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ASUS Z97-A....R? The SILVER ASUS Motherboard!

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Well this: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z97AR/ is a thing. 

 

So apparently a silver version (which looks a lot sexier than those "eh" goldish boards ASUS currently has) of the Z97-A exists. 

 

What's the differences you may ask? Well you'd think because there's an "R" at the end of it or whatever that it'd be better possibly right? Nope. Actually the only and main differences between this and the regular A is that the AR doesn't have a VGA and DVI port on the board and again...it's an awesome silver color. 

 

Sadly however, I keep seeing this board for like 149.99 USD which...is more expensive than the (typically priced at 137.99-144.99) Z97-A. When in fact, because it's missing those ports should be cheaper. 

 

...But it's silver and stupidly tempting, and the Z97-A is really popular right now...so I think I'd still buy it. Lol

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THAT IS BEAUTIFUL  :wub:

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I think it's more or less the same board / pcb / whatever with different heatsinks :P

It is the same board...just has silver instead of gold heatsinks and the BIOS is silver and not gold. Plus the VGA and DVI ports are gone.

THAT IS BEAUTIFUL :wub:

IT'S NOT GOLD!

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IT'S NOT GOLD! 

PRAISE BE TO GABEN

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Best purchase this year, bcuz forza

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That is a sexy piece of hardware.  

I forsee many, many builds around this board.

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Wow pretty

 

somebody do a chrome and aluminium build!

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That is a sexy piece of hardware.

I forsee many, many builds around this board.

Too bad no one really knows about it.

Wow pretty

somebody do a chrome and aluminium build!

That sounds BA lol

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Too bad no one really knows about it.

 

I'm betting it will be mentioned in the WAN show.  I seem to remember Linus sending all the viewers to vote for this.  That should spread the word reasonably well.  

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I'm betting it will be mentioned in the WAN show.  I seem to remember Linus sending all the viewers to vote for this.  That should spread the word reasonably well.  

Do you know where the vote was or something? 

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Do you know where the vote was or something? 

I think it was a twitter retweet thing.  I don't remember the exact details.  All I remember is that Linus asked the whole stream to retweet or favourite something from ASUS asking if people would like to see a silver motherboard.  It was a few weeks ago.  

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If only it had the sound delivery system of the MSI Gaming line :(

 

Just four capacitors for signal cleaning is nowhere near enough with current cap technology (can't wait for all-graphene caps on MOBOs, unbelievable 0.00000023% distortion on a studio sound board).

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If only it had the sound delivery system of the MSI Gaming line :(

 

Just four capacitors for signal cleaning is nowhere near enough with current cap technology (can't wait for all-graphene caps on MOBOs, unbelievable 0.00000023% distortion on a studio sound board).

It has their own Crystal Sound Tech, if you don't like it, buy a dedicated sound card if you're so serious about audio. 

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Now, that is so much better than gold.

Who in right, right mind would say " Guys, we need to scrape the blue and go with gold"  I mean really? Most build are either blue or red. 

Who makes gold components, apart from Asus, where they just give you stickers to replace the red. 

EDIT: Oh, and memory. 

 

At least silver looks a bit better. 

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It has their own Crystal Sound Tech, if you don't like it, buy a dedicated sound card if you're so serious about audio. 

Speaking from experience, sound cards seem to be the number one cause of system instability apart from a bad OS install. Just found out a sound card was the reason for a P9X79-E WS Board not supporting shutdown and sleep.

 

It's also far from the first time my family's seen sound cards causing problems.

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How is it?

Works just fine. Only difference I think is the lack of DVI ports. And it's Silver. I didn't even know this board was "special" when I got it at microcenter. I think it'll work like any Z97 board.
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