{"video_id":"WvbpIeu3fB8","title":"Asrock Fatal1ty Z77 Gaming Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":590,"segments":[{"start_s":7.64,"end_s":14.719,"text":"welcome to an unboxing that many of you have requested this is the ASRock","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.719,"end_s":17.68,"text":"fatality Professional Series z77","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.719,"end_s":22.24,"text":"motherboard so this is an LGA 1155 board using the z77 chipset which means You'","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.279,"end_s":28.92,"text":"got support for all the latest features including third generation Intel core","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.439,"end_s":31.599,"text":"processors NVIDIA SLI ATI AMD Crossfire","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":28.92,"end_s":35.64,"text":"X technology Windows 7 which is sort of not really the latest 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it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":576.76,"end_s":584.76,"text":"very cool so you can connect a grand total of like two drives here 10 drives","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":582.399,"end_s":587.8,"text":"here and like a floppy Drive don't forget to subscribe to L's techtips for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":586.24,"end_s":591.16,"text":"more unboxings reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to an unboxing that many of you have requested this is the ASRock fatality Professional Series z77 motherboard so this is an LGA 1155 board using the z77 chipset which means You' got support for all the latest features including third generation Intel core processors NVIDIA SLI ATI AMD Crossfire X technology Windows 7 which is sort of not really the latest as well as a bunch of other stuff so they've got 555 which I guess is better than gigabytes 333 maybe that's what they were going for here so five times land speed five times USB speed and five times system speed with xast RAM xfast USB and xfast Lan um okay so you can Photoshop apparently up to five times faster xfast RAM will create oh that's cool no no this might actually be cool okay so xfast RAM will create a virtual disc from the system memory to boost the performance for Photoshop it can even perform five times faster than before neat lower latency in games with asrock's motherboard with xfast land versus other motherboard without it and USB comparison uh five times faster although they don't really say why powered by fnet okay high performance this is a feature of lucid virtue MVP which is an updated version of virtue while allowing switchable Graphics so you can get the best of your dedicated graphics part card and your onboard graphics card as well as virtual vsync which um I don't know I tried it felt like there was more input legs so I didn't really like it that much and high performance which adds performance to some games using the onboard VGA on your CPU Smart Connect technology rapid start technology turn on really fast as well as a bunch of other cool stuff premium gold caps yes they are goldplated very cool digital power design 16 plus 8 power phase design uh capable of four dims at up to 2800 MHz plus and the fatality Mouse Port is pretty cool because what it allows you to do is automatically customize the pulling raate and other features of the mouse port to be the same as what Jonathan fatality wendle uses you can play Quake no but seriously I've seen him play he's much much better than me I don't mean to be ragging on the guy it's just that I think you should for things like Mouse settings I think you should find what works for you that's all I don't think that necessarily using the same polling rate on your USB port is going to dramatically improve your gameplay however that doesn't take away from the fact that this looks like an absolutely beastly motherboard with a very very complete accessory package by the look of things so let us continue moving on with the fatality professional z77 so first you got your quick installation guide which ironically is about 8 m thick um you've also got a utility DVD download the latest from the azrock website six SATA port uh SATA ports uh SATA cables an IO Shield that is handly color coordinated and apparently there's a lot of different outputs on this motherboard so we're going to check that out two Molex TOA adapters these are super handy even if you don't use them for this build you might run into a use for them sometime in the future also got oh okay that's just a hard hard SLI Bridge we've also got a front USB 3 uh 3 and 1/2 in to internal header this is super handy it's great that it comes with it and you can even unscrew it from the 3 and 1/2 in Bay piece and put it onto an IO shield and use it for the back of your case if you already have front USB 3 so that's really really neat a couple of more guides as well as a software setup guide and now let's have a look at the board itself so it's got a very unique look it'll go really well with your fatality 1000 W power supply where is that oh you know what we actually did an episode on the ncixcom channel not that long ago about color coordinating your build where we had an ASUS Crosshair 5 formula and the fatality power supply we had Radeon 7970 graphics cards red LED lighting it looked absolutely amazing so a board like this on the Intel side would go great with a build like that uh so here we go we got our goldplated capacitors we've got our lg1155 CPU socket remember this is compatible with second gen Sandy Bridge or third gen Ivy Bridge Intel core processors these memory slots as I mentioned before support up to DDR3 2800 MHz look at that an ID Port when's the last time you saw an ID Port I mean azrock has really gone all out to include everything I mean maybe Jonathan has like an IDE optical drive that he really likes I do I have I have one of those BenQ ones that was like the epitome of optical drives and it's IDE I haven't had a board I can use it on in ages so there you go maybe he has one too um so we've got an eight pin power connector in the top of the board and its ideal location 24 pin power connector along the right hand edge of the board in its similarly ideal location front USB 3.0 Port um six say to 36 gbit per second ports with four SATA 3 or SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports and uh for better performance we suggest ports 0 to 5 is boot devices so that's these ones remember Port 0 to 5 is 1 to six in sort of real people terms so these are the ones running off the Intel controller these guys are running off of what is evidently an as media controller all right onboard power buttons also fatality themed power and reset onboard post debugging LED we've also got front usb2 front fire wire our front panel connectors which are helpfully labeled uh we've got really a floppy connector C can you install Quake off a floppy Drive I'm not actually sure it's a pretty old game um check this out though we've got a plx bridge on here so you should be able to see some pretty intelligent switching of the PCI Express Lanes it's really tricky the more stuff you build in to these z77 boards whether it's third party chipsets for SATA whether it's more USB 3 whether it's additional PCI Express slots the trickier it gets for this the onboard CPU PCI Express controller to manage it so the plx chip I'm not sure what it's working on over there but it's probably just allowing it to get the best performance possible these chips aren't cheap so there you go it's on the board in terms of PCI Express slots we've got two PCI e1x two PCI and three PCI e6x although please note this one's only wired for 4X and is only really going to be fully functional and like basically I wouldn't put anything too demanding in it like a graphics card um unless you're running an ivy Bridge CPU and even then it's not going to be ideal for all intents and purposes this is a two-way SLI and two-way Crossfire comp board that is two cards you can still run quad SLI and qu quad Crossfire with dual GPU cards this one is only at adex but remember this is 8x PCIe 3.0 so that means you've got the same bandwidth as PCIe 2.0 16x so you're going to get full performance out of two cards going here front audio is over here in its ideal location and you got a you know what let's have a look at like the cooling solution that we got going on here get some close-ups of that it looks pretty good uh Jonathan signed it over here got some more beefy aluminum heat sinks going on over here he wants me to keep turning it I think I don't know what you're talking about fans oh fans good thinking um apparently this means fans according to Slick which is like sort of abstract but whatever uh so we've got one uh two two four pin pwm fan headers and then one two three pin no four three pin fan headers so um mostly done by three pin 2 pwm personally to me it doesn't make much of a difference I very rarely plug fans into my motherboard anyway CU I usually use a real fan controller but there you go now you know yeah that's right okay good job thanks lick uh on the back you find not really much of note other than a back plate and then oh and some via chip cool now let's have a look at what we've got in terms of IO we have lots of different IO so we have six USB 3.0 ports speaking of adding extra things you know like more USB 3 we've also got a PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port these are huge if you have a high-end keyboard that only runs on PS2 and a lot of the mechanical ones do you're going to make sure to get one of these PS2 ports HDMI and DisplayPort out cover your digital display out options remember if you want to run the onboard Graphics in addition to your dedicated graphics card in order to take advantage of Quicks sync which allows you to quickly encode video or transcode video you will want to run off of one of these or over here you just have to make sure the software is connected correctly uh six USB 2.0 ports eata fire wire dual gigabit landan optical audio out as well as 5.1 audio or 7.1 rather audio out via analog uh I think I never mentioned the front USB 3 header that's running off the Intel chipset and and this is like I said one of the more complete boards I've seen in a very long time I mean even to the point where it's got like floppy and IDE connectors on it very cool so you can connect a grand total of like two drives here 10 drives here and like a floppy Drive don't forget to subscribe to L's techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}