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to learn more welcome to my unboxing of the ASUS

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x79 Deluxe yes they have changed their naming scheme which isn't the only thing

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that they've changed about this x79 board it's lgaa 2011 which means it's

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not going to work with the latest Haswell processors but it will work with

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the latest IV Bridge e processors so

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that is quad core and six core processors on the 2011 platform even the

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all new 4960x extreme Edition so what

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makes the new x79 Deluxe different from the older P9 x79 Deluxe well mostly it

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comes down to updating the feature set because there's actually been a couple

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of board technology refreshes on the consumer side so that is on the LGA

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115x line of boards since ASUS

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originally launched the P9 x79 Deluxe so it's gotten a little bit long in the

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tooth they are also adding imple they've also implemented specific optimizations

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for Ivy Bridge e to make sure that their newer refresh board works a little bit

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more optimally with the new processors than the older boards because quite

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frankly you know when you were building a board you know a couple years ago you

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didn't necessarily uh have the knowledge to optimize it for a processor that

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isn't going to be released for a very long time so without further Ado here's

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everything that is in the Box we get 10 SATA cables five right angle five

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straight we get a flexible SLI bridge this is a channel series board so you

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don't get the sexy black SLI Bridge it's got an IO plate it's got their Q

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connectors it's also got ah yes another updated feature so Wireless AC just like

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the Z87 boards and Bluetooth 4.0 it's

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also got this funny it comes with an Rog 3way s Bridge though because they

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probably didn't have like an ugly three-way SLI Bridge because most people

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don't run three-way SLI unless they want like you know a sexy bridge on it also

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has a users manual and that's funny there's no disc in here I wonder if

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that's because uh ASUS just stopped bothering because you might as well

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download the latest or if maybe this is a reviewer board so it didn't include a

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disc cuz they know that I'll just download the

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latest all right now the board itself

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just like the Z87 boards it's been updated with their new black and gold

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color scheme which on this particular one actually looks quite sharp the power

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delivery system not only looks better but it's also been completely overhauled

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with Superior performing components including new inductors new mosfet and

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driver power stages and I mean this is important because as Intel moves the

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manufacturing process down so going from Sandy brid e to Ivy brid e operating

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voltage goes down so tolerances actually get tighter as you go they've also added

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their new T topology so new dam topology

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which basically amounts to how the traces are connected to the pins on the

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CPU because that's where the memory controller is these days for better

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performance now when you couple that with the fact that IV Bridge e has a

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much stronger memory controller than Sandy Bridge e you should be seeing

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better memory speeds on this platform than you got on previous Edition boards

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and running the previous Edition processors in terms of the overall

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layout we've got our eight pin connector and its ideal location along the top

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left we've got our 24 pin connector on the top right Edge in its ideal location

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the memo K button is also here this is important if you're running sort of

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high-spec memory and you want to make sure that it posts long enough to

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actually set up the memory the way you want it to run just in case it doesn't

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post it's less of an issue these days but it's good to have just in case

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you've also got your USB 3 front panel connector and its optimal location but I

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would prefer to see a right angle connector if they could arrange that 12

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SATA ports okay so two of which are SATA 36 GB per second running off the Intel

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controller four of which are SATA 2 3 GB

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per second running off the Intel controller and the rest of them are

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running off of a new generation third party controller so ASUS is using one

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that has a PCIe Gen 2 Link which means

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better overall throughput it also supports their latest SSD caching which

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allows an unlimited size SSD to cash your mechanical storage which is great

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because Intel rst only allows up to a 60 gig SSD for that in fact you can even

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use three separate ssds to cash your mechanical volumes which is H very very

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cool so there's a lot of connectivity options here you've also got your front

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panel connectors as well as an epu switch so remember that's the processor

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that allows for better power consumption for the system as well as TPU which

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allows for maybe not quite as good power consumption but higher performance

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you've got four USB 2.0 front panel headers a clear Simo switch as well as

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their direct key which is actually super handy it um when when the system's

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turned off you just press it and then it boots up directly into the UEFI so you

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can make any changes you want onboard reset and power switches as well as a

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post indicator which makes this a pretty uh feature-rich board even from an

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overclocking or operating outside of a case standpoint which isn't necessarily

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its intended Market the PCI Express Lanes are distributed in pretty much the

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normal way so there's no funny switching going on with uh you know uh plx

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switches or anything like that so basically what you see is what you get

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remember there's 40 lanes available and with the new ivybridge e CPUs and an

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optimized board and optimized components you can run at PCIe 3.0 speed so the top

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one is a PCIe 16x slot followed by a 1x

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a 16x that is wired for 8 a 16x that is

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wired for eight a 16x that is wired for 16 and a 1x so the way that these are

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going to run is they can run in 16x 16x in the gray slots or can split up to 8X

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8X 8X 8X if you wanted to run a four-way SLI or Crossfire configuration however

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the bad news about that is because of the spacing it's not really optimized

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for it it's only got six PCI expansion slots and because most cards these days

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are dual slot even if you install water blocks on them there's not a whole lot

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that can be done about it they're using an updated USB 3 controller So speaking

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of USB 3 it's got six USB 3 ports on the

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back and what that allows is uasp Operation even in Windows 8 the older

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boards only supported us uasp in Windows 7 or just the regular turbo mode in

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Windows 8 with that said uasp does perform a little bit better than turbo

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you can go back we did an old NC Tech tips about it but it's not that not of a

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difference and both of them are better than running in the default configuration it also has four USB 2.0

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ports includ four USB 2.0 ports two GB

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Ethernet ports including a new Intel NYX so it's the latest I series controller

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which gives you better throughput reduced CPU utilization all that usual

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stuff you'd expect as well as their Network eye control which you can control through AI Suite my personal

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experience with it isn't that great but in theory it allows you to prioritize

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traffic depending on what is more important to you there is their BIOS

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flashback button which allows you to flash the BIOS even if the board is pretty much bricked two EA ports so that

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brings the total SATA connectivity up to 14 the Dual antennas for the wireless AC

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and Bluetooth 4.0 as well as 7.1 audio out and optical audio out so what does

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all this mean in real terms that was a lot of specs and a lot of improvements

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but what does it amount to well you get a more updated feature set so you've got

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fan expert 2 which allows you to have full granular control of all of the fan

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head headers through the software whether you're plugging in three pin or four pin fans in fact there are six fan

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headers 1 2 3 4 five and six located all

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around the board you get their of course most modern UEFI implementation and you

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get just generally better overall operations so ASUS is saying that the

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autot tuning which actually is excellent their board's autot tuning is

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outstanding it's better than a OneTouch overclock that just loads a profile it

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actually runs through and tunes the different components they're saying with

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their autot tuning they're seeing overclocks around up to 4.6 4.7 GHz and

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RAM overclocks up to 2133 running 64 gig

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configurations or up to 2400 MHz in

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lower density configurations this is all automatic tuning so there you go it's

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tuned better especially for Ivy brid e it's the x79 deluxe from ASUS don't

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