Wednesday, July 26th 2017
ASUS Intros the Expedition B250-V7 Motherboard for Gaming iCafes
ASUS expanded its Expedition line of high-endurance gaming PC motherboards designed for the rigors of gaming iCafes, with the socket LGA1151 Expedition B250-V7, based on the Intel B250 Express chipset. Built in the ATX form-factor, the board draws power from a combination of 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS power connectors, and conditions it for the CPU with a simple 6-phase VRM. The CPU is wired to four DDR4 DIMM slots, supporting up to 64 GB of dual-channel memory; and a single reinforced PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot. Other expansion slots include two PCI-Express 3.0 x16 (both electrical x4 and wired to the B250 PCH), and three x1 slots.
Storage connectivity is pretty basic, with just the six SATA 6 Gbps ports, as is the USB connectivity, with just six USB 3.0 ports (four on the rear panel, and two by headers), and no 10 Gbps USB 3.1 ports. The only display output is an HDMI port. The onboard audio consists of a basic 8-channel HDA CODEC (Realtek ALC887, <90 dBA SNR), and the gigabit Ethernet connection is driven by an Intel i219-V controller with LANGuard (power surge protection), and GameFirst packet prioritization software. The company didn't reveal pricing.
Storage connectivity is pretty basic, with just the six SATA 6 Gbps ports, as is the USB connectivity, with just six USB 3.0 ports (four on the rear panel, and two by headers), and no 10 Gbps USB 3.1 ports. The only display output is an HDMI port. The onboard audio consists of a basic 8-channel HDA CODEC (Realtek ALC887, <90 dBA SNR), and the gigabit Ethernet connection is driven by an Intel i219-V controller with LANGuard (power surge protection), and GameFirst packet prioritization software. The company didn't reveal pricing.
22 Comments on ASUS Intros the Expedition B250-V7 Motherboard for Gaming iCafes
There are a lot of low end to high end Gaming seats, with high environmental temperature and just enough space to put your cafe next to the Monitor and keyboard, if at all cafe is served. :roll:
They could have named them grill and put cooking pans on the Towers.
The reason is hopefully obvious, space is sparse, gaming hardware expensive so renting them is cheaper.
Colorful has a whole range of them and it looks like Asus is into the same naming.
Edit: Actually, it's not that good, this won't prevent someone from tearing out the DIMMs out of the board if they really want to...
Removing the CPU just requires a torx screw driver...
It's not about making it secure, it's about making it hard enough, so that the staff can notice that something's going on and react accordingly.
My first job was an admin in a gaming club back in high school, and we did have our share of stolen RAM sticks and mice....mouses... you know what I mean.
Adding a simple locked compartment for PC and looping PS/2 cables through a mounted metal ring reduced those instances to zero.
Every little bit helps.
i mean, an icafe board with TREE x16 slots?, that's useless, as if any icafe will be running SLI :D
this should've been a single x16 slot in microatx, much much cheaper
Am I the only one that scoffs every time they read this?
Like very high quality components with increased resistance for long term power up, dust, abuse, etc...??