Monday, March 3rd 2008
ASUS R.O.G. Pinot Noir Motherboard Previewed
The nForce 790i-powered Pinot Noir motherboard, part of the latest ASUS Republic of Gamers series, is now being showcased at CeBIT. What's uncommon about this motherboard is the unique water cooling solution for its major components. Furthermore this board can work with the latest Intel 45nm CPUs and utilize 4x DDR3 modules, three PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots and six SATA 3.0 Gbps connectors.
Source:
SX-Team Forums
27 Comments on ASUS R.O.G. Pinot Noir Motherboard Previewed
Pinot Noir is their team's attempt to glamourise the product. Of course people who buy top-of-the-line ROG boards constitute a minority and ASUS continues to feed that genre but the bigger picture is its impact on the mainstream/budget buyer "I'm buying from ASUS, they make the best boards in the industry" only that the definition of 'best' happens to be these 'heart touching' boards, that make sure the 'rock solid' ones sell. I have a fairly mid-range board from Gigabyte. Off late they've lost the trick of making champion boards....all because of that stupid 'Crazy cool' plate behind the CPU area which messes with cooler installation of coolers that come with back plates...and that the crazy cool plates are a pain to remove, voids warranty...lot of crap. I already see myself buy from another company now, whenever that happens.
this board is x48 not 790i rofl