing of manuals for code translations. If the system is running fine, you even have the option in the BIOS to put your own custom text there.
PC Perspective
An initial glance at the motherboard itself shows nothing extremely out of the ordinary. The Crosshair uses a silent heatpipe cooling design for the motherboard's core logic and the board has support for dual NVIDIA GPUs in an SLI configuration.
The most noticeable feature is the small LCD screen that is seen above the Firewire and eSATA connections. When powered up, this LCD is a bright blue in color and is mainly used to display full-text POST diagnostic messages. This is in stark contrast to the dual-digit POST displays that other motherboards have that require the referencing of manuals for code translations. If the system is running fine, you even have the option in the BIOS to put your own custom text there.
PC Perspective
