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Who needs a 9000 series when you have Der8auer breaking the massive 8GHz on an FX8350 with the Crosshair V Formula! His SuperPi 32M runs falls in at 9 mins 26 seconds, breaking a new world record by some 13 seconds! Pics inside.

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At the other end of the technical scale from David's previous CrossFireX PC build guide, is this new article on fitting waterblocks to your AMD Radeon HD 7970.

Anandtech recently went back to the AMD 990FX chipset and rounded up a half dozen motherboards to test, in order to find out which was the best for your AMD FX CPU. ROGers who already own the Crosshair V Formula will probably not be surprised at the result...

AMD FX CPUs overclock well if you know the right settings, and the CrossHair V Formula motherboard is ROG's 5th Gen AMD hardware, so the team behind it has plenty of experience under their belts. As supplementary reading, we strongly recommend you reading a very good article titled the CrossHair V Formula Oveclocking BIOS Guide, written by Raja. With that in mind, I am not going to go into too much depth about those aspects here, instead I'll be aiming at getting you directly up, running and overclocked by providing clear steps to follow in order to achieve a solid all round overclock with your new AMD FX processor. From here, and with Raja's guide, you experiment to fine tune your system and learn more.

Having three monitors is great for gaming. While console players may prefer their 42 inch HDTVs, wrap-around monitors provide a whole different experience. Eyefinity with 3 monitors is easily setup on a normal desk (i.e. without a rig) and considering the abundance of 1080p displays on the market it's a great time to think about it. While ROG is almost always invested in making the fastest of fastest tech, we wanted to show Eyefinity is possible without resorting to super high-end hardware. We got in touch with a few friends at AMD, CoolerMaster and G.Skill to lend some hardware, and then we went away to build our gaming PC.

Are you into mega multi-GPU setups for multiple displays, uber FPS or benchmarking? Well TweakTown has just the article for you, as the team compared the top three platforms - using ROG motherboards as the backbone of each - in a 3-way CrossFireX comparison.

“A mainboard like that makes you a king. It will be very hard to find a better mainboard than ASUS Crosshair V Formula." Awesome!