{"video_id":"odT5hrljdDM","title":"ASUS Sabertooth X58 Military Grade Gaming Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":375,"segments":[{"start_s":0.48,"end_s":6.96,"text":"today we're going to be unboxing the ASUS Sabertooth x58 motherboard this is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.6,"end_s":10.4,"text":"part of their the Ultimate Force or tough series of boards so let's talk a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.0,"end_s":16.44,"text":"little bit about what makes the tough series special number one not this number one","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.599,"end_s":22.72,"text":"is tough components certified by military standards so they are using the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.199,"end_s":26.64,"text":"most hardcore components possible to ensure that this board lasts for as 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some of the other special things about the tough series it has camix heat sink coating Tech which in theory allows better cooling than a purely metal heat sink we also have efficient switching power design so that means optimal power efficiency all right many assus boards do feature technology like that for optimizing power efficiency but this particular one is tough evidently we have sat 6 gbit per second USB 3.0 memo K which is a feature I have talked about quite a bit in the past so I'm not going to go too far into that as well as Aus Q design so you got a q Shield which means that you can easily put in the motherboard from the back and you're not going to bend pieces of metal into your slots you've also got Q connectors which I believe we have talked about and uh actually some of these I'm not familiar with o q dim right that's the quick installation dim so I'll I'll show you that when we actually look at the board itself and then maybe I can even figure out what the other ones are ah here we go yes 5year warranty notice look at that it's in many different languages too here is the motherboard user guide including a powered by Aus sticker and a disc that you shouldn't use you should download the latest uh utilities and drivers from the assus website here's a certificate of reliability check that out they it's certified reliable so test method 100 thermal shock test look at this so these are all military standard tests they're running on this thing on the chokes mosfets and capacitors H that's pretty neat actually okay then we have uh two SATA 6 GB per second cables and two SATA 3 GB per second cables please note these are identical cables except for the white on the 6 GB per second ones they do not perform differently we have an SLI Bridge we have the assus Q connector as well as the Q shield with the fuzzy foam on the back all right let's have a look at the board itself now the look of this board is a bit love and hate uh not everybody loves it but lots of people do because it's a very U military themed look so you've that means you've got military greens military camouflage style Browns you've got a black PCB which is definitely a must for a high-end board these days and then you've also got a lot of black components as well so let's look at the layout overall of the board first of all you've got what appears to be an 8+2 power design around your LGA 1366 socket you've got a fair amount of room around the socket for aftermarket coolers and yeah I think that's pretty much all there is to say about the socket itself you've got an eight pin power connector up here in its ideal location and I've been asked about this a few times but this little cover is in case you do not have an 8 Pin power connector on your power supply you can just plug in four but if you have an eight pin use it you've got support for up to 24 gigs of DDR3 memory in triple Channel mode so you want to populate the light brown ones first and then the dark brown one second that is a limitation of the core i7 memory controller this board does support up to six Core 980x Extreme Edition processor over here on the right we have our 24 pin power connector in its ideal location and right here we have the memo button so that means that no matter what the memory will post so it'll find a very very safe setting allow you to post with your memory and then tweak the settings from there let's keep moving down the board we have SATA 6 GB per second which actually isn't here it's here so those ones that are white colored those are your SATA 6 GB per second and the black ones are SATA 3 gbit per second let's talk a little bit about the Ceramics which you can see is right here so that's this kind of sandpapery feeling coating on all of the heat sinks on this board I don't know if it makes it cool better because I haven't like I don't have an identical board with identical heat sinks to test against but I guess in theory it does and ultimately it looks pretty cool so uh I mean the x58 doesn't even get that hot anyway so it couldn't really matter one way or the other but looks great I think check that out those are cool heat sinks all right so let's keep going around so here's our front panel connectors here's our clear seos button we have three PCI Express slots on this particular board so your SLI slots are going to be these two that's why you did have a short SLI Bridge included so when you're using both of these in 16x mode my assumption is this one's going to run in 4X mode just like on all x58 motherboards you do have one PCI slot but as soon as you install a graphics card that's covered assuming you're using a dual slot graphics card you could alternately install your dual slot graphics card here which would leave you 1 2 3 four more slots for additional expansion cards here's your front USB as well as your front audio and I'm going to go ahead and assume this is fire wire although it is not labeled then other than that that's about all we have to say about the board itself on the front I think this looks really cool get a good closeup of that cuz it looks kind of like you know it's attach by like a pipe or something it's just a Southbridge heat sink I mean there's not a whole lot to it but it looks pretty neat okay the back of the board doesn't really have anything out of the ordinary about it so let's have a look at the io panel on the back we have 1 2 3 4 5 six USB 2.0 connectors this is not a combo connector so this is an eat connector this is also an ESAT connector here we have one of those handy PS2 uh keyboard or Mouse ports we have Optical audio out gigabit Ethernet fire wire I know I'm going in kind of a random order today USB 3.0 as well as 7.1 audio out so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Sabertooth x58 tough series motherboard from ASUS"}