with the new Z270 boards being released, this has dropped by 50% from £200+
9 available at the time of posting, but you can still order when these sell and pray they get more stock in
LGA1151 socket for 6th-gen Intel Core desktop processors
Dual DDR4 3733 (OC) support
High quality gaming performance - five-way optimisation with auto-tuning, 2nd-generation T-Topology and OC design
High quality gaming audio - reinvented SupremeFX 2015 with intuitive Sonic Studio II
High quality gaming networking - Intel Gigabit Ethernet, LANGuard and GameFirst technology
Item dispatched in 1-2 months
- vassy4u
Top comments
dozstanford
22 Jan 1720#4
Nothing like watching the value of your prized £2000 gaming rig plummet by the second.
DoctorDeals
22 Jan 175#8
I was super smug about getting mine for £130
JC2MULTIPLAYER000 to dozstanford
22 Jan 174#6
as long as the performance doesn't plummet you're fine :wink:
Fleabum
22 Jan 174#82
I personally see a gaming PC as my hobby, and for the amount of hours I spend on it, £2000 is cheap. There are a lot more expensive hobbies I could be doing other than PC gaming.
Regards
Flea
All comments (134)
vassy4u
22 Jan 171#1
I was about to post this. Heat added :smiley:
yoyelp
22 Jan 17#2
Killer price
haileris
22 Jan 17#3
Suspect you could resell it for more than that!?
dozstanford
22 Jan 1720#4
Nothing like watching the value of your prized £2000 gaming rig plummet by the second.
JC2MULTIPLAYER000 to dozstanford
22 Jan 174#6
as long as the performance doesn't plummet you're fine :wink:
vulcanproject to dozstanford
22 Jan 172#31
I consider it acceptable to buy high end if you plan on keeping much of the setup for a considerable length of time, even if it is relegated to second machine duties for example. If you sell the entire machine 18 months after you bought all the parts then you will take a big hit. But it's not the best option.
I spent a great deal of moolah on an X58 setup (it was the highest end unlike LGA1151 here) late 2008 and the machine was still very capable up until last year, the only major changes were adding an SSD and swapping out the graphics cards on it a couple times. 8 years it lasted before the board failed. The original hard drives still worked, so when I checked out of curiosity they had run up >24,000 hours. Ergo the whole machine had. I am satisfied I got my money's worth from that outlay.
Likewise, people that dropped a decent amount of cash on say an i7 2600k 5-6 years ago find themselves with a system that would still generally be very capable if they have it tweaked up a little.
If you build and plan a machine to keep the majority of the components for at least 5 years you'll get your money's worth. People buy new cars for £25k and find after 3 years it's worth less than half that and seemingly don't even flinch when they trade it in and lose all the money. Of course if you kept it a long time, you'll probably get your money's worth.
It's not about price, it's about value for me.
SunshineEveryday
22 Jan 171#5
heat.. contemplating whether to get it or no.. will have to change complete setup... hmmmm
Same :smile: I thought it wouldn't drop down in price more than that
tempt
22 Jan 17#9
1 - 2 month delivery, ordered two to sell them on later when they become hard to find.
jadamso to tempt
22 Jan 171#36
Douche :disappointed:
dozstanford
22 Jan 171#11
In theory this is very true, in reality or rather psychologically when you saved and saved and saved some more to get the very best you can possibly afford, it's depressing enough to almost shed a tear. (I didn't have a gaming PC between 2009 and 2016 because I was skint so the epic devaluation is all the more of a shock).
gowf
22 Jan 17#12
I'm sure z170 sales have been very poor recently given amd zen coming out in March people holding off to see what the benchmarks are like. Would explain the prices
Neostar
22 Jan 17#13
I want to get this ... but I'm still on ivybridge which means I also have to buy DDR4 ram and a new CPU :neutral_face:
saund3rs to Neostar
22 Jan 171#14
I'm still on Sandybridge, good ol' 2600k still firing me through 2017.
Amazing price for this board though. I did have this ordered for the £130 price a while back but I cancelled it, maybe this is a sign... ?
xraven360 to Neostar
22 Jan 17#24
In the same boat
Leonintelex
22 Jan 17#15
Ooh tempted and a cracking price, but last time I ordered a 1-2 month item for delivery from Amazon they cancelled it a week before despatch :disappointed:
Voted hot though as incredible price if it's honoured
Frank30uk
22 Jan 17#16
No brainer
bilbob
22 Jan 17#17
Apart from the ASUS bit the op title sounded like it belongs in a Lovehoney thread...
Sfonz
22 Jan 17#18
Paid about 140-150 I think back in August. Good motherboard, steal for that price
zHamzz
22 Jan 17#19
Hot.
Naruto
22 Jan 17#20
Amazing price. Heat added!
Themadcow
22 Jan 17#21
Looks good. Hope an m-itx deal like this comes up soon.
Naruto to Themadcow
22 Jan 17#26
+1. I need one for a future 4k HTPC build.
alekc
22 Jan 17#22
good price, but only if you are not in a hurry
woodey12
22 Jan 17#23
Well worth the price, have some heat.
Poppydog
22 Jan 17#25
This likely to need a BIOS update for Kaby processor?
ST3123
22 Jan 172#27
It is unfortunate, and I can definitely sympathise. However, IMHO the high or enthusiast end PC components and indeed full pre-built high end PCs too are best left to those fortunate enough to have money to burn. The smart buys are in the budget and mid range, which can often perform to within 20% or even 10% of their more expensive counterparts, the value in high end gear just isn't there.
All PC parts deteriorate in value but IME budget and mid range parts seem to hold their value better generally, look at graphics cards like the GTX970, still fetching up to about 70-80%+ of what they did when new! Even if some parts don't at least you haven't lost so much since they simply didn't cost so much to start with....
dont mack me off
22 Jan 171#28
just watched a 2 month old used one sell for £145 + post on a certain auction site!
Ross87
22 Jan 171#29
The 2600k is still a brilliant CPU. I've been running it since release and cannot bring myself to replace it. The only issue it's in a massive rig at the moment (Fractal Design Define XL). If I could find a decent m-atx board to run it and a smaller case, I'd be happy for a few more years I'd think.
wildheart3003
22 Jan 17#30
Just bought a AS Rock extreme4...but all gone now, 1-2 months wait. Heat for the price!:smile:
ah_heng
22 Jan 17#32
Shucks.. I thought £130 was a mispriced 2 months ago :disappointed:
HoboHouseParty
22 Jan 17#33
Crazy price! Thanks Op, ordered :sunglasses:
mrcyco
22 Jan 171#34
great! I have 1-2 months to explain to my girlfriend, why I need another motherboard...
Thoughtful
22 Jan 17#35
Funny thing is that the higher end components appear to hold more value. I sold my old Q6600 with the motherboard, and separately the Geil Black Dragon memory and was pleasantly surprised at how much it all fetched.
jadamso
22 Jan 17#37
Good find. Have some heat. The 1 -2 month delivery will hopefully give us a buffer to see how Zen performs.
Jonnyblock
22 Jan 17#38
Any other bargain deals out there to go with it? RAM? Processor?
Indeed they do. Trading in parts like that for upgrades can still be worthwhile. The only reason I didn't get another X58 board so I didn't have to dismantle the machine for parts (that I have sold and still recovered money on) was because secondhand, you'll be lucky to find one for less than £130.
They went out of production about 6 years ago! £130 for a used old platform didn't seem like value to me in late 2016. But if you had one, you would get a decent return on it if you sold it, clearly.
Much like cars then, computer systems are typically worth more sold off piecemeal as parts than as a whole. Unless you have to, don't sell off an old system together. Break it up and sell individually.
MarcoLoves360
22 Jan 17#41
I wish it was the mini itx
Yaradabbadoo
22 Jan 171#42
wow!
TheGreatMogul
22 Jan 17#43
Still have my i2500k, hoping I can go another year without upgrading. My GTX 670 is really struggling though.
stephenh0
22 Jan 17#44
Awesome price, thanks op. Just need those CPU prices to drop a bit now
powerbrick
22 Jan 171#45
Bit slow, get some decent 2nd hand off forum classifieds, might as well get two sticks of 8 since cannot do quad channel and leaves room for another two of you feel the need.
willym2k
22 Jan 171#46
Thanks! Been wanting to upgrade from my i7 860 for a good year now, but couldn't justify the expense given that it works fine when paired with a modern GPU. Just need to find a deal on a 6700k and DDR4 now :smiley:
bbleo211180
22 Jan 17#47
If I am not using it as gaming pc then do I still need to buy graphic/sound cards? Or it's inbuilt?
ragingsilver
22 Jan 17#48
Cracking deal when you can simply update the BIOs to accept the new kabylakes. I'm still happily running along on my intel 2500k but I'm one of the people waiting to see when AMD's Zen CPU can do.
TheDodger
22 Jan 17#49
I'd been looking for a good deal for a while now to replace my old system an i7 920. Just need a deal on a cpu
No. Sound card on board and processor have iGPU built in.
rhodyate
22 Jan 17#52
hot
hucks_is_god
22 Jan 17#53
What is suspicious is that the number of boards left hasn't changed in the last two hours...
nellygtfc
22 Jan 17#54
I guess Asus are wanting to shift stock. Amazon will just build up a massive bulk order direct from Asus or maybe a wholesaler.
azzintheclass
22 Jan 17#55
The BIOS that accepts Kaby was released in September, I ordered this board recently and it came with it all on there. I have a 7700k installed and it's running perfectly
Darkraiser
22 Jan 17#56
Thanks OP been waiting ages for one of these :smile:
dannyjones106
22 Jan 17#57
Just ordered one as I seriously need to pull my finger out of my backside and build a new PC. Still rocking an old quad core 9400!
darrengee
22 Jan 172#58
I was informed from a friend who builds PC's for living that new 7th gen cpu run hot and throttle and not much performance gains! and to buy the i5 6600k which can be overclocked and does not throttle... Also go for the GeForce GTX 1070 Graphics card, not the 1060
inspireme
22 Jan 17#59
I was going to buy that MoBO on Friday, but glad I didn't and went for this. Fingers crossed Amazon can fulfill this order and haven't actually run out of stock.
dandubi
22 Jan 17#60
Ordered and received delivery date of - Arriving: Wednesday, February 15 - Tuesday, March 7!
Rauss
22 Jan 17#61
if only this was 1150 socket which I need.. Still smoking hot!
reddragon105
22 Jan 17#62
Keep telling myself there is no need to upgrade because my 2600k, with a stable 4.8ghz overclock, still has a lot of life left in it, 16gb RAM is still adequate and with those and a GTX780 I still get >60fps on most things, maybe a little less now that I've got a 1440p monitor - but it's been 4-5 years since I built this PC and that's probably the longest I've ever gone without building a whole new system (although it's had several upgrades thrown in over the years), so I'm really feeling the itch at the moment, and it might make sense to upgrade while my current components are still worth a fair bit.
Daytrader
22 Jan 171#63
? what you on about, they never show you what stock they have anyway.
Alansmithee
22 Jan 17#64
I'm just about to build a new desktop - mainly for office stuff (and to drive two monitors), bit of lightroom, give that I'm not a gamer - good board for that?
accy
22 Jan 17#65
delivery date February 15 - February 28
dandubi
22 Jan 171#66
Would imagine it's a bit overkill for what you require but at this price who cares!?
Alansmithee
22 Jan 17#67
Well that's what I was thinking! I do have a 1440p monitor and plan to replace my second 1080p with another one in the new build - will the board natively drive both or would I need to add a card.
vulcanproject
22 Jan 17#68
It's overkill for office use, but the best kind of overkill (quality parts) so go for it.
Dash23
22 Jan 17#69
Screw it, I've been debating a gaming PC for ages, might as well just take the plunge.
vulcanproject
22 Jan 17#70
It can do dual 1080p easily from the single display port 1.2. I mean you don't NEED a discrete card to do it, but it wouldn't hurt if you decided to down the line.
dandubi
22 Jan 17#71
Should be fine running dual monitors from on board!
Alansmithee
22 Jan 17#72
Thanks but it's dual 1440p I was thinking of (great for office work because of additional lines you can get on screen in stuff like Excel).
dandubi
22 Jan 171#73
"Integrated Graphics Processor- Intel® HD Graphics support
Multi-VGA output support : HDMI/DisplayPort 1.2 ports
- Supports HDMI with max. resolution 4096 x 2160 @ 24 Hz
- Supports DisplayPort with max. resolution 4096 x 2304 @ 60 Hz "
Wow OP, this has been in my basket for a while with a few other parts. Ordered.
Order says:
Arriving 15 Feb - 6 Mar
dragonline77
22 Jan 17#75
wanna buy but waiting for RYZEN
vulcanproject
22 Jan 17#76
The answer is still yes it'll work, but the best answer is still yes with the fact it won't drive them fantastically and even a budget modern card will do a lot better. So you can get it set up, use it and decide for yourself if it is acceptable.
Alansmithee
22 Jan 17#77
Excellent - thank you for the advice (and to other people who responded). As you say, I can get a budget card if performance not quite there.
dezontk
22 Jan 17#78
Thanks, ordered two because why not.
lordhawkwind
22 Jan 17#79
I've just bought an Asus Z270K prime, an i7 7700K and 16gb DDR4 Crucial ram. Upgrading from a SB 2500K running at 4.4. Will be building it this week hopefully.
Babbler
22 Jan 17#80
These aren't like collectors editions... Why would they rise on value??
Babbler
22 Jan 17#81
It was a 2 month wait listed last time... But dispatched within 2 weeks. I cancelled mine. Was £120 deal on here!
Fleabum
22 Jan 174#82
I personally see a gaming PC as my hobby, and for the amount of hours I spend on it, £2000 is cheap. There are a lot more expensive hobbies I could be doing other than PC gaming.
Regards
Flea
Alansmithee
22 Jan 173#83
Yeah don't get into watches :-)
ladyhawke
22 Jan 17#84
I have an i7 3770k, still debating whether it's worth going for Kaby, or waiting for Cannonlake...
I've ordered this board anyway, the 1-2 month will give me time to decide.
Spectral
22 Jan 17#85
Scorching hot if they honour these. I paid £175 for one of these in July, it's a great board.
chriskrt
22 Jan 17#86
Amazon offer removed. Expired.
MackemAB
22 Jan 17#87
Looks like it's OOS...
I bailed on the £130 version and still didn't buy this one. I'm a fool.
mambo1888
22 Jan 17#88
Very true, I spent a fair bit on my i7 3930k setup 5 years ago but its still very capable, I have upgraded the gpu a couple of times but even if I kept the original GTXl 690 it would still be decent enough.
teggl97
22 Jan 17#89
Expired?
nahkapa
22 Jan 171#90
It is 2 months shipping time , isnt that suspicious ?
moogle
22 Jan 17#91
No, why is that suspicious? It usually arrives or updates before that. Ordered some Crucial ram that was 1-2 months for it to shipped and it updated and got delivered 3 weeks later on NYE.
Horrorwood
22 Jan 17#92
Nah it's pretty standard on their out of stock PC stuff, quite a few times it will only take a few weeks instead.
stvoritel
22 Jan 171#93
You can run those boards in some SLI mode :smile:
powerbrick
22 Jan 17#94
Nope, they did the same last year when they had Dell gsync's for 300, 6 weeks later mine arrived from Germany.
asadjani2016
22 Jan 17#95
paid 200 for ranger model
MrMazzyBoy
22 Jan 17#96
Yep stick them together & you get twice the speed !!! :smile:
dezontk
22 Jan 171#97
You wouldn't lie to me would you?
DoctorDeals
22 Jan 17#98
Scratch the itch..
westyuk1
23 Jan 17#99
missed this.. anyone seen any other good deals on z270's?
TheDodger
23 Jan 17#100
i'd get the MSI Z270 GAMING M5 / M7 dead. Comes with a free intel m.2 ssd worth £70ish
cliffbrock
23 Jan 17#101
Have you got a link for this deal?
nougat
23 Jan 171#102
Funny I searched MSI Z270 GAMING M5 / M7 and it was still here and still live. You being lazy per chance.
Whirly
23 Jan 17#103
My one has been cancelled as a misprice.
Poppydog
23 Jan 17#104
First time I've had this from Amazon Prime.
Other sellers maybe, but not Amazon
Hello,
The price for `ASUS Maximus VIII Hero Motherboard - Grey/Red/Black' (ASIN: B0126R4F8W) was displayed incorrectly when you placed your order 20*4-33*****02-5****4.
Despite our best efforts, with the millions of items available on our website, pricing errors can occasionally occur.
TheDodger
23 Jan 17#105
Cancelled. I'll probably order the MSI Z270 GAMING M5 now
ladyhawke
23 Jan 17#106
Amazon cancelled, damn
cliffbrock
23 Jan 17#107
Can't see the M.2 included? Hence why I asked :smiley:
dezontk
23 Jan 17#108
Didn't seem like a misprice. They probably just took on more orders than they wanted to.
Oh well.
schyzol
23 Jan 17#109
Same here
Hello,
The price for `ASUS Maximus VIII Hero Motherboard - Grey/Red/Black' (ASIN: B0126R4F8W) was displayed incorrectly when you placed your order 026-0325653-9169107....
Your order has now been cancelled. If you still want to purchase this item, please place a new order which will be charged at the correct price, when we dispatch it to you....
:/
wildheart3003
23 Jan 17#110
Just got a email from Amazon too. They won't honour the purchase.
neural1
23 Jan 17#111
Yea same here, ****, it was too good to be true.
Domislice
23 Jan 17#112
Any of the early orders, when it was actually in stock, get dispatched?
jorg
23 Jan 17#113
just received the cancellation email too :disappointed:
I was told was going to be delivered this saturday... now cancelled
powerbrick
23 Jan 17#119
Not received any cancellation email yet, ordered within minutes of the deal going live.
hotbydegrees
23 Jan 17#120
Loss of good will from me; personally feel they're a huge enough company to suck up the loss. Independent sellers fair enough; them as a reseller NO.
xtal191
23 Jan 17#121
Cancelled here too, anyone get lucky?
fab49ers
23 Jan 17#122
not here, just got the cancellation email
Mickysafc
23 Jan 17#123
Meh... got the cancellation email too :disappointed:
shkapars
23 Jan 17#124
Same here, order cancelled!
tempt
23 Jan 17#125
I ordered two, no cancellation email yet.
adamskiidu_44
23 Jan 17#126
Cancelled.
jasonavfc
23 Jan 17#127
Ordered 3 which were due to be delivered this week. All cancelled.
powerbrick
23 Jan 171#128
Did they take any money off you, no.
Why should they take a loss?
pjazzy
23 Jan 17#129
Cancelled, what a shock ... :sunglasses:
MrMazzyBoy
23 Jan 17#130
Only ordered one but yep cancelled too! :disappointed:
ladyhawke
23 Jan 171#131
I guess I could go for the MSI z270 carbon, the M5 is probably a bit more expensive than I'd like to shell out
hotbydegrees
24 Jan 17#132
Try re-reading my "person opinion" again and you might discover the answer!
Rich44
24 Jan 17#133
Still feeling smug with my Gigabyte Z170xp for £50
Absolutely stunning machine now with a cheap i5 6600k, ssd & 5 hard drives raided, absolutely love it.
nellygtfc
24 Jan 17#134
Yep and the funny thing is, I bet 95% of people will use exactly the same features on the Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI as they would the ASUS Maximus VIII Hero. People get sucked into the 'Rogue' marketing and fancy looks. Gigabyte have UK warranty base as well, the only way you get that with ASUS is if you buy from Overclockers UK only. :smiley:
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Opening post
9 available at the time of posting, but you can still order when these sell and pray they get more stock in
LGA1151 socket for 6th-gen Intel Core desktop processors
Dual DDR4 3733 (OC) support
High quality gaming performance - five-way optimisation with auto-tuning, 2nd-generation T-Topology and OC design
High quality gaming audio - reinvented SupremeFX 2015 with intuitive Sonic Studio II
High quality gaming networking - Intel Gigabit Ethernet, LANGuard and GameFirst technology
Item dispatched in 1-2 months
- vassy4u
Top comments
Regards
Flea
All comments (134)
I spent a great deal of moolah on an X58 setup (it was the highest end unlike LGA1151 here) late 2008 and the machine was still very capable up until last year, the only major changes were adding an SSD and swapping out the graphics cards on it a couple times. 8 years it lasted before the board failed. The original hard drives still worked, so when I checked out of curiosity they had run up >24,000 hours. Ergo the whole machine had. I am satisfied I got my money's worth from that outlay.
Likewise, people that dropped a decent amount of cash on say an i7 2600k 5-6 years ago find themselves with a system that would still generally be very capable if they have it tweaked up a little.
If you build and plan a machine to keep the majority of the components for at least 5 years you'll get your money's worth. People buy new cars for £25k and find after 3 years it's worth less than half that and seemingly don't even flinch when they trade it in and lose all the money. Of course if you kept it a long time, you'll probably get your money's worth.
It's not about price, it's about value for me.
http://www.asus.com/Product-Compare/?products=KKuAp9d2jGnDWqzC,nNGfjO8lLX6WWoV9&b=0
As suspected for a high-end board, it is able to update the BIOS without a CPU:
https://rog.asus.com/technology/rog-motherboard-innovations/usb-bios-flashback/
"Update your BIOS without even needing a CPU!
...Simply drop the (UEFI) BIOS file onto a FAT32 formatted USB stick, plug it into the USB BIOS Flashback port and press the Flashback button next to it. No CPU or memory install is needed, only the ATX power connector is required. "
So it should be possible to update the BIOS to 3101 with full Kaby Lake support without needing an old Skylake CPU:
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-MAXIMUS-VIII-HERO-ALPHA/HelpDesk_CPU/
Usually don't get the point of buying a £200 motherboard when one under £100 will do (almost) the same but this is a good deal
Amazing price for this board though. I did have this ordered for the £130 price a while back but I cancelled it, maybe this is a sign... ?
Voted hot though as incredible price if it's honoured
All PC parts deteriorate in value but IME budget and mid range parts seem to hold their value better generally, look at graphics cards like the GTX970, still fetching up to about 70-80%+ of what they did when new! Even if some parts don't at least you haven't lost so much since they simply didn't cost so much to start with....
They went out of production about 6 years ago! £130 for a used old platform didn't seem like value to me in late 2016. But if you had one, you would get a decent return on it if you sold it, clearly.
Much like cars then, computer systems are typically worth more sold off piecemeal as parts than as a whole. Unless you have to, don't sell off an old system together. Break it up and sell individually.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CMK16GX4M2B3000C15-Vengeance-Performance-Desktop/dp/B014UYPEXE/ref=sr_1_27?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1485100200&sr=1-27&keywords=ddr4%2B64gb&th=1
Multi-VGA output support : HDMI/DisplayPort 1.2 ports
- Supports HDMI with max. resolution 4096 x 2160 @ 24 Hz
- Supports DisplayPort with max. resolution 4096 x 2304 @ 60 Hz "
MAXIMUS-VIII HERO Specifications
Order says:
Arriving 15 Feb - 6 Mar
Regards
Flea
I've ordered this board anyway, the 1-2 month will give me time to decide.
I bailed on the £130 version and still didn't buy this one. I'm a fool.
Other sellers maybe, but not Amazon
Hello,
The price for `ASUS Maximus VIII Hero Motherboard - Grey/Red/Black' (ASIN: B0126R4F8W) was displayed incorrectly when you placed your order 20*4-33*****02-5****4.
Despite our best efforts, with the millions of items available on our website, pricing errors can occasionally occur.
Oh well.
Hello,
The price for `ASUS Maximus VIII Hero Motherboard - Grey/Red/Black' (ASIN: B0126R4F8W) was displayed incorrectly when you placed your order 026-0325653-9169107....
Your order has now been cancelled. If you still want to purchase this item, please place a new order which will be charged at the correct price, when we dispatch it to you....
:/
Why should they take a loss?
Absolutely stunning machine now with a cheap i5 6600k, ssd & 5 hard drives raided, absolutely love it.