ASUS A8R-MVP SATA DRIVER

Just as important are the SB south bridge limitations that are not here. Thanx for your advice and for lending us the benefits of your experience. The lower IDE and floppy connectors are card-edge connectors, which keep cables out of the way of cards. Breaking our own convention slightly, we'll put the stakes on the table first. Visual Studio is a dog, dawg! You shouldn't have an issue with IDE, floppy, or SATA connector placement, but look carefully at how cables will be managed in any case that you are considering. In the worst dual video arrangement of two double-width cards, you still have 2 usable PCI slots.

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After our initial testing showed the A8R-MVP to be an excellent overclocker, we suggested to Asus that they support a8e-mvp higher memory ratios of the Revision E and above AMD Memory Controller and include additional adjustments for memory.

ASUS A8R-MVP (ATI CrossFire Xpress ) -

The logic of this menu nesting is obscure, but once you drill down to memory timing adjustments, you will find a fairly complete range of options. There is no CrossFire Xpress Log in Don't have an account? Board Layout Basic Features: Thanx for your advice and for lending us the benefits of your experience.

You will axus that there is nothing on the board which would announce that this might be a serious overclocker, except perhaps for the large heatsink covering asud power Mosfets.

Board Layout The box for the Asus A8R-MVP is dark grey and strewn with confetti, perhaps to announce the party inside, but it is certainly not a serious package like we see on the top-line Asus boards. The lower IDE and floppy connectors are card-edge connectors, which keep cables out of the way of cards. You may also be interested in Asus added the ratios and xata few more memory controls, which will be available on-line as the board begins shipping this week.

Board Layout Basic Features: However, you may want to connect these card-edge cables before securing the board in your case - especially in a tight case design.

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I don't mind dropping a few hundred for speed. Apart from that, here's a list of accessories you can expect to find in every A8R-MVP motherboard package: Cooling is passive - there are no active fans - which is also typical of Asus designs.

Post Your Comment Please log in or sign up to comment. In our past few CrossFire motherboard reviews, the RD proved to be a good bargain for users to get on CrossFire without burning a hole in their pockets, but the chipset itself may not have been too appealing to enthusiasts looking to a powerful platform. Singapore Malaysia Philippines Indonesia. Introduction Introduciton In the past few months, we've been paying quite a bit of attention towards the multi-GPU scene, auss on the growing CrossFire enabled product base.

Even here, we see a 3-phase design instead of the robust 4-phase designs used on the ATI Reference boards. If you look past the smoke screen, the CrossFire Xpress is actually nothing more than a name change to breathe new life into the Radeon Xpress CrossFire Edition.

As Computex is drawing nearer, we fully expect ATI and its motherboard manufacturers to take full advantage of this. Post Your Comment Please log in or sign up to comment.

Visual Studio is a dog, dawg! This is the same simple arrangement that we saw on early ATI Reference boards. I'm not a 'gamer' though -- I'm trying to select the fastest available mobo for software development.

Basic Features: Asus A8R-MVP - Asus A8R-MVP: Mainstream Rocket

This includes memory voltage to 3. There is no need to snake cables over the CPU or slots when this location is used. Breaking our own convention slightly, we'll put the stakes on the table first. Now if that has gotten your attention, let's swta on with this review.

ASUS A8R-MVP - motherboard - ATX - Socket 939 - 480X CrossFire Series

Mainstream Rocket by Wesley Fink on November 23, 1: A single video card goes in the blue slot, so even if it's double-width, you still have a usable PCIe x1 and 2 PCI slots. However, they are really strewn all the way across the right board edge instead of being concentrated in the upper right quadrant.

IDE and floppy connectors are ideally located on the right edge of the board - where they belong. In the past few months, we've been paying quite a bit of attention towards the multi-GPU scene, especially on the growing CrossFire enabled product base.