Manufactures, Y U tease us?

[SieB]

Yummy orange and black.... More yummy orange and black.. Then...

BLUE horrid disgusting blue.

If that's a board that's to be released then it has serious colour issues.

Read my post above

 

[alienware]

Looking at the white line around the fets area, there will be a heatsink. But there's no way they'll let that s/b heatsink stay that colour lol.. just no.

Noob question: Is that a 6 pin power connector above the Sata ports? or is that just my eyes?

Hmm bloody hell well spotted !!

Seems to be yeah. Man, the amount of power connectors on these boards is mad.

Read my post above

haha sadly my eyes had already been burnt and took a poo and I had eye poo going all down my cheeks :S

 

[UkGouki]

gigabyte got a new pic up orange and black haswell board also intel posted a pic >
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.631436280203355.1073741831.246415092038811

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...976849.-2207520000.1366997807.&type=3&theater

 

[alienware]

I tell you I'm beginning to really worry about Haswell.

First of all the boards seem smothered in power connectors (mostly dual 8 pin) and now the heatsinks are all sporting small, annoying fans.

Why? Haswell is supposed to be a die/nm shrink meaning less power and less heat.

Seriously WTF is going on here?

 

[Zoot]

I tell you I'm beginning to really worry about Haswell.

First of all the boards seem smothered in power connectors (mostly dual 8 pin) and now the heatsinks are all sporting small, annoying fans.

Why? Haswell is supposed to be a die/nm shrink meaning less power and less heat.

Seriously WTF is going on here?

They're probably only their flagship boards. The less expensive ones won't be as beefed up.

If anything the only negative I could envisage is Intel putting the VRM circuitry onboard the CPU die, I'd say it'll mean there's little difference between the boards when it comes to overclocking. Could be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it.

 

[SieB]

The boards with the extra power connectors and heatsinks with fans and integrated watercooling are the overclocking flagship models. Non of it is needed for normal use, it's only for aesthetics, or for people who will actually be doing extreme overclocking.

 

[alpenwasser]

Why? Haswell is supposed to be a die/nm shrink meaning less power and less heat.

Isn't Haswell still 22 nm? According to what I've read (so, Google ), the next step would be
14 nm, and that's not due until 2014.

Also, those teasers are probably from the high end spectrum of the product range, I doubt
2 x 8 pins will be the norm, as Zoot and SieB have said.

 

[alienware]

Yeah but it's the amount of manus using it (and one even had a six pin near the SATA ports !) that I find alarming.

I've only ever seen dual 8 pin on either EVGA FTW boards and MSI Big Bang boards. And they were both X58.

 

[SieB]

Yeah but it's the amount of manus using it (and one even had a six pin near the SATA ports !) that I find alarming.

I've only ever seen dual 8 pin on either EVGA FTW boards and MSI Big Bang boards. And they were both X58.

The EVGA FTW and Big Bang are also both flagship overclocking boards.

The orange Gigabyte board is a board made especially for extreme overclocking, Gigabyte even got one of the worlds top overclockers "Hi cookie" to design it for them. That was back with x58 but they have carried the design onward since for Sandy, Ivy and now Haswell.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Designs-Special-Overclocking-Motherboard-176807.shtml

The six pin by the SATA ports is for extra power for the PCIE lanes for extreme overclocking.

These Haswell boards, the G1 Killer, Gigabyte OC, MSI Big Bang X Power are all top end boards marketed and designed for extreme overclocking in mind. This is why they have all these extra power connectors, they are also the boards on which all the pro overclockers will be setting world records on.

These are top end boards, the low to mid range wont have these features and will be aimed more at the average Joe and gamer.

 

[Ironsoldier]

MSI boards> all imo.

 

[Chuckers]

I'm also becoming a fan of MSI boards having recently swapped from an ASRock Z68. In my opion, they've absolutely nailed the correct price points of their boards with the different standard editions and then the gaming editions in between those.

 

[Feronix]

Got 2 new teasers for you guys:

This one from MSI:

And the first I've seen from ASRock:

 

[SieB]

Got 2 new teasers for you guys:

And the first I've seen from ASRock:

My keyboard is now sticky.

 

[alienware]

I love those gold plated caps. Soo classy.

 

[Feronix]

I love those gold plated caps. Soo classy.

I agree, though I just wished that they used them in combination with black PCB boards instead of the vomit brown ones

 

[alpenwasser]

Very punny, MSI's clear CMOS button is actually a clear button :lol:

 

[alienware]

Very punny, MSI's clear CMOS button is actually a clear button :lol:

It's actually a clear clear cmos button

Well spotted man I love plays on words

 

[Mgutierrez33]

except for that one board with the blue heatsink on it, I like the look of these new 1150 boards so far

 

[alienware]

Oh dear I think I just made the front of my underwear sticky..

Z87 Killer any one? Edit holy fudge look how wide it is !!

 

[SieB]

They finally did the right thing and didn't put a weapon shaped heatsink on it

I hope the do a MATX version like they did with the last Killer board.

EDIT: just noticed they put CMOS next to the heatsink instead of the usual place, in the centre of the board.