WEBVTT 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.640 Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:10.040 trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:15.799 is nc.com welcome to Rog the only thing 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:20.680 missing here is JJ because they have an unbelievable amount of Cool Tech on 00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:23.359 display this right here is a GTX 700 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 00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:33.320 good sign and a very cool thing and this cooler design is called their cool Tech 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 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 00:00:38.800 --> 00:00:46.320 right it also has a hybrid cooler design 00:00:42.440 --> 00:00:48.360 that is able to do both air Cooling and 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:53.079 see those right there those are G1 quarter fittings this bad boy can be 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 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 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:06.200 with sap uh completely custom card over 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 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:14.240 efficient cooling uh more efficient power delivery so that you're not going 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 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 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:27.280 Cool Tech fan and they're claiming up to 10° better than reference just when 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 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 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:43.280 really interesting about this so up to 20° cooler with a liquid cooling setup 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:47.960 versus a reference cooler which you can see here is using full custom fittings 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:53.159 this is one of the few things that I criticized about some of the previous 00:01:50.399 --> 00:01:57.880 ASUS liquid cooling capable products was the fact that they had built-in barbs 00:01:55.240 --> 00:02:00.520 and they were too small and you know most enthusiasts weren't going to want 00:01:59.240 --> 00:02:04.600 to use them now you can okay the TU the tubing 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:08.119 itself within the card it's quite restrictive you can actually see it's 00:02:06.119 --> 00:02:11.760 very narrow but at least you can hook up whatever fittings you want and you can 00:02:09.959 --> 00:02:15.879 actually liquid cool your CPU with an aftermarket block this right here is a 00:02:13.920 --> 00:02:19.280 Maximus 6 formula which has built-in liquid cooling and then you've got the 00:02:17.480 --> 00:02:22.879 Poseidon card which has built-in liquid cooling as well now right now it's all 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 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:30.680 look pretty freaking sweet and R OG motherboards they just keep pushing the 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:37.319 envelope don't they now we first saw this with the deluxe class z77 ITX 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:43.760 performance motherboard that has been stepped up a notch with the Maximus 6 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:47.239 impact this features the full array of 00:02:43.760 --> 00:02:49.159 Rog features so you got their Supreme FX 00:02:47.239 --> 00:02:53.239 latest generation technology which has this check this out this is really cool 00:02:50.920 --> 00:02:58.360 so you get a visual indicator of where sounds are coming from ingame at all 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 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 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:11.280 power delivery design that well that moves so let's just kind of try to look 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:16.200 up here so much like the last generation board which was only a channel series 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:17.560 Deluxe board this has a riser PCB 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 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:26.120 delivery and all the features that they wanted to on this particular board this 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:30.159 is a Z87 board so you've got full support for the latest fourth generation 00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:34.000 has well processors and the that they've got these boards demoed is actually 00:03:31.760 --> 00:03:38.640 phenomenally cool so there's gigantic thermal R coolers on them that not only 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 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 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:54.400 short PCB card allowing it to be used in all kinds of creative configurations 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 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:02.879 see something very unique so this is a high performance machine running on a 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:06.079 cool little Rog pedestal here similar configuration except check this out 00:04:04.519 --> 00:04:12.439 where's a graphics card what sorry what the graphics card 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 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 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:23.919 well as a a ribbon cable that runs from 00:04:21.359 --> 00:04:28.360 the PCI Express slot all the way under this over to this GTX 670 graphics card 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 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:39.280 new form factors without compromising anything in terms of 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:44.039 performance so Gary from ASUS has actually dug up a bear board that we can 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 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 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 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:02.680 an ITX form factor so when I say ASUS was wanted to deliver everything get in 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.560 a standard Rog board then I mean that was a real challenge so one of the 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:11.840 things that you could sort of see before was the raised pwm so this is the 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:15.440 voltage regulation modules and all that good stuff this is where the power goes 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:19.000 from something that your power supply outputs to something that a CPU and all 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:22.919 the other components on here can use so there wasn't room for that there also 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:27.280 isn't room realistically on an ITX board for a proper sound solution so that's 00:05:24.960 --> 00:05:33.400 where ASUS did their usual thing where they up the ante and they built an 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:35.960 actual external PCB that's just for the 00:05:33.400 --> 00:05:41.160 impact board that goes right here so that way you can get highquality gaming 00:05:37.960 --> 00:05:43.400 grade audio without having to sacrifice 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:48.400 the one expansion slot that you usually end up having well always end up having 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 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:56.000 before was the mpcie combo 2 so this 00:05:53.560 --> 00:06:00.919 supports the m.2 standard which will allow you to plug drives in uh also 00:05:58.960 --> 00:06:05.080 known as Eng GFF which will allow you to plug drives in directly without using up 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 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 00:06:10.880 --> 00:06:16.720 what makes this truly Rog DNA but in a 00:06:14.039 --> 00:06:19.960 much smaller form factor thanks Gary you're 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:24.000 welcome this is what I love about these shows there's all kinds of stuff here 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:28.560 that actually doesn't exist this is the front base which unlike the OC panel 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:32.880 which we've already seen on the Maximus 6 Extreme completely designed for 00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:37.919 overclocking you can adjust base clock by increments of 0.1 you can monitor 00:06:36.199 --> 00:06:41.479 temperatures down to Subzero all kinds of cool stuff you can do with that this 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:45.599 is more optimized for gamers so it's more like that uh that higher level 00:06:44.039 --> 00:06:49.560 control so you want to be able to do things like monitor your CPU frequency 00:06:47.880 --> 00:06:52.520 your fan RPMs I think we were playing around with this before and I messed it 00:06:50.960 --> 00:06:57.759 up but don't worry too much about that you can monitor your CPU temperatures 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:59.000 your time but that's not really it 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 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 00:07:06.080 --> 00:07:11.840 button CPU level up which already exists on the motherboard is enabled turns your 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:16.520 CPU speed up next thing they're going to be enabling is a game recording button 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 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 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:29.080 there'll be a way to trigger it through software or whatever else as well and 00:07:26.960 --> 00:07:33.479 you can get that going as well last but not least it integrates perfectly with 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:37.840 ASUS's onboard Audio Solutions and they want to have a way for you to actually 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:42.280 select different audio profiles simply using the dial on the front of your case 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:46.120 rather than fussing about in the driver now of course not everyone's an extreme 00:07:43.919 --> 00:07:51.759 overclocker and there was a there was a Maximus 6 Extreme over hooked up to the 00:07:48.960 --> 00:07:56.240 OC panel and all that stuff but this is the formula this is optimized for gaming 00:07:54.599 --> 00:08:01.319 as opposed to peer overclocking so they've got Rog armor now that they've 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:07.159 implemented not only on the saber-tooth series but also on their Rog series now 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:11.080 it doesn't necessarily contribute a whole lot to the actual cooling of the 00:08:09.039 --> 00:08:15.919 board but what it does do is it increases the rigidity of the board when 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 00:08:19.400 --> 00:08:25.639 ASUS has validated to not cause interference with your case so you 00:08:24.080 --> 00:08:30.120 should still have excellent case compatibility they've completely 00:08:27.479 --> 00:08:33.159 redesigned they've completely re thought the way that they do motherboard cooling 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:38.080 as well so check this out this is the cross chill thermal design the only 00:08:35.719 --> 00:08:42.800 complaint I had about the integrated liquid cooling on the Maximus 5 formula 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:46.880 was the fact that it did not have replaceable barbs they have addressed 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:51.839 that so now they're using standard G1 quarter fitting mounts so you can see 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:56.720 here there's some just random swifttech compression fittings that they're using 00:08:53.880 --> 00:09:00.839 there are no weird interference points or anything like that this looks like it 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:05.720 was designed by by a water cooling company so you're supposed to touch here 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 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:14.200 know it's video so check this out you can actually look at their OC panel 00:09:12.880 --> 00:09:17.839 right here which is taking temperature readings from the liquid cooled side and 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:22.680 the air cooled side so there's heat loads under these and it's about 20° 00:09:20.760 --> 00:09:26.600 cooler with liquid cooling versus Air cooling now let's talk about the new 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:30.680 supreme FX ASUS is really driving the industry forward when it comes to 00:09:27.880 --> 00:09:35.600 onboard audio I I personally hate onboard audio but the one onboard audio 00:09:33.040 --> 00:09:40.839 solution that I'll accept is from ASUS because they take a a separated 00:09:38.519 --> 00:09:45.000 dedicated part of the PCB and they put audio quality components on it this is 00:09:42.839 --> 00:09:49.000 what everyone refused to do for years and they have dramatically upgraded even 00:09:47.079 --> 00:09:52.959 the redline audio that we already saw on the Maximus 5 formula so check this out 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:57.279 you're getting Elna premium audio capacitors why a film caps I don't even 00:09:55.800 --> 00:10:01.680 understand half this stuff but the point is that they are taking the engineering 00:09:59.560 --> 00:10:06.079 that went into products like Zonar and adding it directly to their motherboards 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:09.560 this guy right here is a dedicated headphone amp and that's I can certainly 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 00:10:12.800 --> 00:10:19.360 other motherboard it can handle up to 600 ohm impedance headphones and I don't 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 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:28.160 up to 120 DB sound to noise ratio on 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 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:38.880 ASUS is expecting you to build with a motherboard like the Maximus 6 formula 00:10:36.920 --> 00:10:42.959 so you can see here the integrated liquid cooling that we've got on the 00:10:41.160 --> 00:10:48.399 motherboard back there it's using bits power fittings for these extremely clean 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:54.040 and beautiful cable runs you've got a red liquid that's running around to it 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:56.240 appears to be probably a GTX Titan would 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 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:04.519 covering the entire card right there now the one thing I'd say is missing from 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 00:11:07.839 --> 00:11:14.680 you actually are getting to the point now where you can get onboard audio that 00:11:12.079 --> 00:11:19.279 is as good as highend dedicated on a motherboard if you spend the extra on an 00:11:16.680 --> 00:11:23.440 Rog board for me personally not being an extreme overclocker I'd be looking at an 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:27.600 Rog formula board as opposed to an extreme even though it's actually less 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:33.519 expensive thank you for checking out our coverage of the ASUS Rog booth at compex 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:35.040 2013 don't miss any of our coverage and 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:38.240 as always don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips