now this is a motherboard unboxing that I've been pretty excited to do this is
the assus Sabertooth p67 motherboard so
it's part of their tough series which stands for the Ultimate Force which has
a very clever little logo that's actually a t and then a u and then an F
sort of but you you get the point right the Ultimate Force tough tough Series
has a 5year warrantee so it has guaranteed reliability it also has a
Fring axe on the front of the box so it
is tough and will destroy you okay here
we have its support for LGA 1155 so that
means you have full support for all of the Intel Core i7 Core i5 and core I3
CPUs on this platform it features the p67 chipset which means that the Onboard
video on your core i7 processor will not be supported by this board but honestly
who cares this is a performance board you're going to want to put a nice
dedicated graphics card into it so let's have a look at what ASUS has to say for
themselves about this board we have thermal armor armor which is total air
flow boosting heat dissipation and we'll show you that once we get it opened up
we have thermal radar real-time heat detection and heat removal so monitors
temps and critical parts of the motherboard in real time automatically adjusting fan speeds to make sure the
system maintains High stability without overheating we have tough components so
certified by military standard for tough Duty hence the 5-year
warranty Digi Plus vrm so fully digital
vrm for excellent voltage regulation we
have a front panel USB support uh compatible with any chassis enjoy faster
throwbot without relegating cables or devices to the hard-to-reach rear iio so
that means it has a USB proper pinout header rather than just a cable in that
goes around to the back of the board EFI BIOS which is awesome because it even
supports the scroll wheel in the graphical interface in the bio so you
can use a mouse to change all those settings and of the keyboard and it has
a complete USB solution double USB access double convenience okay what does
that mean fac facilitates strategic accessibility for both the front and
rear panel okay well we'll see what they mean once we get that opened up let's
have a look at the back of the board where it probably says all of the same
stuff tested server grade reliability so that's something they hadn't mentioned
on the front and now let's get it opened up and have a look at this board this is
a very unique looking motherboard and you can't really tell through that
highly reflective surface I suspect so it will still we're still in suspense
about what this new tough series board looks like let's have a look at the
included accessories we have a users's guide a utilities and drivers DVD which
you should throw away a powered by ASUS sticker so download the latest off the
ASUS website we have a 5-year warranty notice that comes with it as well as a
thermal radar Digi plus vrm user guide
cool thank you next we have an IO Shield we have two SATA 2 3 GB per
second cables and two SATA 36 GB per
second cables although please note they are identical other than the white color
coding on the cables they will both work with either speed grade we have four
mounting screws not sure what those are for guess we'll hopefully find out then
we have an SLI Bridge very tight spacing on the SLI uh compatible slot oh
actually no that's not that tight uh no that's fine never mind and then we have
their Q connect for the front uh case
switch LED all that good stuff as well as the front USB too and finally the
board itself so normally when ausa's boards come in one of these paper
sleeves they actually don't have an antistatic bag on them but the
Sabertooth p67 seems to be a bit of an exception to that rule and here it is so
that's the thermal sheath that we were talking about before you can see it has
like a like a plastic covering on it okay that oh okay so that's what these
screws are for so you can actually you have alternate mounting screws to
actually put a fan over the North Bridge should you so desire so wow this
actually makes it kind of more difficult for me to point out a lot of the
features of the board because I well maybe it makes it easier because I can
only see the things that qualifies as features of the board one thing that
this design will allow you to do is have a very clean looking interior of your
case because the only Parts you're going to be able to see are the business parts
parts of your board so let's start where we usually start which is the CPU socket
very non-crowded CPU socket 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 okay I'm not sure how many
phases the power design is okay hold on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 okay looks like an
8 plus two phase power design on this guy LGA 1155 socket as I mentioned
before supports all lga1155 boards because you're using the p67 chipset you
have full support for kseries unlocked processors overclocking those things to
the max up here in the top left we have the 8 Pin CPU power connector and it's
in exactly its correct location we have
our mosfet heat sinks here as well as here using a typical assus tough series
color scheme so we've got kind of a black um rough looking paint finish as
well as like a green military rough looking paint finish on both sides we
have full support for oops uh up to four
sticks of dual Channel DDR3 memory on uh
can I even get this off yeah there we go
so these are also tough uh tough series
looking uh color schemes here as well ASUS is using their quick install I
forget what The Branding is for it but basically it allows you to slide in the
modules from one side and then clip in with only one side so you don't have to
clip in both sides at the same time we have the memo K button which allows you
to post with any memory sticks even if they're not 100% compatible it'll
default to a very safe setting to allow you to post and then adjust your memory
timings for Optimal Performance we have our 24 pin power connector and its ideal
location along the right hand Edge and here we have a USB 3 header so that will
be for your front panel USB 3 we are
also going to find uh what is this okay here we go so we have four SATA 2 3 gbit
per second ports and it looks like we have four SATA 3 6 gbit per second Port
so two of these are going to be running off of the Intel chipset and two of them
are going to be running off some thirdparty chipset which I actually can't identify because most of the board
is covered so here we have our front panel connectors that is your front
power reset LEDs all that good stuff we
have a set of three front USB 2.0
headers so that means up to six front USB 2.0 devices we have a front fire
wire header as well as our front audio header in
terms of the PCI Express expansion we have a pretty good looking layout here
so we have 1 2 three PCIe 1X slots we
have two PCIe 16x slots remember p67
boards that is all of them are going to
split these PCI e6x slots into dual PCI
e8x unless they have an nf200 or similar
chip and then finally One loan PCI slot
so if you're running sort of a mid-range configuration with one graph grac card
then they leave you one two PCI e1x a
PCI E up to 8X and then one PCI slot and
if you're running dual Graphics so a high-end config they leave you two PCIe
1X slots since those are the ones that a high-end power user is more likely to
use here we have a like shroud on the io
C on the io Shield so we have one of those PS2 keyboard mouse combo ports
which I'm a big fan of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
USB 2.0 ports optical audio out e oh
dual eata it looks like yep dual eata and then we've also
got USB 3.0 fire wire gigabit Ethernet
and 7.1 audio out on the back of the
motherboard we find some mounting screws and not a whole lot else and one thing I
sort of want to figure out here is whether it's possible to
remove the thermal armor Shield should
you so desire so sorry guys I'm going to take just a minute here on camera and
yes it looks like you can so there's mounting screws on the back for it they
go here here here here here here here
basically they're all over the back and it looks like you can quite easily
remove the thermal armor if you want so
that would be totally up to you because there may be some aspects of the board
that are more difficult to work with with this thermal armor plate on such as
the PCIe um
fasten or retention Clips there so I'm going to show you guys what I mean keep
focusing that at the board while I walk over here and go get a graphics card
so uh this is one thing that might be a little bit challenging when you've got a
system completely loaded up it might be a little bit hard to access these these
kinds of mechanism so you know like let's say you got one card you got a
dual slot card here and then you've got
like uh another dual slot card here so this is like you have this much room in
between to press down on that and pull
out the card so I'm not sure how challenging that's going to be but
another thing that might be a bit tricky is if you have a screwdriver with a wide
tip like mine it's probably not going to fit down here to fasten the motherboard
so make sure you have a skinny screwdriver so those are the only considerations that I'd probably uh want
to be sure of oh another thing is you might want to make sure you have enough
clearance between the io shield and like a 120 mm fan here in your case uh to
make sure that you have room for this so those are the only considerations that I
can think of that would really be a concern for the p67 saber 2 thank you
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