Massman Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 HiCookie posted this on his Facebook: http://mb.zol.com.cn/slide/222/2227113_1.html#show This looks like a retail board: right heatsink orange DIMM holders and grey SATA port. Quote
Christian Ney Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 Foxconn Dreadnought and Asus PinoNoir come to mind..... it does happen sometimes, but I don't think the X58A-OC is going to be an example of hyped-> canned Asus PinotNoir And the Asus Marine Cool too Quote
Lsdmeasap Posted March 30, 2011 Posted March 30, 2011 (edited) HiCookie posted this on his Facebook: http://mb.zol.com.cn/slide/222/2227113_1.html#show This looks like a retail board: right heatsink orange DIMM holders and grey SATA port. Why did they shorten the NB heatsink on the memory side? I could see maybe making it smaller for more room in the CPU socket area, but they didn't need to shorten the width towards the memory because nothing goes there. The silver metal sticking out under the NB stands out like a sore thumb I know looks aren't everything and this does not affect the OC-ability, but still.... Hopefully that will at least be painted black in the final retail revision. Edited March 30, 2011 by Lsdmeasap Quote
Christian Ney Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 This looks like a retail board: right heatsink orange DIMM holders and grey SATA port. Which board ? Quote
Massman Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 i guess its really lunching... http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5/hondacity25/71dd68ed.png AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHH !! How is it possible that marketeers are using the very small space for words to brag about USB3.0 capability. Quote
|ron Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 ...meanwhile, inside Marketing Man's head: "Wow, what's that crap mobo... it doesn't have nothing interesting to speak about! It should be something like low low low end mobo... allright let's see... WAIT it has usb3 ports! Here it is, finally something, on this silly mobo, to speak about!" :D Quote
Christian Ney Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 (edited) Instead of USB3.0 they should have promote massman's design FTW Edited March 31, 2011 by Christian Ney Quote
|ron Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 Somewhere in Europe, in a far far away galax.. ehr... country, Pieter was looking at the public presentation of the X58A-OC: "WTF, USB3 advertising?!?" Quote
Crew Vivi Posted March 31, 2011 Crew Posted March 31, 2011 USB 3.0 so we can upload our scores to flashdrives quicker Quote
Christian Ney Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 Here is the launch gallery (if you clic ) Little foretaste: Which board ? btw, I prefer MSI girls EDIT: Seems it's the same link and pic as massman -.- Quote
Crew Leeghoofd Posted March 31, 2011 Crew Posted March 31, 2011 Either that is a freaking huge board or the booth babe holding it is tiny ... Quote
Hondacity Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 Instead of USB3.0 they should have promote massman's design FTW wet pants? lol Quote
TiN Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 They only need to make a dedicated oc board Rampage Extreme, Classifieds was long time before OC boards. World first OC board? That's even not funny mktg BS. Quote
Christian Ney Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) No, there aren't OC boards, we use them for OC, ok But then aim gamers aka Designed for gamers Edited April 5, 2011 by Christian Ney hide signature Quote
Massman Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 Rampage Extreme, Classifieds was long time before OC boards. World first OC board? That's even not funny mktg BS. Rampage Extreme - useless features = OC board Classified - useless features = OC board It's not because you cán overclock, it's an overclocking board. It's not because you add OC features, it's an overclocking board. It's not because you add high quality components, it's an overclocking board. The "World's first"-claim is just the MKT way of trying to send the message. Funny/BS/..., doesn't matter. It's just marketing. Quote
Eeky NoX Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 Wow such a polemic here Hey TiN when do we shall see YOUR "OC board" ?! ClassyWDE (Walking Dead Edition) You forget the Commando in your list too... but right ROG are aiming gamers at first Quote
Maxi Posted April 5, 2011 Author Posted April 5, 2011 It's not because you cán overclock, it's an overclocking board. It's not because you add OC features, it's an overclocking board. It's not because you add high quality components, it's an overclocking board. Oh rly? So we can have crap PWM, and be stuck in BIOS always....as long as we mimic GBT's non-useless features layout. Great power delivery and overclocking features are the things that define a good overclocking board, not whether they left off a couple ports and had an internal struggle trying to figure out if they could get away with it. Quote
K404 Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) Gigabyte employees have admitted they kept certain features so the board appealed to a wider market, so to be devils advocate, X58A-OC - useless features = OC board? The thing that makes a great overclocking board is... that it overclocks well. Feature set is irrelevant, other than cost aspect. This might be a great board... we don't know because theres still so damned little info on it! Edited April 5, 2011 by K404 Quote
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