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ROG FM2+ Motherboard

Zeroed
Level 7
i am a veteran builder since the late 90s... I am planning to build a new rig based off the FM2+ Kaveri Processor. i am wondering if there will be a NEW ROG motherboards for the FM2+ platform?

ASUS already has the A88X-PRO, but i rather have a similar board focus on more gaming like 2 PCIe x16 and not 2 x8. also i like to see many ROG Technologies such as Motherboard Innovations, Sound Innovations & Graphic Innovations. even though not much can be provided from the Graphic Innovations like DirectCU. it would be nice to see a Water/Fan cooled ready motherboard like the POSEIDON is for GPUs.

ROG doesn't need many versions of the FM2+ motherboard like how it is on the Intel side. just 1 really thought out motherboard. people can argue that the ASUS A88X-PRO is enough but the people that want more like water cooled ready, or built-in audio support for AMD TrueAudio not only through HDMI but also for the native audio ports on the motherboard.

Also have 1 HMDI 2.0 Ready, 2 Dual-Link DVI-I, 2 full size Display Ports, why no VGA... well there isn't a need for it. there are many adapters and going back to analog VGA is a lost. even though i have enough DVI to VGA adapters, but i rather try to deal with down grading to old tech then trying to upscale to new tech. Especially that A10-7580k supports up to 4 monitors using 2 Display Ports. Now also throw in a Dual 1/5 Gigabit Ethernet Ports with Link Aggregation (LACP) or the like using Qualcomm Atheros Killer Technology like the Killer DoubleShot but for Dual Ethernet ports or even dual ports + WiFi.

Sorry for the rant but i would love to really see something like this soon. The Motherboard is the foundation of any good rig, and i just love ROG motherboards... but there isn't many AMD motherboard choices. all ROG needs is a really good AM3+ and FM2+ board... i personal want to see ROG POSEIDON FM2+ Motherboard.

My Dream Mobo

ROG Poseidon FM2+ Mobo
Socket : FM2+
Air Cooled + Water Cooled Ready
RAM : 12 slots 8-16Gb per slot @ DDR3/4 Ready 2400+ (RAMDisk AMP Compatible)
2x PCI-E (16x) + 4x PCI-E (1x / legacy) / 4x PCI-E (8x) + 2x PCI-E (1x / legacy)
1x HDMI 2.0 Ready (4K compatible)
2x DVI-I (3 Monitor ready with HDMI or 1 DP)
3x Display Port (A10-7850k Supports 4 monitors through 2 DP)
Dual Ethernet Ports (1/5/10 Gb) LACP Ready
9.1 On-Board Native Audio
9.1 Native Audio through HDMI
2x M.2 (WiFi/Bluetooth + SSD)

ASUS ROG R&D + AMD R&D = Ultimate Mobo

i prefer Mini-ITX with 4 slots (less slots better quality slots)! 2 double wide PCI-E (16x) + 2x PCI-E (1x / legacy) / 4x PCI-E (8x)... or just give me 4x PCI-e (16x / Legacy)
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Biffy
Level 7
After seeing AMD's roadmap... it make perfect sense for ASUS to release a ROG motherboard for the FM2+ socket. Because the FX CPUs are "End Of Life" and the 990FX Formula-Z will be the last AMD ROG with the FX chip-set which is 3 years old!

With more powerful Kaveri APUs scheduled for release in the 2014 year, as well as the next gen FM2+ APU code name Carizo for 2015, makes sense to have a ROG mobo released for the future AMD products and one upping the competition's FM2+ gaming boards e.g. MSI A88X-G45 Gaming mobo. Below is a little more info on the next gen FM2+ family APUs: CARIZO

Carrizo APUs will add AVX2, BMI2, MOVBE and RDRAND instructions, as well as TSX on some SKUs. The processors will come with a memory controller, that will work with DDR3 and DDR4 memory. The controller is going to support registered DIMMs and ECC, although these features might be enabled only on server and embedded products. The document does not state the maximum data rates for DDR4 memory, and the DDR3 rate depends on the socket. While the maximum rate is still 2400 MHz, a few new features, that should enhance general performance and power consumption of Carrizo processors. That includes support for new instructions and DDR4 memory, integration of the Fusion Controller Hub (FCH), and upgrade of general purpose PCI-Express interface to version 3.0.

Biffy wrote:
After seeing AMD's roadmap... it make perfect sense for ASUS to release a ROG motherboard for the FM2+ socket. Because the FX CPUs are "End Of Life" and the 990FX Formula-Z will be the last AMD ROG with the FX chip-set which is 3 years old!

With more powerful Kaveri APUs scheduled for release in the 2014 year, as well as the next gen FM2+ APU code name Carizo for 2015, makes sense to have a ROG mobo released for the future AMD products and one upping the competition's FM2+ gaming boards e.g. MSI A88X-G45 Gaming mobo. Below is a little more info on the next gen FM2+ family APUs: CARIZO


well i am also interested in AMDs road map. but to also take on ROG FM2+ mobo. i also would like to see 12x 8-16Gb DDR3/4 Ready slots. why 12 slots? because of Radeon RAMDISK... what!? haven't heard of it? it is taking a part of your RAM and making it into a partition disk... yes partition disk... just like your C:\ or D:\ but as RAM access speeds...

12 slots @8Gb per stick is 96Gb and @16Gb per stick is 192Gb if it is DDR3/4 ready then this will just scream out performance... most sites has concluded that for optimum performance 16Gb DDR3 2400 is more then enough the only problem is that Radeon RAM has slower CAS then other performance RAM. so if you minus 16-24Gb of RAM and create a RAMDisk then you have a Drive that can hold enough Programs. even though AMD RAM can boot with RAMDisk enabled and a chance to overclock the CAS to faster timings. it is a hard choice for me.

Well, there's a lot of potential with Kaveri and soon to come Carrizo, esp with HSA. I do like that the APUs have a dedicated PCI-Express SSD interface, which should streamline I/O. Since ASUS has products to fit this APU design, like the RAIDR Express PCIe SSD

I'd like to see how well a ROG rig for video editing and rendering would perform too. I hope if they release a ROG board, it will support ROG Front Base.

Myk_SilentShado
Level 15
12 RAM slots? so you want AMD to entirely forgo quad channel and magically bring in hexa channel RAM? on a mainstream board? uhh...no, I don't think so. The cost of that much RAM alone would be ridiculous, that's why we still haven't seen 16GB sticks of RAM yet. And honestly, if you want that much RAM, you may as well just build a workstation build. Though ECC RAM doesn't run much faster than 1600MHz - as far as I have seen so far any way. And yeah, a lot of us around here know about RAMDisks and what they can do...even ROG has their own RAMDisk now.

As for the question about a ROG Rig for video editing/rendering, how are the Kaveri chips with that kinda workload? I haven't really seen anything about it yet...though i'm sure they won't work as well as Intel based rigs as pretty much most software is designed around Intel's CPU's and their instructions.

most mainstream mobos dont even label being quad channel... you mostly find mobos with it on workstation or servers. 8 slots would give 2 sets of quad and 12 slots would give 3 sets. a good example is ASUS A88X-Pro it can have up to 64Gb over 4 slots but as you say you dont see 16Gb RAM and you need a minimum of 8 slots to make use of RAMDisk... ideally you would need minimum of 12 slots.

Zeroed wrote:
most mainstream mobos dont even label being quad channel... you mostly find mobos with it on workstation or servers.
Hmm correct me if i'm wrong but aren't the P9X79 Deluxe, RIVE and RIVBE considered non workstation/server boards? yet they have quad channel RAM.
8 slots would give 2 sets of quad and 12 slots would give 3 sets.
I believe Quad channel is 4 sets of 2, so 12 slots would be 6 sets of 2.

a good example is ASUS A88X-Pro it can have up to 64Gb over 4 slots but as you say you dont see 16Gb RAM and you need a minimum of 8 slots to make use of RAMDisk... ideally you would need minimum of 12 slots.
Since when do we need 8 slots for using RAM Disk? a recommended minimum would be 16GB or even better 32GB, so no, 8 slots or even 12 slots would not be the minimum needed for RAM Disk software.

Myk SilentShadow wrote:
...As for the question about a ROG Rig for video editing/rendering, how are the Kaveri chips with that kinda workload? I haven't really seen anything about it yet...though i'm sure they won't work as well as Intel based rigs as pretty much most software is designed around Intel's CPU's and their instructions.
I'm talking about the HSA benefits with all the overhead removed with everything on the APU and when APU speeds will hit OC 5+Ghz levels, it should be well above linear increases.

AMD APP SDK and AMD's Open CL which are supported and benefit in performance with Adobe's InDesign CC 9.X

Biffy
Level 7
Zeroed wrote:
i am a veteran builder since the late 90s... I am planning to build a new rig based off the FM2+ Kaveri Processor. i am wondering if there will be a NEW ROG motherboards for the FM2+ platform?


Well, what do you think?

Nice to see ASUS release an FM2+ ROG mobo: CROSSBLADE RANGER

The mobo also it will support ROG Front Base


ROG's flagship AMD FM2+ ATX gaming motherboard for OCing those AMD Kaveri and Carrizo(next gen released) processors. Unfortunately, the rumors have it, AMD's design for Carrizo (next gen K10) appear to be a flop for desktop compute power/integration improvements over Kaveri using this nice CROSSBLADE RANGER.

FlanK3r
Level 13
I think this 🙂

http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?50265-Crossblade-Ranger-FM2-ROG-gift&country=&status=
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