asus rog crosshair v formula z socket am3 realtek drivers

The SB950 southbridge that's common between all boards embeds a six-port SATA 6 Gb/s RAID controller, and an 8-lane PCI-Express hub for onboard devices. That apart, there are several ROG-exclusives such as GameFirst, CPU LevelUp, and COP-EX (mechanism that protects individual components from frying up). Thunderbolt is a PCI-Express addon card with SupremeFX X-Fi audio and Bigfoot Killer NIC on one PCB. It comes with an ASUS Thunderbolt card bundled (not to be confused with Thunderbolt IO). The ROG Crosshair V Formula uses bleeding-edge components for overclocking, including 10-phase ExtremeDigi+ VRM, three PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (x16/x16/NC or x16/x8/x8), an x16 7 SATA 6 Gb/s ports, one Power eSATA 6 Gb/s, Intel-made GbE controller, and very high memory multipliers (DDR3-2133 MHz out of the box capable). Otherwise, this board has the same feature-set as the M5A99X EVO, as a failsafe, it even lacks DRAM multipliers to go above DDR3-1866 (FX processors are capable of that out of the box). Its main selling points are a unique ceramic-surface heatsink called TUF CeraM!X, a 'thermal radar' that can tell you how warm a specific part of the board is running, anti-surge circuitry, efficient power-switching, and military-standard components. The TUF Sabertooth 990FX uses Digi+ VRM, ultra-high grade electrical components, three PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (electrical x16/x16/NC or x16/x8/x8), and a PCI-E x16 This board supports ATI CrossFireX and NVIDIA 3-way SLI. The Sabertooth intends to provide enough durability to boot GlaDOS after it wakes up hundreds of years later, while the Crosshair V has everything the overclocker and big-ticket gamer would ever need. The top of the line AMD 990FX chipset has no standard ASUS model, rather it dives right away into two of ASUS' reputed enthusiast motherboard lines, with the TUF Sabertooth 990FX, and the ROG Crosshair V Formula. That aside, the board features two internal SATA 3 Gb/s ports apart from the six SATA 6 Gb/s ports that are standard with every M5A board and a Power eSATA port apart from regular eSATA. Again, there's a third black electrical x4 slot. Based on the AMD 990X + SB950 chipset, the M5N99X EVO features two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots that run at x16/NC or x8/x8 speeds, depending on whether the second slot is populated.

Moving up the food-chain, there's the most affordable AMD motherboard that supports both ATI CrossFire, and 2-way NVIDIA SLI. While the M5A97 boards do feature two physical PCI-E x16 slots, the second (black) slot is wired to the southbridge, and runs at x4 speeds, it might support ATI CrossFire since Catalyst doesn't care how two GPUs are connected to the system as long as there's an AMD or Intel chipset but there's definitely no NVIDIA SLI.

Asus rog crosshair v formula z socket am3 realtek drivers