Asus Z87 Gryphon and Armor Kit

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08 Jun 2013 02:41 #31370 by garfi3ld

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title After what feels like months of prepping, testing, photography, videos, and writing are finally reaching the end of our Haswell launch motherboard coverage and I think we may have saved the best for last. We haven’t covered one of Asus’s TUF Series of motherboards official although we do have one in our cooling test bench and we have seen countless boards in our reader’s rigs. So to finish things off we are going to take a look at Asus's new Micro ATX TUF Series Z87 Gryphon. Its smaller form factor is a first for the TUF line and I am very excited to see what the fuss has been about.

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08 Jun 2013 03:18 #31371 by garfi3ld

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Before the weekend we have one last Z87 review for you guys. Today I take a look at Asus's new Micro ATX motherboard in their TUF Series of motherboards. Have a great weekend!

Wes

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08 Jun 2013 03:51 #31372 by Arxon

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Is the armor metal or plastic. Didn't see it in the review.

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08 Jun 2013 04:53 #31374 by Hasbeen

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Arxon wrote: Is the armor metal or plastic. Didn't see it in the review.

I think the back plate is metal and the front armor is some sorta plastic, but that is based on a newegg review video on youtube I watched earlier this week. It would certainly be nice if that front armor was more than just a fancy plastic shell desiged to channel air to specific locals around the board.

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08 Jun 2013 05:17 #31375 by garfi3ld

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yeah as he said the backplate is metal and the cover is plastic. I have a feeling the board would be to heavy if they were both metal. Not to mention the top shell would be REALLY hard to make out of metal and it would look very basic.

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The character limit on this box is too small for m

08 Jun 2013 05:55 #31376 by L0rdG1gabyt3

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The I/O port covers and RAM slot fillers are a wonderful idea to help keep dist and other stuff out. I had to purchase a few dust covers for my computer.

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10 Jun 2013 17:10 #31402 by james.yjh

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Can't seem to find any mention of the TPU or "TurboV Processing Unit" on the ASUS product pages. Also, shouldn't the TPU be an option in the AI suite 3?

www.asus.com/sg/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_Z87/
www.asus.com/sg/Motherboards/GRYPHON_Z87/

Used the comparison function on the site and still couldn't find anything TPU. What did I miss?

I'm a newbie to overclocking so this is a major deal breaker if it's as you said, there being no TPU for the Gryphon..