ASUS Marine Cool concept motherboard hands-off
By Darren Murph 
posted March 3rd 2009 4:47AM
posted March 3rd 2009 4:47AM
posted March 3rd 2009 4:47AM
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Why would you care about what your motherboard looks like?
It spends its life in a metal box under your desk and only sees the light of day when something goes wrong.
There is certainly a penis joke in there somewhere, but I'm not going to be the one to make it...
You would care if it was in a clear case. Hence this part of the article: "we'd actually consider buying a clear case"
True. I would care if I do DIY a lot and I want people to see my works. This thing looks good but it raises a lot of questions. I seriously doubt that this thing will ever go on the market.
Aero-grade ceramic-metal cooling components? Isn't that something like the thermal plate from those NASA shuttles? Sounds mighty expensive.
And onboard UPS? Unless they are using fusion reactors under those heasinks I can't see anything that is powerful enough to serve as an onboard UPS for a high end computer.
And this failover memory I think, adds little advantage and may cause more problem. I'd pay $50 for a spare set of memory other than having ASUS soldered it on the motherboard.
Oh, and I hope the SODIMM RAM slots are just a joke or a hastily done show case. I can't think of any reason to buy a motherboard that looks like a X58 with 2 SODIMM slots on it, I just can't.
@nicholaelaw
"And onboard UPS? Unless they are using fusion reactors under those heasinks I can't see anything that is powerful enough to serve as an onboard UPS for a high end computer."
I think the whole point of it isnt how long you can run your PC for when the power goes it will probably have some feature that if the power goes there is just enough juice for it to automatically shut down your pc for you.
So go buy your generic fop box and get out of the way of the rest of us looking to build wonders.
Built in UPS how awesome is that.
totally lame and unnecessary? how many home users need / want to spend the extra dough so they can use it during their infrequent power outages.
How is it unnecessary this is a niche product meant for hardcore pc users, i dont think "home users" would really care about this motherboard.
With only 2 RAM slots, and those being "SO-DIMM", this is some RUs away from being hardcore.
Certain areas of the country, like mine experience frequent power blips from weather storms. A UPS is almost mandatory if you do any kind of work on your computer.
ASUS is really pulling out the stops this year at CeBIT. That or Engadget just hasn't gotten itself to any of the other booths yet. I am starting to get excited about what this show has in store, though. Maybe you guys should make a CeBIT hub
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Why on earth are the peripherals canned in a metal box ?
Why should manufacturers need to care about the design of mobos?
well....i think it is the same reason why people out there care about how the heat shield on their memory module looks like;
as well as why some cares to decorate their internal with blinding LED lights...lol
my point is..seems like 'design' and 'look pretty' are on a lots of things lately...well...maybe it's time for mobo.
"i think it is the same reason why people out there care about how the heat shield on their memory module looks like"
are there really people who care about this because i feel confident that you're making this up
You would be surprised. And I guess I do sort of care, although not enough to drop extra money on my ram. But if theres only a few dollar difference between the hot pink ram heatsinks and black ram heatsinks, I am going to choose the one matches my case better. People spend hours wiring their cases so that they look clean, why is this so shocking.
I'm just waiting for the master chief to walk out, laydown some Covenant smack down ;)
Someone at Asus watched way too much G.I.Joe growing up.
lol that's what I thought, 'what's with the thunderbirds set'.
What the hell is with the laptop-esque SO-DIMM's? Like I'm going to blow 500 bucks on a serious mobo just to load it up with some seriously craptastic memory.
And WTF is failover memory?
From what I have read failover memory is memory who will take over if the main memory fails. Why they don't put some RAID5 on the memory is beyond me.
Americas Army 3 certified?
thats is simply cool( But its quite big )
This is awesome; a bunch of people fawning over a mobo dressed up in camo! It brings to mind putting lipstick on a pig. Lol. It's just a freakin' mobo people. An ugly 1 at that.... And I'm quite sure it works just like every other Asus mobo out there; intermittently. Lol.
SO-DIMMS?????????[cringe]
I guess that is why the "Failover memory" is needed, so every time you try to overclock and fail due to the slow-dimms it will still start-up and let you revert the settings in the bios haha.
i7+ddr3 = :)
i7+so-dimm = WTF
I think there will be proper DIMM slots in the final version, with SIMMS for backup ram...
for all those times that your ram fails?
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