okay so we know we haven't done any motherboard videos on this channel for a
long freaking time and as for why well
we've said it before there are parts of your computer that dramatically affect
performance and there are parts that if you're willing to forgo a few Creature
Comforts you can save a few bucks on but
how low can you go today we are looking
at the EC s a55
f- M4 1.0 the cheapest motherboard on
Amazon in a standard form factor it's
only 30 bucks and isn't it
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description now first things first to properly appreciate the ghetto
fabulousness of this motherboard I got a getting character meet L unit sort of a
v anyway we're going to start by taking a look at this baby from the back I'm
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 can lose the we
can lose the character now is anywhere from about half to a fifth of the speed
of KB Lake and multi-threaded performance is as low as a sixth but
we've all heard that direct X12 and Vulcan can actually favor weaker CPUs
regardless of the GPU thanks to their lower API overhead and as we can see
here oh well it just gets dominated even
with a 1080ti in CPU intensive games
like DSX mankind divided we get a decent
bump with our overclock on directx11 but
not on Direct X12 where we actually end
up within our margin of error so then in
all seriousness what are you actually
getting with a board like this well you
are locking yourself into an ancient
platform that only had one very
underwhelming generation of CPU support you are losing support for even sort of
new features like USB 3 and SATA 6
gigabit never mind NVMe and usb3.1 and you are stepping down to a
level of build quality and firmware support that is frankly unacceptable for
anyone let alone Enthusiast I mean yes
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
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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