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  • Infy2 - Monday, November 22, 2021 - link

    Very good post. More like this!
  • shabby - Monday, November 22, 2021 - link

    This is an ad by asus, not a post by AnandTech 😂
  • Eliadbu - Tuesday, November 23, 2021 - link

    I think he was sarcastic.
  • Dahak - Monday, November 22, 2021 - link

    now if they can only keep there specs consistent / same formatting so it make its easy to use the compare feature as trying to figure out the difference between the strix -e -f -g makes it impossible (this goes for all board not just these)
  • koaschten - Monday, November 22, 2021 - link

    The first pic is triggering... top row of three boards oriented all the same way, bottom row one is rotated left and the other right by 90°...
  • Duwelon - Monday, November 22, 2021 - link

    Actual performance difference between most expensive SKU and the cheapest? 1%? a Whopping 2%? and the price difference is probably >$500. Love ya Asus but the motherboard market is a racket at this point.
  • shabby - Monday, November 22, 2021 - link

    Someone is buying them so they keep making them i guess
  • meacupla - Monday, November 22, 2021 - link

    You know, it would be extremely sus, if the mobo was giving more than 2% performance variance using the same CPU.
    In fact, in the mobo world, it's considered cheating to run an overclocked BCLK from factory.

    Also, if you are so concerned about price/performance, just wait for the B series of boards.
  • dwd999 - Monday, November 22, 2021 - link

    The real problem I have with many of these boards is that they are incompatible with many cpu air coolers. Prominent coolers like the Noctua D15 won't work or have to be rotated so that they are blowing from bottom to top in the case in order to clear the huge coolers ASUS has on it VRM and other components. These ASUS designs almost demand that you use water cooling since they leave little room around the cpu and an AIO water pump plus heat block is about all that would fit in the space they allow.
  • meacupla - Monday, November 22, 2021 - link

    oh, so you're saying that intel designed a new socket, a keep out area around the socket, and then Asus decided to add in legacy mounting holes
  • dwd999 - Tuesday, November 23, 2021 - link

    No, I'm simply saying that some of us really don't want to get involved with water cooling and prefer air coolers, many of which won't work with these new designs. Or one could say: intel designed a new socket, which they don't care about since they don't manufacture coolers; a keep out area around the socket, which they don't care about since they don't manufacture coolers; and ASUS decided to add in legacy mounting holes, which are irrelevant since almost every cooler manufacturer provides a socket 1700 mounting bracket, since most coolers are already designed to mount on sockets as large as 2066.
  • Nomgle - Saturday, November 27, 2021 - link

    But these boards work just fine with the Noctua D15 according to Noctua - example https://ncc.noctua.at/motherboards/model/ASUS-ProA...

    Have you checked the compatibility lists ?
  • Nomgle - Saturday, November 27, 2021 - link

    https://ncc.noctua.at/motherboards/model/ASUS-ProA...
    Not sure why the link got truncated above 😁
  • alpha754293 - Wednesday, November 24, 2021 - link

    It's too bad that Wendall from Level1Linux was just talking about how the ITMT and thread director not really working on the Asus Z690 motherboards.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chfr-sFyGms

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