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performance welcome to a dual unboxing
of a couple of different products I've got the mod matte main board and the mod
matte extreme which are both from Mod right these are PC Building gears so to
speak and what they are designed to be is a static safe
Workstation covering that is portable is
scratch resistant so it's not going to damage you know your side panel window
or high gloss finish on your graphics card or anything like that as well as
provide you with some useful information that you might need to reference while
you're in the building process Inside the Box you find not only
the modmat so there's the modmat main board and here's the modmat extrem but
also an anti-static wrist strap and an
antistatic alligator clip so let's get the unwrapping process documented here
it comes with a plastic over layer with
a paper under layer and then
finally there we have it ah the mod mat itself so this is the
motherboard version or main board version which H is smaller but still has
many of the same advantages that is to say that it's antistatic so check this
out so the idea is you take this and you
ground out your modmat to something uh
you know such as a plugged in but not powered on power supply or something in
a ground Outlet in your wall or whatever else the case may be that makes sure
that this is completely anti-static and then now that we've got it spread out we
can see where those two pieces clip onto so you can tie your antistatic wrist
strap here and then you can ground out the mod matat Itself by using the allig
al alligator clip to plug into whether
it's you know a ground Outlet on your wall outlet or something like a power a
plugged in but not powered on power supply or whatever else the case may be
here this is cool so check this out I've got a motherboard handy which is why I
have a motherboard here so this right here is to show you what size your
motherboard is if you weren't sure so ATX is going to be presumably I don't
know presumably it goes here yes
so that is an ATX board so you can see
that an eatx board would go all the way to here an hptx board so things like the
SRX from EVGA would go all the way to here so if you were ever not quite sure
you'd be able to quickly check and reference what size your board is so
there's another convenient measurement here that tells you pretty much the same
thing if you have any confusion about the ports on your motherboard you can
also check this handy dandy reference chart here which tells you pretty much
what all of this stuff is so there you go that matches up to that so the main
board one isn't the one that has sort of the more
advanced features and charts and graphs
that is saved for the extreme model now
we have the modm extrem spread out in front of us and you can see that there's
an awful lot of room to work you can have a motherboard here your case here
all your random accessories spread out and it has a lot of way way super more
useful stuff on it so for example you can quickly and easily find out what
size a radiator is and check the spacing so there I can see okay da da da da da
there you go that is a dual 120 mm radiator and then you've got your 140s
on the side it measures everything up to a quad rad very cool stuff you can
quickly and easily I mean okay so some of this stuff won't be useful to someone
like me I know what how big a radiator is just looking at it so you've got
other things that again wouldn't be that useful to me cuz I know how big a 3 and
1/2 in hard drive is versus a 2 and2 inch hard drive you can see I mean it
makes for just cool schematics on it if nothing else but this is a cool one
being able to quickly reference how big a fan is so there you go you've got
marks on here that show you this is a
140 mm if you line it up there and it lines up with all the other ones you got
a 140 mil fan on your hands if it lines up here and goes to all these other ones
you got a 120 mil fan on your hands not everyone can identify fans just looking
at them without another one for reference so that's really nice nice to
have um next up we've got tubing sizes
so this allows you to take a piece of tubing and basically go yeah there
that's 5/8 in od that is 38 in ID which
means that it there that one see I had it on the wrong one and you could tell
it wasn't quite lining up so you can see from how big the hole is and how thick
the wall is that is what size that is you can make sure it's compatible with
your compressions and you can see they've got a little chart here for that as well now this is the one that I
really like this is the kind of thing that I would actually have to reference
on an ongoing basis and that is wiring diagrams if you do any cable sleeving or
anything like that these could save your life cuz they tell you exactly what the
voltages are of all the pins they give you all the color coding and so if you
do any custom wiring on your own that could actually be uh maybe not a
lifesaver but definitely a component saver because you might not break
something that you otherwise would have broken for your reference they also show
you all the latest sockets from Intel and AMD in little diagrams so you can
make sure you don't screw up anything on that side so you can see quite clearly
that this one right here
is LGA 1155 or 1156 actually it's LGA
1150 but they had no way of knowing that when they manufactured this thing in all
likelihood so it's a grippy anti-static
workplace has some cool little references looks really good and the
extreme has more mounting points for your anti-static wrist strap as well as
your grounding strap so there's one over here on the far right and then there's
one over here up by the top thank you for checking out my unboxing and first
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