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what does a 2 000 motherboard look like is it a data

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center motherboard with like multiple sockets a million pci express lanes or

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is it some kind of exotic super amazing

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one-off or anything like that yeah have

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some like precious gems in there yeah like audio quest cables first

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anyway okay they don't have gems in them but

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they've got like so we're fully silver and it's like okay cool but

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it doesn't justify the price anyway another thing that may not justify the

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price the MSI

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z690 god like and uh

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this is probably the biggest box like you could fit like a 17-inch or maybe

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even like a 20-inch laptop in here this is honestly pretty ridiculous and

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there's not a whole lot on the box either like it's just the front side is

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pretty much the most that's on here the side just says

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and uh on the other side we just got oh we got some specs

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i don't need to like squint or like lean in or anything like that the font is

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just big enough it supports 12th gen core processors yep lga 1700 two pci

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express 5.0 x 16 slots one pci express

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4.0 x 16 slot two Thunderbolt 4 type c

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ports input for mini displayport so you can actually get display out on these

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six set of six gigabit per second ports for a motherboard that says godlike i

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expect 69 if you want to be nice about it it's also got a quantia 10 gigabit

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nick built in that is pretty spicy and

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you've also got wi-fi 6e bluetooth 5.2 and 8 channel audio with audio boost 5

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hd i'm not sure what that's all about oh yeah and this thing comes with memory

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and liquid cooling in the box yes

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what's your question god like we're going to find out let's

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see if i can open this without hitting the microphone

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oh oh it just cleared it yeah this is so unwieldy so this is

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just there to hold the motherboard in oh so this isn't i thought this was like

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just an outer box with other boxes inside but no this is all just packed in

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here that's interesting okay so let's just pointedly avoid the motherboard for

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now what do they give you in here what is this the keychain it's really long

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yeah it looks almost like something that you'd hang from your mirror oh yeah dog

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tag dude yeah it's it's like from my time in the dragon army

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all right so here's the memory kingston fury beast ddr5 mmsi meg z690 godlike

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are ready to reveal a new dimension of

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performance sure i wonder what this is for probably for

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the motherboard itself and there's a good reason for it you'll want to use it

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alright so what is i i don't know what i'm looking at

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oh no this is a sponsored video they're never gonna sponsor us again i i'm just

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i will destroy you all right let's get the motherboard out of here and then

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completely ignore it for now we're looking at the accessories pretty

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standard MSI shark fin wi-fi antenna

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it's got a pretty thick cable looks pretty it seems pretty nice i have no

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idea what's going on with these what are what is all of this

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what is this does this come with its own test bench

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is that what that is uh let's see join the MSI reward program

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oh that's pretty neat yeah these are

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little stickers to you know kind of label your wires that's actually a good

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idea we should do that for ltdstore.com this product was created with great

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passion and we hope you could enjoy it but you couldn't

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because there's only like 100 of these so

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uh-huh what this is what they call the diy

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stand set it's an easy way to build a test bench holy crap i'm gonna have to

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do this aren't i these aren't mentioned in that though what are these

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man motherboard accessories they're in the

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oh they're a nice little bag that keeps them nice and organized ah this is the

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cooler i think so we got bracket and screws the water

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block head the radiator it's um

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yeah that is that is sizable

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so much stuff radiator fans okay so you got the three fans in here these are

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heavy silent gale and of course we've got some

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uh nice stickers oh man there's just so much stuff it's

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exploding everywhere all right let's close it up

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let's get it out of there this thing is chonky

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6.832 pounds oh it smells

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we should make a cologne which basically just smells like electronic like new

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electronics don't need to worry about esd on this guy except around here i

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guess everything from here over to here looks relatively

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normal the vrm cooler is very beefy with this kind of wavy

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pattern on the back i don't know if you can you can see yeah you can kind of see

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it there it's weird but i like it it's visually

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pleasing that's how it's so heavy it's just covered in metal and then we've got

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a rather sizable assortment of porch on the side here

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where do i begin there's a 10 gig Ethernet port here it's powered by a

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quantity chipset mini displayport in for your Thunderbolt plenty of usb 3. it's a

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2.5 gig Ethernet of course we've got the whole 7.1 channel audio thing going it's

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weird that motherboards still have toast link isn't it it's got a party trick

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this thing comes off this is a little touch screen it does come with a little

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cable that you can plug in over here right here yeah this this one that says

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like what is it mvision which i'm not

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sure why they call it m vision so just kind of

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slots in like that you can use it inside the computer if that's your jam or on

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your test bench personally i don't think the motherboard looks all that good with

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it missing but it does say a little thing down there one board to rule them

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all godlike that is an RGB connector for

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Corsair you can use standard addressable RGB with MSI's mystic light or you can

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just straight up use corsairs you don't need to have their fancy commander it's

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great there's a lot of stuff that's covered with these peels should i

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we all need true there are three pci express slots in

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this motherboard situated such that you could sli triple slot cards so like rtx

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3090s if you so chose this bottom slot

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i am i only see solder balls underneath the

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socket for i think 8x but that's still a lot more than you might expect out of

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this considering how many m.2 slots we have here there's so much tall stuff on

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this motherboard that it's actually kind of difficult for me to see in this light

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okay so yeah there's a m.2 slot there so

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here's another 110 millimeter underneath this here 80 millimeter it's all using

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bandwidth from the chipset they have i think a switch chip on here that makes

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it so that it's possible for this stuff to be split up the way it is these are

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opposing they're it's a frankly ridiculous amount of m.2

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expansion this is this is basically the no compromise like i mean there's there's

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there's so much power delivery just just look at that

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usually when you have a lot of features in a motherboard like this this is always a compromise in this case you're

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giving up in your wallet and i mean obviously you're not gonna buy it and

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maybe it is stupid but i want it and it's together these stands

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are not as stable as i would like apparently they

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are more stable if you have a fan there but there are still six of them and

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there's only four holes in a fan so

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let's get to peel it oh yeah

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there we go oh it's it's a little bit it's a little

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bit shy there we go

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oh man there's fingerprints all over it already all right so it's got power now

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this little guy is separate from the motherboard we can plug it into one of

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the external ports as well this looks like it nope that's a DisplayPort there

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we go hey there we go

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i'm not sure why it sounds like a tiger but i mean i don't know what a dragon

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sounds like do you okay so what can i touch here so we got

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CPU clock plus or minus okay you can use it as a timer please download MSI center

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to enable functions okay cool got a calculator here is that about what that

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is why there we go

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okay so i'm getting a live readout of the BIOS up there in the top we're at 98

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right now b4 graphics card error please

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check graphics card excuse me that's weird let's have a look through

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the BIOS here it's a pretty standard MSI click BIOS

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it does have the nice uh dragon in the middle though and this

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motherboard should be pretty good for overclocking like it's it's got a 20

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phase power delivery for the CPU kind of

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bonkers these are beta functions like NVMe SSD

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self test and sr ilv support that doesn't sound right but

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sure let's just get into Windows and see

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what the software has to offer us Windows update oh it's like the whole

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advanced section is hidden behind that now i can like

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use this to bump up the CPU clock i guess okay that added 50 megahertz i

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don't know this is part of why living on the bleeding edge isn't always

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the best thing so there's gonna be a few hundred of these in the world and

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honestly i don't suggest that you buy one but

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MSI sponsored this video not to look at

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that specifically but to kind of contrast it against a more

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reasonable motherboard that they have here now i'm not going to do the full

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unboxing of this here but the mag z690 ace is much more reasonably priced at

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around well 600 dollars i think which is still a lot but you're getting a lot of

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the functionality the base functionality that's in this motherboard in this

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package and the box is significantly smaller too

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real gold leaf it still has pretty much identical i o so you're not really

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missing out on anything it's got the Thunderbolt ports the mini displayport

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inputs all the usbs the wi-fi it doesn't

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have the 10 gig lan but it does have the 2.5 gig and one fewer NVMe and there's

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no integrated RGB but it does have the pin outs for RGB if you do so desire one

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of our editors mark i think has the z590 version of this specifically because it

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has the Thunderbolt with the displayport yeah this is pretty much the same

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motherboard in terms of guts as this and you should buy this instead if you're

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thinking about buying this if you are still thinking about buying this then

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there's nothing i can say that will prevent you from buying this

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you know who you are everybody else look at this or one of MSI's other z690 or

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even b 660 motherboards

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well this is kind of weird i don't usually unbox motherboards um there's

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usually not much to say about them but there's plenty to say about the other things that we see here on short

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circuits so get subscribed so you don't miss any of our uh

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more esoteric things that we unbox i probably gotta

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shoot this this week aren't i quiet on set indeed

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god like