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true but it doesn't make sense from a business standpoint to go boom here us everything at launch no?

Yup but this pretty much the models that they expect to sell the most. Would love to see a ROG mini-ITX board though.

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I wasn't surprised by the ROG ones seeing what my Maximus V Formula comes with. There's pretty much nothing new at all. The Z77 line looks better to me in terms of aesthetics.

 

Nothing special on the Sabertooth, I kind of like the Gryphon idea.

 

As for the rest, I love the Back/Gold Yellow theme having owned a few ESC boards in the past.

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I wasn't surprised by the ROG ones seeing what my Maximus V Formula comes with. There's pretty much nothing new at all. The Z77 line looks better to me in terms of aesthetics.

 

Nothing special on the Sabertooth, I kind of like the Gryphon idea.

 

As for the rest, I love the Back/Gold Yellow theme having owned a few ESC boards in the past.

are u kidding :P

The ROG boards look awesome!

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are u kidding :P

The ROG boards look awesome!

But they practically didn't change much aesthetic wise so.. nothing surprising.

Not that they look bad, cause they look awesome :P

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But they practically didn't change much aesthetic wise so.. nothing surprising.

Not that they look bad, cause they look awesome :P

ohhhhh ok..... yeah i agree they didn't change much :P but I thought you meant you didn't like the look of them....... like no :angry:   ;)

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I really hope it is two ethernet ports I see there on the Deluxe board, though I had hoped for two ports on the ROG board

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Probably from the gold colored ones that would match his gold water block, gold fittings, and gold reservoir.

He only has a gold CPU waterblock, nothing else is gold. Anyway, I doubt its the colour scheme, he was really fussy with his motherboard selection (not saying its a bad thing), plus he isn't going to upgrade any time soon.

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He only has a gold CPU waterblock, nothing else is gold. Anyway, I doubt its the colour scheme, he was really fussy with his motherboard selection (not saying its a bad thing), plus he isn't going to upgrade any time soon.

Actually, he got his hands on a gold reservoir from Phobya. He did an unboxing of it and it might still be at his place. Not sure about the fittings though.

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Actually, he got his hands on a gold reservoir from Phobya. He did an unboxing of it and it might still be at his place. Not sure about the fittings though.

Yep, but that wasn't for his rig. He is using the T-Virus.

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Yep, but that wasn't for his rig. He is using the T-Virus.

I'm not saying he will use them. I just gave a possible reason as to why Linus was excited about the ASUS Haswell motherboards.

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Dunno why so many have their panties in a bunch over the gold scheme. I love it, easily even better than the ROG look.

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I wonder whatever happened to this:
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This was shown during last year's Computex I believe.

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No thermo fusion heatsinks?

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No thermo fusion heatsinks?

why not a standard now D: so disappointing 

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My only complaint about the Sabertooth is that bloody chipset fan. Or, I should say the chipset fan whenever it decides to eventually die, make a hell of a lot of noise before doing so. What happened to passive? At least it means I could likely put a noctua on it I suppose.

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No thermo fusion heatsinks?

 

why not a standard now D: so disappointing 

 

Maybe they're redesigning it to improve performance? Or they've noticed too many people switching it out for 3rd party blocks?

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Maybe they're redesigning it to improve performance? Or they've noticed too many people switching it out for 3rd party blocks?

Probably the opposite. Too few people used it to watercool.

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It's a good thing I stuck with my z77 I deluxe that I got for my mini gaming machine because that mini itx board is ugly. But I.do.want the performance of haswell :-(

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Probably the opposite. Too few people used it to watercool.

Probably. Or not many water coolers liked it that much since you are basically fixed to a barb fitting and a certain tubing size. I know a few friends that replaced it for EK's water block.

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honestly i still perfer my V Formula, i like the look and intergraded waterblook

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It's a good thing I stuck with my z77 I deluxe that I got for my mini gaming machine because that mini itx board is ugly

 

To each his own, I can't wait to frisbee my P8Z77-I Deluxe into a new HTPC build and upgrade my main to this awesome fingerlickin' pimpin' motherboard. Then I can have SIX SSDs in Raid 0 in my Prodigy *highfive*

 

And like anything else with gold finish, it'll look better in person.

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I swear from that teaser with the M&Ms that the PCIe slots were going to be all black for the Deluxe board, and I was hoping the rest of the boards would be the same. We really don't

need colored PCI slots anymore.

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To each his own, I can't wait to frisbee my P8Z77-I Deluxe into a new HTPC build and upgrade my main to this awesome fingerlickin' pimpin' motherboard. Then I can have SIX SSDs in Raid 0 in my Prodigy *highfive*

 

And like anything else with gold finish, it'll look better in person.

Haha I would be up for that. I have no problem with the color just prefer the blue. But I want 6 ssd's for my prodigy :(

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Why did they name the 2nd ROG mobo Hero? Formula sounded so much better :( The black/gold color scheme looks a bit too flashy for my taste as well.

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