1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:07,680 Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for 2 00:00:05,319 --> 00:00:11,719 great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:14,839 Digital here in the isus suite they've got a number of cool demos running we're 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:22,519 going to start with the components so first up is the Rog front Bas so this is 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:24,359 a dual Bay display SL knob SL front 6 00:00:22,519 --> 00:00:29,240 panel connectors device that allows you to control your overclock monitor fan 7 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:33,239 speeds control fan speeds as well as pass through your front audio it adds 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:39,280 another USB connector to the front and it uses the same interface 9 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:41,840 as right there the O panel so it's 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:46,840 compatible with the Rampage 4 Black Edition as well as any of the Z87 11 00:00:44,039 --> 00:00:50,199 motherboards that feature that OC panel header connector the second thing in 12 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:56,000 here is one that I'm actually personally a little bit more excited about this is 13 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:58,199 Theus Poseidon GTX 780 now there will be 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:03,280 a 780 Ti version that I've heard Rumblings about but basically guys the 15 00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:09,080 Poseidon concept which we first saw at computex is an air cooling SL liquid 16 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:13,240 cooling hybrid product now isus is telling me that from an air cooling 17 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:17,479 perspective the Poseidon only runs a handful of degrees warmer than a regular 18 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:23,000 card that doesn't have the built-in liquid cooling and while they're not giving us an exact number with these 19 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,759 standard G1 quarter fittings and the ability to hook it up to whatever liquid 20 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,479 cooling system you could possibly want I can assure you that if you're going from 21 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:36,159 air and you're you're thinking about upgrading to liquid it's going to be uh 22 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:38,920 worth a look to consider the ability to 23 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:43,840 easily add liquid cooling to it if and if all you're sacrificing is a couple of 24 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:49,000 degrees when you're running on air next up we've got what looks like a standard 25 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:51,159 assus Z87 Deluxe board except no this 26 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:56,079 one has some pretty different looking connectors on the bottom corner here 27 00:01:53,200 --> 00:02:01,479 this is the first time I've seen SATA Express in person now what the connector 28 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:06,840 looks like is three discrete connectors all next to each other but they actually 29 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:09,640 serve as one interface to a single drive 30 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:15,680 so two of them look like standard SATA 3 connectors and then there is a third 31 00:02:11,599 --> 00:02:17,800 that actually is a direct PCI Express 2x 32 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:23,879 link so what this enables once you connect a drive to it is transfer speeds 33 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:26,440 of up to 1,000 megabytes per second or 1 34 00:02:23,879 --> 00:02:30,360 Gigabyte per second so we're finally getting to the point where we are 35 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:35,640 removing the SATA 3 bottle neck that exists on many modern ssds without 36 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:41,920 taking up a PCI Express slot at the back of the case by going with something like 37 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:43,879 an isus Raider or other PCI SSD solution 38 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:50,360 rounding out our components showcase we've got the Thunderbolt ex2 now going 39 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:52,920 back to z77 even we've seen these TB 40 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:57,840 header ports on ASUS motherboards that promised the ability to add Thunderbolt 41 00:02:55,440 --> 00:03:03,000 one to your motherboard as an as an aftermarket upgrade option now we never 42 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:06,680 actually saw that productized and I maybe it was a certification issue or 43 00:03:04,519 --> 00:03:08,640 something like that so for me personally I was like oh that's a little 44 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:13,480 disappointing because I was kind of hoping that we'd see that well guys it's 45 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:17,720 here now this is Thunderbolt ex2 and you can plug it into the TB header plug it 46 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:22,280 into a PCI Express slot and you can actually add Thunderbolt connectivity to 47 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:27,640 any ASUS motherboard that has that TB uncore header even the older ones so the 48 00:03:25,319 --> 00:03:31,680 older TB uncore header is just as compatible with Thunderbolt 2 as it was 49 00:03:30,159 --> 00:03:36,640 with Thunderbolt one so you can get that full 20 gbit per second connectivity now 50 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:41,920 speaking of 20 gbit per second connectivity ASUS is also showing off 51 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:47,720 their okay now this one's this one's got a bit of an odd name on it so this is 52 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:51,400 their Z87 Deluxe quad which has two 53 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:54,040 Thunderbolt 2 connectors so the quad 54 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:57,879 rational this is four times the potential total bandwidth that you would 55 00:03:55,959 --> 00:04:02,920 get with a single Thunderbolt one connector now speaking of total 56 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:07,840 bandwidth in order to even demo this they grabbed a couple of ASUS Raiders 57 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:11,680 they built a custom PCB here so you can see we've got a daisy chain coming out 58 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:15,760 from the back of the board and then from one Raider to the second Raider and then 59 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:20,400 they're using a real-time test to show you data throughput of these two cards 60 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:24,680 together on Thunderbolt 2 now to be clear Thunderbolt 2 is actually capable 61 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:29,080 of even higher speeds than this but it just should give you some idea of what 62 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:33,880 we're looking at in terms of capability of this Tech technology moving forward 63 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:37,479 and that is running off of Just One of the Thunderbolt two ports on this 64 00:04:35,919 --> 00:04:42,520 motherboard of course there are two of them which makes it the quad motherboard 65 00:04:40,919 --> 00:04:48,320 so thanks for checking out our isus component suite update here at CES 2014 66 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:52,800 remember our trip to the show is powered by nc.com your source for great 67 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:56,880 technology selection and Service as well as Corsair memory and Western Digital 68 00:04:55,400 --> 00:05:02,880 without those Partners we wouldn't be able to be 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