Monday, March 11th 2013
ASUS Teases Trio of Z87-based Motherboards
Even as most motherboard vendors showed off at least half-baked versions of their socket LGA1150 motherboards based on the Intel Z87 Express chipset, supporting 4th generation Core "Haswell" processors; ASUS has been relatively mum. The company doesn't even have a motherboard booth at CeBIT, to begin with. The company did manage to release teaser pictures of three new motherboards, which lead its three consumer motherboard lines: Republic of Gamers (ROG), The Ultimate Force (TUF), and mainline (P9Z87?).
The teaser pictures reveal nothing more than the plaque printed on the center of the motherboard. The first picture below teases what could be P9Z87 Deluxe. Someone at ASUS loves M&Ms. The second picture teases TUF Gryphon Z87. It looks like ASUS had enough of the Sabertooth brand extension. The third picture, dissimilar from the others, is of a new innovation ASUS will introduce with its next ROG motherboard based on the Z87 chipset. It appears to be a device that plugs into one of the motherboard's headers. Probably an external overclocking module akin to EVGA EVBot?
The teaser pictures reveal nothing more than the plaque printed on the center of the motherboard. The first picture below teases what could be P9Z87 Deluxe. Someone at ASUS loves M&Ms. The second picture teases TUF Gryphon Z87. It looks like ASUS had enough of the Sabertooth brand extension. The third picture, dissimilar from the others, is of a new innovation ASUS will introduce with its next ROG motherboard based on the Z87 chipset. It appears to be a device that plugs into one of the motherboard's headers. Probably an external overclocking module akin to EVGA EVBot?
14 Comments on ASUS Teases Trio of Z87-based Motherboards
I'm interested in that connector shown in the last pic, I gather it'll be included with the MVIE or probably any other ROG series?
I skipped Ivy Bridge, but was thinking of upgrading to Haswell, will wait and see how much of a performance improvement over the SB/IB series we will get from this new architecture...
I can't wait till we get some reviews of all these new boards and cpu's going from a Core 2 quad to Haswell will be a huge improvement in all directions.
Anyway, i get that Z87 motherboards gonna rock our socks off but this is probably my most unexciting launch yet. That is, because the CPUs that will probably bring almost nothing new in terms of computing performance.
And quite frankly, all recent Intel chipset releases have been unexciting in one way or another ever since Cougar Point was released, it's almost as if they were afraid to introduce any new features on their chipsets or something...
*Gets shown M&Ms.
Still satisfied :D
2days picking should at least cover an i7 and new mobo!!!