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Asus Blitz Formula and Blitz Extreme Motherboard Review

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2007-08-13 09:15:20.0


HotHardware has just posted an article reviewing the Asus Blitz Formula and Blitz Extreme motherboards. Both motherboards are built around Intel’s P35 chipset, but the Blitz Formula has DDR2 slots, while the Blitz Extreme supports DDR3.

Here’s what they had to say:

“Both the Asus Blitz Extreme and Blitz Formula performed very well throughout our entire battery of benchmarks. In some of the synthetic tests and in the game tests, the DDR3-1333 equipped Blitz Extreme was the best perfomer thanks to the increased memory bandwidth afforded by its faster RAM. In the desktop application benchmarks, however, which are more sensitive to latency, the Blitz Formula took the top spot more often than not.”


Asus currently has thirteen(!) Intel P35 motherboards on the market. Aside from the P5K3 Premium, the Blitz series represents the company’s enthusiast-oriented motherboards. These are obviously not cheap, but they are arguably the most overclocker-friendly motherboards on the market. At least until DFI releases the P35-T2R…

Click here to read the full article.

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