this is gonna cost alot. why not have the watercooling inside the case? isn't that where most people have their water setups?

No CPU water cooling? :(

The watercooling "solution" look to be about as effective as the guy who mounted block on top of the NB heatsink fins...

Heatpipes and fins I can understand, but tacking on the rest seems like a gimmick.

The location & orientation of that waterblock is odd and there are more streamline solutions out there to cool pwm. And it does look like they are using a waterblock to cool the fins from the pwm. That makes no sense to me.

lmao @ pinot noir! what are we naming motherboards after types of red wines? perhaps we should try loading it up with wine instead of water to cool it haha.

Pinot noir? WTF is coming next? Merlot, Zinfandel, Sauvignon? They should call it something a bit more rough and tough like Vodka, Bourbon or Absinth. PS. Pinor noir is a notoriously difficult grape.

IMO they should name them after softdrinks, like

Coke
Lemonadesoda
Orangejuice

LOL

Water cooling for a MOTHERBOARD....uhhh

lemonadesodaPS. Pinor noir is a notoriously difficult grape.

true, so that could be either a good marketing strategy or a bad one. id never buy a motherboard named 'merlot' because that to me is like drinking box wine :laugh:

I think the marketing department should fall on swords for that one.

At least it will ATTRACT ALCOHOLICS.

forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=54245

It is now confirmed that Asus's marketing team are a bunch of wynos!:laugh: I'm sure after downing a few bottles they also came up with "Rock Solid, Heart Touching". Hold me while I weep.:D

Looks as though the 790i may have similar heat issues also as the 680i and 780i.

i dont know about that W/C :wtf:

I like the inventiveness of ASUS but if you're going to spend money on setting up water cooling you would at the very least consider the CPU and maybe a GFx card, with the water block exiting the case people's options are limited. :confused:

I don't know about the waterblock, but the name definitely SUCKS! :shadedshu

And ASUS Mobo are always over priced by a couple of hundred with there gimiks.

Congrats ASUS you've made a watercooled piece of shit with a name to match!
Hope your fanboys cough up the cash! :laugh:

PrudentPrincessCongrats ASUS you've made a watercooled piece of shit with a name to match!
Hope your fanboys cough up the cash! :laugh:

thats exactly what i was thinking but i didn't want to be mean.

16 phase and a water cooling loop.... OVERKILL WTF.

Did anyone else notice that the board doesn't have any onboard sound at all, no connectors, no riser card, nothing. That leaves you a PCI slot for a sound card if you're using two dual slot graphcis cards in the board.
I'm curios to see if they've done what MSI tried, using the "empty" heat pipes to put water through from that external connector to the NB.
Gonna be over priced and it really doesn't look great.
By the way, marketing team, usually it's just someome who comes up with a lame name and then it's sent out for approval internally and if everyone's happy, they go with it.
I ought to know, I worked for MSI many a years ago and came up with a couple of model names, some are still used to this date...

Nice but i don't like asus board they suck monkey balls, and the silver and orange makes it look crapy why not black crome and green

Dia01Looks as though the 790i may have similar heat issues also as the 680i and 780i.

maybe this mobo use chipset intel X48


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mascarasmaybe this mobo use chipset intel X48


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no the 790i is a nvidia chipset, there is no intel chipset out that has 3 PCI-e slots

Live OR Dieno the 790i is a nvidia chipset, there is no intel chipset out that has 3 PCI-e slots

I Know 790i its Nvidia chipset :D


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www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2814268&postcount=16

www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2814777&postcount=23


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mascarasI Know 790i its Nvidia chipset :D


btw:


www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2814268&postcount=16

www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2814777&postcount=23


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those people posting it a intel chipset are wrong, you can tell by the board, because the only 3x PCI-e boards are nvidia chipsets

Live OR Diethose people posting it a intel chipset are wrong, you can tell by the board, because the only 3x PCI-e boards are nvidia chipsets

Striker II Extreme is the name of the ASUS R.O.G. nForce 790i board. ASUS will not make two R.O.G. boards based on the exact same chipset.

This board has the exact same layout as R.O.G. Maximus Extreme, which also has three PCIe 16x slots. It's impossible for ASUS to adapt an Intel PCB to an NVIDIA chipset without making any noticeable changes ;)

I've e-mailed the author, but I suspect he may be away at CeBIT.

//Andreas