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[MiRai]

Is there anywhere that I can pre-order an Asus RIVE Black? Anybody know?

The newest information I can find is that it will be released on 29-Oct and that it can be preordered from www.ncix.com for $499.

I've never heard of pre-ordering motherboards before. Just like you don't pre-order RAM, CPUs, or video cards. I also don't see the RIVE Black listed on NCIX.

I'm really disappointed with that bottle of Heineken beer on your shelf. We do our dishes with that crap here in Belgium. Really expected much more of you.

It's actually an unopened bottle that was brewed, bottled, and bought in Amsterdam. A buddy of mine got it for me as a souvenir (I guess) when he went on vacation in Europe.

[rfarris]

I've never heard of pre-ordering motherboards before. Just like you don't pre-order RAM, CPUs, or video cards. I also don't see the RIVE Black listed on NCIX.

I saw that info on overclockers.net. I looked for it at NCIX after I posted here and couldn't find it either. I emailed the support folks and they said that they weren't accepting pre-orders any more. I suspect that they got enough orders that they re-thought the pricing strategy.

It's actually an unopened bottle that was brewed, bottled, and bought in Amsterdam. A buddy of mine got it for me as a souvenir (I guess) when he went on vacation in Europe.

I've done the tour of the *old* Heineken brewery in Amsterdam. Pretty cool place. At one point you go inside a vat that used to be used to brew 1,000,000 bottles of beer.

[zenga]

I've done the tour of the *old* Heineken brewery in Amsterdam. Pretty cool place. At one point you go inside a vat that used to be used to brew 1,000,000 bottles of beer.

It's a misconception that Heineken is a beer.

Anyway Mirai, I absolutely loved that video and actually learned a lot from it!

[CDNProdigy]

I've never heard of pre-ordering motherboards before. Just like you don't pre-order RAM, CPUs, or video cards. I also don't see the RIVE Black listed on NCIX.

After watching your video MiRai, I am kind of curious if are going to sell your last kidney for this motherboard!? Or did you use it to upgrade your video cards?

[MiRai]

I saw that info on overclockers.net. I looked for it at NCIX after I posted here and couldn't find it either. I emailed the support folks and they said that they weren't accepting pre-orders any more. I suspect that they got enough orders that they re-thought the pricing strategy.

That's right I did see it on overclockers.co.uk. I guess what I meant was that I've never seen any of that stuff for pre-order in the US, and even if I did, I think it would feel weird to pre-order hardware like that because you never really know if there's enough coming to that site/store.

I don't think places really do pre-orders on hardware for that main reason. Games, on the other hand, are easily pre-ordered because there are tens of thousands of them (physical copies) being sold on day one. I doubt that Asus motherboard will be shipping and selling tens of thousands on day one, especially since the X79 chipset is about to be two years old, but I guess at $500 you're almost guaranteed that the pre-order ships to you on time because I doubt they'll be flying off the shelves with that price tag.

After watching your video MiRai, I am kind of curious if are going to sell your last kidney for this motherboard!? Or did you use it to upgrade your video cards?

Unless the holiday season is incredibly good to me, I doubt I'll be buying that board or any video cards. Honestly, this EVGA was overkill, but for $400 I would've expected a better board than what I got. It's stable at 4GHz which is keeping me happy for the time being, but that's the thing, I don't want to spend my income on an extreme overclocking hobby, where, if I burn up my board or chip I can just dish out another $500 to buy a new one -- No thank you.

$500 is a lot of money for a motherboard that I'm not going to use the features on. A board like that is built to push overclocking records, when in reality, I have a conservative overclock because I'm cooling with air and I'd rather not degrade my chip in less than a year.

If I have a healthy amount of cash saved up by this time next year, I will most likely be dropping it on an 8-core Haswell-E chip on the X99 chipset -- That should be sexy -- But we're talking a lot of money since I'd like to move my hardware to a rack rather than a case that sits on the floor.