so today we have a pretty exciting product to unbox from isus this is the
p8 z68 V Pro or if you prefer p8 z68 V
Pro personally I don't care I'll say whatever sort of works with the sentence
uh as many of you have noticed and commented one way or the other if I say
Z there's Zed zealots running after me
to tell me that it's wrong and this vice versa anyway this board features digital
power design as well as their uh TPU and
epu dual intelligent processors so these are for Energy savings and performance
all right we've got full support for Intel's latest Core i5 I3 and i7
processors on the LGA 1155 socket this
uses the z68 chipset so what that means
is that besides supporting those Technologies besides supporting SLI and
Crossfire and all those performance featur Fe we also have support for Intel
smart response SRT technology which means that you can use a small SSD 60
gigs or smaller to boost the performance of your boot hard drive and we also have
the Lucid virtue technology which allows
you to use the Onboard video that's built into your core I3 I5 or i7 CPU to
accelerate certain key things like video encoding while normally using your
dedicated graphics card for gaming pretty sweet all right we got USB 3 a
UEFI BIOS we have H BT go Bluetooth
enjoyment maybe we'll have to find out what that is GPU boost for uh
for increasing the performance of the onboard Graphics as well as their
precise Digi plus vrm let's have a look at the back digital power design the new
standard basically it's better okay we have the ultimate turbo processor so
that's the TPU the epu for Energy Efficiency as I mentioned before oh here
we go diverse Bluetooth enjoyment oh it means onboard Bluetooth okay ufi BIOS
okay y that's pretty much it let's uh get this open
oh I have never seen well at least not
in a long no I don't think I've ever seen an isus board um that comes in a
box like this where the board is on top
of the package with the accessories underneath you know what then we're
going to do something crazy and we're going to look at the board first and
then the accessories because ASUS has gone and turned my world upside down
with their packaging change here so here we go here's the motherboard itself
let's start with the CPU socket where we normally start you don't have to move
around so much just kind of top down is okay CPU socket so there's your LGA 1155
socket which as I mentioned before feature support for the latest I3 i5 and
i7 processors on the LGA 1155 socket you
are surrounded by your 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 H 12 13 14 15 15 16 hm I don't know
how many phases that power design is because I count 16 but it could be like
a 14 + 2 or something like that so someone leave a comment on the video as
well how many phases of power in the digi Plus vrm on the p8 z68 V Pro we
have support for a dual Channel DDR3 memory and that is pretty typical for an
1155 board because that's all the 1155
onboard CPU uh DDR3 memory controller
actually supports all right on the side here we have the epu and TPU switches if
you do want to use those Technologies we also have the memo K button so what the
memo K button allows you to do is take out of JD spec RAM modules and boot them
up using a safe setting but then you can get into the BIOS and set them to
whatever higher performance settings you desire our 24 pin and our 8 Pin
connectors are in their ideal locations along the right hand edge of the board
and at the top left respectively and moving down we have a USB 3 from front
panel header so that will have support for all the latest cases with USB 3 that
do use a pinout rather than a pass through from a normal Port like this
okay so we've also got SATA ports Galore so we have four SATA 2 3 GB per second
and 4 SATA 3 6 GB per second now these two right here are coming off the Intel
controller and these two are coming off of a third party controller so if you
did want to run like a six Drive raate array you would want to use these six so
these are more like your auxiliary ones all right we've got a chipset cooler
here using a similar kind of wave looking design to many of ASUS's recent
motherboards we have two fire wire ports there's our front panel headers three
USB 2.0 ports built-in switches I'm a
big fan of these because I often use boards on a test bench this makes my
life easier reset and power are both included front audio is right here and
let's have a look at the PCI slot layout on this particular board we've got seven
slots I love seeing Seven slots on an ATX form
factor board you want to know why because that's the most you can have and
I always like having the option to install more stuff rather than not
having the option to install more stuff okay so we have three PCIe 16x slots
right here the dark blue the white one and the black one uh these two it looks
this one's wired for 16 this guy is wired for eight and this guy's wired
for8 although I'm going to have to double check what bandwidth these
actually run at we've got two PCI slots two PCI e1x slots and on the back we've
got a pretty normal looking array of connectors we have four USB 6 USB 2.0
ports our little Bluetooth guy right here we have optical audio out HDMI DVI
and VGA out which are supported on all second generation core i7 processors
unlike the first Generations where it was only supported on Dual course we
have two USB 3.0 ports Intel Ethernet
rather than a third party such as a real Tech Ethernet solution and 7.1 audio so
now let's look at the accessories for anyone who actually cares about that
okay one accessory we've got this is neat is a USB header to dual Port PCI
bracket for the back so if you can if you don't have front USB 3 you can add a
couple more ports to the back at the very least we have two us two SATA 3 6
GB per second cables two USB 3 GB per
second cables although they're identical other than the white color on the 6 GB
per second ones and they're all right angle we have an SLI Bridge we have q
connectors which are the easy connectors for the front panel headers an IO Shield
a user guide A drivers and utilities DVD don't
use it download the latest from the ASUS website as well as a SATA mode notice
interesting okay how to turn on ahci
mode which is good ahci mode is better than IDE mode for more performance and
whatnot uh give me just a second here guys so I looked up the PCI E slots and
I thought maybe because this one is wired for 8X they have some kind of uh
splitter chip on here of some sort but they do not so it's
16x 8X 8X or 8X 8X 4X just as with most
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