Asus Crosshair V Formula Z review?

[Overclock3RJ]

Hi Guys,

Would just like to get any thoughts on the asus crosshair v formula z motherboard. Been looking around and haven't been able to find that many reviews on it, was kinda hoping TTL had done one but i guess he didn't.

Thanks.

 

[airdeano]

OCJ, welcome to the OC3D forums.

i'm taking a shot at the AMD platform with a FX-8350 to find out if there is a
productivity boost over my current Intel setups. I went ahead and purchased the
CVFX motherboard, just from my past experiences with ASUS and the Maximus
line-up. i've owned many brands and models of mobos for Intel and keep inching back
to the Maximus series. I have always had exceptional luck with the ASUS mobos
with both performance and reliability. there are other AMD platform boards that
will do close or equal to the ASUS, but i look deeper than cosmetics, the power
control and phase and decided the CVFZ had the best for the torture i plan twisted
for this platform. true it is less expensive than the Intel counterparts, but i have
found that in the right places you do get what you paid for it and usually your
grin is larger than the post on the problematic issues others are having from not
purchasing upper-echelon hardware.

i know this won't sway you, but just a lil insight from someone that believes in a
product line after changing and trying other solutions.

 

[Overclock3RJ]

Hey Airdeano,

Thanks for the reply.

My initial thoughts towards the motherboard has been positive, and in fact have already ordered it, however being the newbie that i am, i later discovered that the motherboard has PCI-e 2.0 slots whereas the GPUs that i purchased are PCI-e 3.0. Do you think this will be an issue?

Thanks again.

 

[airdeano]

it is a non-issue..

we haven't even over-extended the use of PCIe 2.0 yet, much less tap into PCIe 3.0
for that "n"th frame score, i'm sure it can boost it up.. but for daily usage.. you are
not missing anything. in three-four years.. maybe, now? not a chance.. I think Tom
even commented it was a waste of time as the performance value between them was
within margin of error.. 5% to the most.

 

[Overclock3RJ]

Nice, thanks for the great info.

How do you think the AMD FX 8150 will perform with the motherboard? I vaguely remember seeing a review by Tom where he had some reservations about the heat generated by the CPU, and how that could have been related to the socket [i think].
Do you see any potential limitations?

OCJ

 

[airdeano]

from what I gather, if you are overclock the bejeeze out-fo-it, keep a fan on the VRM
heat sinks. since I use h2o, it'll be a monster help to cool the VRM without sweating
bullets.

the only limitations i'm finding is mainly application handles and CPU utilization. for
productivity not as seemless, but getting there. i'll know more as I get more knocked
down and see how "percentage-wise" the AMD platform is useful in productivity.