Asus Z87 Teasers
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remember300
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mmm a rog connector but for hdmi ,,,,
Josh Weston
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mmm
M&Ms.
M&Ms.
iBeInspire
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I'll hopefully be picking up a hazwell i3 too - when the time comes 
Nice to see mobo teasers this early on, getting me wet already xDD
Nice to see mobo teasers this early on, getting me wet already xDD
Scoob
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Interesting, ima looking forward to Haswell. Time to upgrade from my 2500K
I too am eager for something to replace my 2500k. Even at 4.6 ghz it's quite the bottleneck in Crysis 3. I'd love to see the same degree of jump I got going from my Q6600 (@ 3.6) to my 2500k, but I think that's a little too much to hope for!
Note: I have no real need to upgrade as I can play anything I want and it runs well, however, I sorta got the bug again after upgrading to 2x GTX 680's & new blocks after one of my GTX 570's started playing silly whatsits...STUFF! lol.
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nothingspecial
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Something to point out is that whatever the RoG thing in the middle picture is, the pins match the pattern of the TPM connector on older RoG boards.
Admittedly they'd be male to male, it does make me think that it'll be something to do with voltage monitoring, or something to that effect.
Not that I have any idea what the TPM header is actually for...
Admittedly they'd be male to male, it does make me think that it'll be something to do with voltage monitoring, or something to that effect.
Not that I have any idea what the TPM header is actually for...
whenever i read "gryphon" i think of family guy for some reason. there was that one episode where chris was the cool kid at school and everyone called him griffoooon. i hope this won't affect my opinion on these boards lol. anyways looking forward to them, i was at CeBit because i heard that at least Asrock had a z87 board there, turned out they only had z77 boards. CeBit was pretty disappointing in general, nothing new i really cared about it. 2/10, wouldn't visit again (one point for the free ticket and 1 point for club3d and the zotac titan).
hood6558
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Haswell won't support DDR4, so as much as I'm itchin' to build a new system, I'll probably ride out on my Ivy rig at least 'til Broadwell hits the market. That is, unless Haswell is a decent enough performance bump to convince me otherwise, in which case I'll sell my present kit and go for broke (as usual).
AverageNinja
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By the time I get to build a rig, Haswell will be released, so I'm stoked for benchmarks!
hood6558
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Stop With The Haswell Delays Already!
Yeah, it get's boring waiting for a new platform, especially when they keep moving back the launch date (it's now June 2nd, was April something). Then we hear about a slight flaw in the Z87 chipset (USB 3.0 disconnecting coming out of S3 sleep) and I guess that explains the delay somewhat. Even though they're not fixing the flaw until the next revision, and will ship boards known to have the problem. Makes you wonder what else is buggy on the new platform they're not telling us about.
Z77 was supposed to address past issues and be the ultimate stable enthusiast chipset, and mostly it's lived up to that, but there a few issues, and the next gen chipset should fix those, not introduce new ones. USB 3.0 in particular seems to be hit-or-miss, even on the latest hardware, so these new issues are a real disappointment. I mean, c'mon, it's been out since 2008, and it's still not as stable or as well supported as USB 2.0. The old standard works with anything, but is way too slow for today's file sizes. USB 1.1 was released in 1996, when PCs had 2.1 GB hard drives (or less) and a large USB thumb drive was 64 MB. Even in 2000 when USB 2.0 debuted, PCs only came with 4 to 6 GB hard drives, and 20 GB was considered huge.
I now have 11 TB, 5 of them external, so USB 2.0 is out of the question. The problem is that some of the external USB 3.0 drives I've used tend to randomly disconnect, or maybe they're just powering down to save energy, either way it's annoying to have to wait for reconnect, and now they tell us Haswell will add sleep state issues to the list.
Yeah, it get's boring waiting for a new platform, especially when they keep moving back the launch date (it's now June 2nd, was April something). Then we hear about a slight flaw in the Z87 chipset (USB 3.0 disconnecting coming out of S3 sleep) and I guess that explains the delay somewhat. Even though they're not fixing the flaw until the next revision, and will ship boards known to have the problem. Makes you wonder what else is buggy on the new platform they're not telling us about.
Z77 was supposed to address past issues and be the ultimate stable enthusiast chipset, and mostly it's lived up to that, but there a few issues, and the next gen chipset should fix those, not introduce new ones. USB 3.0 in particular seems to be hit-or-miss, even on the latest hardware, so these new issues are a real disappointment. I mean, c'mon, it's been out since 2008, and it's still not as stable or as well supported as USB 2.0. The old standard works with anything, but is way too slow for today's file sizes. USB 1.1 was released in 1996, when PCs had 2.1 GB hard drives (or less) and a large USB thumb drive was 64 MB. Even in 2000 when USB 2.0 debuted, PCs only came with 4 to 6 GB hard drives, and 20 GB was considered huge.
I now have 11 TB, 5 of them external, so USB 2.0 is out of the question. The problem is that some of the external USB 3.0 drives I've used tend to randomly disconnect, or maybe they're just powering down to save energy, either way it's annoying to have to wait for reconnect, and now they tell us Haswell will add sleep state issues to the list.
