Based on the AMD A88X FCH chipset, the Crossblade Ranger offers an 8-phase CPU VRM, four DDR3 DIMM slots, two PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (gen 3.0 x8/x8 when both are populated), a third PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (electrical x4) slot, eight SATA 6 Gb/s ports, Intel-made gigabit Ethernet with ASUS LANGuard, and SupremeFX audio. The board supports both SLI and CrossFire.
ASUS Crossblade Ranger is the first FM2+ ROG motherboard
Posted on Tuesday, June 03 2014 @ 13:56 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
TPU came across ASUS' new ROG Crossblade Ranger motherboard at Computex, the company's first ROG-series motherboard for AMD's Socket FM2+ platform.
Pricing is expected to be under the $150 mark.