Testseek.com have collected 44 expert reviews of the Asus Crosshair 4 Extreme and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Asus Crosshair 4 Extreme.
November 2010
(86%)
44 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(78%)
11 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
86010044
The editors liked
Good performance
Excellent features
USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s
Great audio
Very sexy looking board
Excellent overclocking option
Five PCI-E slots
Having the ability to mix and match GPUs
Low power consumption
Status LED
Good build quality
Switchable PCI-E
The editors didn't like
LucidLogix support a work in progress
Certain features may appeal only to niche audience
The Asus Crosshair IV Extreme is a bold product. Although not the first to market with a HydraLogix setup; Asus did take the time to really plan out what they wanted to offer. In the end we feel that they have done what they set out to. You are getting an...
It is no secret that I like the way the Asus R&D engineers think. Their designs and component choices are often odd but usually work out very well in terms of performance and also efficiency. This is the third Extreme board we have testes in the newer ROG...
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Published: 2011-03-10, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
Abstract: Big board and big on features so let's see how she runs!Asus pretty threw in pretty much whatever they got and tossed in a Lucid Hydra chip. They might have gone the E-ATX way but then again it required that much space for so many implementations.Crosshai...
Good performance, Excellent features, USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s, Great audio
LucidLogix support a work in progress, Certain features may appeal only to niche audience
If existing AM3 products were Bulldozer-compatible and LucidLogix's game support was more mature, this motherboard would be a must-have for any AMD enthusiast. Unfortunately, this is not the case; a fact that leaves the Crosshair IV Extreme on uneasy grou...
The kitchen sink is no longer safe with Asus on the prowl for things to give their motherboards an edge at the high end. Lucid Hydra, Intel Gig-E controller, Firewire, HD sound, USB 3.0, overcloking settings galore, e-SATA and SATA 6G. All there and acc...
The ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme is absolutely the most feature-rich motherboard we have ever tested and we have tested many motherboards here in the Pro-Clocker’s lab. It seems that ASUS did not take any shortcuts when it came to this motherboard. From t...
There's no question that the Asus Crosshair IV Extreme is a high quality motherboard. It's undoubtedly one of the best, if not the best, AM3 motherboard we have seen in terms of features and performance. Having said that, compared to Crosshair IV Form...
The ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme packs some amazing features, and in terms of usability and stability, the board is rock solid. It ran like a champ through all type of stress tests, and overclocking resulted in some of the highest numbers we've achieved t...
Very sexy looking board, Excellent overclocking option, Five PCI-E slots, Having the ability to mix and match GPUs, Low power consumption, USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s, Status LED, Good build quality, Switchable PCI-E
EATX form factor
While we like the ability to use any graphics card in a motherboard without having to worry about compatibility, we are not too certain yet as to the benefit of the Lucid chip. For one, our tests show that the performance gain is not always consistent...
Our comprehensive evaluation of the Crosshair IV Extreme has identified a number of the board's strengths but also a number of pitfalls.In terms of performance, it would generally appear that we are onto a winner here. During our testing, we were able to...
