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okay so we know we haven't done any motherboard videos on this channel for a

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long freaking time and as for why well

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we've said it before there are parts of your computer that dramatically affect

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performance and there are parts that if you're willing to forgo a few Creature

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Comforts you can save a few bucks on but

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how low can you go today we are looking

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at the EC s a55

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f- M4 1.0 the cheapest motherboard on

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Amazon in a standard form factor it's

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only 30 bucks and isn't it

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description now first things first to properly appreciate the ghetto

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fabulousness of this motherboard I got a getting character meet L unit sort of a

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v anyway we're going to start by taking a look at this baby from the back I'm

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talking rear IO man

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yeah nobody there don't worry about it

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any anyway we can see it is absolutely packed with gaming features I'm talking

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two PS2 ports PS2 with support for n key

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rollover something that's still rare even on high-end USB keyboards on that

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subject we have four USB 2.0 ports that

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puts this on par with the ASUS Crosshair

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6 and is a huge Boon when you're installing Windows 7 via USB like I

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always do on Friday nights throw in a touch of gigabit Ethernet and audio

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jacks rated at Deb signal to noise ratio and we are

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ready to get our Counter Strike Source on oh and did I mention it supports both

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VGA and HDMI more on that later first

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let's check out the internal connectivity as I call it junk under the

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hood not only do we get four say to 3

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gbit per second connections right there in the bottom right that's 12 gabs per

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second total but we also have support for four more usb2 ports via the front

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panel I mean you got to be some kind of king or some to afford enough USBS to

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plug into all that high defin audio Yeah

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I know the definition of high know what I'm saying and spit if we got spit if

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damn whatever that means but let's get

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serious again what are those headers

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down there that my friends is a Serial

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interface like serial killer and a a

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parallel interface like a parallel

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Dimension highly desirable features that

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very few motherboards come equipped with nowadays possibly as a cost-saving

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measure but no such Corners were cut on

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the ECS a55 f- M4 1.0 this version 1.0

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cuz they get it right the first time know what I'm saying and thanks to these

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we can use virtually any peripheral or

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printer that we want okay lonus then so

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this board has more IO than we know what to do with for a number of reasons but

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what kind of balls to thewall Hardware can we put on here well feast your eyes

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on this baby it supports up to the A8

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3870 Apu which unlike ryzen needs

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DDR3 only to be fli and awesome and

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comes with integrated radon Graphics

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processing that's better than some of the dedicated cards we've tested and

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with four cores at three billion Hertz

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this 1.78 billion transistor Beast is

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unlocked primed and ready for the toughest gaming challenges we can throw

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at it plus it's compatible with uh socket am3 coolers so we'll be able to

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make use of our existing stock here now

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we got to match this Beast with nothing

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but the best so we've got

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ourselves after we get it installed here

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yeah there we go it's on there get the RAM in

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there okay there we go it's fast see

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it's fast like that so we're putting our GTX 1080 TI in what we got a fulllength

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PCI Express lot here we're

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talking 168 pins of power and data here

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that's right so combining this with our

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four Lono cores and 16 gigs of RAM baby

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there is nothing this thing can't run

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technically speaking that is we aren't promising that it'll run well compared

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to our kbl leg testbench limiting ourselves to this class of CPU is

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actually a lot to give up even when

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overclocked single-threaded performance on this thing okay we can lose the we

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can lose the character now is anywhere from about half to a fifth of the speed

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of KB Lake and multi-threaded performance is as low as a sixth but

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we've all heard that direct X12 and Vulcan can actually favor weaker CPUs

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regardless of the GPU thanks to their lower API overhead and as we can see

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here oh well it just gets dominated even

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with a 1080ti in CPU intensive games

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like DSX mankind divided we get a decent

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bump with our overclock on directx11 but

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not on Direct X12 where we actually end

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up within our margin of error so then in

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all seriousness what are you actually

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getting with a board like this well you

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are locking yourself into an ancient

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platform that only had one very

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underwhelming generation of CPU support you are losing support for even sort of

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new features like USB 3 and SATA 6

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gigabit never mind NVMe and usb3.1 and you are stepping down to a

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level of build quality and firmware support that is frankly unacceptable for

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anyone let alone Enthusiast I mean yes

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technically you can overclock it K but

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barely with that said is it usable

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well if you take anything away from this video it's that the advice of don't

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worry about the motherboard should really be taken with the caveat that it

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means within a given generation of

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Hardware if you're buying the top of the line board for the heck of it you are

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doing neither the board nor your wallet any justice but in the case of this

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one no wait no 3+ one I think it's like

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one phase for RAM wait no no there's no no no it's four there a four phase power

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what you talking about Willis that's not so bad 32 nanometer CPU do you know how

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big a nanometer is that's tiny

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man there's like there's like not even any copper in it you

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know uh sorry did we even slate that I'm

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