I couldn't welcome to my unboxing and first look at a very exciting
motherboard so good things yes this is a motherboard look at this it's like the
size of my head uh this is the p8 z77 I
deluxe from ASUS this is part of their minia Max series of motherboards forget
about home entertainment center forget about Mini Max think gaming with this
motherboard this is an ITX board Bo that has just you know what who cares about
all of this stuff let's open it up and check this out because it's awesome okay
so first we have the motherboard but I'm going to make you guys wait for that
wait for the exciting part first I'm going to make you sit through the accessories which are actually pretty
good for an IT export as you may or may not have noticed already mounting screws
Dual Band Wi-Fi two Wi-Fi antennas at
least I hope that's Dual Band Wi-Fi and I haven't screwed myself over here yep
oh and Bluetooth 4.0 is also included with this board four SATA cables two red
two black that's an odd Choice
um seriously ASUS part number something
something I will have to find out what that is I've never seen that before IO
Shield okay manual with CD that you shouldn't use and let's have a look at
the motherboard itself look at this they couldn't even find a bag that's the
right size for a performance motherboard this small way too awesome
okay here come on in come on in take a close look at this okay so we're going
to start with this angle because this is like before it gets way too baller so
you have an 1155 socket which means you have full support for anything up to a
3770k yes you can overclock on this board yes it it is awesome okay so I
know I've said it's awesome a lot of times but I'm going to keep I'm going to keep explaining why dual Channel DDR3 8
Pin CPU power connector us usually ITX boards only
have four pin power connectors this is to save space and it is also because the
vrm on them isn't even remotely capable of delivering the kind of current that
would require an eight pin okay so there's an eight pin just saying 24 pin
power connector okay two SATA 3 6 gbit
per second ports 2 SATA 2 3 GB per second
ports um wait a minute no yes yes 1 PCIe 16x
PCIe 3.0 lot so you can install even a
GTX 690 in here and you'd have full
speed for that card you know full speed no big deal okay chips set heat sink
front USB 3 header two front USB 2
headers I mean what ITX case even has
six front USB ports because no motherboard has this kind of expansion
on it there's your Wi-Fi card in that mini PCIe slot and then you got your
memo K button which helps you post more easily you've got two fan connectors
which I guess is pretty conservative but when you consider the size of the board it's pretty reasonable now I'm going to
show you guys the ridiculous part check
this out like look look look at this look at this you've got these solid
connectors between a daughter board that
actually does full digital
pwm for this board and is capable of delivering the kind of current you would
normally see on a desktop board to that
CPU socket so they have managed to do this including cooling this is all
cooling this is all a big fat heat sink this is oh so they have managed to do
this while retaining adequate room around the CPU socket and while staying
inside that ITX form factor but barely I mean look realistically at how much
additional additional PCB space they
have added to this ITX board by doing this this daughter board thing which is
awesome so if you're doing like an overclocked liquid cooled ITX system and
something like a bit Phenix prodigy or a Silverstone F3 mini or something like
that this is the motherboard to end all
motherboards for the z77 platform on the back you've got four USB 2.0 ports four
USB 3.0 ports optical audio out HDMI DisplayPort DVI there's your two
antenna spots gigabit Ethernet powered by Intel just like ASUS's all of ASUS's
z77 boards 2 EA seos clear seos
and flashback oh okay so those are two
separate buttons for clear seos as well as their BIOS flashback feature and
then I'm I'm sort of sad to see sort of ghetto on board audio I would have
rather seen sort of more audio here as opposed to these however if you're doing
a baller gaming rig you should probably be using an external USB sound card or
something like that with a system like this so I'm just going to find out what
the heck these cables do and then I'll be back okay it turns out all I had to
do was open it up to figure out what it is this is really cool so because
they've um to save space they've actually changed their normal layout a
little bit for the front panel connectors if you're having trouble plugging them in you just plug this
whole block in and then these are all little labeled header extenders that you
can use to plug in your front panel connectors so aside from performance the
p8 z77 I Deluxe delivers
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and other computer videos I me just take like another look at this look at this
thing it's like awesome look at these look at these solid connectors to the
see see how those go right through the PCB like very little very little loss
there