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more welcome to my unboxing and overview of the z87i deluxe which is a product
that I'd be more excited about if ASUS hadn't unleashed the Maximus 6 impact on
us with this generation of products so that's an Rog grade mitx board this one
is still very fully featured but in some slightly different ways so unlike the
last generation product it's got six SATA ports unlike the last generation
product it's got support for Ultra HD 4K output however if you are you know
running some kind of a 4K display setup I would really recommend grabbing a
dedicated graphics card unlike the Rog board it has onboard Wireless AC which
is actually pretty darn cool and I guess
I mean okay that's already enough differences that the board justifies its
existence somewhat it has a very very
high-end vrm solution just like the last generation z77 I Deluxe board so you can
see that like all of their super premium ITX boards it has a riser like a
daughter PCB with a heat sink all over
the front of it a heat sink all over the back of it and vrm componentry built
onto it because there just wasn't enough room to put all of that Uber stuff onto
one of these boards it has their four-way optimization which is a little
bit different from how they Implement things on the Rog boards so that means
that it can optimize for you know uh running faster it can optimize for
saving power when you're away and it can even do things like you can set a
maximum power consumption for the CPU itself thank you uh for the CPU itself
that it cannot exceed through the AI Suite software which is again incredibly
cool so let's take you on a bit of a tour of the board up here in the top
right is the 8 Pin CPU power connector next is the 24 pin power connector it's
hard to really say what the optimal locations are for things like this on an
ITX board because the chassis really do vary a fair bit there's 6 SATA 3 6 GB
per second ports as I mentioned before and you'll notice the spacing this gives
you quite a bit more flexibility in terms of uh where you're plugging them
in because again with that variation in
the layouts of mitx cases um you you
don't always have a guarantee as to where you're actually going to be able
to reach the SATA ports full support for dual Channel DDR3 memory so you can
easily plug in up to 16 gigs and check this out I really like this they have
changed the way that the PCI Express slot latch is accessed so that's a full
speed PCIe 3.0 16x slot and you can access it from this side or this side
which again is very tailored to the challenges that people face when
building these little tiny systems fan expert 2 has been added to the board
which means full control whether you're running three pin or four pin fans using
the AI sweet software and the fan headers are him here here here and here
so they're all in pretty much the same spot ASUS has their patent pending
sensing connector as well for the CPU so that it can automatically apply the
right control profile it is an LGA 1150 board you've got support for the latest
Haswell processors and as we move around to the back we find a pretty darn
complete IO so four USB 2.0 ports six
USB 3.0 ports that's more than the impact which has a sort of a bit of a
different load out if you will it has a BIOS a clear SEO switch as well as a
BIOS flashback switch so if you brick the board in the middle of flashing the
BIOS you can restore it that way dual link DVI DisplayPort and HDMI optical
audio out uh Intel powered gigabit Ethernet as well as Wireless AC and
Bluetooth 4.0 and this this is the thing
that is really to me the key difference between the impact in the deluxe so it
has onboard 5.1 audio however you're
only going to be able to run um 5 a 5.1 audio like that can be
reconfigured to 5.1 because normally you'd have sort of your your line in
your or your line out your mic and your uh headphone out and that's kind of or
speakers out and that's kind of it whereas the impact has a very premium
audio solution built into it this one has a sort of a hoom audio solution but
it brings that wireless to the table as well as the extra SATA ports if you were
to build like a really high-end storage server or something like that that you
want to put away in a closet you want to trust it that it's going to be super
reliable so you still want something really highend this would work for that
so it's just about the different use case scenarios oh yeah I probably should
have mentioned there's a USB 3.0 header right here in kind of the middle of the
board not a very optimal location for that would have preferred it at the edge
and that leads us to the accessories which I sort of tore out in my hurry to
uh check out the board itself six SATA cables and by six I mean five that's
very odd there's only there's only one in this package I got to wonder if
that's actually just oh there's another one that's individually wrapped as well so six SATA
cables as well as the magnetic antenna
for the onboard Wireless connectivity so there you go you can sort of stick it
down flat you can fold it up like this and then stick it to something else like
that it'll stick to anything that's got some you know iron or nickel content in
it IO Shield as well as your manual with
the driver disc and this is actually I don't know this might sound kind of
crazy but this is one of the cleverest Innovations that I think ASUS brought to
the table with their latest generation ITX boards this is instead of the older
style Q connector which is like a little brick that plugs into the board and
check this out it's a pre-done smaller
brick that is a breakout cable instead
of actually having to plug the individual things from the case into the
top of the connector itself so you take this whole thing it's keyed so you can
only install it one way you plug that in then you can run it wherever it needs to
go and plug all your front panel um you know power switch reset switch and all
your LEDs into that instead which I think is actually really really cool so
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