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Why is it that all of a sudden a bunch of Z97 boards are popping up with PLX switches but yet don't have the slot spacing needed for SLI/CFX?

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Why is it that all of a sudden a bunch of Z97 boards are popping up with PLX switches but yet don't have the slot spacing needed for SLI/CFX?

Just between the first two x16 lanes, after that there is no room. I don't think they expect anyone to run 3-way sli on that board, and that is where the maximus comes in.

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These boards are cool and the features are cool however I feel like this is a weird time to release a new chipset with a new cpu. Still haswell currently not broadwell, skylake which will more then likely have DDR4 isn't close yet so its hard to want to move to anything yet for anyone with sandy, ivy or haswell.

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Why is it that all of a sudden a bunch of Z97 boards are popping up with PLX switches but yet don't have the slot spacing needed for SLI/CFX?

Asus seems to be fond of plx chips at tje moment but the pcie lanes are routed direct to cpu, the plx is meant for sata, usb etc etc

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Just watched the video.. definitely not happy about the gold accents -_- I want silver or white and black.

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YES! They fixed the gold! It's still gold but at least it's way better than last gen.

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Why is it that all of a sudden a bunch of Z97 boards are popping up with PLX switches but yet don't have the slot spacing needed for SLI/CFX?

Theta plenty of space... What I want to see is Nvidia or AMD have single slot water blocked gpus so you can throw four in an ATX or mATX system.

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Theta plenty of space... What I want to see is Nvidia or AMD have single slot water blocked gpus so you can throw four in an ATX or mATX system.

Reference water block cards would be awesome.

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Is the PCB brown? what is asus smoking....

Brown? That's disgusting. 

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Reference water block cards would be awesome.

EVGA has it but they're dual slot cards... :(

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EVGA has it but they're dual slot cards... :(

 

The Nvidia standard port layout requires dual slots. It doesn't seem like Nvidia gives their AIBs a ton of control with port layout. At least not that I've seen.

 

 

Is the PCB brown? what is asus smoking....

 

No, it's black. The lighting makes it look brown sometimes, but all the Z97 boards have black PCBs. It's very clearly black in the stock images and close ups.

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I like the ROG and TUF boards even more.

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The Nvidia standard port layout requires dual slots. It doesn't seem like Nvidia gives their AIBs a ton of control with port layout. At least not that I've seen.

If they drop a DVI port then it's possible. DisplayPort takes up little space and has plenty of adapters.

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YES! They fixed the gold! It's still gold but at least it's way better than last gen.

 

You know, I got the Z87I because it was gold and I thought it looked fantastic in a 250D... Differences of opinion.  -_-

 

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I really want to see how the next Formula board will look like.

 

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I watched this earlier, in my honest opinion if you have a p67 and are still on sandy 1155 you are missing nothing if you're a gamer.

 

The only important feature that I can say I care about since then is USB3.

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Man I love the ASUS boards but why you heff to stick with gold? Now there are very few options for blue motherboards :(

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Man I love the ASUS boards but why you heff to stick with gold? Now there are very few options for blue motherboards :(

 

I believe gold is very popular in some of their Asian markets so that is why they are using that color.

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I'm more interested to see how they can possibly improve the VI Impact. 

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I don't really like the ASUS gushing. "When you are buying an ASUS board you are buying a lot more than base spec". Yeah I know it is an ASUS video but still :P

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I definitely like this gold theme over the 50 shades of gold/yellow/puke color they had on there z87 boards.

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EVGA has it but they're dual slot cards... :(

  I thought those are EK rebrands.

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  I thought those are EK rebrands.

 

Swiftech actually. They're based on the Komodo line of waterblocks.

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