3-11-2011 review by hothardware

This mobo offers a great performance in overclocking. The onboard audio is also very good. If existing AM3 products were (future) Bulldozer-compatible and LucidLogix's game support was more mature, the reviewers would have certainly recommend it, since this is not the case, the Crosshair IV Extreme is on uneasy ground.

Compared To:

Asus M3A78-T

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, Audio Quality, Cinebench, Crysis, Lame, PC mark vantage, Power consumption, Sisoft Sandra.

Overclocking:

The X6 1100T was OCed @ 4.4GHz stable.

Test Setup:

• CPU : AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
• HDD : Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
• Mainboard : Asus CrOS : hair IV Extreme
• Memory : Corsair DDR3 1600MHz CL8
• Operating System : Windows 7 Professional x64
• SSD : Corsair F120
• Video Card : Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 SLi

october 2 2010 review by vortez

This mobo has a good layout and a very impressive overclocking result with a Cool running chipset. ROG connect provides an excellent level of control. The heatsink is a bit noisy and the price is high.

Compared To:

This board was not compared to another mainboard, instead it was compared to the AMD Phenom II X2 555.

Test Setup

• CPU Heatsink : Coolermaster Hyper TX3
• Graphics Card : 2x Gainward GTX260
• Hard Drive : 160gb WD 7200rpm SATA HDD
• Memory : 4gb OCZ 1333MHz
• Optical drive : NEC DVD RW
• Power Supply : Nexus RX-8500 850w
• Processor : AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Overclocking:

A Phenom II X6 1055T was OCed @ 3.86GHz.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark 2006, 3D Mark Vantage, Blacksite, Cinebench, Dead Space, Far Cry 2, Noise level, PC mark 2005, SuperPi, Temperature Test, Unreal Tournament 3, x264 HD.

september 30 2010 review by overclock3d

Conclusion:

This mobo had a HTT peak of 350MHz and the Lucid Hydra chip performance proved to be very competitive. The 870A Fuzion however reached a HTT of 400MHz, so that motherboard might be a better choice.

Overclocking:

A Phenom II 1090T Black Edition was OCed @ 4.03GHz.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, Cinebench, CPU Arithmetic, CPU Multimedia, CPU Photoworxx, CPU Photoworxx, Crysis: Warhead, HDD Performance, Mafia II, Memory Bandwidth, Metro 2033, PovRay.

Compared To:

MSI 870A Fuzion

Test Setup:

• Memory : Corsair Dominator GT 4GB 2000mhz
• OS : Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
• Power Supply : Corsair AX1200w
• Video Card : ATi Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5
• Video Card : nVidia GeForce GTX 480 for LUCID