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  • mrdude - Friday, December 18, 2015 - link

    This is more of a comment than a question, but I feel it needs to be said nevertheless --

    Adding RGB LEDs on peripherals doesn't an interesting nor tempting product make.

    That's all. Thanks :)
  • dsumanik - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    well, judging by all these comments the purch buyout has done real harm to the readership here. People are sick of the bs, Ian seriously u guys are advertising *cough* I mean reviewing *cough* quad sli motherboards and not even bothering to test. The readers around here could provide better reviews, straight up.
  • jjj - Friday, December 18, 2015 - link

    Sadly ROG is just empty marketing and you shouldn't endorse such tactics.
    So the question is why should someone charge an extra 30-50% for no reason at all and do they sleep at night knowing that they ripped off some child that cares about the branding? Also what's their marketing budget and what's their R&D budget,lets see if they dare to answer that one lol.

    Now if it was a conversation with Asus and someone that did something relevant, one could ask about glasses, xpoint,, why they are making overpriced dumbwatch clones, why are they selling out to Intel in mobile while at the same time Intel is killing Asus mobo sales with their desktop line) or why haven't they made a tablet halfway decent since 2013. And then there is 3D printing and robots and IoT without BS services and plenty of topics. Or why do they use a 1TB HDD instead of 256GB SSD in notebooks today.
    They made the first netbook, the first relevant convertible, how about the first decent phone or tab with foldable screen or the first decent watch for that matter.
  • 7amood - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    Do you have future plans to do motherboard water proofing to protect it from water cooling leaks using Oleophobic coating or similar stuff?
  • 7amood - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    Do you have future plans to do motherboard water proofing to protect it from water cooling leaks using Oleophobic coating or similar stuff?
  • Shadow7037932 - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link

    You mean conformal coating that has been used on industrial PCs/electronics for ages?
  • jasonelmore - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    Can you please improve Asus Support Forums servers so they aren't so slow.

    Can you please not make Extreme Motherboard for "Mainstream Chipsets" not so expensive ($500 for recent Maximus VIII Extreme w/o PLX chip) $500 motherboards should be reserved for enthusiast chipset ex: X99 My Maximus VI was $359 new and even had a PLX chip + OC Panel + 4 way SLI + Wireless. You could make a seperate Breakout board sold separately with all the expensive LN2 Features.

    Please start including USB 3.1 Front Panel Headers for the next generation of cases

    Put more U.2 Ports on your motherboard line once U.2 gains steam regarding more drives on the market

    Make all LED lighting with Custom on/off states so the user can turn some off if they don't want it.

    Make a ROG motherboard line with custom color inserts for PCIE, Chipset, Heatsink, so people can customize their own color scheme and just order the optional color packages they want to fit their build.

    Start putting a USB Type C port (space savings) vs Type A inside on the motherboard for secure boot or Bitlocker USB Keys, or Custom Boot ROM's such as NAS software, Linux, etc..

    Regarding jjj's comment, ROG boards typically use higher end Caps, Conductors, PWM's and Power Delivery Systems. Additionally, These motherboards get updates for years. I am still getting bios updates for my 3 year old Maximus VI. Do not be rude to guest in interviews at anandtech. word your questions and intent better, and keep your personal opinion to a minimum.
  • Michael Bay - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    Did you expect something else from AMD zombie, really?
  • lagittaja - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link

    Regarding that comment about "these motherboards get updates for years".
    Uhm, no. With Maximus IV Gene-Z they dropped support before warranty even ended.
    Released around mid March 2011 iirc, last BIOS update end of November 2012. About 18 months.
    Same story for the Gene-Z/GEN3 but it's support lasted even shorter amount of time, barely a year.
    No official Win 8 support despite Win 8 went RTM 1st August 2012. General availability for it was end of October. So no secure boot and so on. Asrock has been giving Z68 boards BIOS's to enable the secure boot..

    I thought I bought a premium board, well I did but the support was so short lived.
    No more ROG for me. I'll look at other motherboards when I upgrade at somepoint.
  • svan1971 - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    simple question, why don't ROG Z170 boards have dual M.2 ultra ports?
  • mpalczew - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    4 marketing people and not a single engineer. Why should anyone expect an interesting answer to a question?
  • Ian Cutress - Sunday, December 20, 2015 - link

    You're clearly not familiar with either Gary or Raja's work. There's a reason they were hired by AnandTech and then by ASUS.

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/3851/everything-you-...
  • dreamer77dd - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    I might be dreaming but in the future plans of ASUS do you see any dual socket motherboards for enthusiast with full 4 lane PCI Express?
    Will ASUS support LInus even more now that other companies are tacking that route more seriously?
  • boeush - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    Are there any plans for larger (18"+) laptops, and non-widescreen laptops (e.g. with a 4:3 or 3:2 screen aspect ratio) with more than 1080 vertical pixels?
  • boeush - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    Any plans to match/challenge MSI's Titan line with a mechanical keyboard in a laptop? One current deficit of Titan is that it only comes in SLI - if one wants a laptop with mechanical keys and a single (but powerful) graphics card, one is currently SOL: a market opportunity for ASUS?
  • boeush - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    How about laptops with desktop (socketed/upgradeable) CPUs and upgradeable (MXM) GPUs?
  • iamkyle - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    I would like to see the 10th anniv. of ROG usher in motherboards that are more modular and more customization than previous. While fancy audio shielding powered by a weak Realtek audio codec may be your idea of "ROG Compatible" hardware, I would like to see something where I can customize what sound or NIC I put on my board.

    Remember some of the first ROG products? The Maximus Formula shipped an addon PCIe SupremeFX sound card that basically have me the option of either going with your onboard audio solution, or adding my own. I didn't have to get saddled with extra silicon. I would like to see a more organic movement like this going forward.
  • YoloPascual - Saturday, December 19, 2015 - link

    Please make rogs SSD only. In my country, there are still a lot of rogs that costs 1000$+ that does not have SSD :(
  • madwolfa - Sunday, December 20, 2015 - link

    Any plans to address what seems like an extremely poor QC for a RoG line of gaming monitors?
  • jasonelmore - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link

    +1 to this.. When you pay $800 for a monitor only to get one that bleeds light in the corners, it's frustrating.. It's a panel lottery.

    If they show bleed, use those panels for non-gsync monitors. Save the absolute best panels for Gsync/Freesync and Pro Arts
  • zodiacfml - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link

    You should make an RoG phone with a moderate resolution of 1080p using Snapdragon 820. That should give fast and consistent frame rates when gaming. Add a beefy battery and stereo speakers. You might as well include an RoG App to control ASUS routers and monitor RoG boards.
  • Shadow7037932 - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link

    I am still running a i7 920 and I'll be upgrading in a few months. This PC has been in use for ~7 years. With CPUs having pretty long lasting staying power now days, how does ASUS plan to deal with it? I'm sure I'm not the only one still use an i7 920.
  • gold333 - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link

    Here is a question:

    Can you summarize the past 10 years of ROG?

    I.e.

    -What enabling technologies have you developed that increase overclocking potential and overclocking simplicity?

    -How does overclocking on say an old Asus Striker II compare to a modern board?

    -How do you extrapolate the changes you have seen in the past decade, into the coming 10 years?
  • Cigarjohn - Wednesday, January 6, 2016 - link

    With the new Intel i7-6950X 10 core Broadwell processor about to be released sometime in 2016 with it's 14nm die size, will Asus be releasing a new X99 motherboard such as a Rampage VI Extreme including other X99 boards.

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