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  • jasonelmore - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link

    Who here wants to bet it's gonna be a $400 board?

    It's amazing looking, i give it that. But Formula boards are specifically marketed as Gamer boards and are usually around the $329 range.

    Its getting really expensive to stay a ROG fan, but they do keep pushing the limits.
  • Parablooper - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link

    ...the limits of superfluous motherboard design
  • Flunk - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link

    ASUS did start releasing "Gaming" boards that slot in under the RoG line for price conscientious consumers. When they started putting the plastic cladding on everything I think they really jumped from "all the features you can pack on a board" to "all the features you can pack on a board whether or not they make any sense".
  • Oxford Guy - Saturday, January 2, 2016 - link

    Not exactly. They put in the Thunderbolt 3 chip but didn't make it work.
  • jasonelmore - Saturday, January 2, 2016 - link

    The ROG hero should not be the only Sub $300 board they make tho... Asus needs more boards at the $300 range, and not all of these $370-$500 models. Hell, we can't even buy the chips i7's at MSRP, and it looks like we wont see a MSRP 6700K until kaby lakes about to come out lol.
  • jmantoo - Sunday, January 3, 2016 - link

    ROG doesn't need to do anything that's not their market. Asus boards already cover that segment. ROG is design for higher end gamers and enthusiasts. Bu I would guess since the Formula VII as at $329 at release it will be closer to that number than $400.
  • jasonelmore - Sunday, January 3, 2016 - link

    Their Competitors gaming series motherboard are almost always a flat $100 cheaper, with the same components, minus the proprietary TPU and OC panel stuff.

    They need to price at least in the same ballpark or they won't sell to many boards.

    I'm glad you think it will be $329, but i'm sorry, it'll never be that cheap.. When MSRP is announced we shall come back here and see who was right.

    Look at Maximus VI Extreme Price vs Maximus VIII Extreme... $100 difference And the older VI had Expensive PLX chips and 4 way SLI support, and the new VIII does not, yet is $100 more MSRP at launch.
  • Gadgety - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link

    I like that there preinstalled waterblock version of motherboards both to save time, minimize potential damage during install, and having a full warranty. Great.
  • Gadgety - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link

    *there are... versions...
  • Chaitanya - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link

    Compared to this crap, Asus's very own Hero Alpha has a better feature set.
  • dukefan6842 - Tuesday, January 5, 2016 - link

    what does the hero alpha have that this doesn't besides a second u.2 connector?
  • Impulses - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link

    U.2 huh, neat, I wish Samsung had released some 2.5"/U.2 950 variants... Hopefully we get there sooner than later and we can go back to not worrying about SSD thermals.
  • patrickjp93 - Sunday, January 3, 2016 - link

    You can get a riser board for the M.2 drive to mount in a 2.5" or 3.5" bay, slide the M.2 into it, and then plug the apparatus into the U.2 port.
  • danjw - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link

    I was just looking at the specs and this motherboard has another feature I hadn't seen before, a "water pump header (4-pin)"!
  • patrickjp93 - Sunday, January 3, 2016 - link

    It's on the Z170 Deluxe as well.
  • DanNeely - Sunday, January 3, 2016 - link

    I suspect it's just a standard 4pin fan header that will show up as water pump in their config software.

    OTOH if my MCP35X pump is representative, there's potential for value add with smarter speed control, since my pump has a very non-linear response to the fan speed slider on my mobo; it sits at about 2/3rds with only a slight variation in rpm over the middle 70-80% of the fan speed control slider before ramping to full speed faster than I can space the settings. Being able to specify an RPM number and have a feedback loop adjust the PWM to hit that number would be a major boost in convenience.

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