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today we're going to be unboxing the ASUS Sabertooth x58 motherboard this is

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part of their the Ultimate Force or tough series of boards so let's talk a

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little bit about what makes the tough series special number one not this number one

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is tough components certified by military standards so they are using the

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most hardcore components possible to ensure that this board lasts for as long

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as possible and they do back it up ausa's standard motherboard warranty is

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3 years whereas this particular tough series board has a 5year warranty which

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is pretty outstanding so let's talk a little bit about some of the other

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special things about the tough series it has camix heat sink coating Tech which

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in theory allows better cooling than a purely metal heat sink we also have

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efficient switching power design so that means optimal power efficiency all right

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many assus boards do feature technology like that for optimizing power

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efficiency but this particular one is tough evidently we have sat 6 gbit per

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second USB 3.0 memo K which is a feature I have talked about quite a bit in the

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past so I'm not going to go too far into that as well as Aus Q design so you got

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a q Shield which means that you can easily put in the motherboard from the

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back and you're not going to bend pieces of metal into your slots you've also got

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Q connectors which I believe we have talked about and uh actually some of

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these I'm not familiar with o q dim right that's the quick installation dim

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so I'll I'll show you that when we actually look at the board itself and

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then maybe I can even figure out what the other ones are ah here we go yes

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5year warranty notice look at that it's in many different languages too here is

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the motherboard user guide including a powered by Aus sticker and a disc that

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you shouldn't use you should download the latest uh utilities and drivers from

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the assus website here's a certificate of reliability check that out they it's

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certified reliable so test method 100 thermal

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shock test look at this so these are all

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military standard tests they're running on this thing on the chokes mosfets and

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capacitors H that's pretty neat actually

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okay then we have uh two SATA 6 GB per second cables and two

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SATA 3 GB per second cables please note

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these are identical cables except for the white on the 6 GB per second ones

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they do not perform differently we have an SLI Bridge we have the assus Q

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connector as well as the Q shield with the fuzzy foam on the back

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all right let's have a look at the board itself now the look of this board is a

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bit love and hate uh not everybody loves it but lots of people do because it's a

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very U military themed look so you've

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that means you've got military greens military camouflage style Browns you've

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got a black PCB which is definitely a must for a high-end board these days and

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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

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you've got what appears to be an 8+2 power design around your LGA 1366 socket

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you've got a fair amount of room around the socket for aftermarket coolers

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and yeah I think that's pretty much all there is to say about the socket itself

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you've got an eight pin power connector up here in its ideal location and I've

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been asked about this a few times but this little cover is in case you do not

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have an 8 Pin power connector on your power supply you can just plug in four

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but if you have an eight pin use it you've got support for up to 24 gigs of

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DDR3 memory in triple Channel mode so you want to populate the light brown

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ones first and then the dark brown one second that is a limitation of the core

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i7 memory controller this board does support up to six Core 980x Extreme

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Edition processor over here on the right we have our 24 pin power connector in

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its ideal location and right here we have the memo button so that means that

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no matter what the memory will post so it'll find a very very safe setting

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allow you to post with your memory and then tweak the settings from there let's

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keep moving down the board we have SATA 6 GB per second which actually isn't

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here it's here so those ones that are white colored those are your SATA 6 GB

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per second and the black ones are SATA 3 gbit per second let's talk a little bit

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about the Ceramics which you can see is right here so that's this kind of

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sandpapery feeling coating on all of the heat sinks on this board I don't know if

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it makes it cool better because I haven't like I don't have an identical

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board with identical heat sinks to test against but I guess in theory it does

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and ultimately it looks pretty cool so uh I mean the x58 doesn't even get that

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hot anyway so it couldn't really matter one way or the other but looks great I

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think check that out those are cool heat

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sinks all right so let's keep going around so here's our front panel

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connectors here's our clear seos button we have three PCI Express slots on this

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particular board so your SLI slots are going to be these two that's why you did

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have a short SLI Bridge included so when you're using both of these in 16x mode

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my assumption is this one's going to run in 4X mode just like on all x58

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motherboards you do have one PCI slot but as soon as you install a graphics

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card that's covered assuming you're using a dual slot graphics card you

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could alternately install your dual slot graphics card here which would leave you 1 2 3 four more slots for additional

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expansion cards here's your front USB as well as your front audio and I'm going

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to go ahead and assume this is fire wire although it is not labeled then other

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than that that's about all we have to say about the board itself on the front

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I think this looks really cool get a good closeup of that cuz it looks kind

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of like you know it's attach by like a pipe or something it's just a

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Southbridge heat sink I mean there's not a whole lot to it but it looks pretty

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neat okay the back of the board doesn't really have anything out of the ordinary

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about it so let's have a look at the io panel on the back we have 1 2 3 4 5 six

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USB 2.0 connectors this is not a combo

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connector so this is an eat connector this is also an ESAT connector here we

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have one of those handy PS2 uh keyboard

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or Mouse ports we have Optical audio out

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gigabit Ethernet fire wire I know I'm going in kind of a random order today

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USB 3.0 as well as 7.1 audio out so

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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Sabertooth x58 tough series

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motherboard from ASUS