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just when you thought it was impossible to cram more features into a

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motherboard ASUS brought out the Rampage 4 extreme so this particular one comes

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with the full copy of Battlefield 3 it is PCIe Gen 3 ready which comes along

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with the territory because this is an Intel LGA 2011 socket motherboard with

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the x79 chipset supporting core i7

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extreme and core i7 processors on this socket that is six core processors only

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so far although there should be four core processors and even more core

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processors coming in the future four-way SLI and Crossfire support and a wide

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wide range of other features so let's

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get started here actually you know what let's let's open up the board first I'm

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going to like shake things up a little bit here and I'm going to go ahead I'm

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going to get the board open I'm going to get the board out of the box which you

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can see through the box fairly well anyway so it's not not a huge issue one

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way or the other but uh we will talk about features as we

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show them on the

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C there we go all right so the

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motherboard let's do the accessories then we'll do the board itself and the

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features when we are done with the accessories so accessories I'm going to

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have to cover some of the features here as well so check this out you guys this

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is the L LGA 2011 back plate oh so why

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does it have an LGA 2011 back plate in the Box you might ask well that is

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actually because of a feature called X socket which allows you to install

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either L an LGA 2011 native cooler or

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actually if we just open up uh recently closed tabs here x socket there we go or

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if you check out these uh if you check out the event.

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ASUS.com 20101 rx- socket website you can actually see

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thirdparty coolers that support their X socket uh technology which allows you to

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install your 1366 cooler on LGA 2011

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boards that include x socket technology which as far as I know is just this one

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okay what else we got here in terms of accessories gamer UI gamer style the

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choice of Champions so here's a little Rog oh look at that it's all shiny and

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like silvery put that somewhere nice okay we got the Battlefield 3 game which

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you guys can't see the code for we have a three-way SLI

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Bridge a four-way SLI

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Bridge a two-way SLI Bridge nice flexible black cable perfect and finally

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a crossfire Bridge once again black perfect okay we've got their what are

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they calling this now prob belt okay so that allows you to quickly check your

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voltages on a variety of things which we'll see when we open up the board we

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got our IO Shield we've got Rog connect which

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allows you to to overclock your CPU and change settings using the USB connection

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and an additional computer we have the oxnar or Zonar sound card so apparently

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this board includes Zonar technology fascinating either that or this is just

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oh no this seems to be just like an ad for it oh

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interesting next we have a lanyard cool it's a battlefield uh Battlefield 3

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lanyard this is cool we'll get to this after R connect cable uh USB B cable of

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some sort oh this is for the OC key which is also part of that so we'll get

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to that later okay we've got 1 2 3 4 USB

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or SATA 3 6 GB per second cables those are all right angle and then we have 1 2

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3 4 SATA SATA 2 3 gbit per second cables

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and those are all right angle as well finally Q connectors which allow you to

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do your front panel and at least one front USB connector with additional ease

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and now let's just go ahead and throw these back in here and then let's whip

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out the board itself because the board

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is what you folks all paid good money to

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see and by paid good money I mean didn't

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pay anything at all here we

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go so this is not quite a standard ATX

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board we've seen ASUS doing this with their Republic of Gamers level boards

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for quite some time where they're

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widening the board just a smidgen in

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order to cram on more features so you can see here is where we would normally

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have the board ending and ASUS has put about another couple centimet of PCB

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where they've put a lot of useful things why don't we start with the CPU socket

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so there's our LGA 2011 socket that is a

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supporting core i7 and core7 extreme processors and where is the uh you know

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what I'm going to be perfectly honest with you guys see here's the back plate

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that's on here now I actually don't understand exactly how X socket is going

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to work based on what I've seen so far

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but the theory is that it does work and that's good okay as long as the cooler

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supports it so that's that's the key part around the sides of the socket we

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have our eight dim slots so yes ASUS has

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managed even on their top tier performance board to provide eight dim

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slots if you are installing only four dims I would definitely recommend you

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use the red slots because those ones are

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slightly further away from the CPU socket giving you a little bit more room

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for bulky coolers and a little bit additional air flow around your socket

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speaking of coolers we've got our vrm coolers here and here ASUS has

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integrated their new generation of Digi Plus vrm on this particular board which

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means that you have uh dedicated digital

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voltage Regulators not only for the CPU but also for the memory which just means

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additional components that they had to build into this board you can actually

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you I mean you can clearly see how dense the PCB is every square inch of it is

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covered with something C CPU power connectors we have one eight pin and one

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four pin connector you do not have to use both of them although I would

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recommend if you're going to do any serious overclocking on this board which

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I hope you're doing if you're buying this board that you probably connect

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both of them moving down this side of the board we have an LED post readout we

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have slow mode I would probably leave that off for the most part ln2 mode

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which is the jumper right here uh CPU

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frequency ah okay where's that one Le

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can't even see where some of these lead fascinating okay well here's all the

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voltage checkpoints so you can check uh Dam CD Dam AB

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PCH 1.5 PCH 1.1 VT vssa VC cor and

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you've got two grounds available we have onboard start and reset switches we also

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have the ability to turn on or off I

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believe these are all of the PCI Express

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um here the red PCI Express slots although I will double check that for

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you guys we have the traditional go

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button right here we've got our 24 pin connector and its ideal location along

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the right hand Edge front USB 3 in what I would consider to be its ideal

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location along the right hand Edge Subzero sense this is fascinating so

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Subzero sents right here allows you to detect the board temperatures even when

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you are well below zero so no matter how

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cold you are in theory this will tell you the temperatures that you need to

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know we have four SATA to 3 GB per

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second and four SATA 3 6 gbit per second

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Port so two of those are running off the Intel chipset or rather four all four of

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those are running off the Intel chipset so that is ideal we also have an active

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cooler on the chipset here which is connected by heat pipe to another active

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cooler and or a passive uh heat sink and the other passive heat sink and finally

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the other passive heat sink that I showed you guys already so it's like a

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chain of heat pipes leading all the way down here all right keeping on moving

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this button switch is which BIOS you're using so this is a multi BIOS board if

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you do happen to corrupt your BIOS you can switch to the other one there's your

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front panel connectors another front USB 3 and uh one two USB 2 front panel

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headers finally moving over here there's your two BIOS chips there are is your

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front panel audio and how many four pin

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pwm connectors do we have on this board we have one here uh just zoom out far so

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that they can kind of see where they are there's one here one here that's two

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three four five six 7

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eight four pin pwm connectors that's

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that's outstanding awesome love to see it more of those is always better in my

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mind so here let's have a look at the PCI Express slot layout so it is ideally

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laid out for four-way uh SLI or four-way

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Crossfire in an ATX or well semi ATX form factor remember XL ATX boards are

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about this much longer but ASUS wants you to be be able to install this board

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in any number of different cases so what you will need to do four-way SLI or

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Crossfire is you will need a case like the 800d from Corsair that has uh maybe

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seven expansion slots but at least like some extra space at the bottom so that

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the bottom card can hang over a little bit so you can install if you're running

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two asli or Crossfire you will be able to install those two cards plus an

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additional one two three PCIe 16x Slots

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of which uh they are all wired at 8ex

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remember uh x79 is 16x 16x or it is 16x

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8X 8X or it is 8x 8X 8X 8X in the way

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that the PCI Express slots are going to be split up here we have a couple of

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auxiliary power connectors here's a six pin as well as a four pin floppy

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auxiliary power connector and let's move around to the back panel of the board

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before we start to go over some of the features that I haven't necessarily

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quite covered yet so 1 2 3 4 5 6 s USB

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2.0 ports a PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port clear seos button there's also

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another one here if for whatever reason the back panel is not convenient enough

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for you we also have an Rog connect button so that's this port right here

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you use that to do overclocking on another computer connected to this one

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there is Bluetooth which also allows you to do overclocking but that's via your

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iPad or iPhone or I guess iPod Touch

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would probably also support it so you can use the app to do that we've got an

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eSATA Port here another eSATA Port there gab Ethernet 4 USB 3.0 7.1 audio out

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including optical audio out so let's see if there's any features here that I have

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sort of missed there are some LEDs built into this board that are going to remind

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you about your voltages or just I guess

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warn you about your voltages is more like it and right this one ha OC key so

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OC key is actually just a straight DVI

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pass through so you see this and this and then you have to connect it via USB

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whether you do it this way or with the internal style connector so you can see

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this right here okay and what OC key

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does is it overlays your bio

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settings on top of the image that your

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uh video card is already outputting so what that means is you can actually see

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rather than just relying on this guy right here the little post post readout

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you can actually see status updates about your PC you can change settings

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without even interfering with whatever you're doing on the screen behind the

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overlay so it's kind of like if you have a home theater and you have a receiver

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that has an overlay to change whatever settings uh that at the hardware level

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but it doesn't actually affect the media that's playing back in the background

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and then you can just you know shut it off at will so that is the OC key I

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think that's pretty cool uh let me see if there's anything that I've kind of

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missed where so this is hardware driven so you can tweak your system on the Fly

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and the OSD monitor right okay I already

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talked to you guys so this allows you to monitor whatever information you want as

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well talked about Digi plus 2 which means that you've got okay hold on let's

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see if I missed anything so Japan made 10K Black Metallic capacitors these are

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rated for 105° and ASUS figures they'll last up to

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five times longer than regular solid caps these guys down here with all the

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cooling all over them ah VGA hot wire oh I can't believe I missed this one right

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here so VGA Hotwire is these headers

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right here this allows you to actually overvolt your overvolt your

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gpus through the ASUS utility rather

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than connecting variable resistors to

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the back of the board and adjusting the little dials so you soldered you have to

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do all the same solder points you still have to do the work it doesn't support

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just like over rting your GPU through the PCI Express lot or anything like

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that but what it does allow you to do is it allows you to adjust those settings

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using the motherboard so that is very

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very cool uh what else do we have here forway okay and I think that pretty much

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covers it nope there's one more thing so USB BIOS flashback without even a CPU or

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RAM installed in the system you throw a USB key in there you rename the file to

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the correct name you check the manual to make sure you've got it all set up right

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you can actually Flash the BIOS in the worst case scenario which is everything

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went as wrong as it can go and you can completely restore it to a new bio

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couple more cool features sorry battery died is you can actually uh see the

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status of any cards that are installed in the PCI Express Lots in the BIOS this

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isn't a new feature on this board but it is one that I have seen on previous ASUS

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boards like the Crosshair 5 that is very useful for diagnosing video card

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problems especially if you have water cooling blocks on there and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for

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