Asus Z97 A Motherboard Preview

It may be Asus' entry level Z97 motherboard but the spec list is a mile long. I give it the once over... www.overclock3d...
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[@TheByzantineEmpire]

It is good to see how far value boards have come over the last few years. :D

[@LawrenceTimme]

legend for putting up videos early as usual :)

[@FyJonas]

camera worked beautifully with that "low" light, i think the video looks really good.

[@Nicktrance1]

It's nice to see so many minor features now being added to lower end boards I wonder what sort of features have trickled down to the entry level Z97 K.

[@sokim184]

Im still rocking mine, solid board.

[@plimmer]

Looking forward to the audio test, if that is somewhat decent this could very well be my upgrade from LGA775. :)

[@AltarenGalil]

The z97-AR is beautiful with silver instead of gold and a blacker PCB

[@ccovemaker]

As the owner of a Z87-A I think looks wise this board is a big improvement. While the gold heat sinks were not exactly winning beauty contests it was actually the yellow plastic PCI slots that were the real turn off. The Z97-A looks better but I still would have much rather had an updated version of the old blue Asus look.

[@Mehereth]

I could see that looking good in a steampunk themed case

[@captaincondescending]

Tom, are you using Sony Vegas Pro? Because I think you need to disable "resample" on your video clips (right click each clip in the timeline, go to properties and "disable resample"). Sorry if you already know about this and/or have already done it, but the video looks a little weird when there's a lot of movement (like crappy motion blur). Great video though, excited to see if Intel are finally going to give a performance increase! :)

[@OC3D]

This was some pretty awesome advise fella TY x

[@stunner211]

Tom put up your 295 x2 review. been waiting forever man lol. you been screaming for AMD to bring out a quality product. when they do you taking forever to review it. still love your reviews dude keep them coming. oh and i couldn't tell you had the lights off at all. way to go on that new cam.

[@ConorD1990]

Camera quality is epic.

[@rosen9425]

You were saying the times when cpu's came enclosed in plastic shrouding. And had a fan on it! Good times. I have no problems with gold. I like it. The lack of matching hardware is a huge problem the emerging markets might not give ten shits about it seems.

[@fetB]

its 125 € in germany, and the even cheaper boards (-C, -K) have apparently fewer digi+ vram phases

[@DavidGreen1993]

Camera quality is great but there seem to be a number of capturing/rendering glitches

[@TechUploaded]

What camera are you using?

[@1989agilly]

Is it just me but does the video glitch a bit... Just like a flipped frame every so often or something?

[@FesojNagod]

Tom, are you using sony studio hd or vegas pro to render? try disabling resample :)

[@aamirirshad4112]

which one is the better for Core i5-4690K (Z97 pro or z97-A)

[@MTLoveridge]

Thank god they actually got rid of the ghastly gold colour choices.

[@MarcusNailor]

Not sure if it's just me but it looks like your new camera has some motion blur when you move the board around :(

[@Christian-mx4ej]

do you know of any mother boards that are around the same price or $50 higher that have 2 places for me to plug in hdmi cords?

[@dom_h]

Can't tell if you put in a pic of a supermodel in at 7:55 or not. Might just be a transition glitch.

[@dom_h]

Oh wow there are more video glitches all over the place. :( .

[@protechnician83]

***** perhaps they are subliminal messages.

[@steaker-gi9uw]

I dont know if its the lighting or the frame rate, but the video looks like its at about 20 fps

[@JosephLee0312]

Considering upgrade to Z97-PRO from my Z87-PLUS with i7-4770k or should i just stay with my Z87 board?

[@Techkey1]

LOL I thought sabertooth also lol! Nice preview, not really my color as far as boards go but its simple and nice, I like the round heatsink. And the (your) camera is very good, at least on my screen(s) its very clear and the color and lighting shows good, I can see everything just fine through out multiple resolutions and conversions just because I like to play around with such things lol. Basically nice camera lol.

[@483Rahulkmr]

will intel release their own Z97 boards for this one last time....??

[@barelysmooth23]

Which key for BIOS

[@ChristianNuse]

This motherboard refuses to run my Asus GTX 660, it keeps crashing my nvidia windows kernel mode driver. It doesn't matter if I use an older set of drivers. Also I've tried to run the GTX 660 on a different system (with a Gigabyte 990FXA MOBO) without any problems at all, as well as another GTX 550ti in this system with the Z97-A and guess what? 0 problems running it what so ever. However I'd rather not use my old graphics card in my newly bought system of course. So does anybody have any idea about what the issue may be here?

[@SecretCoffin]

excuse me, but what are those 2 yellow things near the CPU position... recently i kinda accidentally popped it from it's place but it was back to normal right after...i dont know it it could have done some thing bad to the board...

[@SkiffySkiffultin]

Those are motherboard heatsinks....They cooldown your motherboard. So I doubt it would happen but If you experience some overheating on your mobo that may be the cause.

[@crayzeeduude]

nice. lol i remember when i had a purple ECS Am2+ mobo it was cool. the odd flash im seeing throughout the video is annoying though :)

[@ctguy1955]

My Maximus VII Formula was affected by a lightning strike and the bios is wanky. I ordered the Z97-A board in hopes that the bios and everything will work and save all my settings. My 1909 win 10 pro that I deleted everything on a 1TB drive to install, within 2 days updated to 20H2 that they say is still win 10 pro. I would like to purchase a TPM 2.0 if it will work for this board, I have read that 1.2 is the only version that will work with this board ? I am paying $185.oo for a refurbished from ASUS Z97-A that the bios is 5 years old now. They never support bios for more then 2-3 years as they want You to upgrade. My i7-4790K Devils Canyon hits over 5K and so I hit the silicon lottery. My Ram used is going for 400 for 32gigs. I ordered the C version and it came in all chinese writting and manual, and I sent it back. This one has 7.1 that makes me think its better then the C anyway. Thank You for having this video and showing the board, I just hope it arrives soon and Merry Christmas !!!

[@STi33W]

just got all my parts for my vi formula build and it's already out dated

[@Maghanashi]

Where's the unboxing? FFS, how do you make videos so long that contain so few pieces of information.

[@George-gs9sj]

So this is compatible with a i5 4670K ?

[@alecw7063]

It's compatible with any cpu that had a LGA 1150 socket

[@VeggeMight]

[@jamie3549]

Its CHASSIS FAN not Chanel fan lol Also it is M(dot)2 not M2 lol

[@aricleather6105]

Hahaha I still use D-Sub :P going to upgrade monitor soon... getting tired of 1440x900

[@LawrenceTimme]

good ding :D

[@itzik585]

LIKE H87 ... Not different. oR Z87.

[@resync-vq1xi]

now its to low light, and it comes washed out ...

[@resync-vq1xi]

and its fuzzy

[@LawrenceTimme]

you are right about me never buying this board. its all about the gigabyte soc :P

[@thescarlettspidey]

He actually called me out (--_--) 7:39

[@UCcDXvdjC360jIMSGMbR4PJw]

another ugly z97 motherboard... :( so far the best looking z97 is the z97 HERO

[@BenWillock]

Basically no innovation this year -_- (I know, I know, not Asus' fault) At least these boards don't look like arse this time around.

[@mortishaallagebordo7970]

Na I don't believe it for one second

[@kenshimmon4865]

Zed-neintyseven ei lol

[@failwheeldrive]

That is definitely a brown pcb lol. Bummer.

[@saturnGEEK]

At least it isn't green.

[@failwheeldrive]

***** I haven't seen a green pcb consumer mobo in ages.

[@saturnGEEK]

Chris Cleveland Quite a lot of OEM systems [that use custom motherboards] use green motherboards. Saves costs mostly.

[@failwheeldrive]

***** Yeah I know, there are a lot of server mobos with green pcbs as well. When I said consumer mobo I meant standalone motherboard for lga1155, lga1150 etc.

[@mihedas]

brown pcb >.

[@TheByzantineEmpire]

.....and you have not watched the whole video :)

[@LawrenceTimme]

brown pcb. ew. dat round chipset is weird.

[@diktatur90]

Im from India and we hate the golden color as much as everyone else. Edit: It actually costs double the amount here compared to its price in US.

[@ianc4901]

I don't mind the gold colour, it's far better than red, why are all gaming boards designed by kids for kids ?

[@diktatur90]

Ian Clarke Haha, I wouldn't get red either. Reason for it being that i've seen SO many builds in red now, its been over used. Maybe if there weren't so many red builds on the internet I might have been cool with it. As for golden, since you like it ill be mature about it and say that its personal preference. I got this board in silver color. I din't wanna get gold because it may have looked out of place, as it mostly does, since there are very few components that are made to match gold..

[@ianc4901]

Silver would be easier to get matching components if you feel it's important, for sure. With gold bits on your mobo you are pretty stuck if you are looking for matching bits, the only colour that would fit is black, that's so boring and it would contrast with the brown surface of the board a bit too, you could possibly use blue at a pinch though. My current mobo scheme is blue but you don't really see much of it at all. I'm not building a show PC, I just want it to be aesthetically pleasant when I have to look inside but it definitely won't be red, orange, yellow or green ! It's just personal taste.

[@diktatur90]

I was previously using a blue gigabyte AMD motherboard but sadly there was just a whole lot of blue everywhere on that board. My new board with silver and grey accents has a nice plain black surface so it goes with everything else along with my custom sleeved cables. Its a cheap motherboard but im quite happy with it. Luckily i had the chance of getting the board as well as the processor from microcenter at a cheap price. These boards cost more than double that price here in India. I can't say that my pc comes anywhere near a show build that you see pictures of everywhere, plus its not "liquid cooled" but she is still very beautiful to me. My corsair case has a window on it so i have made some small modifications to make her look prettier, some cable sleeving and custom paint on the graphic card (which sadly doesnt even show) etc but what the heck, i had some time on my hands and i decided to do something creative. I did it around 1.5 years ago and it was my first ever go at modding something. Quite pleased with the results :)