Ask Me Anything - Official ASUS Representative

[8350rocks]

Will you be bringing back another PCIe 3.0 motherboard for the AM3+ socket in the near future? The 990FX Gen3 Sabertooth was an amazing board...is it coming back?

 

[raja@asus]

Now that the majority of AMD and Intel motherboards only have a southbridge, are the chipsets cheaper to purchase?

No. And if you look at how motherboards have evolved - the feature count is on a different level as well. Features add costs.

 

[Nick-ASUS]

On the ASUS routers, do you guys plan on having USB3 on all future products? And do you guys plan on having the USB3 ports to operate at "full" USB3 speed?
Right now, I'm seeing sub-par performance on both USB2 and USB3 ports on any routers.
What I would like to have is to plug my external USB3 drive into the router USB3 ports and be able to utilize the full bandwidth (~1Gbits/s, 100MB/s) between USB3 ports and ethernet ports.
I know USB protocal is quite resource intensive, and might require a dedicated fast controller to handle the communication. But I think it would be a good option to have, considering the fact that ppl are networking many devices at home. And most network devices are reaching the full potential of the network bandwidth.

Hi milktea,

While USB transfer speeds can still vary quite a lot depending on the manufacturer, processing power (as you mentioned) has been part of the problem. USB performance is definitely something we pay close attention to. I can't promise or guarantee any numbers, but as the chipsets become more powerful, and in conjunction with working closely with those chipset manufacturers, we do expect to be able to improve USB transfer speed performance.

 

[sam_p_lay]

Where is the Republic of Gamers located? If I pay it a visit, can you recommend any good restaurants there?

You can create such a place in your own home by using an ROG product and registering on the ROG forums to become part of the ROG community. We don't do meals on wheels, or freeze dried food additions in the box, but you do get a lot of product for the money

Haha I wasn't sure if I'd get a response to that 🙂 Well-played.

 

[coolitic]

2 questions:
1. Approximately when will the Maximus VI Formula come out and approximately what kind of price will we see?
2. When will you start rolling out new GTX 770 GPU's? (Road map? Time-frame?)

 

[TommyOlsson]

Will ASUS produce a mitx motherboard suitable for a NAS build?
Like having 6 or 7 s-ata ports based on h87 or z87 and maybe 2 ethernet port.

 

[raja@asus]

2 questions:
1. Approximately when will the Maximus VI Formula come out and approximately what kind of price will we see?
2. When will you start rolling out new GTX 770 GPU's? (Road map? Time-frame?)

1. Next month is the ETA. I don't have an MSRP on that yet.
2. Ping Frogo on that one.

 

[amdfangirl]

Do your FM2 moterboards support AMD Surroundview? I can never seem to find documentation on it.

 

[raja@asus]

Will ASUS produce a mitx motherboard suitable for a NAS build?
Like having 6 or 7 s-ata ports based on h87 or z87 and maybe 2 ethernet port.

Mini-ITX Z87 should be here soon.

 

[erik-asus]

Thanks for the answer to my previous question. Got another:

Super interested in the Zenbook Infinity. Can we have at least a time frame as to when it may be released?

Hey Timmy,

At Computex we announced Q4 for the Zenbook Infinity, and that is the best I can give you at the moment.

 

[coolitic]

You don't have to answer this 1, but, what do you think of Crysis 3? What was good about it, bad about it, and the future of it?

 

[Timmy Moore]

Thanks for the answer to my previous question. Got another:

Super interested in the Zenbook Infinity. Can we have at least a time frame as to when it may be released?

Hey Timmy,

At Computex we announced Q4 for the Zenbook Infinity, and that is the best I can give you at the moment.

Works for me! Thanks!

 

[coolitic]

2 questions:
1. Approximately when will the Maximus VI Formula come out and approximately what kind of price will we see?
2. When will you start rolling out new GTX 770 GPU's? (Road map? Time-frame?)

1. Next month is the ETA. I don't have an MSRP on that yet.
2. Ping Frogo on that one.

Thx for making me google #2 lol

 

[coolitic]

I think this will be my last question,
Sabertooth Z87 VS Maximus VI Formula?

 

[amdfangirl]

Have you ever experienced anything in the labs catching fire while benchmarking etc?

 

[Jonathan Neal]

With the G750 series Gaming laptop and even the older series have most of the ports on the right side such as power/Ethernet/video and many more. This is a huge inconvenience for a right handed gamer there must be a more optimal way for ports without sacrificing too much style. Is there any gaming laptops in ASUS' near future that may have these ports in a more user friendly location?

 

[amdfangirl]

Are the rumours true? Is ASUS collaborating with Google to make the next Nexus tablet?

 

[TommyOlsson]

Will ASUS produce a mitx motherboard suitable for a NAS build?
Like having 6 or 7 s-ata ports based on h87 or z87 and maybe 2 ethernet port.

Mini-ITX Z87 should be here soon.

Thanks for the answer!

Are the specs and ETA released yet, or could you give a small hint?

 

[raja@asus]

Have you ever experienced anything in the labs catching fire while benchmarking etc?

I've smoked a FET on a Foxconn 480 GTX - it was a modded and heavily abused card. Other than that, no flames for me.

 

[8350rocks]

When would we see a mini-ITX FM2 motherboard? There are micro-ATX, but nothing smaller to speak of...

 

[El_DeathDealer]

Can you perhaps tell us more about when the Zenbook Infinity will release in the United States? Will it still be in Q3?

 

[tartlychee]

With Haswell now out in the wild, is there anything you can share as to when Asus will be releasing Haswell based laptops/ultrabooks? I am particularly interested in the ones that use the new ultra low voltage (15W and below) processors. Thanks!

 

[erik-asus]

Can you perhaps tell us more about when the Zenbook Infinity will release in the United States? Will it still be in Q3?

We announced at Computex it will be released in Q4 but no official date has been set yet.

 

[8350rocks]

Can you perhaps tell us more about when the Zenbook Infinity will release in the United States? Will it still be in Q3?

They said Q4 in a post above.

 

[ccovemaker]

Hello,
I own 3 Asus blue boards of varying sockets and vintages and I am generally a happy customer. I in fact love your boards. I had a couple questions.

Was a black and yellow color schemes an elaborate plan to force me to pony up for a TUF or ROG series board? Because if it was well played sir. If not please switch back to the blue as soon as possible.

Is there any plan for an update to the AM3+ socket boards before steamroller comes out. I was considering a build but the options seems pretty dated as this point when compared to haswell boards. Even the FM2 boards seem to be more current. Current as in PCI 3.0, the number of USB 3.0 and the like.

Again love your products please let me know.