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nc.com guys it's still computex 2013 for

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some reason I guess it's cuz it's not over yet and we are here in the ASRock

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Booth where I am holding a motherboard that looks pretty much like any other

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motherboard except for the very outrageous color scheme as well as some

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you know water cooling barbs here on the vrm cooling solution and all that kind

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of cool stuff you got four PCI Express 16x graphics card oh wait what's that

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hold on a minute come over here come have a closer look what is this all

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right now I have long said that every motherboard needs to have a matte black

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PCB I now officially have to take that

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back because the glossy black PCB on the

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ASRock OC formula Z87 board enables it

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to actually be waterproof roof they have

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a live demo here with this system running this video demo right here of

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the board receiving its conformal codings see check that out and they have

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that demo running on a computer that has

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water running over it this is absolutely freaking unbelievable and what you might

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think to yourself is well why do I need a a liquid proof motherboard I can think

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of a couple reason number one is Extreme overclocking so this board actually

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comes with a little a little Nick she right there little Nick she signature so

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he is a very famous overclocker he's got his designed by badge on this board when

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you are extreme overclocking it is incredibly important to avoid

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condensation condensation can destroy your motherboard if you're not using a

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Z87 OC formula because wetness can become conductive very very quickly boom

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zap it's dead so for extreme overclocking where condensation is an

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issue then this is very beneficial now I can even think of applications that this

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might be awesome that that aren't extreme overclocking such as liquid

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cooling if you're worried about oh a pipe burst somewhere and you get some

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water on your board don't worry about it with this board you can actually I mean

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I don't I still don't really recommend it you know firing it right up because

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the water might have gotten on something else but you won't have to worry about

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your motherboard at all it's got a bunch of other cool features including check

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this out a status OLED display gone are the days evidently of just like two

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little sort of you know singled digit things next to each other now you can

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monitor things like temperature as well as base clock and all that kind of cool

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stuff right on the motherboard itself you've also got onboard switches dual

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BIOS dual USB 3 ports over there at the front onboard overclocking switches as

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well as voltage checkpoints right there at the back behind the 24 pin connector

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and check this out this is a feature that's going to be very beneficial for

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guys like Gamers guys who have a secondary gaming system that they want

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to hook up to their monitor so for a long time companies like BenQ have been

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releasing monitors that have multiple inputs such as DVI HDMI or dual HDMI so

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you can easily run both your computer and your game console through your

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monitor but what asrock's done is they've added an HDMI pass through that

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allows you to use your computer to switch what is displayed on your monitor

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making it a more seamless experience than reaching around to the back of your

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computer and unplugging or plugging something in or even reaching up to your

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monitor to change the source input so if running water over a motherboard while

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it's operating wasn't ridiculous enough for you this right here is the Z87

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extreme 11 AC it has Wireless AC it's got overclocking features it supports up

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to four-way Crossfire so you can see that running right there and it actually

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gets more ludicrous than that so check out this this is an SSD array a massive

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number of ssds 22 ssds count them four

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wide by five deep and then an extra two that are sitting back there at the back

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and I have something to share with you guys these are all connected to the Z87

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extreme 11 AC right over here so this is

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using the six SATA 3 6 GB per second

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connectors that are provided by Intel's chipset you actually can't really see

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them all unless you get right in there at that angle so there are six coming

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straight out of the board and there are another

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16 SAS 3 connectors running off of an

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LSI SAS 3 chip that is built into this

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motherboard if you have a serious need for storage don't think that you're

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limited to just ssds if you want to run

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22 SATA 3 or six sata3 with 16 SAS 3

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devices off of your board at the same time for whatever reason this is the

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only board that is even remotely capable of doing

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that but if you don't feel like building your own computer and pouring water all

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over it then check out the M8 Series right here this is a new thing from

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ASRock it's a DIY barebones unit that is going to allow you you to get that same

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ridiculously ludicrously fast gaming experience that we've seen with some

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sort of you know some Boutique Builders doing with something like the iby power

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Revolt for example except that it's something that you can acquire yourself

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and you have the flexibility of choosing your own components and building it

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yourself as well now you might have noticed that this is not exactly your

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standard runof-the-mill barebones unit it uses an aluminum

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chassis that was actually designed by BMW's design group much like the level

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10 m Mouse that's right here and the level 10m headset that are sitting right

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next to it so wouldn't these make a stunning combination the construction as

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I said before is aluminum and ventilation is handled by two 60 mm fans

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up here in the top is quite rugged feeling as well I can actually pick the

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thing up by one of the handles and I don't have to worry too much about it breaking making it extremely portable

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and they've added some unique features as well so here on the front you've got USB 3 super speed and a slot load

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optical drive as well as this is kind of neat check this out so you can monitor

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things like your CPU clock speed as well as your time and then you can interface

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with it with a simple push button interface as well as a rotating rubber

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knob with an LED backlight now let's go ahead and see how the magic Works inside

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so I'm going to turn it around the wrong way first as if I don't know how this works check this out magnets which are

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basically magic as far as I can tell so there's a window on the back how do you

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get away with putting a window on the back of a computer case well I'll tell

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you how by having extremely clean Cable Management so the case comes cable

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managed for you pretty much you don't have to worry about that and you can

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actually see the reinforcement that's on the motherboard tray here I mean it's

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one of Steve Jobs's design philosophies that a great device should look great

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not only on the outside but also on the inside so having clean Cable Management

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really does show that attention to detail that not all things achieve the

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side window also has kind of a unique octagon based concentric octagon design

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that you'll either like or you'll dislike personally I really like it

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moving on to the ins side we see very short cable runs which again is a

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desirable feature and we also see check this out that is a full-size graphics

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card you could fairly easily run pretty much any graphics card you wanted in

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here with the exception of sort of ludicrous stuff like a Radeon 7990 but

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you could easily get a GTX 780 in here it uses an sfx power supply but don't

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worry that won't matter to you because it comes with that it also uses an ITX

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motherboard that has onboard Wi-Fi as well as support for up to 2 8 gig dims

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of DDR3 and support for for pretty much

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any Intel CPU you'd want as long as it's has well so that's an LGA 1150 socket so

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you're going to want to put the latest 4670k or 4770k CPU into the unit so I

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can never remember this so I'm going to get my lovely assistant to come and tell me this what do you actually have to add

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to this system in order to make it functional okay users who buy this M8

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series motherboard can have the freedom of choosing their own CPU and graphics

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card or if they need more storage then they can add more storage into the

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motherboard so three things yeah three things so why couldn't I remember that

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uh maybe because its appearances is too stunning yeah I'm certainly stunned

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right now so guys don't miss any of our computex 2013 coverage remember our trip

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