1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:06,640 Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our 2 00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:10,040 trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:15,799 is nc.com welcome to Rog the only thing 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:20,680 missing here is JJ because they have an unbelievable amount of Cool Tech on 5 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:23,359 display this right here is a GTX 700 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:28,359 series card they won't tell me what 700 series card it is which is usually a 7 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:33,320 good sign and a very cool thing and this cooler design is called their cool Tech 8 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:37,200 fan so it actually has an enormous fin array that's uh not all of it is even 9 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:42,440 visible to us right now but it's okay cuz there's an exploded one over on the 10 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:46,320 right it also has a hybrid cooler design 11 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:48,360 that is able to do both air Cooling and 12 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:53,079 see those right there those are G1 quarter fittings this bad boy can be 13 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:57,160 liquid cooled as well so let's move over to the right here where we can see the 14 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:04,000 way that the design of the card actually works so they've got a Digi Plus vrm 15 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:06,200 with sap uh completely custom card over 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:10,640 there so the idea is that okay we got a custom PCB design that gives us more 17 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:14,240 efficient cooling uh more efficient power delivery so that you're not going 18 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:18,560 to have any excess heat to get rid of then you throw a cooler at it that can 19 00:01:16,119 --> 00:01:22,840 get rid of all the excess heat anyway so that's the direct cuu H2O with their 20 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:27,280 Cool Tech fan and they're claiming up to 10° better than reference just when 21 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:31,720 you're air cooling it and finally of course it's an Rog product so there's a 22 00:01:29,079 --> 00:01:37,520 sweet looking shoud on it now let's move over to this is this is sort of what's 23 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:43,280 really interesting about this so up to 20° cooler with a liquid cooling setup 24 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:47,960 versus a reference cooler which you can see here is using full custom fittings 25 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:53,159 this is one of the few things that I criticized about some of the previous 26 00:01:50,399 --> 00:01:57,880 ASUS liquid cooling capable products was the fact that they had built-in barbs 27 00:01:55,240 --> 00:02:00,520 and they were too small and you know most enthusiasts weren't going to want 28 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:04,600 to use them now you can okay the TU the tubing 29 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:08,119 itself within the card it's quite restrictive you can actually see it's 30 00:02:06,119 --> 00:02:11,760 very narrow but at least you can hook up whatever fittings you want and you can 31 00:02:09,959 --> 00:02:15,879 actually liquid cool your CPU with an aftermarket block this right here is a 32 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:19,280 Maximus 6 formula which has built-in liquid cooling and then you've got the 33 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:22,879 Poseidon card which has built-in liquid cooling as well now right now it's all 34 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:26,519 over a test bench but trust me when you put this in your system it's going to 35 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:30,680 look pretty freaking sweet and R OG motherboards they just keep pushing the 36 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:37,319 envelope don't they now we first saw this with the deluxe class z77 ITX 37 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:43,760 performance motherboard that has been stepped up a notch with the Maximus 6 38 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:47,239 impact this features the full array of 39 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:49,159 Rog features so you got their Supreme FX 40 00:02:47,239 --> 00:02:53,239 latest generation technology which has this check this out this is really cool 41 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:58,360 so you get a visual indicator of where sounds are coming from ingame at all 42 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:00,519 times so if the action's in front of you you're going to be able to see that if 43 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:07,280 it's behind behind you you're going to be able to see that as an indicator you've also got an incredibly compact 44 00:03:05,319 --> 00:03:11,280 power delivery design that well that moves so let's just kind of try to look 45 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:16,200 up here so much like the last generation board which was only a channel series 46 00:03:13,159 --> 00:03:17,560 Deluxe board this has a riser PCB 47 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:21,760 because there wasn't enough room in the ITX form factor to fit all of the Power 48 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:26,120 delivery and all the features that they wanted to on this particular board this 49 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:30,159 is a Z87 board so you've got full support for the latest fourth generation 50 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:34,000 has well processors and the that they've got these boards demoed is actually 51 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:38,640 phenomenally cool so there's gigantic thermal R coolers on them that not only 52 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:43,640 cool the CPU but also the memory and the vrm as well as the generally the PCB of 53 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:49,280 the board itself and they're showing off their direct CU mini GTX 67 this is a 54 00:03:46,599 --> 00:03:54,400 short PCB card allowing it to be used in all kinds of creative configurations 55 00:03:52,239 --> 00:03:58,120 with uh with that said let's move over to the left here where we're going to 56 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:02,879 see something very unique so this is a high performance machine running on a 57 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:06,079 cool little Rog pedestal here similar configuration except check this out 58 00:04:04,519 --> 00:04:12,439 where's a graphics card what sorry what the graphics card 59 00:04:10,239 --> 00:04:15,239 is on the bottom on the back with the power supply I'm going to turn this 60 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:21,359 around so you guys can see it check that out so you got an sfx power supply as 61 00:04:18,199 --> 00:04:23,919 well as a a ribbon cable that runs from 62 00:04:21,359 --> 00:04:28,360 the PCI Express slot all the way under this over to this GTX 670 graphics card 63 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:33,919 so this is what I mean about it being a Mod's dream and Ena all kinds of cool 64 00:04:31,199 --> 00:04:39,280 new form factors without compromising anything in terms of 65 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:44,039 performance so Gary from ASUS has actually dug up a bear board that we can 66 00:04:41,919 --> 00:04:48,680 show you guys rather than the one that was on the build now the reason that we 67 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,880 want to see it in all of its gorgeous glory is that you can't it was covered 68 00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:58,240 in a big heat sink and you couldn't really see some of the unique technologies that went into it so it's 69 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:02,680 an ITX form factor so when I say ASUS was wanted to deliver everything get in 70 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:06,560 a standard Rog board then I mean that was a real challenge so one of the 71 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:11,840 things that you could sort of see before was the raised pwm so this is the 72 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:15,440 voltage regulation modules and all that good stuff this is where the power goes 73 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,000 from something that your power supply outputs to something that a CPU and all 74 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:22,919 the other components on here can use so there wasn't room for that there also 75 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:27,280 isn't room realistically on an ITX board for a proper sound solution so that's 76 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:33,400 where ASUS did their usual thing where they up the ante and they built an 77 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:35,960 actual external PCB that's just for the 78 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:41,160 impact board that goes right here so that way you can get highquality gaming 79 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:43,400 grade audio without having to sacrifice 80 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:48,400 the one expansion slot that you usually end up having well always end up having 81 00:05:45,919 --> 00:05:53,560 on a miniitx board the last thing that you couldn't really get a clear look at 82 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:56,000 before was the mpcie combo 2 so this 83 00:05:53,560 --> 00:06:00,919 supports the m.2 standard which will allow you to plug drives in uh also 84 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:05,080 known as Eng GFF which will allow you to plug drives in directly without using up 85 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:09,160 one of your SATA ports because it is an mitx board you only have four of them 86 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:14,039 and I think that's pretty much it now you guys can really get a closer look at 87 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:16,720 what makes this truly Rog DNA but in a 88 00:06:14,039 --> 00:06:19,960 much smaller form factor thanks Gary you're 89 00:06:17,639 --> 00:06:24,000 welcome this is what I love about these shows there's all kinds of stuff here 90 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:28,560 that actually doesn't exist this is the front base which unlike the OC panel 91 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:32,880 which we've already seen on the Maximus 6 Extreme completely designed for 92 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:37,919 overclocking you can adjust base clock by increments of 0.1 you can monitor 93 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:41,479 temperatures down to Subzero all kinds of cool stuff you can do with that this 94 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:45,599 is more optimized for gamers so it's more like that uh that higher level 95 00:06:44,039 --> 00:06:49,560 control so you want to be able to do things like monitor your CPU frequency 96 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:52,520 your fan RPMs I think we were playing around with this before and I messed it 97 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:57,759 up but don't worry too much about that you can monitor your CPU temperatures 98 00:06:54,759 --> 00:06:59,000 your time but that's not really it 99 00:06:57,759 --> 00:07:04,199 because there's other cool stuff that they want to a through this that this thing that doesn't exist yet so number 100 00:07:02,639 --> 00:07:08,479 one is there's going to be a one button over clocking method so you click the 101 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:11,840 button CPU level up which already exists on the motherboard is enabled turns your 102 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,520 CPU speed up next thing they're going to be enabling is a game recording button 103 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:20,479 so if you're a gamer who's into gameplay videos Let's Plays any kind of cool 104 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:24,919 thing like that all you got to do is press the record button which is going to be right here and uh I'm sure 105 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:29,080 there'll be a way to trigger it through software or whatever else as well and 106 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:33,479 you can get that going as well last but not least it integrates perfectly with 107 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:37,840 ASUS's onboard Audio Solutions and they want to have a way for you to actually 108 00:07:35,199 --> 00:07:42,280 select different audio profiles simply using the dial on the front of your case 109 00:07:39,879 --> 00:07:46,120 rather than fussing about in the driver now of course not everyone's an extreme 110 00:07:43,919 --> 00:07:51,759 overclocker and there was a there was a Maximus 6 Extreme over hooked up to the 111 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:56,240 OC panel and all that stuff but this is the formula this is optimized for gaming 112 00:07:54,599 --> 00:08:01,319 as opposed to peer overclocking so they've got Rog armor now that they've 113 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:07,159 implemented not only on the saber-tooth series but also on their Rog series now 114 00:08:04,639 --> 00:08:11,080 it doesn't necessarily contribute a whole lot to the actual cooling of the 115 00:08:09,039 --> 00:08:15,919 board but what it does do is it increases the rigidity of the board when 116 00:08:13,479 --> 00:08:22,000 it's installed in the case so it's got a top piece as well as a back plate that 117 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:25,639 ASUS has validated to not cause interference with your case so you 118 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:30,120 should still have excellent case compatibility they've completely 119 00:08:27,479 --> 00:08:33,159 redesigned they've completely re thought the way that they do motherboard cooling 120 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:38,080 as well so check this out this is the cross chill thermal design the only 121 00:08:35,719 --> 00:08:42,800 complaint I had about the integrated liquid cooling on the Maximus 5 formula 122 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:46,880 was the fact that it did not have replaceable barbs they have addressed 123 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:51,839 that so now they're using standard G1 quarter fitting mounts so you can see 124 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:56,720 here there's some just random swifttech compression fittings that they're using 125 00:08:53,880 --> 00:09:00,839 there are no weird interference points or anything like that this looks like it 126 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:05,720 was designed by by a water cooling company so you're supposed to touch here 127 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:11,079 and touch here but you guys obviously ow won't be able to do that because you 128 00:09:08,519 --> 00:09:14,200 know it's video so check this out you can actually look at their OC panel 129 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:17,839 right here which is taking temperature readings from the liquid cooled side and 130 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:22,680 the air cooled side so there's heat loads under these and it's about 20° 131 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:26,600 cooler with liquid cooling versus Air cooling now let's talk about the new 132 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:30,680 supreme FX ASUS is really driving the industry forward when it comes to 133 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:35,600 onboard audio I I personally hate onboard audio but the one onboard audio 134 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:40,839 solution that I'll accept is from ASUS because they take a a separated 135 00:09:38,519 --> 00:09:45,000 dedicated part of the PCB and they put audio quality components on it this is 136 00:09:42,839 --> 00:09:49,000 what everyone refused to do for years and they have dramatically upgraded even 137 00:09:47,079 --> 00:09:52,959 the redline audio that we already saw on the Maximus 5 formula so check this out 138 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:57,279 you're getting Elna premium audio capacitors why a film caps I don't even 139 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:01,680 understand half this stuff but the point is that they are taking the engineering 140 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:06,079 that went into products like Zonar and adding it directly to their motherboards 141 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,560 this guy right here is a dedicated headphone amp and that's I can certainly 142 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:14,360 tell you a larger headphone amp than I've ever seen on any other uh on any 143 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:19,360 other motherboard it can handle up to 600 ohm impedance headphones and I don't 144 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:26,440 see where it is right now but there's a Cirus logic CS 4398 DAC ASUS is claiming 145 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,160 up to 120 DB sound to noise ratio on 146 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:34,279 this board now that's not to say that features have to look bad this is what 147 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:38,880 ASUS is expecting you to build with a motherboard like the Maximus 6 formula 148 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:42,959 so you can see here the integrated liquid cooling that we've got on the 149 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:48,399 motherboard back there it's using bits power fittings for these extremely clean 150 00:10:45,639 --> 00:10:54,040 and beautiful cable runs you've got a red liquid that's running around to it 151 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:56,240 appears to be probably a GTX Titan would 152 00:10:54,040 --> 00:11:00,639 be my assumption but I'm not able to tell because there's an EK back plate 153 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:04,519 covering the entire card right there now the one thing I'd say is missing from 154 00:11:02,399 --> 00:11:09,920 this as a high-end build normally is a dedicated sound card such as a feeis but 155 00:11:07,839 --> 00:11:14,680 you actually are getting to the point now where you can get onboard audio that 156 00:11:12,079 --> 00:11:19,279 is as good as highend dedicated on a motherboard if you spend the extra on an 157 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:23,440 Rog board for me personally not being an extreme overclocker I'd be looking at an 158 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:27,600 Rog formula board as opposed to an extreme even though it's actually less 159 00:11:25,279 --> 00:11:33,519 expensive thank you for checking out our coverage of 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