WEBVTT 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:12.160 welcome to my unboxing of the ASUS p8 00:00:10.519 --> 00:00:17.279 z77v premium now of note is the fact that 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:22.560 ASUS actually doesn't even always release a premium grade motherboard they 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:27.359 always have a pro they always have a vanilla you know sometimes they'll have 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:31.359 you know leds or lx or whatever else mixed in uh they always have a deluxe 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.440 but they don't always have a premium because ASUS only releases a premium 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:39.920 board when they feel that there is some kind of a feature set mix that they can 00:00:37.360 --> 00:00:44.559 bring to the table that justifies the premium moniker so in this case uh 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:49.280 before we get any further into it what makes this one super special and super 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:54.399 premium above all else is full native support for Thunderbolt so 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:58.399 Thunderbolt is built right into the boards Thunderbolt gives you up to 10 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:03.520 gigabit per second which is fully capable of running external storage as 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:09.760 well as displays even daisy chained together at the same time moving along 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:11.520 we've got an msata 32gb SSD built in so 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:15.200 that's as a caching solution for whatever hard drive you might actually 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:19.119 connect to it we've also got full support for their wi-fi go technology 00:01:17.119 --> 00:01:23.119 including bluetooth as well as the ability to use your board as a wi-fi 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:26.799 access point fan expert 2 is included this is actually a fantastic little 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:31.280 piece of software within the ai suite that lets you manage your fan speeds and 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:34.799 temperatures along custom curves should you see fit to give you guys some idea 00:01:33.119 --> 00:01:38.159 how important of a feature i think that is i bought an over a hundred dollar 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:41.920 piece of hardware called an m cube t balancer to use in my system just to 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:46.079 give me that functionality it comes built into your board here smart digi 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:50.079 plus so for better overclocking yes this is definitely an overclocking optimized 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:53.920 board you they've also got their epu and tpu so epu is a one button way to 00:01:52.479 --> 00:01:57.600 undervolt and save power with your system whereas tpu has a couple of 00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:01.920 different options you can either do it with the one button option or you can 00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:06.399 have it tune itself to overclock your system and get better performance we 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:10.879 have full support for NVIDIA sli AMD crossfire x virtue mvp which improves 00:02:08.959 --> 00:02:15.680 your performance as well as offers GPU virtualization which allows you to use 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:19.440 uh Intel quick sync which is a quick way of transcoding video even 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:24.720 though you have a dedicated graphics card installed dts dts connect 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:28.640 Intel z77 chipset supports Intel core processors are better 00:02:26.239 --> 00:02:33.519 22 and 32 nanometer CPU support so that's second and third generation 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:37.440 Intel core series processors and 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:41.519 here we go we find a whole lot of pretty much the same basic stuff 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:46.480 inside here it does talk a little bit more about fan expert too including uh 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:49.680 your abilities to take advanced control with detailed information about each fan 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:53.760 you can listen and locate the fans you can get blah blah okay this is all good 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:57.360 stuff this is what i'm all about oh no not this one not the RPM fixed mode 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:00.720 that's cool so you can take all of your fans and fix them at a given RPM which 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:04.239 is kind of neat this is the one that i'm all about the one where you can create 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:07.680 whatever curves you want and according to temperatures of various parts you 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:12.640 lock in each fan to whatever you want it to adjust based on you can get your 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:17.120 system to keep itself at exactly the cooling and noise level that you're 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:21.760 comfortable with ah SSD caching too so this is cool so 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:25.920 SSD caching 2 now has a multiple caching option so you have four 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:30.000 four SSD caching capable ports which means you can do all kinds of cool stuff 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:34.319 including having two separate cached volumes so two ssds and two hard drives 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:37.700 and you can tune exactly the way you want to do it you can have one SSD 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:39.760 that's caching like a um 00:03:39.760 --> 00:03:45.200 a volume of the other three drives so that gives you more flexibility because 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:48.720 in the past we've only really seen caching solutions that work uh or 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:53.440 third-party caching solutions that work with only two ports okay virtue mvp 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:57.840 we've talked about usb 3 boost this is important so uasp as well as their turbo 00:03:55.760 --> 00:04:00.959 mode turbo mood turbo mood that's like when you're like 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:06.720 depressed but like really really really fast 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:08.959 um anyway turbo mode sorry guys um 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:12.720 turbo mode and uasp give you options to accelerate your usb 3 performance we 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:17.519 have a full ncix tech tips coming out about this soon network eye control uses 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:21.919 the Intel mix built into this board it actually has 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:24.160 dual built-in Intel network cards um to 00:04:21.919 --> 00:04:26.080 manage things like qos um 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:30.960 for more optimized network performance 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:35.040 Thunderbolt okay up to daisy chain up to six Thunderbolt devices ASUS also put a 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:39.520 lot of engineering into making sure that it would be hot pluggable because by 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:43.360 nature uh pci express is not a hot pluggable interface so they had to do 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:48.720 some special tuning to the BIOS as well as the driver in order to make this 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:50.560 possible on the pc 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:54.160 okay yes we've covered that already we've covered that already so easy 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:58.479 installation for Intel smart response and rapid start technology very very 00:04:56.080 --> 00:05:02.400 cool wi-fi go is another really neat feature that we've sort of already 00:04:59.840 --> 00:05:06.240 talked about okay so that's good oh yeah of note to do with wi-fi go is 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:10.400 that it is dlna compatible so you can use dlna devices to uh 00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:14.800 access stuff that you have on your computer from your compatible media 00:05:12.479 --> 00:05:19.759 player such as one from you know pivx or patriot or another uh or ASUS with their 00:05:17.840 --> 00:05:24.320 own oh play players as well so uh that'll so that'll be over 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:26.960 the network so inside the accessory package we find a whole lot of really 00:05:25.919 --> 00:05:30.720 good stuff i'm just going to take all these out and then we'll have a look at 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:35.120 them outside of the box this has a really big box you can tell that it's a 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:39.039 higher end board because the box is substantially larger than their pro 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:43.759 series board here i'm gonna go get the pro series board box so that you guys 00:05:41.280 --> 00:05:46.000 can see the physical comparison so 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:52.960 that's how you know you're getting like more and more like different and more 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:59.440 better stuff so you check this out premium box compared to pro box 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:03.840 see look at that thickness yeah that's a premium board so why did 00:06:01.520 --> 00:06:08.080 they need all of that space well because there's tons of cool stuff in here 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:11.759 here's the wi-fi go module with wi-fi n and bluetooth here are the antennas 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:15.520 these are magnetic antennas which are super handy it means you can stick them 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:20.560 to the outside of your case so those are for the wi-fi go module 00:06:17.840 --> 00:06:25.199 here are the exclusive features user guide 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:30.720 walkthroughs okay we also have the wi-fi go card specific user guide for that guy 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:32.639 right there we've got the p877v premium 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:36.319 user guide including the installation dvd which you should ignore and download 00:06:34.479 --> 00:06:41.199 latest off the ASUS website check this out this is all english so this is a 00:06:38.479 --> 00:06:45.120 thick thick user manual for your motherboard which is great because 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:50.240 detail is better than not having detail we have two-way three-way and 00:06:47.840 --> 00:06:53.039 four-way republic of gamers check that out you even get like a republic of 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:58.400 gamers uh sli bridge to go with your not republic of gamers 00:06:56.479 --> 00:07:02.880 board but i mean with these kinds of features it almost is pretty close to 00:07:00.479 --> 00:07:08.240 that level we've also got four SATA three six gigabit per second cables two 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:12.960 SATA two three gigabit per second cables a an i o shield with a few interesting 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:18.800 color codes so they've got the usb BIOS flashback port color coded and then the 00:07:15.840 --> 00:07:22.479 button color coded for you as well as your usb 3 ports that are compatible 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:26.800 with uasp so they've gone ahead and labeled that for you can configure them 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:30.319 in the ai suite whether you want to use uasp or whether you want to use bot or 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:36.080 standard mode but the fact that they color code them for you means you can more easily figure out which ones are 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:39.599 going where because these ones that aren't uasp ready you can also use turbo 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:44.080 mode on those so i also like the positioning of these up 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:48.000 at the top because if you do have to reach around the back or if you do have 00:07:45.840 --> 00:07:52.080 a case that has a pass-through having it at the top is usually the closest and 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:55.360 most convenient place ASUS q connectors are right here for more convenient 00:07:53.599 --> 00:07:59.360 plugging in a front panel of whatnots and hoo-has 00:07:56.720 --> 00:08:05.039 and last but not least we've got an ASUS usb 3 front panel three and a half inch 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:08.560 bay since nobody has a floppy drive anymore this is a far more useful thing 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:13.840 to put in your three and a half inch bay than whatever else you were planning to put in your three and a half inch base 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:18.080 so thanks to ASUS for including that and it uses an internal header not an 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:20.240 external passthrough which is definitely ideal 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:27.360 all right moving along to the board itself this is 00:08:25.280 --> 00:08:30.560 yeah i mean i was gonna say it's a premium board but if you haven't figured 00:08:29.039 --> 00:08:34.399 that out based on the name of the board already then you're probably pretty newb 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:39.200 so uh we're just gonna leave it at that i mean even the fact that i felt the need to 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:43.279 say it's a premium board is pretty noob right there by the way a lot of people 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:46.320 complain about how i touch pcbs let me show you how i'm actually removing the 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:49.839 motherboard so this is the grip i have on it which might look pretty bad on the 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:55.040 surface but let me show you what i'm doing one thumb is on plastic components 00:08:52.240 --> 00:09:00.000 here my fingers on the back are actually on the metal spikes coming out of the 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:04.959 RAM slots on the other side of the board i'm not touching the pcv 00:09:02.880 --> 00:09:09.360 touching the edge of a pcb once again is fine so if you watch when i hold a board 00:09:06.880 --> 00:09:13.120 like this i'm positioning my hand like this so once again i have my fingers on 00:09:11.760 --> 00:09:18.720 those metal spikes i'm not touching the pcb the oil from your fingers can damage 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:21.120 pcbs and is not very good for them so 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:26.320 yes i'm aware of that no i don't have my greasy fingers all over the pcb i like 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:29.760 to maneuver boards by slots heat sinks and parts where i don't actually have to 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:33.360 touch it i also avoid touching things like this because your fingerprints will 00:09:31.839 --> 00:09:37.920 get on them and they'll look ugly and greasy because they're made of aluminum 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:43.680 and aluminum tends to stain when you get fingerprint oil on aluminum 00:09:40.959 --> 00:09:47.839 yes not good i hate fingerprints so that is what i am doing i'm not just 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:51.760 really nearly touching the board all over the place so let's have a look at 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:55.519 the general layout of the board uh right up here in the top left corner i'm going 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:58.720 to start there for a change because uh it's a bit of an exceptional feature 00:09:57.040 --> 00:10:02.640 of this board that is where the wi-fi go module plugs in you just put that in 00:10:00.800 --> 00:10:05.839 there there's a space for it in the back of the i o shield right there that's 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:09.920 where you plug in your antennas so that's pretty straightforward there's a 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:14.160 screw that is pre-plugged into the wi-fi go card so it doesn't get lost just go 00:10:11.760 --> 00:10:18.880 ahead screw that in no big deal the socket so this has an lga 1155 00:10:16.959 --> 00:10:23.200 socket which means you can't use 1156 processors it's fully compatible with 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:27.920 sandy bridge and iv bridge so you can use whatever CPU you want and overclock 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:33.360 the snot out of it with the huge multi-phase digital vrm that this 00:10:30.800 --> 00:10:37.360 premium level board has going on over here it also has fairly 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:40.640 beefy cooling with your chipset cooled by just a little guy here we got a heat 00:10:38.800 --> 00:10:44.959 pipe connecting it to a much larger heat sink that is responsible for cooling 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:50.240 part of the ddrm with another large heatsink cooling the rest of it honestly 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:54.399 these ivy bridge cpus with their 77 watt tdps don't really start to suck back 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:57.920 power and produce a lot of heat until you overclock them so that's how you can 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:01.279 tell when a board is designed with overclocking in mind because it'll have 00:10:59.760 --> 00:11:05.120 all that space and all that cooling going on for overclocking so we've got a 00:11:03.760 --> 00:11:09.760 lot of logos on the board oh you know what let's here i'll do my usual routine and then we'll go into some of the other 00:11:07.920 --> 00:11:12.959 more detailed stuff so right here is our eight pin power connector in its ideal 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:19.200 location at the top left of the board here are our dual channel ddr3 slots so 00:11:16.959 --> 00:11:23.519 all ivy bridge and sandy bridge cpus support only four slots that's why you 00:11:20.800 --> 00:11:27.600 don't see any 1155 boards that support more than four slots of memory although 00:11:25.760 --> 00:11:34.399 technically all ivy bridge and sandy bridge cpus only support up to 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:36.800 2 by 8x configurations for the PCIe 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:39.600 slots but ASUS has clearly cheated on that a little bit so we'll talk more 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:44.079 about that later moving along here's your tpm plug here's 00:11:41.839 --> 00:11:48.959 your 24 pin power connector and it's ideal location along the right hand edge 00:11:46.399 --> 00:11:52.640 one front usb 3 connector is located here this is going to be running off of 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:58.399 the Intel chipset so that is according to Intel spec you must have at least two 00:11:55.200 --> 00:12:01.440 available front panel Intel usb 3 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:03.760 headers or usb 3 connectors okay here's 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:07.120 a set of three um okay say the 3g 00:12:05.839 --> 00:12:11.360 port for whatever reason i'm guessing that's probably the same one that's the same 00:12:10.079 --> 00:12:17.360 controller that's wired into something on the back panel or something i don't know why that oh i know why that's there 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:21.279 okay give me a sec guys all right not so complicated as all of 00:12:18.880 --> 00:12:25.680 that guys this is a seda this is just a regular run-of-the-mill Intel two three 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:30.800 gigabit per second port these are your Intel SATA three six gigabit per second 00:12:27.839 --> 00:12:35.200 ports this is another couple Intel SATA two three gigabit per second ports and 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:39.360 this one is running off your fourth SATA two three gigabit per second port on the 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:43.440 Intel controller so that's an msata configuration right there so it is power 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:47.839 and data to an msa to drive which by the way you can swap for something bigger 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:51.760 should you so desire however srt technology only supports up to 64 gigs 00:12:50.160 --> 00:12:55.760 on a single drive anyway or is it 60 gigs or something in that neighborhood 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:58.720 so 32 gigs is plenty for some storage drive that you plug in in order to make 00:12:57.120 --> 00:13:03.760 sure that whatever games you play most frequently or whatever else is going to 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:05.440 be cached and ready to rock whenever you 00:13:03.760 --> 00:13:08.959 want so these guys are special though so i okay 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:13.120 i was a little bit i was a little bit unclear before but i've done i've read 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:18.000 my notes on this board so it's mostly optimized for using 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:21.680 two caching ssds and two storage drives now while the controller itself may be 00:13:20.079 --> 00:13:25.360 capable in the future of something like a raid 5 with an SSD cache or something 00:13:23.839 --> 00:13:29.760 like that raid 5 on consumer level 00:13:27.760 --> 00:13:32.880 integrated chipsets is not really the most ideal thing in the world because it 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:36.639 doesn't give you the option to recover it in the event of a hardware failure or 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:40.079 anything like that unless you happen to have an identical board or identical 00:13:38.160 --> 00:13:44.000 chipset handy so it's not really ideal but using them as a cache is definitely 00:13:42.160 --> 00:13:48.880 like recommended thumbs up kind of configuration so these are marvel 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:50.880 controllers these are Intel controllers 00:13:48.880 --> 00:13:56.000 all right moving right along front panel connectors usb 2.0 front panel headers 00:13:54.160 --> 00:13:59.199 there's your clear cmos button is there another one on the back of the board no 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:03.920 no clear cmos on the back of the board that's kind of interesting but there's one here so it's not the end oh i forgot 00:14:01.920 --> 00:14:07.600 the mok button so if you're using high speed memory which is far more of a 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:12.160 factor now on iv bridge platforms where we're seeing up to three gigahertz 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:15.519 memory kits being released you want to make sure if you plug those 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:19.600 in you can use the if it doesn't post you can use the memo k button to run it 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:23.600 out to to force the board and the memory at a super safe setting so that you can 00:14:21.760 --> 00:14:28.639 post configure all your voltages and settings correctly and then reboot 00:14:26.079 --> 00:14:32.720 okay here's your post uh diagnostic led readout which by the way 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:37.360 not all boards have this but ASUS has taken the liberty 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:38.959 of including a comprehensive list 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:44.000 um oh yeah this is another thing they do on their higher end boards you see a 00:14:40.560 --> 00:14:44.959 much more comprehensive validated memory 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:51.120 section um okay comprehensive list of aha all of 00:14:48.800 --> 00:14:55.199 the error codes that you might see off that so how many times have you guys had 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:59.760 a board that has one of these error readouts and then actually doesn't sorry 00:14:57.839 --> 00:15:02.160 guys the battery died but i what i was i don't want to harp on it for too long 00:15:00.880 --> 00:15:06.000 but how many times have you guys had a board that has one of these but you 00:15:04.079 --> 00:15:10.160 google around into no avail can you even find out what the stupid postcode on it 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:14.720 even means so there you go they tell you what it means thank you ASUS it's basic 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:18.880 stuff like that that really sets apart the products that are good from the ones 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:23.600 that sort of are trying to be good tpu and epu buttons are right here hardware 00:15:20.959 --> 00:15:26.880 uh built in power and reset switches are here there's your front panel audio as 00:15:24.880 --> 00:15:31.279 well as your spit if out and that pretty much covers it for the layout of the 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:34.639 board however we got to talk a little bit about these PCIe slots first though 00:15:33.199 --> 00:15:38.320 let's have a look at the fan headers so what good is a bunch of really cool 00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:46.720 software features to do with your fan configuration if you don't have lots of pwm fan headers one two three four five 00:15:43.680 --> 00:15:48.160 and i believe i saw sixth six pwm fan 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:52.320 headers are built into this board and they're all 100 configuration 00:15:51.440 --> 00:16:01.360 this is cool stuff this is the bee's knees because this is compatibility with up to 00:15:57.839 --> 00:16:03.680 and these are PCIe gen 3 those leds show 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:09.839 you which ones are active in gen 3 mode and that is a very expensive chip right 00:16:06.160 --> 00:16:13.600 there so this board supports up to 8x 8x 00:16:09.839 --> 00:16:16.160 8x 8x pci e3 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:21.199 now even in the event of because remember these two these cpus only 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:25.600 technically support 8x8x but that plx switching chip allows it to achieve 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:29.680 better balance basically it's a it's a switch so it manages where the data 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:33.680 needs to go to to give you effectively more bandwidth for running more graphics 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:39.680 cards not only that but unlike the last generation less expensive PCIe 2.0 plx 00:16:36.959 --> 00:16:43.040 chip this will run even in a worst case scenario like if you were going to go oh 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:48.240 well you know blah blah i'm a naysayer of plx chips and i think that if you've 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:56.480 only got 16x PCIe 3 effective bandwidth here then you can only have 4x 4x4 x4 x 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:58.480 even if you only had PCIe 3 4x 4x4 x 4x 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:03.279 that would still be equivalent to PCIe 2.0 8x8x8x8x 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:08.079 which is more than enough for four of any high-end graphics card today so even 00:17:05.679 --> 00:17:14.400 worse case scenario this thing is going to be fully unleashed fully functional 00:17:11.600 --> 00:17:17.760 for four-way sli and four-way crossfire with four high-end graphics cards which 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:22.480 is very cool they also throw in a couple PCIe 1x slots just in case you need them 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:26.079 and remember guys if you want to run at a two card configuration you're gonna 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:30.960 go here and here they're conveniently color-coded four-way configurations will 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:36.160 go here here here and here and three-way will be one two three uh don't forget 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:39.600 guys you can also plug in uh PCIe 1x 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:41.840 cards into 16x slots or 2x or 4x or 8x 00:17:39.600 --> 00:17:44.160 into a 16x slot no problem other than it'll have less bandwidth available 00:17:43.120 --> 00:17:48.240 which won't matter unless you're running like really high end raid cars or anything like that 00:17:47.280 --> 00:17:52.080 okay moving right along aha okay so 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:57.440 back port two esata ports 00:17:54.320 --> 00:17:59.280 one two three four usb 3.0 ports optical 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:03.120 audio out uh okay two usb 2.0 ports presumably 00:18:01.760 --> 00:18:07.200 under this sticker which i think was actually supposed to be up here but uh 00:18:05.280 --> 00:18:10.160 whatever there's two usb 2.0 ports under there trust me there 00:18:09.280 --> 00:18:15.280 ha i can reapply stickers ASUS can hire me 00:18:13.280 --> 00:18:20.480 to work as applying a sticker applier okay usb 2. two Intel gigabit Ethernet 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:25.440 ports can't emphasize that enough dual Intel gigabit lan 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:27.280 uh 7.1 audio we've got HDMI and 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:31.440 displayport out for the onboard video built into your ivy bridge or sandy 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:34.640 bridge processor and right there last but not least 00:18:32.919 --> 00:18:38.240 Thunderbolt so besides all the BIOS tuning and 00:18:36.320 --> 00:18:42.799 software hooha that ASUS has to go through to get a solution like this 00:18:39.520 --> 00:18:45.039 working they also had a very special 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:48.720 approach that they took to the traces as well as the location of the Thunderbolt 00:18:47.360 --> 00:18:53.039 chip on the board itself so you see those curved traces as opposed to here 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:56.000 let's find a more traditional trace ha over here i hope you guys can see this 00:18:54.799 --> 00:19:00.640 in the lighting but can you see how these traces go at 45 degree angles 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:06.080 right here and they're kind of sharp angles these ones use a curved shape that ASUS 00:19:04.080 --> 00:19:11.440 found was better for the transmission of data at very very high speeds and the 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:16.960 physical proximity of the Thunderbolt chip to the Thunderbolt port is also 00:19:13.679 --> 00:19:19.679 conducive to allowing it to have better 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:23.919 well data integrity between these two points here not only that but ASUS also 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:28.000 hasn't taken any of these traces and routed them through the different layers 00:19:25.760 --> 00:19:33.200 of the boards this also once again reduces interference and increases data 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:37.840 integrity so as far as solutions go for modern generation products this is as 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:40.880 good as it gets guys where they've taken everything that they know about 00:19:39.120 --> 00:19:44.480 designing motherboards and they're ASUS 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:50.480 just saying and put it here to make this Thunderbolt solution as 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:52.320 fast and reliable and pain-free as 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:56.240 possible so guys we're gonna have lots of Thunderbolt stuff coming on ncix tech 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:59.840 tips over the next little bit we've got cool stuff like this which is 00:19:57.840 --> 00:20:03.360 Thunderbolt ready we've got cool stuff like thank you slick this which is also 00:20:01.840 --> 00:20:08.720 Thunderbolt ready and don't forget guys Thunderbolt looks the same as the mini 00:20:05.840 --> 00:20:13.440 displayport but it's not it is capable of carrying mini displayport or carrying 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:17.840 displayport signals but you need a specific Thunderbolt cable in order to 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:21.760 run Thunderbolt because it actually has processors at either end of the cable in 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:26.720 addition to the processors on the devices in order to make the 10 gigabit 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:30.320 per second throughput a possibility remember guys Thunderbolt will also 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:34.960 continue to scale so we are going to take these storage devices and this 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:40.960 monitor and we're going to show you guys what Thunderbolt is all about in terms 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:42.640 of cabling convenience and uh no fuss no 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:46.320 mass it's great on the desktop great for notebooks and i think that pretty much 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:49.200 covers ah usb BIOS flashback don't forget about that great feature you 00:20:47.760 --> 00:20:52.559 don't even have to have CPU or memory installed you just throw a usb stick 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:56.960 into this port right here press the button and it'll flash that BIOS to the 00:20:54.720 --> 00:21:00.400 board making it so that even if new cpus come out or whatever else your BIOS 00:20:58.320 --> 00:21:05.600 isn't compatible no big deal you can get that taken care of no problem 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:09.760 and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for unboxings reviews and 00:21:07.520 --> 00:21:15.880 other computer videos oh yeah and the sexy matte black pcb oh 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:15.880 so nice