ASUS R.O.G. Pinot Noir Motherboard Previewed

malware · Mar 3, 2008

The nForce 790i-powered Pinot Noir motherboard, part of the latest ASUS Republic of Gamers series, is now being showcased at CeBIT. What's uncommon about this motherboard is the unique water cooling solution for its major components. Furthermore this board can work with the latest Intel 45nm CPUs and utilize 4x DDR3 modules, three PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots and six SATA 3.0 Gbps connectors.

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Fitseries3 · Mar 3, 2008

this is gonna cost alot. why not have the watercooling inside the case? isn't that where most people have their water setups?

TechnicalFreak · Mar 3, 2008

No CPU water cooling?

Dr. Spankenstein · Mar 3, 2008

The watercooling "solution" look to be about as effective as the guy who mounted block on top of the NB heatsink fins...

Heatpipes and fins I can understand, but tacking on the rest seems like a gimmick.

EastCoasthandle · Mar 3, 2008

The location & orientation of that waterblock is odd and there are more streamline solutions out there to cool pwm. And it does look like they are using a waterblock to cool the fins from the pwm. That makes no sense to me.

Easy Rhino · Mar 3, 2008

lmao @ pinot noir! what are we naming motherboards after types of red wines? perhaps we should try loading it up with wine instead of water to cool it haha.

lemonadesoda · Mar 3, 2008

Pinot noir? WTF is coming next? Merlot, Zinfandel, Sauvignon? They should call it something a bit more rough and tough like Vodka, Bourbon or Absinth. PS. Pinor noir is a notoriously difficult grape.

IMO they should name them after softdrinks, like

Coke
Lemonadesoda
Orangejuice

LOL

miksanity · Mar 3, 2008

Water cooling for a MOTHERBOARD....uhhh

Easy Rhino · Mar 3, 2008

lemonadesoda said:
PS. Pinor noir is a notoriously difficult grape.

true, so that could be either a good marketing strategy or a bad one. id never buy a motherboard named 'merlot' because that to me is like drinking box wine :laugh:

lemonadesoda · Mar 3, 2008

I think the marketing department should fall on swords for that one.

At least it will ATTRACT ALCOHOLICS.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=54245

erocker · Mar 3, 2008

It is now confirmed that Asus's marketing team are a bunch of wynos! :laugh:

I'm sure after downing a few bottles they also came up with "Rock Solid, Heart Touching". Hold me while I weep.

Dia01 · Mar 3, 2008

Looks as though the 790i may have similar heat issues also as the 680i and 780i.

intel igent · Mar 3, 2008

i dont know about that W/C :wtf:

Dia01 · Mar 3, 2008

I like the inventiveness of ASUS but if you're going to spend money on setting up water cooling you would at the very least consider the CPU and maybe a GFx card, with the water block exiting the case people's options are limited. :confused:

1c3d0g · Mar 4, 2008

I don't know about the waterblock, but the name definitely SUCKS! :shadedshu

warhammer · Mar 4, 2008

And ASUS Mobo are always over priced by a couple of hundred with there gimiks.

PrudentPrincess · Mar 4, 2008

Congrats ASUS you've made a watercooled piece of shit with a name to match!
Hope your fanboys cough up the cash! :laugh:

Fitseries3 · Mar 4, 2008

PrudentPrincess said:
Congrats ASUS you've made a watercooled piece of shit with a name to match!
Hope your fanboys cough up the cash!

thats exactly what i was thinking but i didn't want to be mean.

tkpenalty · Mar 4, 2008

16 phase and a water cooling loop.... OVERKILL WTF.

TheLostSwede · Mar 4, 2008

Did anyone else notice that the board doesn't have any onboard sound at all, no connectors, no riser card, nothing. That leaves you a PCI slot for a sound card if you're using two dual slot graphcis cards in the board.
I'm curios to see if they've done what MSI tried, using the "empty" heat pipes to put water through from that external connector to the NB.
Gonna be over priced and it really doesn't look great.
By the way, marketing team, usually it's just someome who comes up with a lame name and then it's sent out for approval internally and if everyone's happy, they go with it.
I ought to know, I worked for MSI many a years ago and came up with a couple of model names, some are still used to this date...

LiveOrDie · Mar 4, 2008

Nice but i don't like asus board they suck monkey balls, and the silver and orange makes it look crapy why not black crome and green

mascaras · Mar 5, 2008

Dia01 said:
Looks as though the 790i may have similar heat issues also as the 680i and 780i.

maybe this mobo use chipset intel X48

regards

LiveOrDie · Mar 5, 2008

mascaras said:
maybe this mobo use chipset intel X48

regards

no the 790i is a nvidia chipset, there is no intel chipset out that has 3 PCI-e slots

mascaras · Mar 5, 2008

Live OR Die said:
no the 790i is a nvidia chipset, there is no intel chipset out that has 3 PCI-e slots

I Know 790i its Nvidia chipset

btw:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2814268&postcount=16

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2814777&postcount=23

regards

LiveOrDie · Mar 6, 2008

mascaras said:
I Know 790i its Nvidia chipset

btw:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2814268&postcount=16

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2814777&postcount=23

regards

those people posting it a intel chipset are wrong, you can tell by the board, because the only 3x PCI-e boards are nvidia chipsets

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