Mainstream Intel 8th gen boards

[NumLock21]

Some motherboard pics from the various motherboard makers for the rest of the Intel 8th gen line up based on the Coffee Lake architecture. I'll post just some of them, while the full list will be in the link at the end of this post.

Asrock

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

Asus

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

Gigabyte

Spoiler

 

 

 

MSI

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

https://videocardz.com/75247/gigabyte-h370-and-h310-motherboards-unveiled

https://videocardz.com/75289/msi-b360-h370-and-h310-motherboards-leaked

https://videocardz.com/75277/asrock-h370-h310-and-b360-motherboards-leaked

https://videocardz.com/75407/asus-b360-h370-h310-lga1151-motherboards-leaked

 

[RotoCoreOne]

MSI's white is not white enough imo.

[Techstorm970]

*excitement intensifies*

[Suika]

Honestly I could have sworn these chipsets were due to launch well over a month ago. 

 

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, Suika said:

Honestly I could have sworn these chipsets were due to launch well over a month ago. 

 

Most places say around March or April so it's on schedule.

[derr12]

5 hours ago, RotoCoreOne said:

MSI's white is not white enough imo.

Racist...

[DoctorWho1975]

6 hours ago, RotoCoreOne said:

MSI's white is not white enough imo.

Should the components be in the shape of Tiki torches?

[dizmo]

Finally, half of Intels CPU line up will begin to make sense. 

 

6 hours ago, RotoCoreOne said:

MSI's white is not white enough imo.

The second one is awfully white. There's silver elements though which might be throwing you off. The first board is silver. 

1 hour ago, derr12 said:

Racist...

Sensitive pansy. 

18 minutes ago, DoctorWho1975 said:

Should the components be in the shape of Tiki torches?

Sure why not. 

[mr moose]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

Finally, half of Intels CPU line up will begin to make sense. 

 

 

For me they actually become desirable, unless Zen2 make the decision harder again.

[MyName13]

So there will be H310 chipsets, it seems B360 will be business motherboards.

[SliceT]

Asrock needs a bit of colors, where's the Fatal1ty line up? 

 

[TidaLWaveZ]

14 hours ago, RotoCoreOne said:

MSI's white is not white enough imo.

racist

[TVwazhere]

15 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

Asus

*Asus Board meeting (heh, board meeting)*

 

Alright we need a new look for our ROG Strix Lineup. We need more Gamer looking motherboard styling to stand out from the likes of MSI, Gigabyte and AsRock. Whats more gamery that a cool logo and RGB?

 

Well sir, Everyone has moved to full black or white PCB's or simple angular overlay designs.... What if we... Added lots of splash texts to our PCBs?

 

Hey thats a good Idea! Lets just- *smack* AsRock has being doing that forever. We need something better!!!

 

Well... What if we angled the text? Gamers like edgy things...

 

Not bad not bad, but we need just something more...

 

Sir, should we color and italicize the text to look like falling rain that travels across the Chipset? And put in wording to remind them to join our cult?

Spoiler

Ricky You're a goddamn genius. Here are my keys, go to my house and f*** my wife

 

[dizmo]

7 hours ago, mr moose said:

For me they actually become desirable, unless Zen2 make the decision harder again.

Same. Though, that also hinges on whether or not you can turbo lock the chips. I'm not sure if that feature is Z specific or not. 

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

Does anyone know why it took what over 6 months or so, for Intel to finally release the budget version of 300 series motherboards?

[derr12]

10 hours ago, dizmo said:

Sensitive pansy.

Homophobe!

[derr12]

1 minute ago, derr12 said:

Homophobe!

REEEEEEEE!

[derr12]

Seriously tho.  I never understood why Intel has to release a new chipset after every minor revision.  must be so annoying to have to swap a motherboard everytime you want to do a minor upgrade. My last platform lasted me nearly 8 years.

[dizmo]

9 minutes ago, derr12 said:

Homophobe!

I wonder what my gay friends would have to say about that

5 minutes ago, derr12 said:

Seriously tho.  I never understood why Intel has to release a new chipset after every minor revision.  must be so annoying to have to swap a motherboard everytime you want to do a minor upgrade. My last platform lasted me nearly 8 years.

Most people do. AMD does as well. Chipsets aren't the same thing as a socket, if that's what you mean

I like that they put out a new chipset every year. There are always improvements that can be made, and it's foolish not to reap them as soon as possible. While yes, your rig might have lasted you 8 years and you weren't planning on building another one, you're not the only person they make products for.

[Notional]

I know these are mainstream boards, but where the frack are the USB 3.1 front panel headers? Seriously?

 

I do like the full shroud on the Strix ITX, on the back IO. However, I do wonder if it inhibits in the cooling too much, since ITX stiff is crammed a lot.

[Trik'Stari]

I miss the old themed boards. The ASUS Rog's and the Tuffs and whatnot.

 

I really miss the Gigabyte SOC-Force series

[TheSLSAMG]

9 minutes ago, Trik'Stari said:

I miss the old themed boards. The ASUS Rog's and the Tuffs and whatnot.

 

I really miss the Gigabyte SOC-Force series

Same. I miss Gigabyte's old G1.Sniper boards. The green looked cool, and sometimes you got weird shit like skulls or shell casings on the heatsink design.

[Energycore]

Does anyone recall if this time they took longer than usual to release mainstream motherboards? It felt like foreeeeeever. I spent more than 3 months telling people not to buy an i3 because as great value as it is by itself, there were no motherboards for it below $120.

[ARikozuM]

8 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Does anyone recall if this time they took longer than usual to release mainstream motherboards? It felt like foreeeeeever. I spent more than 3 months telling people not to buy an i3 because as great value as it is by itself, there were no motherboards for it below $120.

Usually takes 4-5 months to release the consumer boards. 

 

20 hours ago, dizmo said:

Finally, half of Intels CPU line up will begin to make sense. 

Pffft, 2/3rds of their line-up didn't have a home unless you future-proofed with fast RAM and tons of RGB. 

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And I would play devil's advocate for RGB being future-proof. At least until someone makes a beautiful white and blue board like the Designare series by ASRock. 

 

[Notional]

12 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Does anyone recall if this time they took longer than usual to release mainstream motherboards? It felt like foreeeeeever. I spent more than 3 months telling people not to buy an i3 because as great value as it is by itself, there were no motherboards for it below $120.

Remember the Coffee Lake CPU's were released over a quater early due to Ryzen. This is also why they only had the expensive z chipset ready. So yeah, it's been longer than usual.