These slides were not leaked, they came from a AMD event they had yesterday called "Meet the Experts". Which was open for the public to view also. Here's some more of the slides from that event. imgur dot com/gallery/qheFr

The Prime is the most attractive of those boards... the Crosshair is simply ugly and has a bunch of features I don't want. I have a soundcard, from Asus, I don't want to use an onboard one and I don't want to pay a premium for one. Where's the enthusiast hardware that has high quality heatsinks not covered in plastic and LEDs and that isn't bundled with a ton of features that I can get in add-in boards?

The Prime is the most attractive of those boards... the Crosshair is simply ugly and has a bunch of features I don't want. I have a soundcard, from Asus, I don't want to use an onboard one and I don't want to pay a premium for one. Where's the enthusiast hardware that has high quality heatsinks not covered in plastic and LEDs and that isn't bundled with a ton of features that I can get in add-in boards?

The deluxe from Asus will be that board you are looking for. Maybe they will release one, although Asus did not release one for the z270 lineup.

X670?

Apropos Feature Rich: I lately wanted to upgrade from a 2600k to 6700k, back in November before the 7700k came out. I opted for a MSI M9 Z170A Gaming board, top of the line with all you could desire. End result was, it never ran properly, Volts were far off and 4 weeks later the board bricked. Well, I always used Asus and thought MSI was a misfit and RMAed the board and got me the Asus Maximus VIII Extreme instead, same 6700k, same Corsair XMP3000 CL15 DDR4 RAM. That board bricked its PXE ROM after 3 days, well..not so bad, I inserted a 1Gbit card and went on..for another day until the board went Qcode 00---> RMA again This time I got the same model board back, all new and shiny, also replaced the CPU with an also brand new 6700k, directly from Intel NL. The board worked 2 days until it bricked with qcode 16----> RMA AGAIN. That time I sent it ALL back and got me the cheapest board that will do it, no gimmicks, no WC add-onsd, no Wifi no tb, nada. If that new yet to arrive Asus Prime Z270 A along with a new 7700k and 32 GB XMP3600 will also brick then I dunno. I am used to board without LED and gimmicks but they function, these days you get lots of gimmicks but they plain dont work properly. More time is invested in looks and hype than in solid reliable performance. Even the X99-WS/IPMI I got, same story, flashed the IPMI and it BRICKED ! Good thing with Asus WS boards is a fast exchange of boards and premium service. With a 450€ ROG board you dont get that WS like service, you are a plain ordinary customer that has to wait for his parts to arrive and be returned. WS would be the onlx expensive board I will buy again from Asus, unless they drop the LEDs and get back to what they used to be, a reliable source for solid boards. SInce Nov 17th I am fighting 3 bricked boards ( +1 WS board ). Not nice. The only god thing is, meanwhile I moved to 7th gen CPU with all the RMA back and forth. * need to edit my HW-sig...LoL Maximus Extreme...NO THANK YOU 🙂

I hope there will be a solid mb option for those that need high quality components without plastic covers and christmas lights. I'm looking at latest "high-end" mobos and they look like it's not something sitting in your computer case, but like something a kid would play with, like a toy. And as the previous poster said, it looks like they are not working very well. More features, more potential issues. I expect motherboard to be stable above all

Apropos Feature Rich: I lately wanted to upgrade from a 2600k to 6700k, back in November before the 7700k came out. I opted for a MSI M9 Z170A Gaming board, top of the line with all you could desire. End result was, it never ran properly, Volts were far off and 4 weeks later the board bricked. Well, I always used Asus and thought MSI was a misfit and RMAed the board and got me the Asus Maximus VIII Extreme instead, same 6700k, same Corsair XMP3000 CL15 DDR4 RAM. That board bricked its PXE ROM after 3 days, well..not so bad, I inserted a 1Gbit card and went on..for another day until the board went Qcode 00---> RMA again This time I got the same model board back, all new and shiny, also replaced the CPU with an also brand new 6700k, directly from Intel NL. The board worked 2 days until it bricked with qcode 16----> RMA AGAIN. That time I sent it ALL back and got me the cheapest board that will do it, no gimmicks, no WC add-onsd, no Wifi no tb, nada. If that new yet to arrive Asus Prime Z270 A along with a new 7700k and 32 GB XMP3600 will also brick then I dunno. I am used to board without LED and gimmicks but they function, these days you get lots of gimmicks but they plain dont work properly. More time is invested in looks and hype than in solid reliable performance. Even the X99-WS/IPMI I got, same story, flashed the IPMI and it BRICKED ! Good thing with Asus WS boards is a fast exchange of boards and premium service. With a 450€ ROG board you dont get that WS like service, you are a plain ordinary customer that has to wait for his parts to arrive and be returned. WS would be the onlx expensive board I will buy again from Asus, unless they drop the LEDs and get back to what they used to be, a reliable source for solid boards. SInce Nov 17th I am fighting 3 bricked boards ( +1 WS board ). Not nice. The only god thing is, meanwhile I moved to 7th gen CPU with all the RMA back and forth. * need to edit my HW-sig...LoL Maximus Extreme...NO THANK YOU 🙂

Looks like to me you're swimming in too much money. I take donations to build myself a new Ryzen CPU, If you're interested PM me!

Rest assure that they will be way more AM4 motherboards models before the launch date of Ryzen , as a matter a fact they will be a complete line up from the highest end to the budget friendly oriented motherboards. The Asus Crosshair VI Hero is the absolute highest end on their AM4 line up target for overclockers and enthusiast hence why it is the first motherboard from Asus to be shown to get some PR , also professional overclockers using Liquid Nitrogen will use this motherboard from day one trying to set new records at hwbot and i know for sure ( my contacts told me so ) some of the top overclockers in the world already have ES samples of this motherboard along with Ryzen cpus doing some pre-testing and debugging using Liquid Nitrogen to sort out the bugs 😉 so that it will be ready for launch date in a few weeks. I know that as a fact because i use to be supported by Asus many years ago and was sent many ES motherboards to test on Liquid Nitrogen myself when i was active on the extreme overclocking scene and was ranked in the top 10 overclockers in the world , of course signing ndas.

Very good sign that partners are actually excited for Ryzen!

the X99-WS/IPMI

Just looked this motherboard up and that looks good, has a functional looking heatsink and not a bunch of plastic crud all over it. And it has the high quality features. Where's the version like that for mainstream audiences? The old mobo I'm running has been doing fine, so I know that it's not really about the absurd **** and that a mid-range one will do you just fine, but sometimes its fun to have something more highend where you're not praying that your OC works and it'll just stick soli.

Looking at those Asus mobos, I still like Asrock ones much more.

Looking at those Asus mobos, I still like Asrock ones much more.

ass-Rock (lol) is a sub-division of Asus fyi. Or use to be at least.

ass-Rock (lol) is a sub-division of Asus fyi. Or use to be at least.

Separate now and has been for about 3 years.

SInce Nov 17th I am fighting 3 bricked boards ( +1 WS board ). Not nice.

Sounds like you're killing boards by your own hands(Or other faulty hardware or mishandling). 4 boards don't die by themselves.:3eyes:

I'm seriously considering one of the 8-core options for my next gaming CPU. I really hope Ryzen lives up to the hype. They are saying one of the versions of this CPU competes with the high-end Intel-enthusiast models. I'd take one that competes even with an i7-5820 if the price is right.

Looking good, just waiting on prices. 🙂

@nz3777 fact is (last time i researched it), that asus/msi etc are going for "more" on phase/vrm stuff instead of better quality like asrock is. looking at getting a 5820 or zen, so comparing the boards from asus/ msi and asrock, the asrock has same (or more) phases but also better components that make up the power/vrm design. i love asus and been using boards/gpus since 2002, but lately i prefer the asrock lineup.

Well i have been AMD since the Phenom II days and i have to say regardless of what people think of the motherboards or how they perform, I'm glad companies are cosmetically making the boards for AMD look much much better. It use to be you had to get a Crossfire board if you wanted something nice looking in your case or the latest 990FX TUF board while Intel boards look so nice cosmetically especially the mini itx and mATX boards. It looks like ASUS and a lot of companies are giving a lot of attention to AMD and shelling out some money now to make decent boards at least cosmetically, this is a good thing....baby steps.

is that a 12 & a 10 phase VRM im looking at? damn heatsinks in the way. they dont even mention anything about the power phases but they list ever freakin component in the onboard audio...haha

Sounds like you're killing boards by your own hands(Or other faulty hardware or mishandling). 4 boards don't die by themselves.:3eyes:

Sounds like something wrong with the case/handling, I've never seen anything like it either.

is that a 12 & a 10 phase VRM im looking at? damn heatsinks in the way. they dont even mention anything about the power phases but they list ever freakin component in the onboard audio...haha

Because then we could see through the fog of irrelevancy. It would be nice to have more consistent reviews focused on things like the vrm.