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Does anyone know when this beautiful beast is being released?

I've contacted Amazon and Asus to no avail.

It's for sale in the UK, but no shipping to the US.

I'm rather disappointed, I'd buy this beauty in a heartbeat, and I'm sure other prospective z97 buyers would as well.

This looks much better than the gold/black style and it's got plenty of features to boot and it looks like the price would be amazing in US.

 

Link to the product for specs - http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z97AR/

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AR series is a strictly business oriented motherboard, you will not find it in many consumer oriented retail shops or websites. Wait for at least 4 weeks to hit American retail stores.

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AR series is a strictly business oriented motherboard, you will not find it in many consumer oriented retail shops or websites. Wait for at least 4 weeks to hit American retail stores.

 

Why business oriented?

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Oh hai :D

Release date unknown (according to Asus monitor support).

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AR series is a strictly business oriented motherboard, you will not find it in many consumer oriented retail shops or websites. Wait for at least 4 weeks to hit American retail stores.

Available where i live, and has been for nearly 2 months now.

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Why business oriented?

AR is meant for workstations which need more oomph than a WS line can provide. IDK why such a perfect board only exists as a "business" motherboard. Generally speaking WS boards are no frills whereas AR boards have everything any non-gamer might want with a good warranty while not going for PRO/WS.

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AR is meant for workstations which need more oomph than a WS line can provide. IDK why such a perfect board only exists as a "business" motherboard. Generally speaking WS boards are no frills whereas AR boards have everything any non-gamer might want with a good warranty while not going for PRO/WS.

 

I will have this fucking board. With dominator platinums. It's going to happen.

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AR series is a strictly business oriented motherboard, you will not find it in many consumer oriented retail shops or websites. Wait for at least 4 weeks to hit American retail stores.

Its product page seems pretty gaming oriented. I can see it being business oriented in that Asus doesn't seem to be marketing this board much, but I don't think it is.

I really wish that we'd just make organic hardware already, that grows and adapts to the demands it needs to meet. That way, grannies' computers can be floppy sacks of organicness and the 12 year old Minecrafters will look like the guys that only do bicep curls, and the nerdy programmers will finally have justice, with their body-builder rigs that skipped leg day.


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I will have this fucking board. With dominator platinums. It's going to happen.

Not stopping you mate! :)

Its product page seems pretty gaming oriented. I can see it being business oriented in that Asus doesn't seem to be marketing this board much, but I don't think it is.

its only advertised in business oriented magazines... though.

You can game on Q87/ B85 as well as any Z87 motherboard IMO

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I will have this fucking board. With dominator platinums. It's going to happen.

 

That's the spirit, TO WAR!

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That's the spirit, TO WAR!

 

 

Not stopping you mate! :)

its only advertised in business oriented magazines... though.

You can game on Q87/ B85 as well as any Z87 motherboard IMO

 

 

Its product page seems pretty gaming oriented. I can see it being business oriented in that Asus doesn't seem to be marketing this board much, but I don't think it is.

 

I wonder if Linus could talk to JJ and see.

I tweeted him about it, you all should too, so we can grab his attention ^_^

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So, a beautiful silver mobo for business oriented, and for gaming we get the ugly gold and the over used black/red? k den.

 

Build that @Luclocke I can see the dominator platinum in there... and a EVGA ACX card there would do nice too.

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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=9086468&sku=OSU-102502514&SRCCODE=LINKSHARE&cm_mmc_o=-ddCjC1bELltzywCjC-d2CjCdwwp&utm_source=Linkshare&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=WxHRncoD05Y&AffiliateID=WxHRncoD05Y-xcuo3RvEZ0hI7urrPOOFqQ

 

tigerdirect has it for sale grab it

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I still fucking want this mobo -_-

Check the Hot Deals section, I posted about this days ago.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/170764-us-asus-z97-ar-135/

 

Can pick it up for $135.

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AR series is a strictly business oriented motherboard, you will not find it in many consumer oriented retail shops or websites.

 

And what makes this board "strictly business oriented"? I don't think that lack of D-Sub and DVI will please business users. In my opinion it's opposite to "business oriented". It's for people like me for example, casual gamers who are looking for a simple, good-looking Z97 motherboard with good price for their new build with "K" processor and a decent graphics card. I think that ASUS simply experiments with non-gold motherboard, because many people don't buy their boards because of color.

But that is just my opinion.

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And what makes this board "strictly business oriented"? I don't think that lack of D-Sub and DVI will please business users. In my opinion it's opposite to "business oriented". It's for people like me for example, casual gamers who are looking for a simple, good-looking Z97 motherboard with good price for their new build with "K" processor and a decent graphics card. I think that ASUS simply experiments with non-gold motherboard, because many people don't buy their boards because of color.

But that is just my opinion.

Yes, a lot has changed and ASUS's AR line is like any other Z97 enthusiast motherboard. Previously AR series featured business oriented Q and B series  chipset and wasn't sold in most retail stores.

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I have this board with a 4790k. Got it at microcenter, didn't know it was "business oriented". Works just fine.

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