Hardware Asus Crosshair IV Formula Motherboard Review

Not some, most!!! The owners club forum is full of posts about it. The NB on my first CHIV formula hit 100 degrees after 2 mins and shut down. I rma'd it and got a new one back directly from Asus. The new ones NB idles at 40-45 degrees and hits 60-65 degrees under load with the SB close behind. By the looks of things most of them run around these temps unless u void ur warranty remove the retaining screws, file them down and reseat ur heatsink. It's a pain in the b@ll@x and reviews should have slated the formula for being a broken, badly designed product!

 

Oh come on now. Reviewers get ONE board - not a batch. If the manufacturing issue is not present in that one sample then how are we to know about everything that later comes out of Asus?

 

He he sorry didn't mean to make it sound like an attack on reviewers and completely take the point that yis get one board. It's just that if u search for a CHFIV review u get all the launch week reviews that can't really tell you what the reviewed product is like to live with. It'd be great if more review sites did a 3 months on appendix to the review for popular products that could be a roundup of reported issues. It'd be a proper kick in the arse for manufacturers!

 

am sorry this is late but i was waiting for the price to go down. This may be very simple to all of you but i'm, well not the most knowlagable about computers yet. I have a ASUS Xonar DX and i wondered where it would go or would i have to use the onboard sound?

 

Not really I'm afraid. We'd need another board from a later batch (plus guaranteeing it was from a later batch) and twice as much time just to add an addendum "yep, it's still not broken" like 99% of products are. And even then, if the one we get isn't problematic or if it needs to be used everyday, all day, then it's an impossible scenario for any review site.

It's not different from car reviews - it tells you what it's like to drive not what it's like to live with.

 

Asus never seem to be able to mount their mobo heatsinks properly, my Commando (still the best board i've owned), Rampage Formula and P5E3 Deluxe X48 all had stupidly hot running north and/or southbridges until I remounted them... a particularly infuriating trial on the P5E3. >:\