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Memoirs Of A 2900XT CrossFire System :: Asus Blitz Extreme Motherboard
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Asus is known for their exciting enthusiast's line of motherboards and the Blitz is the new flagship board for the Intel LGA775 and CrossFire platforms. This board is loaded with features and the P35 chipset supports the latest Quad Core CPUs from Intel as well as the latest ATI cards in a CorssFire Configuration. Also supported is the new 1333MHz system bus, which allows the fastest DDR3 memory to be used. The board only supports the new 240-Pin DDR3 memory so prepare to shell out some cash for this stuff. I had actually requested memory from our sponsors at Crucial, but they never provided it so we got the best stuff available from Kingston instead.
 Board Shot  Heat Pipe  SB Cooler  Angle Shot The sound although not usually even touched upon is really amazing on this board as it features the combined talents of two of my favorite companies in the PC audio industry. ADI and Sonic Focus have developed an excellent sound system for the PC that features excellent sound reproduction and custom control for the actual listening environment. Most people just turn on the Media player and the only thing they adjust is the volume. I am a musician and my ears hurt sometimes from the terribly mixed sound coming from my PC. Realtek AC2001 chipsets suck in my opinion as their sound is always metallic or tinny and actually makes music sound less than it is. SoundMax and ADI have a much better product, one that is high-quality and exceeds others by leaps and bounds.  Liquid Fusion  ZIF Socket 775  Extended SATA  Rear I/O ADI makes the best PC audio chipset hands down, take your dated and proprietary Creative Audio cards and stow them. Even the most expensive of Creative labs cards and their gimmicky EAX extensions matches the ADI 1988b 8-channel High Def Codec. That's the hardware side of things, the software and technology behind the BlackBird Sonic Focus interface, which controls and reconditions your audio environment, is Tom Paddock the former sound engineer for Steely Dan and the Grateful Dead. Tom has a great team and Sonic Focus has always been software that adds dimension and depth to the listening sound field. When music gets compressed as in the MP3 or other such standards the music loses some of its bandwidth to accommodate the compressed state. The BlackBird version of the Sonic Focus interface puts the missing elements back into the sound field that were lost during compression. This eliminates compressions errors to help bring a warmer and more natural sound than that that of just playing an audio file though Media Player10 alone. CrossFire support comes via a dual 4X pipeline and added with CrossLink technology the new dual 4X provides a more robust performance than even ATI's own dual 16X path. The only strange thing is the board does not come with the new CrossFire Connect cable to hook up the two cards together. On NVIDIA based boards the SLI bridge comes included in the box so I thought they would be here as well, but alas no. Diamond provided me with the new connections that eliminate the need for that pesky external dongle cable. The board also features an AMI BIOS that is extremely tweakable and will offer all the necessary options for overclocking your CPU and system bus. Things such as the Asus EZ Flash makes updating the boards BIOS a simple affair even using your USB pen drive. Using a ROM file you just boot the system with the new ROM file on the pen drive, enter the BIOS, and then click on the EZ Flash button and follow the prompts. This made things much easier in a world where the 1.44 Floppy is getting beyond obsolete, and becoming archaic. There are enough SATA connections to satisfy any user on the Blitz and with dual LAN, audio all onboard, the slots are empty places other than the PCIe slots housing the two 2900XT' cards.  Blitz CrossFire Connect
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