welcome to my unboxing and first look at the p8 z77 V deluxe from ASUS this
supports the latest Intel processors that is to say second generation core I3
Core i5 and core i7 processors on the LGA 1155 platform and also supports at
the time of publishing this upcoming Intel processor so that is 22 nanometer
code name ivybridge third generation core I3 Core i5 and core i7 CPUs it also
has a bunch of other ASUS specific technology that we'll get more into as
we go along but let's start with their dual intelligent processors 3 so that is
a third generation of that particular initiative their epu and TPU which are
dedicated processors allowing you to either take advantage of the best power
efficiency or get the best performance out of your system as well as their
eighth generation digital power design which is now across the board haha board
get it across the board on their z77 chipset boards with this board is SLI
ready supports AMD Crossfire X virtu MVP which gives you better performance less
tearing in high frame rate scenarios as well as the flexibility to plug into
whatever Port you want and still take advantage of Intel uh quick sync
technology next we've got support for smart response technology as well as
Intel's and ASUS SSD caching so more on
that in a moment it is Windows 7 ready and it sure as well better be ultimate
cool and quiet is uh supported with their fan expert too I mean okay they
can call it ultimate cool and quiet all they want but what it is is actually cooler than that because you can set
fully custom fan curves user user configurable fan curves according to how
you want your system to sound or how you want your cooling performance
to go Wi-Fi go is included so this in
this particular board is a dual band solution allowing you to not only uh
sorry not only use Wi-Fi but also Bluetooth it is a DLNA server which is
really really cool so you can stream media to various devices around your
house as long as they support DLNA and it is also dual band which means that
it's going to give you the best performance I mean okay maybe not as
good as like a you know dedicated card but as good as you could possibly expect
from onboard Wi-Fi on a motherboard smart Digi plus okay OC performance
boost okay we've got more about their precise power control so yes they're
highend boards I mean these days there's not as much logic built onto a board
anymore as there used to be because we've gotten to the point where the
memory controller the PCI Express controller are both built on to the CPU
itself so it's not really left in the chipset anymore so what it comes down to
when you want the best possible overclocking and you want to choose the best possible motherboard now is pretty
much the quality of the components that they're using so if you really want to
go you know Balls to the walls as far as overclocking goes I'd still suggest you
go with an ASUS tough series board or an Rog series board but if you want sort of
all of those consumer friendly features as well then the p uh sorry the p8 z77 V
Deluxe is not a bad choice either because you're going to get that
balanced approach and you're not going to get that far out aesthetic if you
don't care about the red color scheme or the like I mean here we have a
saber-tooth board over here or like the thermal armor kind of there it is
thermal armor kind of coolness going on then you can go with the more uh the
more mainstream oriented boards let me just make sure I haven't missed any
major features before we get too much further in so dual intelligent
processors 3 got it okay smart digit plus technology yep got it uh actually
one thing that's really cool about their new digital vrm as well not really new
digital vrm but their new controls for their digital vrm is that you can
actually set a power threshold for your
system and then it will dynamically adjust the performance of your CPU
according to whatever you set so if you're in something like an office environment and you're deploying a ton
of systems you're probably not going to be using Deluxe level boards but the
good news is that it's actually supported on the lower-end boards as well so you can control the power that
your systems are consuming in your office very
easily USB BIOS flashback this is a fantastic feature without a CPU or
memory installed you can easily just throw a BIOS file on a USB drive press
the button and restore there and recover
your BIOS just like that uh as ASUS USB
3 boost technology means that you can either use USB attached scuzi or uasp to
dramatically improve the performance of supported usb3 devices so anything
supports the USB attached scuzi protocol or sorry uh no not everything supports
the USB attached scy protocol but everything supports their standard uh
minimal boost one which just doesn't use the the uh the normal USB protocol ufi
BIOS this is pretty much part for the course these days and network eye control so because ASUS is using Intel
Lan across the board ha I did it again on their motherboards for this
generation of
products come on the eye control functionality works on all of them so
that is that you can prioritize various packets or various programs according to
how you uh how you want the performance of them to go so you can prioritize your
games you can deprioritize things like Torrance or whatever else you might have
running in the background that you don't want want to affect your gaming
experience so let's do accessories really quick here and then we'll move on
to the board itself so we've got a user guide other more different user guide so
that's for Wi-Fi go that's for the board itself that is your drivers and
utilities DVD download the latest from the ASUS website okay this board comes
in ahci mode on the SATA ports that is a very good thing that means if you're
running an SSD you will get the maximum performance out of the box without
tuning anything here we go dual band
wireless antennas or du dual band wireless network adapters require two
antennas so there is our Wi-Fi go adapter so remember this guy is good for
Bluetooth as well as 802.11
abgn and you got your two spots there to plug in those antennas we have an IO
Shield front panel connector assisting Q
connectors so this allows you to more easily plug in your front power switch
and Etc as well as one of your front USB tws we have an included SLI Bridge
remember your Crossfire bridge should come with your graphics card and then
three packages of SATA cables so four SATA 3 6
gbit per second cables those are all straight to right angle and two SATA 2 3
gbit per second cables and those are all straight to right angle as well I'm
actually just going to shift around a little bit
here and here we go so you can see all
the various phases of digital power delivery surrounding the LGA 1155 socket
so that as I mentioned before supports pretty much any LGA 1155 CPU that you
would would deem it fitting to put in
it up here we find our eight pin power connector in its ideal location up at
the top left we find ASUS's new vrm cooling design which looks pretty slick
it looks kind of like like a you know uh a cityscape or something along those
lines we've also got a heat pipe running all the way through this one down to uh
down to one of the chipset coolers as well as we've got our other chipset cooler which is using a matching sort of
aesthetic these boards look really really good and if you're like me then
yes it matters sorry guys I know I'm shallow we've got four us uh four usb3
four DDR3 slots supporting dual Channel operation as well as a memo button that
using that button basically means that even if you have high-spec memory that
doesn't necessarily post correctly in any board this should set you to a safe
default that will get it booted up so that you can tweak it and get it to the
right settings there's our TPU button for One Touch overclocking although I
would definitely recommend if you want an easy overclocking experience use the
one in AI Suite because it will correctly tune for your individual
processor rather than unnecessarily turning up the voltage too high to get a
lower clock speed or not getting the most clock speed possible out of the CPU
that you happen to have our 24 pin power connector is in its ideal location along
the right hand Edge and we have a front USB 3.0 header right about here that one
is going to be running off of the Intel USB 3 chipset remember that four of the
usb3 ports on this board are using an Intel chipset and four of them are using
the as media chips set that supports uasp the Intel one does not at this
time all right moving down here we've got four sata2 3 gbit per second ports R
running off Intel the Intel chipset two SATA 3 6 gbit per second ports running
off the Intel chipset and finally the SSD caching Port so these are running
off of a Marvel chipset so a suggested usage scenario for something like this
is you have an SSD for your boot drive you run that off the Intel chipset for
the best single drive performance and then if you have like a uh a steam
driver or like a games Drive something along those lines instead of plugging
that into a SATA 2 Port you can plug it into one of these ports and then use uh
a small SSD to Cache your favorite games so that they load a little bit more
quickly moving on down we have our front panel connectors our TPU chip yes it is
an an actual processor on the board unlike many competing Solutions we've
also got a post debugging LED two USB 2
front panel headers a clear seos button I still like to have dedicated button
for this rather than shorting out two pins so that's nice to see a Thunderbolt
header so yes you can buy a uh an addin
piece that goes right in here and plugs into there and you can add Thunderbolt
to any ASUS z77 board except the Ws one
there here's our epu button for better power efficiency as well as our front
panel audio header this right here is very expensive that is a PCI 3.0 plx PCI
Express switching chip so that is one of the unique things about the Box level
board is that it is able to dynamically allocate the available PCI E Lanes cuz
remember those are limited due to the PCI Express controller being on the CPU
itself in order to give you the best possible performance of all the various
features on the board no matter what you have installed that's one of the reasons
we're able to have so many PCIe slots on this board four PCI e1x 3 PCIe 16x
although this is only really a this is only really a two-way SLI or Crossfire
board so you're only going to really want to use these for that because these are the ones that are going to be
running directly off the CPU this one is going to be a little bit slower as it
has to there's there's more overhead involved in this slot remember guys
though even if you're running adx adx mode with two high-end cards this is
pcie3 so as long as you're running pcie3 cards that is 797s 79 50s GTX 680s uh
then you will still be getting the same bandwidth as PCIe 2.0 16x moving along
to the back of the board we have four USB 2.0 ports six USB 3.0 ports two EA
ports optical audio out HDMI and display
port out uh dual Lan one of them being Intel gigabit L USB BIOS flashback
button so that's the button that you press when you have a USB device plugged
in in order to flashback the BIOS as well as 7.1 audio out on the back of the
board we've got a couple of little heat sinks here and let me just see if
there's anything crazy that I might have
missed before I get any further Lucid
MVP talked about that DDR 3600 mahz J
deck ah the fan control curves slick says I didn't talk about that I think I
did though it's okay it doesn't matter you can you can set dynamically you can
dynamically adjust the fan Curves in order to okay I don't know what he's
talking about something about the oh yeah right
fan fan headers sorry guys so one two
pwm 4 pin fan headers three four five
and six so you can plug in pretty pretty much as many pwm fans as your heart
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