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The next GENE and Formula?!

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Hey guys, a number of people have been asking me if there will be a Maximus/Crosshair Gene or Formula. Currently there are no plans at the moment. BUT What IF!, just what if your ideas made a difference. With enough demand, anything is possible. so lets have an open discussion... what would you like to see from a maximus/crosshair gene or formula ?
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xeromist
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I love me some high performance mATX. 🙂
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The formula should maintain the specs of the Maximus III, but with a few changes.
1) High wattage 3-pin/pwm header on the bottom right corner of the board (20-25 watts). These boards are for the extreme and the extreme water-cool. A good number of motors are powered by a 3-pin plug and short out normal boards.
2) usb 3.0 (obviously).
3) toggleable x16/x16, x16/x8, x8/x8 SLI support. Why? Certain functions run better on one mode than another.
4) 64-bit UEFI for the new 3tb drives.

Post any other suggestions so Asus will know what we want.

martin_metal_88
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I would definatly love a Crosshair on AM3+. AMD are promotting chip like they have never done before so I'm all wet about what they will bring to us.
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raisethe3
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Wouldn't the next series be "Crosshair 5"? The current Crosshair IV already implements AM3 sockets only. With the upcoming Bulldozer being AM3+ sockets, which is more ideal for a new series. I vote for the Crosshair Gene which I asked in a thread awhile back. It would definitely be a nice line up to the AMD ASUS ROG line, so that it can caters different users. A Crosshair 5 GENE would be nice with 2 PCI Ex16 slots, 1 Pci ex1 slot and a standard PCI (much like the Rampage III Gene). Then add the headers, power/reset buttons onboard. The back I/O connections should be standard just like all the other ROG boards. All in all, it should resembles much like the Rampage III Gene except with 4 DIMM slots (obviously) and a AMD socket. With this lineup, it could cater the Crosshair Extreme (extreme crazy hard core gamers), the Crosshair Formula (hard core gamers), and then GENE (just your standard gamers with 2 video cards 🙂 like myself.)

If you guys (ASUS) can do that, I will purchase that for my next build in a heartbeat. Also believe me, it WILL sell!

Thanks for reading this!

martin_metal_88
Level 8
You're right it's my bad on this one 😉
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Sweden NEEDS an IV Formula board, the EATX M4E is just too big to sell.

C'mon poeple, this is a thread for what we want from the next Formula and Gene boards, not to just say "we want it". The only other person who made any suggestions was raisethe3.

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The world needs a good uATX AM3(+) motherboard


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martin_metal_88
Level 8
It's so close brian that Asus engi will have to make all the three board 😛
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