Asus Jumps On The Z370 Motherboard Train

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Not one to be left out of a major motherboard launch, the folks at Asus announced new Z370 motherboards in the ROG, Strix, TUF, and Prime families.


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[MaCk0y]

Looks like only MSI implements IO cover on a mATX motherboard. 🙁 Hopefully they will release one.

 

[maximustrajan23]

what about that intel Optane Technology? do these motherboards support that as well, since its going to be a "thing" one day in the near future? thanks.. (Im a noob) sorry if noob behavior

 

[samer.forums]

Looks like only MSI implements IO cover on a mATX motherboard. 🙁 Hopefully they will release one.

What do you mean by IO cover ?

 

[kkarakk]

what about that intel Optane Technology? do these motherboards support that as well, since its going to be a "thing" one day in the near future? thanks.. (Im a noob) sorry if noob behavior

Optane is useless unless you're using an old school spinning hard drive. ssds are fast enough and optane is too expensive at user friendly sizes(1tb and up) to be practical
optane is dead in the water for user side implementation. only good for server farms with old school HDD so makes sense that asus didn't bother implementing it

 

[MaCk0y]

Looks like only MSI implements IO cover on a mATX motherboard. 🙁 Hopefully they will release one.

What do you mean by IO cover ?

Motherboards in the two photos all have an IO cover. That piece that covers the input/output connections. Makes the motherboard look clean. An example of a mATX with a IO cover would be the MSI Z270M MORTAR.

 

[TechyInAZ]

It's almost hard to believe this is the 10th generation of ROG motherboards already. I still remember when the Maximus 4 Gene came out and how wowzers it was.

 

[pawinda88]

All the major mobo makers (ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte) seem to be going backwards on Thunderbolt 3 (most Gigabyte Z370 mobo's sport a Thunderbolt 3 AIC port) from their Z170 and Z270 offering with no native ports on the back panel. Seems strange since a few months ago there were so many stories about Intel pushing Thunderbolt by making it licensing free.