Asus Kaby Lake motherboards (Updated)

[NumLock21]

32 minutes ago, wcreek said:

That too, Asus does pack more on to/with the $400 mobo things that say a $140 MSI mobo wouldn't have.

At $400 for a board, just get a X99. As for the exclusive feature on the Formula, it's that integrated EK waterblock on the VRMs.

[handymanshandle]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

At $400 for a board, just get a X99. As for the exclusive feature on the Formula, it's that integrated EK waterblock on the VRMs.

Ah so the code would likely be similar just no integrated I/O?

 

I don't know how much Asus's ROG Z270 boards will cost.

[DELTAprime]

12 minutes ago, wcreek said:

I don't know how much Asus's ROG Z270 boards will cost.

Probably about the same as equivalent Z170 boards were at launch +/- exchange rate changes.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, wcreek said:

Ah so the code would likely be similar just no integrated I/O?

 

I don't know how much Asus's ROG Z270 boards will cost.

The code lacks the EK waterblock and uses the standard heatsink with heatpipes, which imo would be a better option for those who are not planning to do water cooling on every part of the motherboard. Most who does watercooling will run it only on the cpu and gpus. Not many will run it on the VRM and PCH. The Maximus VIII Formula has RGB for every part that lights up, except for the power/reset switch. Don't know about the Code. Price for the current Formula is $400 so the new one might be the same too. Code should be slightly cheaper.

[DELTAprime]

7 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Price for the current Formula is $400

I just can't justify it in my head to spend more on a motherboard than a CPU. I think once I got a motherboard that was equal to the CPU price, but never spend more. I know in theory the Formula or Code should overclock better than the Hero, but it's just something I can't justify in my head.

[aries757]

22 hours ago, SansVarnic said:

There is this thing called the "<snip>" its a great feature to use.

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[NumLock21]

 

 

More boards from Asus

 

 

 

 

 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Wow that extreme board.

 

And what is with that apex board? What is with that dual 8pin?

 

That apex board screams "i just want to oc" to me. With some rgb headers.

[TheKDub]

That's a very interesting board... (The one with the attached waterblock)

[NumLock21]

The Extreme has a integrated waterblock by Bits Power where it cools both the CPU and M.2. The Apex is designed for overclocking, where it supports liquid nitrogen and liquid helium. The DIMM.2 slot is for M.2 storage drives.

[Deli]

The black and silver itx board looks sweet.

[Notional]

3 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

 

 

 

Damn Asus. An ATX board with a built in CPU water cooling head, and 12! fan/pump headers.

 

But I'm more into ITX, and I have to say that is a damn sweet looking ITX board. In their last Impact board (not sure if this is Impact), they scrapped the M.2 for a useless U.2 port. Glad to see they reverted to an actual useful port. I get why it has a cover, as it hides the ugly green pcb's, but at the same time they will hide sweet looking Samsung 960 drives. Oh well. USB 3.1 front header looks sweet, as well as steel PCIe port. If only it had/has? diag LED's on the back IO shield, it would be amazing. Now make one for ZEN Asus!

[NumLock21]

18 minutes ago, Notional said:

Damn Asus. An ATX board with a built in CPU water cooling head, and 12! fan/pump headers.

 

But I'm more into ITX, and I have to say that is a damn sweet looking ITX board. In their last Impact board (not sure if this is Impact), they scrapped the M.2 for a useless U.2 port. Glad to see they reverted to an actual useful port. I get why it has a cover, as it hides the ugly green pcb's, but at the same time they will hide sweet looking Samsung 960 drives. Oh well. USB 3.1 front header looks sweet, as well as steel PCIe port. If only it had/has? diag LED's on the back IO shield, it would be amazing. Now make one for ZEN Asus!

They will have a impact like they always do, this one is the Strix. Difference will be the additional power delivery daughter board found on all of their Impact boards. The only non ITX to also have that is the Z87i Deluxe. The cover is not for hiding the ugly PCB, it's a heatsink for cooling of the M.2 drive, cause they get extremely hot.

 

And the cpu waterblock looks like a cassette tape

[Notional]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

They will have a impact like they always do, this one is the Strix. Difference will be the additional power delivery daughter board found on all of their Impact boards. The only non ITX to also have that is the Z87i Deluxe. The cover is not for hiding the ugly PCB, it's a heatsink for cooling of the M.2 drive, cause they get extremely hot.

 

I hope their new Impact will have M.2 then. Because no one in the world owns anything that uses U.2

Yeah MSI also have these M.2 heatsinks on their new boards. It's completely useless. The amount of data needed to be written to these drives to get the temp up to throttling is so insane, you will never achieve it in praxis. On the old Samsung 950 Pro's, the throttling was even just a measly 10%, and ANY active airflow negated the issue entirely. Even when it was side exhaust from a high end GPU. Pure gimmick. So for the most, it just covers the ugly green

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, Notional said:

I hope their new Impact will have M.2 then. Because no one in the world owns anything that uses U.2

Yeah MSI also have these M.2 heatsinks on their new boards. It's completely useless. The amount of data needed to be written to these drives to get the temp up to throttling is so insane, you will never achieve it in praxis. On the old Samsung 950 Pro's, the throttling was even just a measly 10%, and ANY active airflow negated the issue entirely. Even when it was side exhaust from a high end GPU. Pure gimmick. So for the most, it just covers the ugly green

The impact had a M.2 and most M.2 comes in a black PCB. OEM are green like the Samsung 961

[DELTAprime]

More Asus products leaked. You have to wonder what they are doing so poorly to have so much stuff leak.

[Jonathan W]

On 11/29/2016 at 5:45 PM, shadowbyte said:

wow those looks sweet

no mITX option yet though

hopefully they can make the Maximus impact line even better

STRIX 270I Gaming

[shadowbyte]

Just now, Jonathan W said:

STRIX 270I Gaming

holy shit that thing is industrial af

and of course fucking RGB on the side

everything needs RGB

[Jonathan W]

1 minute ago, shadowbyte said:

holy shit that thing is industrial af

and of course fucking RGB on the side

everything needs RGB

And that white header on the right side of the board is for an RGB LED strip ;D

 

[obviously you can turn it all off in software/bios if desired]

[shadowbyte]

Just now, Jonathan W said:

And that white header on the right side of the board is for an RGB LED strip ;D

2016 in one picture

[Jonathan W]

2 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

2016 in one picture

I know I'm super stoked

[Jonathan W]

2 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

2016 in one picture

just found the mATX version..i'm in heaven

[Notional]

3 minutes ago, shadowbyte said:

holy shit that thing is industrial af

and of course fucking RGB on the side

everything needs RGB

 

Well I like it. You might either not need an LED strip, or you can use one less, which is great in an ITX build. Or you can it off.

11 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

The impact had a M.2 and most M.2 comes in a black PCB. OEM are green like the Samsung 961

The Impact 8 did not have an M.2 port. Only U.2.

[NumLock21]

9 minutes ago, Notional said:

Well I like it. You might either not need an LED strip, or you can use one less, which is great in an ITX build. Or you can it off.

The Impact 8 did not have an M.2 port. Only U.2.

I believe the wifi runs off M.2, but it cannot be used for storage?

[Notional]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

I believe the wifi runs off M.2, but it cannot be used for storage?

The old Impact 7 used a thing that had both, but 8 only has U.2. Made no sense. I assume Asus has corrected this stupid mistake on all future boards.