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welcome to my unboxing of the ASUS Sabertooth z77 motherboard this

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is what I would consider to be a true

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successor to the Sabertooth p67 because

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it brings back the thermal armor so the exclusive

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thermal AR armor covers the entire board with dual turbo fans Direct in cool air

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to critical parts and dissipating heat faster for better stability tough series

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motherboards better be stable and they better have high quality components

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because they come with a 5year warranty these are the only ASUS motherboards

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that do come with a 5-year warranty and they have a number of features to back

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it up so first of all we've got thermal armor we'll show you that in a moment

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thermal radar this is really cool if you check out on my ncixcom channel I've got

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a video where I talk about the ASUS specific features are their z77 boards

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where I show you thermal radar it's really really cool dust Defender repel

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the dust expand the lifespan I'll show you those in just a minute you can cover

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your slots when you are not using them tough components certified by military

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standard so there you go you're going to to give a 5-year warranty on something

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you better make sure you're using proper components that are going to last a long

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time new Digi plus power control so this is eighth generation digital power

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control from ASUS meaning you are controlling the RAM the CPU and the

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integrated GPU USB F BIOS flashback allows you to easily recover your BIOS

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in the event of a failure even without a CPU and RAM installed Network eye

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control allows you to prioritize various applications through AI Suite in order

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to make sure that your you know uTorrent that's running in the background is not

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affecting your pings in your game server

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ufi BIOS we take that for granted these days usb3 boost is also available

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whether it's just the regular boost mode or uasp with compatible devices on the

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as as media controller USB charger Plus allows you to charge up to three times

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faster ESD guards in theory protect the

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board from electrostatic discharge AI site 2 is their software that allows you

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to control all this stuff and finally complete USB

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3 whatever they mean by complete USB 3 I'm not quite sure I think they mean

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they have a front panel header and rear panel ports they also have uh both Intel

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and third party chipsets supported on this particular board because the z77

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chips set does include Intel usb3 ports however the Intel usb3 ports don't

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support uasp at this time so you're going to want to use the as media

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controller if you want to get the best performance possible so this platform is

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using the z77 chipset which means you got support for 22 or 32 nanom CPUs that

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is second generation or third generation IV Bridge Intel core I3 i5 and i7

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processors we've also got support for Intel smart response technology which

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means that you can use an SSD to cach your boot Drive NVIDIA SLI and AMD

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Crossfire X technology are supported virtue MVP gives you the ability to plug

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in a dedicated graphics card still make

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use of quick sync technology which is the integrated gpus uh quick video

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encoding as well as use the integrated

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GPU as a way to augment the performance of your dedicated GPU as a way to reduce

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the tearing that is caused by frame rates that are above the refresh rate of

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your monitor and finally with the newer

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virtue you don't have to worry about whether you plug into the dedicated graphics card or the integrated graphics

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card you can switch to IM mode or D mode whichever you prefer okay now let's do

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accessories really quick here I've actually opened some of these already guys because I did already use this

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motherboard to film my other video and slick in His Infinite Wisdom opened up

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the board before we prepped the other video and before we had a chance to

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unbox it so uh he's feeling the shame right now all

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right so we've got some pieces here that we took off the board in order to

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install these fans so there's a fan right here on the chipset blowing air

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down in order to direct air exactly

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where it needs to go so through the chipset fins across any of the other

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chips that are installed on the board itself and you know eventually sort of

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out the gaps around it there's also a fan here so this I would probably

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suggest using it as an exhaust instead of as an intake but I guess the the

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choice is yours slick installed this one and then next we've got our dust covers

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so this one this one these basically allow you to keep dust from accumulating

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in slots that you're not using ASUS has included a full complement of them for

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the PCI Express slots as well as look at

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these These are cool so we've got other placeholders for the RAM slots that

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we're not using so you don't look they can go either way they've got slots so you don't have to worry about which way

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you install them see I can go in that way I can go in that way

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there you go so your board will look like really sweet even if you have

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absolutely nothing installed on it so if you're into Aesthetics which I happen to

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be that is cool all right IO Shield including a cutout for the fan at the

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back so that you're going to get adequate ventilation we've also got uh

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four SATA cables two of them are SATA 3 two of them are SATA 2 but it doesn't

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actually matter they're both single to right angle or all four of them are single to right angle SLI connector

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right there two connectors for your front USB as well as your front panel

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headers for your power and whatnot uh you've got a driver and utilities DVD

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you don't use that download the latest from the ASUS website you've also got a

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certificate of reliability it's

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gold and tough series 5year warranty notice that's the one I'm concerned

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about not this one so much because that means ASUS is going to stand behind it

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you've also got a sticker that you can put on your case tough inside

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oh sorry can you see that there we go cool moving on let's have a look at the

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layout of the board which is quite tricky because it's completely covered with the thermal armor which you can

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take off should you see fit so we've got our CPU socket right here LGA 1155

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supporting the latest Intel processors we've also got our eight pin power connector and its ideal location at the

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top left of the board we've got our 24 pin power connector and its ideal

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location along the right hand Edge there's the memo button that means even if you're using a high performance dims

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you can use that button to ensure that it will post no matter what we've got a

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front USB 3.0 header very good orientation of this love it good job

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ASUS thumbs up because this will run more easily to your front panel and uh

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will require less you know kinking of the cable and you don't want something

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coming out like this if you're buying this board you probably care about the look of your build this will help next

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we've got four SATA 2 3 GB per second ports two SATA 36 GB per second ports

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and two more SATA 36 GB per second ports running off of a third party chipset so

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those guys are just a

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sec here's our front panel headers for your power and reset and all that good

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stuff three USB 2 front panel connectors

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moving on we've got a power LED we've got clear simos uh jumper prefer to see

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a switch especially on a gaming oriented board but it is what it is we've got our

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Thunderbolt header yes so you can install uh an optional ASUS accessory

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into this slot and then plug that into the Thunderbolt header and you will add

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Thunderbolt support to your board debug Port as well as front panel audio are

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both right here and moving along we've got the PCI Express slot layout so we've

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got 1 2 3 PCIe 1X slots 3 PCIe 16x slots

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although it's going to run at 16x or 8X 8X and I really wouldn't recommend

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running a graphics card in here this is more intended for accessories you know

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land card raid card Thunderbolt card whatever else the case may be

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moving along to the back we've got our usual assortment of ports so four USB

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2.0 ports the BIOS flashback button so handy so useful two EA ports four USB

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3.0 ports two of those running off of a thirdparty chipset and two of them

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running off of an Intel chipset DisplayPort and HDMI video out optical audio

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out as well as 7.1 audio now I want to show you guys where all of the fan

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headers are because you can use the AI Suite software in order to configure

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custom fan curves 1 2 3 4

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five and six ASUS has done a fantastic job of putting all the relevant ports

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around the very outside of the edge of this board in order to keep a clean

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aesthetic that is not easy so they have

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done a tremendous amount of work in order to make things convenient for you

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so I hope you guys appreciate it here's another cool thing check this out

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ventilation holes in the board I call them bullet holes but I don't think

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that's actually A's intention but check this out so we got like like random

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ventilation holes like in in the board I think these ones are for the socket

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itself but yeah there's like some ventilation holes and whatnot pretty

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cool right perforated PCB that's like

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the latest technology I'm not even

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joking thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the

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Sabertooth z77 Slick's laughing he's making me lose

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other computer videos miss something PCI

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3.0 is supported on this motherboard as long as you are using a CPU that has a

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built-in PCI Express 3.0 controller