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Digital here in the isus suite they've got a number of cool demos running we're
going to start with the components so first up is the Rog front Bas so this is
a dual Bay display SL knob SL front
panel connectors device that allows you to control your overclock monitor fan
speeds control fan speeds as well as pass through your front audio it adds
another USB connector to the front and it uses the same interface
as right there the O panel so it's
compatible with the Rampage 4 Black Edition as well as any of the Z87
motherboards that feature that OC panel header connector the second thing in
here is one that I'm actually personally a little bit more excited about this is
Theus Poseidon GTX 780 now there will be
a 780 Ti version that I've heard Rumblings about but basically guys the
Poseidon concept which we first saw at computex is an air cooling SL liquid
cooling hybrid product now isus is telling me that from an air cooling
perspective the Poseidon only runs a handful of degrees warmer than a regular
card that doesn't have the built-in liquid cooling and while they're not giving us an exact number with these
standard G1 quarter fittings and the ability to hook it up to whatever liquid
cooling system you could possibly want I can assure you that if you're going from
air and you're you're thinking about upgrading to liquid it's going to be uh
worth a look to consider the ability to
easily add liquid cooling to it if and if all you're sacrificing is a couple of
degrees when you're running on air next up we've got what looks like a standard
assus Z87 Deluxe board except no this
one has some pretty different looking connectors on the bottom corner here
this is the first time I've seen SATA Express in person now what the connector
looks like is three discrete connectors all next to each other but they actually
serve as one interface to a single drive
so two of them look like standard SATA 3 connectors and then there is a third
that actually is a direct PCI Express 2x
link so what this enables once you connect a drive to it is transfer speeds
of up to 1,000 megabytes per second or 1
Gigabyte per second so we're finally getting to the point where we are
removing the SATA 3 bottle neck that exists on many modern ssds without
taking up a PCI Express slot at the back of the case by going with something like
an isus Raider or other PCI SSD solution
rounding out our components showcase we've got the Thunderbolt ex2 now going
back to z77 even we've seen these TB
header ports on ASUS motherboards that promised the ability to add Thunderbolt
one to your motherboard as an as an aftermarket upgrade option now we never
actually saw that productized and I maybe it was a certification issue or
something like that so for me personally I was like oh that's a little
disappointing because I was kind of hoping that we'd see that well guys it's
here now this is Thunderbolt ex2 and you can plug it into the TB header plug it
into a PCI Express slot and you can actually add Thunderbolt connectivity to
any ASUS motherboard that has that TB uncore header even the older ones so the
older TB uncore header is just as compatible with Thunderbolt 2 as it was
with Thunderbolt one so you can get that full 20 gbit per second connectivity now
speaking of 20 gbit per second connectivity ASUS is also showing off
their okay now this one's this one's got a bit of an odd name on it so this is
their Z87 Deluxe quad which has two
Thunderbolt 2 connectors so the quad
rational this is four times the potential total bandwidth that you would
get with a single Thunderbolt one connector now speaking of total
bandwidth in order to even demo this they grabbed a couple of ASUS Raiders
they built a custom PCB here so you can see we've got a daisy chain coming out
from the back of the board and then from one Raider to the second Raider and then
they're using a real-time test to show you data throughput of these two cards
together on Thunderbolt 2 now to be clear Thunderbolt 2 is actually capable
of even higher speeds than this but it just should give you some idea of what
we're looking at in terms of capability of this Tech technology moving forward
and that is running off of Just One of the Thunderbolt two ports on this
motherboard of course there are two of them which makes it the quad motherboard
so thanks for checking out our isus component suite update here at CES 2014
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