I'm thinking of purchasing an Asus Sabertooth Mark 1 Z97 motherboard. My understanding is that this motherboard has built-in wifi. This page describes the wifi:

http://www.asus.com/us/site/motherboards/Z97/comparison/

The wifi is referred to as "Wi-Fi GO!" or "Remote GO!" on the above page. In the manual for the board, the wifi is referred to as "ASUS Remote GO! with Cloud GO! Remote Desktop, Remote Keyboard and Mouse, and File Transfer." Here's a link to the manual for the Sabertooth Mark 1:

http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1150/SABERTOOTH_Z97_MARK1/E9389_Sabertooth_Z97_Mark1_V2.pdf

I'd like to be able to turn off the wifi if I purchase a Sabertooth board. Is this possible?

Specifically, I wish to turn off not only the functionality of the wifi, but the actual wifi signal itself. In other words, no radio or microwave signal being broadcast by the motherboard.

I find it strange that the manual for the Sabertooth board gives you so many ways to turn off or disable things, but it doesn't seem to give a way to turn off the wifi. Is this an oversight? Perhaps there is a way to disable wifi in the BIOS, but someone forgot to put it in the manual. Or maybe this is wishful thinking on my part.

In any case, if wifi cannot be turned off, then I may choose to purchase a Maxiumus Hero VII instead. I understand that this is essentially the same motherboard, but without wifi. Is this correct?

On general principle, I like to keep all unnecessary electromagnetic radiation off, even if that electromagnetic radiation is relatively low power. I do audio recording and I don't want any hum and buzz on my recordings. Also, I feel that being bathed in unnecessary electromagnetic radiation cannot possibly benefit anyone.

As a child, we used to pour mercury in our hands and roll it around in little beads. It was kind of fun, actually! We did this in both 6th grade and in 7th grade science class. At that time, the scientific model was that skin is impermeable and therefore handling mercury with your hands did no harm.

Now the model has changed and, for whatever reason, children are no longer invited to roll mercury around in their hands.

So, it seems, things that were formally thought to be OK are now deemed harmful and vice versa. This is another reason I don't like to keep a wifi signal going that I will never use.

Thanks to anyone who replies.