Asus Z97M-Plus Motherboard Review

[rolli59]

rolli59,
Your question has been answered at least twice above.

Not really, everybody else is reviewing the new stuff! Just like Tom's used to do!

 

[Crashman]

rolli59,
Your question has been answered at least twice above.

Not really, everybody else is reviewing the new stuff! Just like Tom's used to do!

That's your mistake, not anyone else's. Go to the home page, click the motherboard's link on the second bar, find reviews for 11 Z170 motherboards, and ask yourself why it's wrong to include additional products for other buyers in our coverage.

 

[lp231]

Can't wait for your Asus P4P800 Deluxe review!

 

[rolli59]

rolli59,
Your question has been answered at least twice above.

Not really, everybody else is reviewing the new stuff! Just like Tom's used to do!

That's your mistake, not anyone else's. Go to the home page, click the motherboard's link on the second bar, find reviews for 11 Z170 motherboards, and ask yourself why it's wrong to include additional products for other buyers in our coverage.

11 out of how many and what about all the B150,, H170 and H110 boards?
I remember many Z97 reviews mid year 2014 as well, it is 2016 now.

 

[Non-Euclidean]

The biggest problem is that there isn't a whole lot of cases that are MicroATX. Most cases that size are MicroATX and full ATX compatible. And since there's no space saving, or even cost saving, in buying the smaller motherboard, you may as well just buy the full-size thing.

? Where are you looking for mATX cases? There are a ton of them out there, and some are top end functionality wise and incredible (Thermaltake v21 Core). Others are just beautiful (Bitfenix Pandora).

 

[lp231]

As a long time reader of Tom's Hardware and forum member since 2006. It saddens me to see what THG has become today. What made me joined, was you guys where the #1 in hardware and technology. I still remember them videos you guys posted, like overclocking on a AMD Athlon XP chip. the mineral oil PC, and the ocing the cpu to 5GHZ with LN2. Adding to those videos where those techno music that made it more awesome. I still remember waking up in the morning and the first site I visit was you guys cause your the ones who has the latest and greatest articles. What happened to you guys? And now we have this review of a Z97 board that no one will find any interest in it. Z97, what's so special about this Z97 that is different than any other Z97 chipset? It's all the same! They officially support overclocking and some other features which I can't remember at the top of my head. And yet was have some staff members here that gets defensive about it. Seriously, if this is how THG was, by releasing reviews on old hardware parts as if they're the newest, I would have never signed up in the first place.
Too bad you guys have lost your roots and now they're better tech sites out there.

For the videos I was talking about. Before any idiot says well what's so special about oc 5ghz with Ln2, check the date it was uploaded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSr6Nr9oSTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb4UumU6ee0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2DsiqyaXMs

 

[Crashman]

rolli59,
Your question has been answered at least twice above.

Not really, everybody else is reviewing the new stuff! Just like Tom's used to do!

That's your mistake, not anyone else's. Go to the home page, click the motherboard's link on the second bar, find reviews for 11 Z170 motherboards, and ask yourself why it's wrong to include additional products for other buyers in our coverage.

11 out of how many and what about all the B150,, H170 and H110 boards?
I remember many Z97 reviews mid year 2014 as well, it is 2016 now.

-1, you're saying "You'd better not publish this because I don't want to see it". You have stuff to see. There are more reviews in the queue. They're all getting published, including those of product you'll like and those of products you won't.

Next you'll be telling us to ignore the new AMD boards as they occasionally pop up, because even though the board is new the chipset isn't? Because the 3:1 ratio of Intel reviewers to AMD reviewers is far to favorable to AMD?

If it makes you sleep easier, this was the "straggler" Z97 review. I put Eric on X99 back in August or September because solutions are still being developed for that platform. There is another H97 straggler, even though Joe is already working on H170.

 

[jeffredo]

Good luck finding it anywhere in the US at this point. Discontinued/EOL and the stock is nearly gone. What's the point in the review?

 

[MarcioK]

I have this board, and was intrigued by the Turbo Boost problem. Can you explain it in further detail, and how you solved it?

And I have a problem regarding the fan velocity regulation in my setup - using the Asus AI Suite, even setting the fan to only spin up when it reaches some temperature (using the custom fan speed graphics), it almost always spins up the CPU fan to the maximum when the CPU clock is turned to the maximum, even when the CPU temp is way lower than the AI Suite setting. Read somewhere that it is a AI Suite problem - if you uninstall the application and adjust the fan curve only in BIOS, it works properly, but I wonder if you saw something similiar in your test.

Thanks for the review.

 

[stoned_ritual]

I love that I got -1 for asking a legitimate question. This is worse than slashdot.

 

[blazorthon]

I love that I got -1 for asking a legitimate question. This is worse than slashdot.

They might have thought you were trolling. The answer is no, it is not a response to anything Microsoft said regarding windows 10 support. That's easy to realize seeing as Skylake is said to support it anyway, so there's no reason to out a Haswell board in response to Microsoft. This review came out now instead of earlier or later because of the reasons specified by the Tom's guys in the other comments.