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May 2015
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The Crossblade Ranger is Asus' top-of-the-line AMD A88X mobo. It's also the only Socket FM2+-based Republic of Gamers product out there. Given its unique status, I was curious to see whether the Ranger lived up to its billing. Like any exotic piece of ma...
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Published: 2015-01-07, Author: Mark , review by: overclock3d.net
Our testing on AMD's FM2+ socket has been very limited, aside from our initial Kaveri review and our more recent Athlon 860K review we have had little chance to compare motherboards directly against each other. The only motherboard which I have had extens...
So now that I have taken a closer look at the Crossblade Ranger, its performance, and its software lets recap. First this is a good looking board, not that this is a big shocker, adding a little ROG styling never seems to go wrong. The red and black the...
The FM2+ platform can be a tough sell. The APUs are relatively inexpensive, but the CPU performance with a maximum of four threads often has other users looking to the AM3+ platform, or just at Intel in general. The GPU performance of the Kaveri process...
As already mentioned in the beginning of the article, Crossblade Ranger stands apart as a family Asus ROG, and in the segment of motherboards for FM2 +. C first all is clear: it is the only model in the series to an integrated platform AMD. As for the sec...
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Published: 2014-11-10, Author: Ryan , review by: eteknix.com
Brings the ROG feature-set to a more competitive price point, Excellent software package and BIOS, Great styling, Offers a nice alternative to Intel's LGA 1150 for gamers, Premium audio quality
Expensive relative to other A88X motherboards, The limited CPU performance of the AMD Athlon X4 860K/A10-7850K may put some prospective buyers off,
PricingThe ASUS Crossblade Ranger has retail pricing of $159.99 at Newegg and $164.99 at Amazon in the USA. In the UK pricing is £119.99 from Overclockers, which includes a complimentary copy of Sniper Elite III. ASUS provide a 3 year warranty with this p...
Published: 2014-10-09, Author: Tony , review by: vortez.net
Attractive aesthetic, great layout: Debut ROG motherboard for AMD APU, Quality components, A load of ASUS exclusive features, Smooth and easy to use UEFI BIOS, Intel NIC ROG Gamefirst III, Great for overclocking, Free mouse mat
Memory compatibility/stability issues, You may get a Singing Ranger
On setting the XBR up, it turned out that our standard test memory (TeamXtreem LV 2400MHz) was incompatible with this board, and remained so even after updating the BIOS. So we resorted to using the performance R9 AMD memory, also rated for 2400MHz, howev...
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Published: 2014-09-25, Author: Ronnie , review by: yugatech.com
ROG design and color scheme, Use of premium material for caps, chokes and MOSFET, Well-designed BIOS layout with support for mouse input, SupremeFX and SonicRadar 2.0 for better audio output, Simple yet intuitive AI SUITE III, Comes with FREE ROG Mouse P
about it, 8 SATA ports are enough for most users but could've added more, Additional USB ports on the rear I/O would've been nice, Almost 30% more expensive than other high-end FM2+ MoBo
It took ASUS quite some time to release an ROG motherboard for the FM2+ socket, but when they did, they made sure that they got all the bases covered and that all the waiting will not be laid to waste. That is exactly what the company did with the ROG Cro...
Published: 2014-12-03, Author: Dave , review by: vr-zone.com
Considering everything, I don't think the Crossblade Ranger is worth the hefty price tag of 259SGD in local stores when you can get the ASUS A88X-Gamer which retails for 167SGD in the same store (PC Themes) and have most, if not all, of the on-board gimm...
