{"video_id":"N4z5aPsM5TY","title":"ASUS P6T7 WS Workstation X58 Core i7 SLI Crossfire Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2010-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":385,"segments":[{"start_s":0.359,"end_s":6.279,"text":"so today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of a very high-end board from","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.52,"end_s":10.679,"text":"ASUS now the Ws series of boards is a little bit different from their extreme","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.639,"end_s":16.44,"text":"Republic of Gamers branding so it's more of a workstation WS workstation oriented","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.88,"end_s":18.92,"text":"board but what you will find here is actually I'll wait till we get inside","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.72,"end_s":24.4,"text":"okay first of all let's tell you what it says on the front this is a core i7 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tell you what it says on the front this is a core i7 or Zeon board so it's an LGA 1366 board it supports Tesla with Cuda of all things okay again a workstation feature it supports SLI and Crossfire X so it's perfectly gaming ready all right it has 5,000 hour vrm blah blah blah 100% Japanese made Solid capacitors it has SAS on board again a very workstation oriented feature because you do need a SAS controller if you want to run, 1500 15,000 RPM drives for example 16 plus 2phase power for your CPU epu 6 engine and seven Gen 2 PCI Express 16x slots that is what I was going to give away which is the the seven in the name but I guess they uh spoil the surprise on the front okay they have Express gate super Hybrid engine okay what do we got inside first we have support for three-way SLI and Crossfire best choice for intensive Cuda parallel Computing so those seven PCI Express slots you could theoretically install as many as seven single slot GTX 260s which do exist which would be a folding machine on a board like this okay so 16 plus2 face power sass on board okay this is all the same stuff from the front I'm not going to bother to list it again this is the same stuff from the front again thank you for that okay so let's have a look at the board itself in terms of accessories first so we've got one of those fire wire and USB 2.0 combo back plates okay thank you for that then we have an SLI Bridge remember you don't need a crossfire bridge to come with your motherboard because it should come with your video cards then we have what is this I'm going to have to open this to find out what it is because I haven't seen this before okay it's some kind of small PCB okay oh cool all right neat okay so this has the onboard power and reset switches as well as a um a diagnostic LED display okay so I'm assuming that plugs in somewhere on the board and well I'll put that aside for now so that hopefully I can show you later where it plugs into then we have a three-way SLI Bridge hopefully you've seen one of those before you know what that looks like okay SATA cables we have six SATA cables three of which are right angle and three of which are straight then we have one Molex to two SATA power adapter then we have oh we've got a couple of those neat um okay so these are these are kind of these are SAS cables basically this is designed to be a more secure connector I've seen people use them for SATA as well because remember a SAS cable is pretty much the same thing as a SATA cable so it plugs right into both the power and the data and then off the back of it you've got the power cable and then a data cable so the whole thing is built into one unit supposedly makes it a little bit harder to dislodge then you got the assus Q connector okay most cases they come in blocks now anyway so it's not that big of a deal there's your IO Shield here is your users manual which is which is uncharacteristically thick you've also got your assus case badge as well as your driver DVD don't use this download the latest off the ASUS website all right here we've got a lot of information in probably a few different languages no it's wow it's all English check that out this is one thick all English manual that's impressive okay let's get the board itself out ooh this is very shiny I like it already all right there you go so like all LGA 1366 boards this does support an LGA 136 CPU you've got a Lo socket there in case anyone cares uh there was some rumors going around about Lo sockets being Superior so ASUS has not skimped on the socket right off the you've got support for triple Channel DDR3 memory up to 24 gigs of memory serves then you have your power connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board now these heat pipes I can't even begin to tell you exactly what they're cooling but I'm going to go ahead and start taking some guesses uh first of all I'm going to guess that this is cooling the power delivery mechanism for of the RAM okay so that heat pipe is coming out of the chipset area where I'm assuming they're using some some sort of PCI Bridge chips probably n f200 in order to provide all of these PCI Express Lanes because the x58 chipset does not support this many PCI Express Lanes natively okay so then moving on down the board we've got six SATA connectors which are powered from the x58 chipset as well as two SAS connectors which are powered off a third party chipset so you can see they're labeled here say to 1 2 3 4 5 6 and SAS 1 and two then over here we have our seven PCI Express connectors now I haven't done my research ahead of time to be able to tell you which ones are running at which speed let's see if they've been nice and labeled them for me no they haven't so let's just assume they're all running at some kind of mixture of 16x and 8x down here we've got our USB headers as well as a fire wire header and front audio header then we have the cooling solution for is that even attached to anything oh yeah it is attached to something that's attached to a Marvel chipset okay and then it comes all the way up here and we have more cooling ra radiators for the voltage delivery system for the CPU then we have our 8 Pin power connector up at the top of the board exactly where it belongs top left and then let's move on to the aisle at the back so you got one of those PS2 keyboard mouse combo ports I love those then you have one 2 3 4 5 six USB 2.0 ports this is a bit of an older board so it doesn't have support for USB 3.0 you have both uh coaxial and optical digital audio out 2 GB Lan 2 e sat which is is really nice to see and 7.1 audio on the back you've got your standard LGA 1366 back plate and they've got the little stack cool 2 label here which is basically allowing the PCB to dissipate heat more effectively throughout Itself by using more copper so it's a way of keeping things a little bit cooler so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS p67 workstation supercomputer 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