>Cost should not be an inhibitor between a man and what he desires Yes you're right and my next upgrade will feature a SuperMicro board. My X370 BIOS/EFI triggers me every time I have to configure something. It looks like a toy. Why does it contain wasteful graphics anyway? Btw it takes several hundred milliseconds, if not seconds to load. Pure text would be instantaneous.
>caring what your motherboard looks like How often do you sit down to look at your motherboard really?
Chase Smith
Still looks like Darth Vader's Nintendo The packaging is wasteful 4-color high gloss print A simple white label on a brown would be more readable and functional Green PCB is cheaper without any compromise in quality, and easier to read
It's a matter of principle. Fashion has no place in tech. Functionality and efficiency is all that counts. When your BIOS takes more than 5ms to load and has a 1080p background image that takes up 3 MB of RAM, there's something wrong
Gavin King
*cracks* Yep. I miss the time when I couldn't use a mouse to configure my BIOS.
Chase Green
The resources spent of graphics and mouse support would be better spent on IPMI or other remote management solutions. Pic related, a modern SuperMicro BIOS.
>IPMI or other remote management solutions cia nigger
Austin Richardson
There's no reason it can't be 100% libre, see Talos II.
Daniel Rodriguez
itt: boomer can't comprehend that sales are more important to companies than absolute efficiency of the product
Austin Moore
Ironically gamers often claim to be about efficiency, as their overclock their toys, not realizing they're ripped off and their money is spent on high-gloss packaging, expensive PCB coating that serves no functional purpose, marketing and bloated software.
Hunter Sullivan
We know that Zoomer. We are going to bitch anyway like your grandfather bitched about minorities.
>giving a fuck what your components look like Black PCB coating is more expensive. You're paying for that, instead of higher quality where it's really needed. 4-color high gloss packaging is more expensive. You're paying for that. Bloated software/BIOS/EFI steals your valuable time.
>buying a computer case that you can see into Agreed. That would be so retarded, I'm not even discussing it.
Bentley Perry
so don't buy those things and save milliseconds of your life
Tyler Moore
That's capitalism for you. >Fashion has no place in tech. Demand says it does. >Functionality and efficiency is all that counts. And I agree, which is why I don't care what it looks like.
I suppose I get you're annoyed, I am slightly annoyed by people who do care what their PC looks like because I don't understand the point. I don't understand the kick they get out of it. If it's for showing off, do they like staring at it, does it make them feel they're of higher social status, What's the point
Landon Hall
You have autism of the non-meme kind.
Caleb Jackson
Completely agreed. This piece of shit is my mobo. I unscrewed the stupid fucking shrouds because it looks retarded, and disabled the LEDs.
>zoomers that can't comprehend some people just want a computer that doesn't look all retarded
I do, but it still annoys me.
Does anyone actually use the mouse in UEFI? Are you legitimately retarded?
I far more value my time than using a mouse with fancy graphics that are literally completely irrelevant and only there to appease s*yboy gamer shitters. The mouse driver is garbage anyway.
I am personally annoyed that the PCI-E slots are not coloured, so you have to look in the manual to see which modes they run in under which conditions. Back in the day they were white and blue, and you could determine that at a glance.
There isn't an alternative. That's his complaint, moron. I looked long and hard for a non-retarded motherboard yet I still had to settle for one (GA-AX370 Gaming 5)
But he's right. They do charge more for the LEDs, and the coating, and all the fancy garbage it comes with to appease gamers. Just like RGB fans and RGB RAM costs more.
Kayden Perez
why even buy this board? the vrm is shit for the price
ECC works well on it, and I have no intention to overclock.
Bentley Young
I bought an Asus PRIME X370-Pro for £115. It's got plenty of SATA ports and PCIe slots and good VRMs. It lacks a few debugging features but it's the closest I could find to a "no frills" board for a server. Very happy with it.
Ethan Reed
RGB PSU WATERCOOLED PSU VR READY PSU
all real things
Michael Cox
>mommy, i want my motherboard in GWEEN >mommy, i'm a retard that has never heard of the asus prime motherboards and i need Jow Forums to spoonfeed me
hiding your piece under your pillow is so 20th century
Josiah Thomas
That brand used to be Dell.
Back when you could customize a setup before ordering it and having it delivered, that was the success of their business model
Christian Hall
>being this triggered
Jaxson Miller
I just want to remind you that if you ever bought windowed case, you are responsible for all this shit
Parker Hall
rest in piece dell... fucking love their outlet stores though holy fuck basically brand new business grade laptops for half price
Mason Martin
>not giving a fuck about edgy faggotry
Dylan Ortiz
This. But unironically.
Aaron Garcia
ok, why should i give a fuck?
Jordan Thompson
because you pay extra for it and it's not an actual radiator, you moron
Logan Ward
no, why should i give a fuck about other people buying edgy faggotry?
Blake Thompson
That's for bullet time
Kevin Ward
2014-2016 asus was actually ok. especially if you remove the ROG plating.
just buy the most asthetic PCB color/component color and replace the VRM coolers with 3rd party copper ones
Brandon Jones
t. edgy faggot
Hunter Bailey
I'm with you OP but plain black PCBs with little to no branding are still there. Get an EVGA board, or some midrange from MSI and it will be very stealth
Jackson White
Because only retarded 12 year olds care in how a piece of electronics looks where no-fucking-body will ever see it.
Wyatt Davis
>close case >put electrical tape over leds
Done
John Gutierrez
>White on black is more difficult to read than green on black >Solder mask color is important or is in any way a significant cost adder (did not contribute $0.25+ to board cost) Jesus christ, you're complaining about the wrong things. The only things you would have legitimate complaints about are the printing for the packaging, the custom extrusion made for the heat sink on the left and the hexagonal one on the right, and the custom tooled injection molded part protecting the ports on the left. There are three custom parts that I see on that board. Solder mask and silkscreen are not legitimate complaints but it seems those are the main thing you're complaining about.
Colton Jones
>what is an asrock taichi other than the fact that it isnt a green pcb, this is literally what you're looking for
yeah dude i love 2d art printed on my PCB, adds a lot to performance.
Blake Perry
>All PCBs should be green with white solder mask with reference designators only with a board number and revision code in the corner. Fox only. No items. Final destination.
John Rivera
Yes, and packaging should be plain cardboard.
James Mitchell
>gigabyte >dooool bioses so you can switch from one to the other when the bios eventually shits itself Never in my life did I have to deal with a board that had BIOSes that just rotted in place until they became unusable.
Lincoln King
to keep malware at bay
Nicholas Johnson
>le mature adult who doesnt care how anything looks. Just turn the rgb off and get a case without a window
Levi Cook
My gigabyte board has options randomly go missing. Only 2 of my hard drives show up in boot order at any time.
Jaxson Richardson
>Looking for a new Motherboard >Giving a shit about how it looks stay mad, retard
Matthew Hughes
lots of boards switch off some buses when additional hardware is added. you should read the manual or return it if it's faulty
Ryan Powell
Mid-2000's was a comfy era of "cheap" Dell computers able to play any game from the 7th Gen with the right GPU, 2-3GB DDR2 and a Core 2 Duo Quad
Henry Myers
Mmm I still remember my G50Vt
Andrew Ramirez
because it was actually pretty good for the price. 6 real phase vcore + 4 phase SoC >bbut muh 4x2+2 phase asrock is da best! ugh.
Easton Johnson
The CPU it runs doesn't support ECC. Are you implying all boards should be Xeons with RDIMMs only?
Kayden Morales
>I do, but it still annoys me. anyone above 13 years old is not annoyed by things they cannot see on the regular
Cooper Johnson
I explained why it's annoying further down in the post, and that's just one reason.
Anyone above 13 years old is capable of reading an entire post before replying to it.
Nathaniel Wood
Why would you care the color of components inside the case you can't see? Unless you got yourself a windowed case. But well, doesn't windowed case for child?
it would be nice if motherboards came with real vrm heatsinks so I didn't have to shove a bunch of auxiliary fans on top of the non existent ones.
Lincoln Bell
is that your pooping face?
William Cook
Lmao you had to go all the way back to the X58 days to find that.
Ian Russell
who the fuck cares buy a case without a window and forget about it
Cameron Brooks
>complains about children >spergs like an underage faggot because his motherboard is "too uncool" I dunno faggot, how about not fucking staring at your hardware and look at the monitor instead?
Blake Gomez
you would have loved communism. but then again you wouldn't get any hardware and wouldn't be allowed to post on the internet. kys commie scum
Jaxon Mitchell
I think there's some rgb bullshit on these but I don't think these look too terrible
Mason Reed
>libcucks this triggered by a gun on there motherboard go back to r*ddit
Benjamin Young
>Lmao you had to go all the way back to the X58 days to find that. It's gotten even worse.
Packaging has to be flashy or else nobody will ever look at it in physical stores. Come on, you can't complain about this, it goes for eveything. People want to see what they are buying, and the features of it. As for the board itself >Ew they painted it black and white Cry about it boomer
Luke Cook
>People want to see what they are buying White label with actual specifications written on it. ... and a simple QR code that links to the data sheet PDF
I agree with the spirit of OP. Retardedly shaped heatsinks and retarded graphics on MoBos is cancer. nothing should be added to the board that isnt functional. heatsinks should be shaped for function only, or perhaps cheap/easy manufacturing. all these retardedly shaped heatsinks are fucking cancer
Samuel Lewis
yes, why can;t anybody realize this
look at those fucking disgusting useless graphics and the fucking shape of those heatsinks its fucking shit bro its fucking shit
that said, iirc, asrock makes some pretty non-retarded boards
Asher Rivera
Asrock makes all black boards with some grey, so get that.
John Taylor
I would totally buy only server boards if they allowed under and overclocking, and under and over-volting. custom fan control is nice too
They should make a fucking more affordable version. Like a MictoATX version or something
Josiah Gomez
disgusting fucking heat sink shapes for fuck sake
have you looked into asrock? they tend to look ok
Jack Butler
>They should make a fucking more affordable version. Like a MictoATX version or something Eventually the price will go down once there is more demand and competition I expect we'll see workstation-tier ARM boards with free firmware rather soon There are already very powerful ARM servers
Benjamin Thomas
that but with simple heat-sinks added would be fucking perfect
disgusting
they didn;t have bios overclocking/overvolting etc iirc
Liam Rodriguez
I use this, overclocking with an H-chipset. The "Fatal1ty" thing is a bit autiostic, but it's bearable.