{"video_id":"f10eY7A99wY","title":"$30 MOTHERBOARD?! – Can it game?","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2018-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":612,"segments":[{"start_s":0.32,"end_s":11.16,"text":"okay so we know we haven't done any motherboard videos on this channel for a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.52,"end_s":13.4,"text":"long freaking time and as for why well","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.16,"end_s":18.52,"text":"we've said it before there are parts of your computer that dramatically affect","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.0,"end_s":24.48,"text":"performance and there are parts that if you're willing to forgo a few Creature","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.72,"end_s":29.119,"text":"Comforts you can save a few bucks on but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.48,"end_s":32.48,"text":"how low can you go today we are 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talking rear IO man yeah nobody there don't worry about it any anyway we can see it is absolutely packed with gaming features I'm talking two PS2 ports PS2 with support for n key rollover something that's still rare even on high-end USB keyboards on that subject we have four USB 2.0 ports that puts this on par with the ASUS Crosshair 6 and is a huge Boon when you're installing Windows 7 via USB like I always do on Friday nights throw in a touch of gigabit Ethernet and audio jacks rated at Deb signal to noise ratio and we are ready to get our Counter Strike Source on oh and did I mention it supports both VGA and HDMI more on that later first let's check out the internal connectivity as I call it junk under the hood not only do we get four say to 3 gbit per second connections right there in the bottom right that's 12 gabs per second total but we also have support for four more usb2 ports via the front panel I mean you got to be some kind of king or some to afford enough USBS to plug into all that high defin audio Yeah I know the definition of high know what I'm saying and spit if we got spit if damn whatever that means but let's get serious again what are those headers down there that my friends is a Serial interface like serial killer and a a parallel interface like a parallel Dimension highly desirable features that very few motherboards come equipped with nowadays possibly as a cost-saving measure but no such Corners were cut on the ECS a55 f- M4 1.0 this version 1.0 cuz they get it right the first time know what I'm saying and thanks to these we can use virtually any peripheral or printer that we want okay lonus then so this board has more IO than we know what to do with for a number of reasons but what kind of balls to thewall Hardware can we put on here well feast your eyes on this baby it supports up to the A8 3870 Apu which unlike ryzen needs DDR3 only to be fli and awesome and comes with integrated radon Graphics processing that's better than some of the dedicated cards we've tested and with four cores at three billion Hertz this 1.78 billion transistor Beast is unlocked primed and ready for the toughest gaming challenges we can throw at it plus it's compatible with uh socket am3 coolers so we'll be able to make use of our existing stock here now we got to match this Beast with nothing but the best so we've got ourselves after we get it installed here yeah there we go it's on there get the RAM in there okay there we go it's fast see it's fast like that so we're putting our GTX 1080 TI in what we got a fulllength PCI Express lot here we're talking 168 pins of power and data here that's right so combining this with our four Lono cores and 16 gigs of RAM baby there is nothing this thing can't run technically speaking that is we aren't promising that it'll run well compared to our kbl leg testbench limiting ourselves to this class of CPU is actually a lot to give up even when overclocked single-threaded performance on this thing okay we 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technically you can overclock it K but barely with that said is it usable well if you take anything away from this video it's that the advice of don't worry about the motherboard should really be taken with the caveat that it means within a given generation of Hardware if you're buying the top of the line board for the heck of it you are doing neither the board nor your wallet any justice but in the case of this thing well I think it's safe to say that buying the Flatout cheapest is another way to achieve exactly that freshbooks cloud accounting software was custombuilt for you small business owner or freelancer it's the simple way to be more productive more organized and get paid faster you can create and send professionall look invoices in less than 30 seconds you can track your expenses you can track your hours on the jobs and then you can actually accept payment even through the platform set up online payments with just a couple clicks and get paid up to 4 days faster this is a really cool feature I don't even know how they did this but you can actually see when your client has seen your invoice to and put an end to the nonsense did you get it oh no sorry I didn't I'll pay you next week no enough of that pay now so for your unrestricted 30-day free trial go to www.freshbooks.com techtips and enter lonus Tech tips in the how you heard about us section so thanks for watching I hope you guys enjoyed our fun little look at the cheapest motherboard on newegg.com if you dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit the like button get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy uh maybe not this maybe we'll put some like reasonable motherboard and CPU option down there that we actually recommend as a good value we've got that Linked In the video description and uh so don't forget to subscribe and oh yeah also down there we have a link to our merch store where you can buy cool t-shirts like this one no wait no 3+ one I think it's like one phase for RAM wait no no there's no no no it's four there a four phase power what you talking about Willis that's not so bad 32 nanometer CPU do you know how big a nanometer is that's tiny man there's like there's like not even any copper in it you know uh sorry did we even slate that I'm rolling oh you're rolling oh good okay wonderful"}