ASUS Maximus II Formula motherboard review @ Elite Bastards

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Hi everyone!

 

I hope you all had a good weekend. Following on from the launch of Intel's P45 chipset and relevant parts earlier this month, ASUS have now launched the latest in their Republic of Gamers series of motherboards, leveraging this mid-range chipset via their Maximus II Formula. As usual, overclocking is a big focus of the board, with gamers also being offered some other interesting additions via the SupremeFX X-Fi audio solution. What's it all about, and how does this motherboard perform? We take a look in today's review.

 

 

ASUS Maximus II Formula motherboard review

 

"ASUS' Republic of Gamers motherboards have sported a PCI Express 1x 'SupremeFX' card for some time now, but the Maximus II Formula sees something of an overhaul in this department, being as it is the first to feature SupremeFX X-Fi functionality.

 

Now, this particular branding might lead you to believe that this offering sports Creative's X-Fi processor... But you'd be wrong. What we actually have here is, in fact, an early supporter of Creative's new SoundBlaster X-Fi MB technology, which in essence uses the hardware codec of another audio processor (in this case Analog Devices' AD1988B chip) coupled with software CPU utilisation to offer up much of the functionality of Creative's current X-Fi sound cards. This means that you get access to EAX functionality up to EAX 4.0 (meaning no EAX 5.0 support), as well as other features such as 3D CMSS and Crystalizer for improving sound quality."

 

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