ASUS ROG Z87 Boards.

[BradleyW-H]

Well this is interesting...

We have seen the Hero VI

We have seen the Extreme VI

We have now had a image of the Formula VI

It is the one with the Thermal armour that we are used to seeing on the Sabertooth series on Motherboards. Maybe this is a Hybrid of ROG meeting their new TUF series too. Image courtesy of Newegg TV and their production crew.

They are also showing off the New Micro atx Impact VI at Computex too but there are no clear images of it as far as i can find.

Thoughts Opinions on the new Formula board?

 

[MrKambo]

ROG ITX
and the Formula VI with Armour

Actually really like the Formula, might accidentally get one!

 

[BradleyW-H]

Yea me to. I thought i was set on the HERO but i was also torn between the sabertooth and the Hero Now i have both in 1 What else could i ask for????

 

[MrKambo]

the Hero is only £180, i got a feeling this Formula is gonna be the £250 mark, with the Extreme coming in at £300+

i think one of the Gigabyte boards were at £399, cant remember which one...

but it it seems the formula will be the only one built in with watercooling option, i hope the barbs are 1/4, the 3/8 they used on the Formula V were a poor choice

 

[BradleyW-H]

Yea hopefully they have learnt from their mistakes. I think the Formula will come in at around the £230-250 mark too. But i think i would pay that just for the looks because that thing looks damm sexy

My eyes are Going to be fixated on my email waiting for Aria rawz to post on the forum when they have them coming in. Because QUITE FRANKLY I CAN'T WAIT

 

[jamesriley94]

Ooft, actually considering the ITX Maximus...

I can imagine them wanting over £200 for it though which would be a real shame

 

[MrKambo]

Ooft, actually considering the ITX Maximus...

I can imagine them wanting over £200 for it though which would be a real shame

the only other decent ITX board is the ASRock one, which was about £150 last time i checked, but who knows Asus may surprise us

 

[BradleyW-H]

That thing looks sweet too. I'm lost in all of this new hardware that coming out all at once. First of all the GPU's from NVIDIA, then haswell and now all of these Motherboards too. I have already had messages from people to start building them systems. Tom won't be the only one not getting sleep over the next few weeks :'(

 

[jamesriley94]

the only other decent ITX board is the ASRock one, which was about £150 last time i checked, but who knows Asus may surprise us

I dunno...

That's alright - aesthetics don't matter so much for ITX IMO, but the Z77 ITX board like that was over £150, so I can't imagine these 2 being cheaper.

Which ASrock one do you mean?

 

[MrKambo]

This one..

Z77E

 

[jamesriley94]

Oh right, I thought you were meaning for Z87.

I've got an H77 ASrock ITX board atm, and the layout (similar to the Z77 one) makes everything so complicated.

The Asus ones, with the CPU socket further away from the PCIE lane so you can actually stand a chance of mounting some form of CPU cooler other than stock or a hydro series, and with the CPU power connectors on the edge of the board rather than the middle have such a better design.

I think all the companies other than Asus have tried to hard to fit as much on the board as possible and make them more for HTPC use than overclockable and for gaming. Adding the onboard wifi chips do take up a lot of space on such a small board, and if they aren't going to be used, that space is a lot to give up if it could mean more vrms and power phases or something.

 

[BradleyW-H]

Okay im done. That is sexy end of.......

 

[Dicehunter]

Okay im done. That is sexy end of.......

I prefer the Sabertooth, Never been too keen on the ROG theme.

 

[theDTP]

I am not sure when retailers get them but they was distributed today.

 

[BradleyW-H]

I am not sure when retailers get them but they was distributed today.

I like the sound of that. They probably like the sound of my wallet at the minute to.

 

[paulstung]

I prefer the Sabertooth, Never been too keen on the ROG theme.

I'm with you, never been fussed on the black and red, but that board is just to dam sexy to ignore. One ov those in the new Carbide 540 :drool: That's my next build sorted.

 

[antihero]

I'll get the Maximus VI Extreme if it's as good as the previous Extreme models.