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We are testing across three screens in Direct X 11 mode with 4aa and 16af enabled. All settings are switched to high.
Again, no problems at these settings, even with 4aa and 16af enabled.
I shall read this all later, but I skipped through some pages. thats a phenomenal looking board. all the liquid nitrogen touches etc too, very clever. Asus are tough to beat in this market.
damn, what a setup. thats a wet dream configuration that is. you reviewers are lucky SOBS 🙂
Hiya Zardon, first review of this, love it ! Any ideas on when its released? I was on scan to order it, but its not there yet ?
HI Mannie, not sure of the date tbh. I just was told the price. I would say it will be released shortly. Enjoy !
opps posted this in the wrong place. As I was saying erm.. be sure to keep looking on local stores for this, numbers will be limited and everyone wants it 🙂
perhaps im picking holes in this, but the use of a card means you lose a slot on the board. im not sure that briliant.
£400 for a motherboard. ouch, but hey if you can afford a 990x I doubt you would care.
well out of my bank balance, but good reading, cant hurt to dream
Exotic board, bit suprised they didnt put more sata 6 ports on the mobo, even 4 ?
This seems about 75 quid less than the Assassin and I cant really see why. I think the assassin has a slightly better cooling system on the pcb but apart from this its very similar in design.
Not like asus to be cheaper, even if its relative in this price bracket
Astonishing product. Asus really are such a brilliant company. Their high end stuff is just so incredible
Asus are the best, no doubt about it 😉
boards like this are the reason im a tech addict.
1% of the people reading this could afford it. (well maybe a bit higher on Kitguru).
I swore I would never change boards until the next generation, but my 980x is screaming out for this mobo. I just got a D14 heatsink so its even more tempting now …… thank god you cant buy them yet. my credit card is hiding in the drawer.
Very impressive indeed, well worth the cost
Good review , Asus do it again, shame there are only two 6 gbps sat a ports.
The bios is a great design, it’s why I always buy Asus boards. But I just went for a 2600k, these CPUs cost too much
They certainly didn’t skimp on the boards power settings. I’m tempted to pick one up for my 980x
Phenomenal, but it’s mighty expensive, even for what you get.
I actually think it’s 80 quid less than the assassin from gb. Seems better value , but it’s all mean ingress for this target Market who don’t really care that much about cost. Gigabyte assassin looks to have nicer heatsinks but i don’t like the green scheme at all
I will be ordering one, been waitin a while for it to come out now.
I don’t know why people say this is overpriced. A standard x58 is 240. This is well worth the extra 140
It makes the rampage iii 3 extreme look gay lol
I don’t think so – pair the R3E with a LynxTWO card, and this one will look like gay in black. But hey, with that audio card on board – it will cost you at least 1,700.00-1,800.00$ and I allready have one…
Nice review but two questions:
Can you confirm if the new Marvel 9182 SATA 3 supports TRIM for SSD’s? I’m asking as I know the older one that is commonly used on X58 boards (9128) does not.
As well I am curious if you got the Wi Fi going, as I have heard of few reports of it being problematic.
Thanks!