Asus Extreme Etreme Design Series Motherboards announcement

HotHardware.com had this news story today, Sunday.

http://hothardware.com/News/Asus-Lau...-Motherboards/

The story includes the specs of a P6TD. But I couldn't find this
board anywhere on the ASUS site. Is this an accidental leak or
pre-announcement?


So what's the bottom line here? How much more will this board cost
us? And what do get for it over a non-Extreme Design board?
Availability?

-AH

Andrew Hamilton wrote:
HotHardware.com had this news story today, Sunday.

http://hothardware.com/News/Asus-Lau...-Motherboards/

The story includes the specs of a P6TD. But I couldn't find this
board anywhere on the ASUS site. Is this an accidental leak or
pre-announcement?

Asus has a press release about it on their site:

http://www.asus.com/News.aspx?N_ID=qSXGLklvNbiYL758

It's not unusual for Asus to announce a board that doesn't have a
product page for it yet. Expect the product page to appear closer to
it's release date.

So what's the bottom line here? How much more will this board cost
us? And what do get for it over a non-Extreme Design board?

*shrugs* Probably not enough to make it worth the price.

Ross Ridge

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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:24:36 -0400, Ross Ridge
wrote:


Asus has a press release about it on their site:

http://www.asus.com/News.aspx?N_ID=qSXGLklvNbiYL758

It's not unusual for Asus to announce a board that doesn't have a
product page for it yet. Expect the product page to appear closer to
it's release date.

So it seems that ASUS "pre-announces" product. Why? All it does it
tip off their competitors. And you can be sure all the big OEMs
already know about this product, because they all have NDAs with ASUS.

So what's the bottom line here? How much more will this board cost
us? And what do get for it over a non-Extreme Design board?

*shrugs* Probably not enough to make it worth the price.

ASUS seems to be claiming that the improved cooling will lead to
higher overclocks. I guess I will want to see a review before I
decide to spend the extra bucks.

And if you're watercooling, does this extra cooling even matter?

-AH

Ross Ridge

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:02:46 -0700, Andrew Hamilton
wrote:


So it seems that ASUS "pre-announces" product. Why? All it does it
tip off their competitors. And you can be sure all the big OEMs
already know about this product, because they all have NDAs with ASUS.


So that somebody who might be thinking of buying a Brand-X mobo that's
on the market today will instead hold off and wait for this
super-duper wizbang model from Asus.

Reply-to address is real
John

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:16:14 -0400, John
wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:02:46 -0700, Andrew Hamilton
wrote:


So it seems that ASUS "pre-announces" product. Why? All it does it
tip off their competitors. And you can be sure all the big OEMs
already know about this product, because they all have NDAs with ASUS.


So that somebody who might be thinking of buying a Brand-X mobo that's
on the market today will instead hold off and wait for this
super-duper wizbang model from Asus.


Probably not worth it, for a company like ASUS that has fierce
competition.

-AH


Reply-to address is real
John

How about releasing a extreme gamers Win7 mobo aimed for multi gpu and cpu
users (Since W7 supports dual CPUs).

Thomas Andersson wrote:
How about releasing a extreme gamers Win7 mobo aimed for multi gpu and cpu
users (Since W7 supports dual CPUs).



You can already buy one. You can get boards that take the Xeon
version of Core i7. Don't expect overclocking though. It's a
server motherboard.

http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=641

Paul

Paul wrote:
Thomas Andersson wrote:
How about releasing a extreme gamers Win7 mobo aimed for multi gpu
and cpu users (Since W7 supports dual CPUs).



You can already buy one. You can get boards that take the Xeon
version of Core i7. Don't expect overclocking though. It's a
server motherboard.

http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=641

Nice, but what I was thinking of wa more of a proper RoG all-out
gamers/tweakers board in the classic spirit of Asus top of the range
products. Bound to come eventually I guess.