OC3D Review: Asus Maximus Formula Special Edition X38 S775 Motherboard

[psies]

Could try ebay.

Offcourse i can get a crossfire bridge somewhere. But that's not the point.

The point is, you are paying a hell of money and you cannot play because ASUS just simply forget to put in a crossfire bridge.

I think that's pretty stupid wouldnt you say?

besides when i buy one on ebay (around 10 till 15 euro's + shipping) i will pay an additional 20 euro's orso.. For what? for this little stupid thing which should have come with the motherboard or videocard..

When you buy a porsche you expect that there are wheels and rubber under the damn car...

 

[steve30x]

Offcourse i can get a crossfire bridge somewhere. But that's not the point.

The point is, you are paying a hell of lot of money and you cannot play because ASUS just simply forget to put in a crossfire bridge.

I think that's pretty stupid wouldnt you say?

I didnt get one of those with the Abit IP35 I got last week. But that motherboard is being RMA'd

 

[Hatman]

Offcourse i can get a crossfire bridge somewhere. But that's not the point.

The point is, you are paying a hell of lot of money and you cannot play because ASUS just simply forget to put in a crossfire bridge.

I think that's pretty stupid wouldnt you say?

Yep

Wonder if there are other ones they forgot to put it in or this is a one off..

 

[steve30x]

Yep

Wonder if there are other ones they forgot to put it in or this is a one off..

In my previous experience the bridge never came with ATI crossfire motherboards and when that special lead was needed for crossfire I had to search for one.

 

[psies]

In my previous experience the bridge never came with ATI crossfire motherboards and when that special lead was needed for crossfire I had to search for one.

MSI ships their mobo's with one. Sapphire vga cards also comes with one bridge.

Is asus trying to safe some money here?

 

[steve30x]

The Abit IP35 pro doesnt have one in the box

 

[LoveDuckie]

MSI ships their mobo's with one. Sapphire vga cards also comes with one bridge.

Is asus trying to safe some money here?

You're completely incorrect, it isn't ASUS' fault.

If you check the contents of packaging, everywhere it says that it does not come with a crossfire bridge.

I would also personally know that this board does not come with a bridge as I have the motherboard myself and I RMA'd it 3 times meaning I DEFINITELY know it doesn't come with it.

Please note that the chipset on the motherboard is an INTEL chipset rather than one that was made directly from ATi/AMD, meaning that okay sure it supports CrossFire but it wasn't made by the blokes at ATi/AMD, so therefore they don't share the responsibility to give out CrossFire bridges.

However, the products that should ship with this particular component are the graphics cards themselves. An example of this would be my HIS iTurbo version of the x3870, not only did that come with an Analogue to DVI converter it also came with a CrossFire bridge.

I suggest in the most modest & sincerest way that you do your research next time.