Gigabyte Silently Reveals Green Z97X-Game Plus Motherboard

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Gigabyte's new board is rather awesome, but here in the U.S., we won't be able to buy it.

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[shrapnel_indie]

Product page link is dead:

"Sorry, the page you are looking for is no longer available or has been moved."

 

[jasonelmore]

why go through all that trouble to design and manufacture this motherboard, and not be willing to ship it to the USA?

 

[jasonelmore]

with all english text all over the board for that matter

 

[thundervore]

Its great to see Black/Green coming back again. I am so sick of the Red/Black everyone is doing, it gets annoying so fast

 

[Shankovich]

Ah yes, the G1 Sniper colour scheme. Still loving my G1 sniper M3

 

[beoza]

Would be nice to see other colors on motherboards besides the standard Orange, This black and green color looks good! Always liked this color scheme on a motherboard, although once you place your GPU(s) and memory it's a bit hard to see. Need some blues and greens, heck even a purple color would look good with black. One of these motherboard manufacturers should offer their mid or high end boards in different color schemes; same board just available in different colors. It would help to set themselves apart from the rest of the pack since most of the motherboards out there all have very similar features.

 

[shrapnel_indie]

Ah yes, the G1 Sniper colour scheme. Still loving my G1 sniper M3

On the Z87 boards. They updated to the en vogue red and black on the z97 boards. But even that doesn't really do a whole lot of justice for a blue/black case.... if it even matters depending on where you place your tower.

 

[MasterDell]

why go through all that trouble to design and manufacture this motherboard, and not be willing to ship it to the USA?

Because that would make sense.

 

[convertedconsolegamer_92]

Green Heatsinks would have perfected the look. This board would go great with that MSI GTX 960/970 100ME card. Shame Gigabyte felt pressured to compete with MSI gaming series. The sniper should have been green.

 

[alexscheppert]

why oh why is the G1 gaming board not the same color scheme as the GPU's.

 

[justcommenting]

Needs more green on it but still looks good. I'm in the middle of a green/black build and would've snatched this board up instead of the black/grey I had to settle for. I kind of wish manufacturers would just start offering multiple color scheme options for boards instead of making consumers compromise on features/aesthetics.

 

[ubercake]

Why the PS2 ports? Were there extra parts lying around?

When I look for a motherboard I'd consider "modern", here are a few features it doesn't have:
1) PCI (old-school non-express type) slots
2) PS2 ports
3) IDE disk connections

 

[thundervore]

Why the PS2 ports? Were there extra parts lying around?

When I look for a motherboard I'd consider "modern", here are a few features it doesn't have:
1) PCI (old-school non-express type) slots
2) PS2 ports
3) IDE disk connections

The reason it has PS2 ports is because some gamers prefer to user PS2 mice and keyboards. It acts as a hardware interrupt request reducing lag rather than using a USB solution. Honestly is just milliseconds that most will never notice but there are those that just wont let the ports die.

 

[MasterDell]

So just to get this straight, an ASUS Maximus VII has PS2 ports but because of this, this makes it "not modern". I use PS2 ports from time to time for my keyboards and if a motherboard doesnt have them but the competition does, well then guess who's getting my business?

 

[ubercake]

So just to get this straight, an ASUS Maximus VII has PS2 ports but because of this, this makes it "not modern". I use PS2 ports from time to time for my keyboards and if a motherboard doesnt have them but the competition does, well then guess who's getting my business?

When you say "from time to time", what occasions make you decide to plug in a PS2 keyboard? Just curious?

 

[ubercake]

Why the PS2 ports? Were there extra parts lying around?

When I look for a motherboard I'd consider "modern", here are a few features it doesn't have:
1) PCI (old-school non-express type) slots
2) PS2 ports
3) IDE disk connections

The reason it has PS2 ports is because some gamers prefer to user PS2 mice and keyboards. It acts as a hardware interrupt request reducing lag rather than using a USB solution. Honestly is just milliseconds that most will never notice but there are those that just wont let the ports die.

Polling rates of 1ms (or 1000 times per second) can be set for most mid- to high-end USB gaming keyboards. How do I get less lag than that? Will the PS2 solution give me that?

 

[MasterDell]

So just to get this straight, an ASUS Maximus VII has PS2 ports but because of this, this makes it "not modern". I use PS2 ports from time to time for my keyboards and if a motherboard doesnt have them but the competition does, well then guess who's getting my business?

When you say "from time to time", what occasions make you decide to plug in a PS2 keyboard? Just curious?

From time to time when I have someone over that wants to game on one of my other computer I give them a PS2 keyboard because they are quicker than the USB 2.0 ones I have