Like the Super Micro AOC-S100G-i2C ? Dual 100G interfaces with QSFP28, but drives 50 Gbps from each of two PCIe x8 NIC interfaces in a PCIe x16 slot, total of 100 Gbps.
There's way too much flicker at 60Hz for me to watch more than a few seconds. Even 120Hz is iffy. I really need 240Hz 4k video, twice -- once for each eye. And don't even get me started on compression. Those macro blocks and jaggies just drive me nuts. Uncompressed only for me, please.
My view is it's Intel of GTFO. These niche cards tend to have bad driver support and reliability. I'd rather have a good 1Gb card versus a crappy 10Gb one.
So common with these motherboards - more bells and whistles. All this add-in nonsense they keey packaging in justification of charging higher and higher prices is just nonsense!
Put this money in something tangible that I will actually use...give me an extra phase, put more engineering and thought into more stable power delivery at higher voltages and frequencies, give me more stable clock generators, give me a thicker PCB!
Sadly, I end up buying higher end boards (not this high end) exactly for all the reasons you state. Unfortunately, you aren't going to get any of those things without the added accessories on motherboards at this level.
wish asus would come back down to earth and price the normal Extreme at $399.... and that's still a lot of money.
All extreme's before this one were $379 thru $399 and they even had expensive PLX Chips..
Now the Extreme is firmly priced out of many enthusiast budgets.. at $400 people would splurge for the best, but this is rich boy territory for a Mainstream platform. And today's Extreme's have no PLX chip, but added thunderbolt, a much cheaper chip, but since it's "Thunderbolt" they gotta tax the crap out of it.
I guess i'll be buying the Formula boards from now on. I'll just keep my old OC Panel since that hasn't changed for over 4 years.
It's an audio panel. It has a volume knob and headphone/mic jacks. I guess it'd give you more cable slack for a headset while gaming; and if the knob controls the headphone volume independently of the speaker volume that could be convenient I guess. (Although I'd probably just adjust the speaker volume so they sounded as loud as my headphones; and then just use the OS master for everything afterwards.
As for the wire length; these are press shots. A long wire would probably be photoshopped down in length to look better; just as they often remove all the wires even from hardwired items.
It also has enough power to drive even high end audiophile type headphones; although the people who buy those probably run digital to a headphone amp that costs more than this mobo, so I'm not sure what the point is.
Wow, 10GigE in a consumer board. Certainly overkill for gamers, but I could perhaps see people involved in Content Creation (specifically video) wanting this.
10GigE could actually benefit me as my RAID array can saturate 1GigE several times over when copying large files between the array and an SSD (something I do often). My plan is to move the array into a storage server that's connected to my non-primary production machines via a GigE switch, and get 10GigE cards for the storage server and my main production system (connected with a crossover cable to avoid the expense of a 10G switch) for a dedicated link between those two machines that can keep up with the 400MB/s+ transfer rates the array can attain.
It would be nice to see some good looking MBO for mATX form ... thers so many good looking atx ones and thers only 5-6 matx boards and only 1 looking decent (asus gene)
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nmm - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
Madness? THIS IS ASUS!danbob999 - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
I'll wait for 100 Gbps Ethernet.jhh - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
Like the Super Micro AOC-S100G-i2C ? Dual 100G interfaces with QSFP28, but drives 50 Gbps from each of two PCIe x8 NIC interfaces in a PCIe x16 slot, total of 100 Gbps.danbob999 - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
nah, I am waiting for real 100 Gpbs on a single interface, not 50 Gbps. 50 Gbps is way to slow for my web browsing.HollyDOL - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
hmm, I wonder what you are browsing :-) Uncompressed 4k video in 3D at 60Hz is about 32Gbps.DanNeely - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
Why do you assume only one stream at a time?http://cdn.overclock.net/c/c8/500x1000px-LL-c848c7...
HollyDOL - Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - link
Careful, watching that much xxx simultaneously could cause heart issues :-)danbob999 - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
anandtech is a lot faster on 100 Gbps ;-)With this speed, I could read the news even before they are published.
ws3 - Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - link
There's way too much flicker at 60Hz for me to watch more than a few seconds. Even 120Hz is iffy. I really need 240Hz 4k video, twice -- once for each eye. And don't even get me started on compression. Those macro blocks and jaggies just drive me nuts. Uncompressed only for me, please.nils_ - Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - link
Unless you want it over Base-T you can already buy that. Mellanox has a PCIe card I believe.Chaitanya - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
Interested to see how the NIC performance compares to other 10G solutions on market.Stan11003 - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
My view is it's Intel of GTFO. These niche cards tend to have bad driver support and reliability. I'd rather have a good 1Gb card versus a crappy 10Gb one.nathanddrews - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
Rad, I could actually take advantage of that... now I just need $400/mo.http://fiber.usinternet.com/plans-and-prices/plans...
iamkyle - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
So common with these motherboards - more bells and whistles. All this add-in nonsense they keey packaging in justification of charging higher and higher prices is just nonsense!Put this money in something tangible that I will actually use...give me an extra phase, put more engineering and thought into more stable power delivery at higher voltages and frequencies, give me more stable clock generators, give me a thicker PCB!
reininop - Monday, November 16, 2015 - link
Sadly, I end up buying higher end boards (not this high end) exactly for all the reasons you state. Unfortunately, you aren't going to get any of those things without the added accessories on motherboards at this level.Morawka - Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - link
wish asus would come back down to earth and price the normal Extreme at $399.... and that's still a lot of money.All extreme's before this one were $379 thru $399 and they even had expensive PLX Chips..
Now the Extreme is firmly priced out of many enthusiast budgets.. at $400 people would splurge for the best, but this is rich boy territory for a Mainstream platform. And today's Extreme's have no PLX chip, but added thunderbolt, a much cheaper chip, but since it's "Thunderbolt" they gotta tax the crap out of it.
I guess i'll be buying the Formula boards from now on. I'll just keep my old OC Panel since that hasn't changed for over 4 years.
Mikemk - Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - link
Whatever that front panel thing is, very short wireDanNeely - Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - link
It's an audio panel. It has a volume knob and headphone/mic jacks. I guess it'd give you more cable slack for a headset while gaming; and if the knob controls the headphone volume independently of the speaker volume that could be convenient I guess. (Although I'd probably just adjust the speaker volume so they sounded as loud as my headphones; and then just use the OS master for everything afterwards.As for the wire length; these are press shots. A long wire would probably be photoshopped down in length to look better; just as they often remove all the wires even from hardwired items.
DanNeely - Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - link
It also has enough power to drive even high end audiophile type headphones; although the people who buy those probably run digital to a headphone amp that costs more than this mobo, so I'm not sure what the point is.KateH - Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - link
Wow, 10GigE in a consumer board. Certainly overkill for gamers, but I could perhaps see people involved in Content Creation (specifically video) wanting this.10GigE could actually benefit me as my RAID array can saturate 1GigE several times over when copying large files between the array and an SSD (something I do often). My plan is to move the array into a storage server that's connected to my non-primary production machines via a GigE switch, and get 10GigE cards for the storage server and my main production system (connected with a crossover cable to avoid the expense of a 10G switch) for a dedicated link between those two machines that can keep up with the 400MB/s+ transfer rates the array can attain.
Giopriest - Friday, December 4, 2015 - link
It would be nice to see some good looking MBO for mATX form ... thers so many good looking atx ones and thers only 5-6 matx boards and only 1 looking decent (asus gene)