B-A.

I'm gonna say absolutely get the 4790k unless you can find a 6700k for the same price, there isn't a lot of difference tbh and you'll likely save money on the board and memory too, that said, nothing worse than buyer's remorse, if you really think you want it or ddr4 or newer mobo's with features like the type-c usb, get the 6700k

As King Arthur's long lost cousin's grandfather's sister's descendant (totally true), I should like an Exaclibur V2, no need to worry about the lady of the lake, post will be fine.

The Kova man! Looks like a stealth fighter haha

The autore keyboard looks sick, that stealth look is sexy af! Cherry mx switches are absolutely the way to go for quality I feel, and browns are a great choice. Would be really interested to try out that crazy sounding aria headset, japanese pinewood? Gotta know if it does anything for the sound quality haha.

4k video capture close second being the front facing HDR, my aging Note 2's camera looks so dated now

Final note haha this of course invalidated my windows 10 key, I was able to get a new key generated for me by microsoft's grace but it was hard won with 3 phone calls over skype totalling 2 hours so beware!

Well looks like nobody cared about this thread but in case anybody else is suffering with this I'll still post the solution I found: Welp, after I asked if I could procure a new BIOS chip from them (asked to buy it mind not for free) they sent me this: https://gyazo.com/56655893345f13e027baa2410dbcc56b However I had already purchased the Ebay BIOS chip and it was an exact replica, make, serial number etc... and it solved all of my Intel MEI woes. Cheers guys.

Whoops, before I get asked for it the FTK error: https://gyazo.com/568bec0f705d76cb26c8c697c31c37cb

Hi all, been running my rig for a while now and I have encountered issues with Intel management engine interface software being uninstallable with the error message "platform not supported" shown on install attempts and in BIOS I am greeted with N/A next to ME version. I'm led to believe that like others, my board has no ME on it anymore I cannot RMA this board unfortunately so I'm stuck with it. I've trawled countless forums for the answer to this to no avail much to my frustration leading me here, good ol' LTT for a last ditch shot before I just buy a new BIOS chip from ebay haha. Closest solution thus-far I found on the ROG forums was this; https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?65993-Maximus-Hero-VII-MEI-Drivers-shown-as-N-A-in-BIOS But this solution results in Error 26 within FTK which is apparently (I personally have no idea a different thread led me to believe this) lock-out from the ME chip, one can supposedly access this by shorting 2 pins on the realtek audio chip but my motherboard being over-priced and flashy has that covered with a supremeFX housing, then covered some more with thermal armour, yeesh. I do have the latest BIOS (currently 2801) and have flashed back and forth between others on ASUS's site in a pitiful attempt to rectify this, same for chipset drivers (although the latest appear to include ME drivers and in so doing provide the same exception) and have of course tried all variants of the ME drivers. Running windows 10 Home x64 (though this issue was present in win 7 as well) I do not believe the rest of my specs are pertinent to this issue whatsoever so I will Forgo them, If you want them though, say and I'll be happy to provide them. Sorry if this is dumb but if any user out there can help me, chances are they're on LTT. Log of the Install error in case its relevant although I'm pretty sure the diagnosis is complete. http://pastebin.com/1xdN95d3

Really liking the idea of a no-frills approach, but still with enough buttons like back/forward to be more than average, I'd love to try this

T_T Just as I finish my damn build and settle for corsair force gs ssds as they're the only matching colour drives (I know red, original huh?) I must has!

You are awesome sir! another G1 gaming confirmed (now just to mod out those LEDs to red haha!)

Hey Vessel: lightningmagnus Vids: Extra Share: https://twitter.com/AlanDHudson/status/580372460287209472 I am from UK so if I'm outta reach shoot me down guys