Price / Where to Buy:
US – Approx.: $139 – ASUS H97-PRO Gamer on Amazon
ASUS has been mostly reliant on its ROG line of products to cater to the gamer demographics. The ROG line, while representing the pinnacle of ASUS technology, has always had a special price premium for put over them and that makes them very inaccessible for the majority of system builder out there, relegated to the higher-end enthusiasts willing to fork-out the dough. After a good run from both MSI and ASRock hell-bent on stealing the mainstream gaming audience, ASUS had to react and they released the B85-PRO GAMER board. Fast-forward a year and now we have the second-generation of the supposed one-off board, now bearing the H97 chipset to support the latest batch of processors as well as the new SATA Express and M.2 storage interfaces that the 9-series chipset offers. Behold the ASUS H97-PRO GAMER.
Features
- LGA1150 socket for the 4th, New 4th & 5th Generation Intel® Core i7/ Core i5 / Core i3, Pentium®, and Celeron® processors
- Intel® H97 Express Chipset
- Dual DDR3 1600 support
- SupremeFX – Flawless audio that makes you part of the game
- Intel Gigabit Ethernet & GameFirst II – Networking that just goes faster
- Sonic Radar ll – Scan and detect to dominate
- M.2 & SATA Express “ Top-speed transfers for faster gaming
- Gamer’s Guardian – for real-world protection
1 Comment
really similar to my b85 gamer.