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you know it amazes me how naive people can be by looking at the layout of a board...its crap because it looks crap...LOL come on you guys!!!
That AM2 board could be 8 layer, totally designed to push CPU and ram to silly clocks...you just don't know.
you have to realize boards may sometimes look ugly, but if the design is 100% for overclocking who gives rats @ss as long as it performs
Yeah the new ROG boards must mean (Republic Of Ghetto)...
They look.....
I can't even explain how ugly they look
Any ideas on a USA release date?
Do YOU have any guesses on what the heck the G-SURF365 is supposed to be?? I don't see why anyone WOULDN'T be completely flabbergasted by just seeing the layout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony
:rofl: :ROTF: The name! The looks! I can't stop laughing, i bet my dog hold draw a better looking board with his two paws! :rofl: :ROTF:
yeah like 1 year After everyone else has had their product out. :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brother Esau
http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/009l_1.jpg
What's your impression of ASUS Republic of Gamer series? duluxe package? large amount of accessories? or pretty board design? The G-SURF365 certian will break your impression. It is only a low end nforce 630a mobo. It so weird that Asus would risk their brand to release the low end mobo.
Being a low end mobo it have limited numbers of slot: only have two PCI plus one PCIe, two standing DDR2 slot and one AM2 CPU slot. The biggest selling point of this mobo is its G-Guardian system.
G-Guardian actually is a protective system made with plastic. And extreme user won't think it is interesting.
G-Gardian have two parts: Memory and I/O:
http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/630a_0.jpg http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2...03/630a_00.jpg
thief with screwdriver can easly unlock it..
http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/630a_1.jpg http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/630a_2.jpg
Here it is, the I/O part of G-Guardian, it will lock your keyboard and mouse.
http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/630a_3.jpg http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/630a_4.jpg
actually only a scissor can break this protection
http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/630a_5.jpg http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/630a_6.jpg
http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/630a_7.jpg http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/630a_8.jpg http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2.../03/630a_9.jpg
http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2...03/630a_10.jpg http://www.expreview.com/img//news/2...03/630a_11.jpg
original post: expreview.com
I think that pretty much answers any further question about that thing lolQuote:
Originally Posted by cookerjc
Hey Big Toe, the ugly looking board may not be crap. but G-surf365 is absolutely a low end mobo for computers of public area or internet cyber cafe..Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony
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Originally Posted by Tony
haha i agree.
there are just 2 pictures/slides and everyone complains how they suck...:ROTF:
asus sucks anymore:down:
/end slander
G-Surf looks good by me, it can be good cheap OC mobo for Phenoms ...
Both boards are hideous...but really I don't care that much about how they look. Just the same when I look to replace my current nForce frankenchip board to run a quad I won't be buying nVidia's 680i+ 45nm quad core fix...er 780i...TYVM.
Pathetic... That's ASUS' contribution to the technological advance of mankind?Quote:
Originally Posted by cookerjc
when is the striker II supposed to hit shelves????
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Originally Posted by Tony
some of us have windows... :ROTF:
For lanparty goers, layout counts a lot not just performance. :D
so I take it that slot above pci-e slot0 is the OEM audio card slot, and not a pci-e 1x slot? that urks me about Asus boards because I like my pci-e 1x RocketRaid controller.. grr.. and the pci-e 1x slot is always burried behind pci-e slot0, right where you can't reach it with a 2 slot video card.. anyways..
aside from that, still waiting for an all SATA board with no IDE ports.. iz want morez sata! :D
I'm not quite understanding the GSURF-365. It's a crappy budget mobo labeled with the ROG branding, a giant (ultimately useless) heatsink, and 2 RAM slots? Also, what the hell did Asus do to the board layout on the AM2 board? There are barely any damn traces on that PCB.
Edit: read Tony's post, but not buying it. ;) No 7 channel onboard audio, no dual gigabit, no eSATA? Even if it is solely for overclocking, that is one barren board.
what a strange bunch of people in this thread
who cares what the mobo looks like. Since when do we have beauty pageants here :confused:
GAR why do you not like EPU.....it sounds like a good idea :confused: :confused:
So, wait, it's a low-end NF630a based mobo, but it's branded with the Republic of Gamers logo? What the hell? The name even implies it'd be best suited for a basic web SURFING machine.
:shakes:
Are you guys sure its ATX, it looks like mATX to me. Then it'd make a lot more sense IMO
It's ATX--look at the mounting holes--it has the standard setup for a full ATX board. Anyways--they could have saved everyone a ton of money and cut the size of the heatsinks to about... half of what we see (I realize both SB and NB are under it--but do they really need everything inbetween?). They wasted four expansion slots for a huge heatsink... adding probably $30 on the ticket price.
Hey dinos....the reason why i dont like it is it caused problems with quads at certain fsb/voltage..........when you load prime 95 with the maximus formula it wouldnt load the cpu 100%, also the voltages fluctuate too much on the maximus.....im not sure its the EPU or not, but most of us thought it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by dinos22