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After reading Reviews its not enough of an upgrade so will wait for next chip to come out. Having up to 10xSATA 6GB/s would be nice but not worth upgrading yet looks like some boards no longer have marvel ports correct ?

ASRock Z87 EXTREME6 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
 
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MonsterMoshi said:
There are going to be a lot more motherboards released next week at computex so I would hang on a few days if I was buying haswell
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Ain't nobody got time for that!

I already ordered! Intel Core i7-4770K + Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI HERO :D

I would be surprised if other mobo's end up being better and overclocking more than this one.
 
still on my 920 here, seriously tempted, at 4.2ghz at mo on x58 ud3r, just working out if its a big enough jump!
 
ASRock Z87 EXTREME4 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard

Intel Z87 Chipset, x4 DDR3, x3 PCI-E x16, x2 PCI-E x1, x2 PCI, x10 SATA 6GB/s, x1 Gigabit LAN, x8 USB 3.0, x4 USB 2.0, 7.1 HD Audio, SLI & Xfire Support

6 x SATA3, 2 x SATA2, 1 x eSATA,

Info needs checking on this boards says x10 SATA 6GB/s and further down says 6 x SATA3, 2 x SATA2, 1 x eSATA, picture dont show 10 sata connectors
 
Broken Hope said:
Why would anyone buy Z87 boards now when they have a confirmed USB 3 bug?
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I looked into this, am I right in reading that when your PC goes into sleep mode, the flash drives connected to USB3.0 don't automatically wake, and need to just be re-plugged in?

If that is the case, in my eyes it's not a deal breaker, because I never have my PC in sleep mode anyway, it's one of the first things I turn off. It's either off or on. So I'm assuming that the USB3.0 bug wouldn't effect me?
 
Aedus said:
I looked into this, am I right in reading that when your PC goes into sleep mode, the flash drives connected to USB3.0 don't automatically wake, and need to just be re-plugged in?

If that is the case, in my eyes it's not a deal breaker, because I never have my PC in sleep mode anyway, it's one of the first things I turn off. It's either off or on. So I'm assuming that the USB3.0 bug wouldn't effect me?
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Yep, some drives wake fine others do not. Apparently if you use an external USB Hub it will work because it re-polls the USB port. Also it only has an issue on the Intel USB3 ports any USB3 provided by an onboard 3rd party chip, which most do, are said to work fine. It also only occurs in the S3 sleep state I believe.
 
acme15 said:
You know when you have a perfectly good computer, with hardware which would give the new releases a run for its money... But then you see all the shiny new hardware, with all the bigger numbers and the shiny boxes and the less-than-expected price tags? That feeling?

I hate that feeling :D
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Right there with ya...
 
TNA said:
Ain't nobody got time for that!

I already ordered! Intel Core i7-4770K + Asus Z87 MAXIMUS VI HERO :D

I would be surprised if other mobo's end up being better and overclocking more than this one.
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I agree. I think that board and the Gigabyte Z87X-OC seem to be the real stand out mainstream boards. Just can't decide between the two. The UD3 seems like a good board but i think its priced too closely too the above two to make it worthwhile.
 
Gibbo said:
Checked our competitors and seems our pricing is the best and like many of our competitors we also give you GRID 2 as well. Plus our CS is the best! :)
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I'm after a Asus MAXIMUS VI GENE, I thought you had these in stock from last week but they're showing as "Pre-Order" - any ideas on what the issue is and when they'll be shipping please?
 
Somthing Else said:
So what is the performance difference over Sandybridge in terms of percentage clock for clock?
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Hard to generalise but I've seen just about every benchmark released in the last day and I'd expect anywhere between a few percent and up to 10-15% or so in purely compute based tests. You might do a little better but obviously there are some other performance benefits over SB such as proper PCIe 3.0 support, most if not all Haswell mobos have a LOT of 6Gbps SATA ports and usually faster memory than SB, oh and a lot more USB 3.0 too. So for me the jump is more that I was getting frustrated using a 6Gbps SSD and PCIe 3.0 capable GPU but on a SB board that didn't support either, plus of course it lines me up nicely for Broadwell (maybe even Skylake too?).
 
Somthing Else said:
So what is the performance difference over Sandybridge in terms of percentage clock for clock?
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I would say about 1.5x a difference.

I'm not really excited tbh, it seems like a smaller improvement then expected, 'better integrated graphics', most people will chuck a dedicated gpu, if they really use integrated, the AMD APUs are a leap ahead of any integrated intel graphics, with the new architecture in the pipeline, that would be my bet.

I do like however the power saving mode, but it's a pain in the arse for vendors to make sure their psu s don't brick themselves, also expensive for the consumer as they would have to get a haswell certified psu too.

New socket gripes, honestly they could at least have stayed on 2011 platform, so it means more money to shell out for intel to line their pockets.
It would be a lot less painful for a user to upgrade.
 
Chopper3 said:
I'm after a Asus MAXIMUS VI GENE, I thought you had these in stock from last week but they're showing as "Pre-Order" - any ideas on what the issue is and when they'll be shipping please?
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We have never had anything listed online other than from midnight earlier today. Stock arrives on ROG at the back end of next week and into the following few weeks.
 
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