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If you've already got or just recently bought a Maximus VI or ASUS Z87 motherboard and have bought a new Intel Core i7 4790K or 4670K CPU dubbed 'Devil's Canyon', or even a new Pentium Anniversary Edition G3258 CPU, then it's likely your PC won't boot straight out the box! This is because you need to update the BIOS to the latest version to give support for these new CPUs on the older Z87 platform. Using the USB BIOS Flashback you can update the Z87 BIOS to the latest version, providing support for Devil's Canyon without first needing an 'original Haswell' CPU. ROG Forum member Praz has helped provide this helpful guide.

Whether your flavor is Lite, Doge or other, crypto coin mining requires reliable, stable hardware to generate successful hashes with minimal downtime. ASUS R&D team put the TUF Sabertooth through the rigors of long-term coin mining tests, to prove its technologies are an advantage for 24/7 operation.

If you own any ASUS, ROG or TUF Z87, H87, B85 or H81 motherboard there will soon be BIOS updates for upcoming new 4th Gen Intel Core CPUs. Most boards feature ASUS' exclusive USB BIOS Flashback that can update the BIOS with only the ATX power connector attached - no CPU or memory required. When the new CPUs arrive, your ASUS board will be ready with the update from the support pages. Hit the PR button inside for the full list of motherboards and upcoming minimum BIOS version that provides new support.

ASUS' Z87-A motherboard has received some pretty impressive review scores, including a Gold Award at HardOCP, and it's now currently selling at Newegg for $20 off at US $124.99. Newegg is even throwing in a US $30.00 rebate that drops it down to US $94.99!

So you've decided you're going small for the next upgrade. Very small. That means it's time for a mini-ITX motherboard. Great! But which board? ASUS now has several with different features and at various price points and here's the breakdown to make that decision easier.

The Maximus VI Extreme is curerntly doing the rounds in reviews and we've zipped up several of the first to hit the net. If you spot any more please let us know in the forums!

Last year ROG reintroduced the hybrid thermal design on the Maximus V Formula. This year ROG is back with an even better design! The new Maximus VI Formula has an upgraded hybrid thermal CrossChill, along with enhanced SupremeFX and beastly looking double-sided ROG Armor!

While we're dedicated to ROG and occasionally TUF news, we wanted to cover the more 'lifestyle', feature-driven ASUS motherboards this one time. ROG is, on the surface, all about performance, overclocking and gaming, we also endear an infatuation with the fantastic modding community who wield ROG kit with awesome effect. In that mindset then, we feel it's worth our ROG fans taking note of the new ASUS motherboard styling: they've gone gold.

It's still too early to reveal all, But we had to let you know a little.