WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:06.080 this video is brought to you by cooler master featuring the seiden 240 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.279 millimeter all-in-one CPU water cooling system check it out at 00:00:07.279 --> 00:00:10.279 www.coolermaster.usa.com 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:15.920 my unboxing an overview of one of the physically heaviest motherboards that i 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:21.119 have ever encountered this is the sabertooth z87 from ASUS part of their 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:24.480 tough series or the ultimate force uh which is 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:29.359 the notable things about this is that it really is tough so dust resistant 00:00:27.439 --> 00:00:34.559 physically resistant now with some of the armor features that are included and 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:37.280 they come with five year warranties which is 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:42.480 kind of freaking ridiculous for a consumer-grade 00:00:38.800 --> 00:00:44.000 motherboard nowadays they are not only 00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:50.399 are going to be providing a five-year warranty on these boards but they have significantly upgraded the components 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:55.760 over the last generation tough series so they have 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:57.440 altered the capacitors from 5k to 10k 00:00:55.760 --> 00:01:03.120 nichikon caps and not only that 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:08.080 but they have added check this out 00:01:05.119 --> 00:01:12.560 a metal back plate to the entire back of the board now what this does is it 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:17.439 improves cooling by a couple degrees it improves the rigidity of the board 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:21.280 significantly this has less flex than any motherboard i've ever encountered 00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:25.840 between the thermal armor plastic plate on the front and then 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:30.880 the back plate that covers the entire back of the board and it gives it less 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:36.640 flex for things like heavy CPU coolers as well they've upgraded the vrm 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:42.560 using what what they're calling as good as z77 rog which is not low end stuff by 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:46.960 any stretch of the imagination and they've added some cool new features in 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:51.840 terms of dust resistance that i'm going to cover as soon as we open up this 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:57.119 huge accessory pack here now not only are the components upgraded but ASUS has 00:01:54.880 --> 00:02:01.360 also thrown more validation at the board so every single board on a board by 00:01:59.119 --> 00:02:05.040 board basis goes through a server grade validation process which means that yeah 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:10.399 if they're gonna throw a five year warranty at it they're pretty sure that it's actually 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:14.160 just not gonna die so let's get into these accessories because there's some 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:18.160 really cool stuff in here that's unique compared to what ASUS offers with their 00:02:16.239 --> 00:02:22.160 rog series or their channel series boards first of all we've got a couple 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:25.920 of cooling fans these are optional you don't have to use them but if you do 00:02:24.239 --> 00:02:31.520 decide to use them what you can do is you can apply more ventilation under the 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:36.160 thermal armor by putting one of them here where the old sort of northbridge 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:40.879 location would be and then another one out the back this allows you to directly 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:46.800 exhaust air out of your computer that has been used to cool down the mosfet 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:48.319 cooling that is beefy and ample and you 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:54.400 can kind of see it if you look in there don't worry too much about it it's down there but it's covered up by that 00:02:51.760 --> 00:02:59.120 plastic thermal armor coating next accessory is 00:02:56.720 --> 00:03:02.959 a little ventilation piece so this makes the back panel look a little bit more 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:07.360 appealing so you don't just see the fan hanging out the back of your computer 00:03:05.040 --> 00:03:12.720 thermal probes three thermal probes are included and what's really cool is that 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:15.360 the software that is specific to tough 00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:19.920 series boards allows you to set up your thermal probes say what they're for you 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:23.760 can name them you can assign profiles detect all of your fans and rpms fan 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:26.239 expert 2 is still very much implemented on this board 00:03:24.959 --> 00:03:31.280 and it'll set everything up for you and allow you to optimize it in such a way 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:35.519 that your system stays very very cool you can also use the software to quickly 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:39.200 at a glance see if there are any problem areas in your computer where things are 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:45.280 overheating because it's all about reliability with this board they've also 00:03:42.239 --> 00:03:47.760 included even more dust covers than 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:54.400 before now traditionally on tough series boards we've got pci express dust covers 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:57.040 as well as ddr3 slot dust covers now we 00:03:54.400 --> 00:04:02.000 even get dust covers for connectors on the back 00:03:58.640 --> 00:04:04.640 we get dust covers for SATA ports 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:07.280 and we get dust covers for like check this out you even get dust 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:10.640 covers for stuff that's not even included in your motherboard like a dvi 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:14.400 port dust cover so very very very cool stuff if you live 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:17.519 in a rugged environment or you're like you're taking your gaming pc to like a 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:21.519 military base or something like that yeah get one of these 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:24.960 which leads us to the board physically so you got your thermal radar software 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:29.759 and all that cool stuff but if you can't connect really cool things to it then ultimately you're not going to care too 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:36.240 much so your 8-pin CPU connector is up in the top left in its ideal location 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:38.240 and you got three four excuse me four 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:42.560 fan connectors up there one of which is their new patent-pending design that 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:48.639 detects whether you're using a three pin or a four pin fan you've got four ddr3 00:04:46.320 --> 00:04:52.479 slots along the right hand edge another fan connector so that's a total of five 00:04:50.400 --> 00:04:57.600 so far your 24 pin connector on the right hand edge in its ideal location 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:59.759 your usb 3 connector in its ideal 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:04.080 ideal lure more ideal than ideal location on the right hand edge because 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:07.120 it's right angle love right angle usb 3 connectors 00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:10.560 six SATA three six gigabit per second ports off of the Intel controller and 00:05:09.039 --> 00:05:13.199 then two more off a third-party controller down at the bottom of the 00:05:12.080 --> 00:05:20.880 board you've got your front panel connector a fifth and sixth fan header 00:05:17.919 --> 00:05:26.960 as well as two usb 2.0 headers a trusted platform module as well as a Thunderbolt 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.960 header and a clear cmos jumper your pci 00:05:26.960 --> 00:05:34.000 express slot layout is pretty bog standard so you've got three PCIe 1x 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:36.840 slots two p are three PCIe 16x slots 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:42.880 which will run at 16x or 8x8x and then this one runs at 4x 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:46.320 regardless now these guys right here are little vents that give you a couple 00:05:44.960 --> 00:05:50.080 of different options for cooling so check this out you can slide these back 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:54.000 and forth so you can see that sliding action there so you can either take more 00:05:52.400 --> 00:05:58.560 airflow from a an active CPU cooling solution so for 00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:02.639 example if you had a downdraft fan you'd want to open these up so you can get 00:06:00.320 --> 00:06:06.560 more cooling to the vrm heatsinks however if you were using liquid cooling 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:11.199 for example and you weren't going to get any benefit from additional airflow then 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:15.360 instead you can close them which will allow you to hook up these fans that i 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:19.039 talked about before here and here and take full advantage of those fans 00:06:17.039 --> 00:06:23.840 without wasting any of that airflow going out towards the CPU socket so who 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:27.600 is this board for it's for people who want the ultimate in reliability the 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:32.240 ultimate in cooling you know is it an overclocking board yeah of course i mean 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:36.639 just because something's not rog doesn't mean that it's not gaming just because 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:39.759 something's not an extreme grade rog board doesn't mean it's not optimal for 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:44.160 overclocking this is for people who might not upgrade as often or even 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:47.840 people who might be using it as in say for example more of like a workstation a 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:51.199 value workstation environment where you want that reliability and that build 00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:56.800 quality but you don't need all the bells and whistles of a true workstation grade 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:01.759 board for i o on the back things are pretty standard with four usb 2.0 ports 00:06:58.960 --> 00:07:06.960 four usb 3.0 ports supporting uasp a BIOS flashback button two e SATA ports 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:12.720 optical audio out as well as HDMI and displayport ports an Intel powered 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:14.720 gigabit Ethernet port and 7.1 audio out 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:19.360 and if any of you noticed that this board had a CPU in it uh they don't all 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:24.400 come with that mine was hand packed by jj with a with a hand-picked 4770k so i 00:07:22.880 --> 00:07:29.440 could really see what the platform was capable of and so yours will come with 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:33.599 the usual protective cover 00:07:31.039 --> 00:07:38.080 over the CPU socket not with an actual CPU in it sorry to crush your hopes like 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:43.240 that don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:43.240 other computer videos