Motherboards and chipsets

Martins968

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Why would a flagship motherboard such as the ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition have an outdated socket (LGA2011) and an old chipset (X79)??
 
Solution
That board was obviously released for the LGA2011 platform. Asus is probably in the process of developing its Rampage V for the new socket.
I think this looks like a good high end gaming board option:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_Z97_MARK_2/

Support for the latest Haswell CPU, 3 PCIE slots, solid state capacitors and heat spreaders over the whole board. It's also on Intel's latest z97 chipset (only just released) and has future support for the new 5th Gen Core series chips when they come out.