Asrock confirms Intel X299 & AMD X399

[Drak3]

35 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Great, because nobody is going to think that X399 comes after X299, right? This is going to be hell for consumer chipsets.

No, they're going to assume that X399 is better than X299 because it's a higher number.

 

And they ain't entirely wrong.

 

And it's 100 better, because maths.

[Phate.exe]

10 hours ago, UberGamerKing said:

' Series=Fatal1ty '

 

Jeez even motherboard manufacturerers are starting to do L33T SP34K because why not

 

"Starting"

 

Here's a Fatal1ty-edition mobo from back in the Socket 939 days:

 

PCI-Express and SATA were both pretty new back then.

 

Here's some Fatal1ty edition DDR2 ram.

 

Also:  Headsets/microphones, video cards, speakers.

 

Johnathan Wendell did some pretty successful branding.  My point is that branding has been going on for more than a decade.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, Phate.exe said:

My point is that branding has been going on for more than a decade.

Meanwhile, every other company either abandons their branding them after a few years, or just call everything the "New" product X.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Nick Shih commented that there's a X299 OC formula 

[rhyseyness]

I feel like AMD just named theirs X399 to look one better than Intels X299, lol.

[Sakkura]

18 hours ago, UberGamerKing said:

Oh, im an ASUS person, so i never even noticed this.

Then again, Asus and Asrock used to be part of the same company.

 

You can still see the family resemblance in the parent company name - Asrock is a subsidiary of Pegatron. And of course the Asus name is derived from Pegasus.