Z87 board preview

[jimi]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6970/haswell-z87-motherboard-preview-50-motherboards-from-asus-gigabyte-asrock-msi-ecs-biostar-and-evga

[mgsstar]

Sweet! Thanks for the preview jimi! :)

[silencerbob]

They "think" an Asrock board has a thunderbolt connection..?

[ccaian]

Whats with the shit golden colour scheme. Who has a golden computer? Jeeeeezzz

[Samdb]

Looking forward to the Gigabyte boards.

[MzCatieB]

im looking at the EVGA model

[That Norwegian Guy]

Whats with the shit golden colour scheme. Who has a golden computer? Jeeeeezzz

 

I do, and with so many gold accented options on PSUs, upcoming graphics cards and cooling options, many many others will have this totally AWESOME colour scheme too.

[TechFan@ic]

I personally don't like the golden color themes at all. I would prefer to see some more affordable green themed motherboards, current ones are limited to Gigabytes expensive "premium" range.

[Flamewalker]

Alot of good motherboards to choose from.

Personally i'm deciding between ASUS ROG Maximus VI Hero,Asrock Z87 extreme 6,MSI Z87A-GD65 Gaming when haswell comes out.

[kemical]

AsRock is not a bad choice even thought it carries the smallest price 

[ccaian]

I do, and with so many gold accented options on PSUs, upcoming graphics cards and cooling options, many many others will have this totally AWESOME colour scheme too.

 

No doubt it looks badass, but the colour is rarely used.  I used "Shit" a little inappropriately though, I don't mean the colour scheme. Any well done colour scheme is good, but its just that like HALF the boards are gold. Why? I don't get it. I own a fractal design R4 so I have to go for blue thanks to the blue LED in front. LOOK AT HOW MANY CHOICES I HAVE. just 1 :(:(

[RainbowTylernol]

439$ for the P8Z87-Deluxe? Damn, that's way more than I was expecting. D:

[Glenwing]

439$ for the P8Z87-Deluxe? Damn, that's way more than I was expecting. D:

You can't figure out what the prices will be by take another country's price and converting the currencies; hardware has different costs in different areas.  For example a GTX 660 in the UK costs around 170 pounds which would be about $260 if you just converted it to USD.  However in the US they are like $220-230.  So it's not just a matter of converting currencies, the actual costs themselves are different from region to region.

[That Norwegian Guy]

No doubt it looks badass, but the colour is rarely used.  I used "Shit" a little inappropriately though, I don't mean the colour scheme. Any well done colour scheme is good, but its just that like HALF the boards are gold.

 

That's not true though. Just ASUS' Deluxe line of boards are gold. And for every niche in the market, there will be one option that is gold, all of them from Asus. No prospective motherboard customer will consider ALL of the gold boards, because they have vastly different niches. So basically, no matter what you need your board to be able to do, there will be ONE gold option. That is Asus doing it right IMO, and they still have the ROG series in black and red for those who don't like those.

[MichalCZE97]

I hope MSI keeps their blue-themed boards as well. I really like those black&blue boards like the one I currently own. Otherwise I would have to change colour scheme to like black&red, but I don't really like red colour at all. :(

[raxx]

439$ for the P8Z87-Deluxe? Damn, that's way more than I was expecting. D:

I think that price includes an intel cpu.

[Angkorian Kai]

I can't decide if I like any of the new colour schemes...the gold and yellow especially. With the exception of the Gigabyte UD3H board I haven't seen any good blue themed boards for Z87.

[Stefan Becker]

I personally don't like the golden color themes at all. I would prefer to see some more affordable green themed motherboards, current ones are limited to Gigabytes expensive "premium" range.

You, my good sir, are so right!