Manufactures, Y U tease us?

[FredEx]

I was at a retail computer store yesterday with a friend buying some cables and little things for his system upgrade. I was looking at video cards dreaming of what I'd like to get, they have samples under plexi for you to view. The guy that owns the place is from Taiwan and has direct connections to factories...he had name brand video cards and mother boards in brown boxes with a laser printout of the board and specs pasted to it. He buys direct and gets the items in bulk each sealed in anti static packages and boxes them himself to put on the shelf. He has a warehouse I go to also, but no showroom there, you mail order from them or walk in and have to know what you want. You get the item in the anti-static bag, OEM, no extra goodies like cables, no boxing.

People going to their retail store don't care what the box looks like.

OH, OH, OH, Message Number 500!!!!!!

 

[SieB]

I just want manufacturers to start releasing prices so I can work out my budget. :\

Hopefully the mobos get released a week or so before the CPUs.

 

[alienware]

I just want manufacturers to start releasing prices so I can work out my budget. :\

Hopefully the mobos get released a week or so before the CPUs.

Any prices now, no matter how accurate,will be subject to greed and price gouging.

It'll be months before things settle and you get what you pay for.

 

[SieB]

Any prices now, no matter how accurate,will be subject to greed and price gouging.

It'll be months before things settle and you get what you pay for.

Aria always stick to fair pricing, even on release. It's where i'll be getting my Haswell stuff from anyway, unless somewhere else out does them on price.

Which going off their Sandy and Ivy launch prices, they wont and Aria will be the cheapest by a good margin. Aria FTW

Prices always come down across the board, but as long as prices are not ridiculous, I don't mind paying the slightly higher price on launch.

 

[MrKambo]

On Giga facebook

i dont like that 6 pin PCI-e connector about the slots, thats just stupid!

 

[SieB]

Orange and black smexyness

Like the other Gigabyte OCs before it, it's primarily an overclocking mobo. It has extra power connectors and all the non essential features that your average mobo has, stripped away.

 

[MrKambo]

Orange and black smexyness

Like the other Gigabyte OCs before it, it's primarily an overclocking mobo. It has extra power connectors and all the non essential features that your average mobo has, stripped away.

i know its a pure OC board, but all that minimal-ness kinda thing really appeals to me, no onboard anything sound/video anything really does it for me!

that board with decent SLI/Xfire setup and a Asus soundcard...4770K yeah thats something id invest in!

i think alot of space is wasted on a motherboard with lots of connectors, now i know someone might use them all, but someone of us dont want all that stuff

 

[alienware]

I agree Kambo, that's gonna make for some messy wiring. I also don't like the grey/silver colour on the sinks. Sheesh, is it really that bloody hard to stick to just two colours when making a motherboard?

That 6 pin smacks of noob tbh.

 

[SieB]

Yeah, but this board is aimed at overclockers, it's built from the ground up to be a board for overclockers, by one of the worlds top pro overclockers.

It's not aimed at, or designed for people that want a normal motherboard without the extra connectors and it's also designed for use on a test bench, not in a case.

If you are buying this motherboard for anything other than overclocking, you are doing it wrong. For a normal, everyday rig, you are better off with a normal motherboard.

It's like saying a woman's dress is wrong because it doesn't look right on a man. :lol:

 

[MrKambo]

Yeah, but this board is aimed at overclockers, it's built from the ground up to be a board for overclockers, by one of the worlds top pro overclockers.

It's not aimed at, or designed for people that want a normal motherboard without the extra connectors and it's also designed for use on a test bench not in a case.

If you are buying this motherboard for anything other than overclocking, you are doing it wrong. For a normal, everyday rig, you are better off with a normal motherboard.

It's like saying a woman's dress is wrong because it doesn't look right on a man. :lol:

i completely understand what you're saying, trust me i do! manufactures wont go through that effort of producing minimal boards for mainstream because it wont be worth while for them!

how many people do you know that would love the minimal designs?

and just for argument sake! the dress thing....i look pretty damn good in a dress dont ask, was just a mad night out :lol:

 

[Feronix]

i completely understand what you're saying, trust me i do! manufactures wont go through that effort of producing minimal boards for mainstream because it wont be worth while for them!

how many people do you know that would love the minimal designs?

and just for argument sake! the dress thing....i look pretty damn good in a dress dont ask, was just a mad night out :lol:

I want pictures.... NAO!

On topic:
Am I the only one that's surprised that even though this is advertised as an overclocking board, the MSI Xpower/Mpower have 2x8Pin CPU connectors while this has 8+4Pin? Also, the MSI boards have more 'heatsink area' and I'm kind of assuming that that's not just for show

 

[SieB]

and just for argument sake! the dress thing....i look pretty damn good in a dress dont ask, was just a mad night out :lol:

I don't look too bad in one myself h34r:

I'm not a fan of having connectors all over the board either, but in this case this board and the people it's aimed would be using them.
I would like to see Gigabyte do a standard board without the extra connectors and the orange and black colour scheme though.

 

[MrKambo]

I don't look too bad in one myself h34r:

I'm not a fan of having connectors all over the board either, but in this case this board and the people it's aimed would be using them.
I would like to see Gigabyte do a standard board without the extra connectors and the orange and black colour scheme though.

LOOOL!

OC3D Dress Off

But seriously, think we should all send Gigabyte and email and see if they would

 

[alienware]

I agree with you Sieb about the board being for crazy overclocking. However, Gigabyte should then make a cheaper regular board in those colours because many will buy it just for that, regardless of whether they overclock or not.

 

[SieB]

Do not want, don't like the all in one heatsink design.

 

[alienware]

I think that's pure sex.

 

[Feronix]

Seems like it's no longer a removable plate that you can paint
Not a fan of the yellow colour scheme but I loved the boards so I'd paint them.

Oh, and I hate the yellow accent in the bottom left corner.

Liked the z77 board better tbh

 

[Roooker]

Liked the z77 board better tbh

Agree. The all in one design looks just bulky.

 

[jamesriley94]

I quite like it tbh.
I like the looks of all of them so far really - except the Asus P8Z87s though which is a shame.

Not had anything blue yet, however.

 

[WillSK]

I saw this picture this morning of the Mpower Max and I actually really like it. Pair it up with a next gen lightning and it'll look the sex!!