1 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:11,040 Buy a qualifying Intel product and get entered in the Intel Dynamic Ticket 2 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:16,560 Giveaway for a chance to win great prizes. Visit intelgamingromo.com to 3 00:00:13,679 --> 00:00:24,359 learn more. This, you guys, is the board that people like me have been waiting 4 00:00:19,359 --> 00:00:28,320 for ever since EVGA released their NF4 5 00:00:24,359 --> 00:00:29,480 NATX SLI ready board. The whole concept 6 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:34,960 of high-performance fullyfeatured small 7 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:40,320 motherboards is extremely exciting to nerds like me who get excited about 8 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:44,800 small fully featured motherboards. So this is about look I mean look how look 9 00:00:42,239 --> 00:00:52,640 how full to the brim the accessory package is for the first 10 00:00:48,039 --> 00:00:55,039 MITx ROG motherboard. So here we go. 11 00:00:52,640 --> 00:01:01,039 Let's get into this because I'm pretty darn stoked. One of the big problems 12 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:03,280 with many ITX systems is that you can 13 00:01:01,039 --> 00:01:06,720 only have one expansion slot, which means that if you're a storage 14 00:01:04,799 --> 00:01:10,400 enthusiast, you're fine. Throw a RAID card in there. If you're a graphics 15 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:14,000 enthusiast, you're fine. Throw a graphics card in there. If you're an 16 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:18,000 audio enthusiast, you're fine. Throw a great sound card in there. But what if 17 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:21,759 you happen to be enthusiastic about two of those things? Now you're boned 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:27,520 because it's only got a single PCI Express 16x slot. even on high-end 19 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:30,320 boards. As ASUS has addressed that in a 20 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:34,240 very very meaningful way. So, we'll start with the accessories here. So, 21 00:01:32,159 --> 00:01:39,280 first up, oh yeah, high-end networking enthusiasts, don't worry, you'll be 22 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:42,320 fine. Wireless AC, that is dualband 2.4 23 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:47,040 5 GHz wireless AC is built into this 24 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:49,759 board on their MPCIE combo 2 module. So, 25 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:54,880 this acts not only as a wireless AC card, but also as an NGFF or M2 26 00:01:52,399 --> 00:01:59,200 expansion slot, so you can put upcoming SSDs in there as well. So, these two go 27 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:03,360 together just like uh previous generation Intel uh antennas. You can 28 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:07,200 actually stick this to something that's made of metal, which I, go figure, don't 29 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:11,920 have here, but anyway, you can stick it to the side of your case or whatever else, as long as it's not made of 30 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:17,599 aluminum. All right, next up, we've got some SATA cables. So, there's uh four 31 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:22,239 SATA cables, two straight uh oh, all straight. No right angle SATA cables. 32 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:26,720 This board, unlike the i Deluxe board, only has four SATA ports compared to six 33 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:31,520 on the other one because this is more of a gaming centric board as opposed to a, 34 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:34,480 you know, storage or media center ccentric build. With that said, it has a 35 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:38,560 cool media center feature I'll tell you about later. All right. Uh, no, I'm 36 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:42,640 saving this one for later. We've got a couple of different screws for mounting 37 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:48,879 various things to the board, such as the wireless module. Okay, we've got uh 38 00:02:45,519 --> 00:02:51,440 whatever the devil this is. Looks like a 39 00:02:48,879 --> 00:02:56,959 Whoops. And I'm knocking the box around. Who knows what he's going to do next. 40 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:59,680 Oh, this is way better. they should 41 00:02:56,959 --> 00:03:03,599 include this on all of their new boards instead of the Q connector, which I've 42 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:10,000 always felt is a very cludgy solution because it uh dramatically increases the 43 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:13,200 profile of the front panel connectors as 44 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,519 well as um like just you know not 45 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:20,879 feeling very sturdy and just being very wobbly. This right here is an expand or 46 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:24,000 as an extender for it. So, it plugs in as one unit just like the Q connector 47 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:31,200 and then you can actually extend them somewhere where it's more convenient to plug them in. That's great, ASUS, if 48 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:36,799 you're watching and I know you are. This on every board, get rid of Q connector. 49 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:39,599 Love it. Great idea. All right, we've 50 00:03:36,799 --> 00:03:48,159 got an IO shield. And then finally, this, my friends, is where I start to 51 00:03:42,959 --> 00:03:52,080 geek out. This is the Supreme FX Impact. 52 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:55,599 This is a sound card that is also 53 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:57,920 intended to be used at well as a sound 54 00:03:55,599 --> 00:04:03,920 card and can be used without taking up your PCI Express slot. So remember guys, 55 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:07,360 you can get 5.1 output by reconfiguring 56 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:09,760 jacks. So that's that's a thing, but 57 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:14,159 you're going to be probably mostly using this as kind of your headphone out and 58 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:18,400 microphone in. I mean, what is this board designed for? More like LAN use. 59 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:21,280 And if you really wanted to run a whole bunch of speakers off of it, you're 60 00:04:20,239 --> 00:04:27,680 probably going to want to use an external DAC and the optical connector right here. But this, my friends, is 61 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:33,840 what makes it possible to have a truly high-end machine from every perspective 62 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:38,479 that I can think of on an MITx board. So what they've achieved here is probably 63 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:42,160 something similar to uh well, ASUS is telling me this is second only to the 64 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:46,280 Maxima 6 formula in terms of the Supreme FX implementation. So, you have their I 65 00:04:44,479 --> 00:04:50,800 forget what they call it, but it's uh uh yes, sonic radar feature, which 66 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,600 allows you to see visually where sounds are coming from, but that's much less 67 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:58,160 important to me than the fact that you've got a 15 decel signal to noise 68 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:02,000 ratio. And you've got a lot of the technologies that we've come to expect 69 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:05,680 from Zonar cards built into something that comes with your motherboard. And 70 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:10,400 so, this is probably equivalent to somewhere in the range of a $35 to $50 71 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:15,680 dedicated audio solution, and it comes with your board. It also is able to 72 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:17,600 drive up to 600 ohm headphones. So that 73 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:24,320 is very very high impedance headphones either off of the rear port or even off 74 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:28,800 of the front port. So they have configured it so that you're not going 75 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:30,800 to get necessarily a hugely deteriorated 76 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:35,479 audio experience off your front panel port like you see with many audio 77 00:05:33,039 --> 00:05:39,520 solutions that might otherwise be very high-end. So extremely exciting. They've 78 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:43,440 also got one other cool mediacentric feature that allows you to, if you have 79 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,880 it configured correctly, have the board completely powered off as long as it 80 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:49,919 just has standby power and you can actually plug something into the line in 81 00:05:48,639 --> 00:05:53,440 in the front of the case. So that would be a microphone jack is would probably 82 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:57,440 be coated on on the front and then have that come out of the line out on the 83 00:05:55,840 --> 00:06:00,639 back of the motherboard. So you can actually run content through the 84 00:05:59,039 --> 00:06:03,360 speakers that are connected to it even when the board is not powered up. So 85 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:07,440 that's that's kind of neat as long as they're amped speakers. So, let's move 86 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:12,880 on to the actual layout of the board itself. So, right here, this is impact 87 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:16,319 power, compact dynamo of full scale 88 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:18,639 power. These chokes can handle up to 60 89 00:06:16,319 --> 00:06:22,560 amps of power. So, it uses the same Blackwing chokes and 10K black metallic 90 00:06:21,039 --> 00:06:27,360 solid state capacitors that are going to give you better temperature tolerance, 91 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:31,840 cooler operation, much longer lifetime than generic capacitors. And all of this 92 00:06:29,039 --> 00:06:36,400 is on an MITx board. The first time we saw this was with the 93 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:39,039 P8Z77i Deluxe, which was the MITx board 94 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:43,680 last generation. So, this is an even higherend implementation. It looks 95 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:49,280 better. God, man, it looks better. Here's the uh like huge solid metal 96 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:54,479 connectors that lead from the general PCB to the There you go. I hope you guys 97 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:58,160 can see that those like massive think of it in terms of like you know thicker 98 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:02,400 thicker lines for transmitting power means less loss and more more stability 99 00:07:00,479 --> 00:07:05,759 for the current to flow. So there you go. They're taking it very seriously 100 00:07:03,919 --> 00:07:10,720 putting the VRM up here. All right, let's move along to the Oh man, that 101 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:14,440 looks looks so good. Water cool this. Put like a nice block there. Dead sexy. 102 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:19,520 Anyway, uh two DDR3 um dual channel slots so you can 103 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:23,360 run up to 16 gigs with uh currently available DDR3 modules. The eight pin 104 00:07:21,599 --> 00:07:26,960 and 24 pin connectors are right next to each other. This I've never really seen 105 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:30,400 before. And it really depends on the MATX case you use whether these are 106 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:35,599 optimal configurations for them, but you shouldn't have too much trouble. Onboard 107 00:07:32,319 --> 00:07:37,759 start as well as onboard. Hopefully this 108 00:07:35,599 --> 00:07:42,000 is reset, but it's not actually labeled. So guys, let me know if I'm wrong on 109 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:45,599 that one. We've got an onboard USB 3 front panel header as well as those four 110 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:50,160 SATA ports I was talking about before. The MPCIE Combo 2 actually goes down 111 00:07:48,319 --> 00:07:53,680 here at the bottom of the board as opposed to on the larger desktop boards 112 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:59,440 where we're used to seeing it uh up closer to the top. You've got four four 113 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:03,520 pin fan connectors that are all configurable from within Fan Expert 2. 114 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:06,479 So there's one here and then three actually clustered up here in the top 115 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:13,080 left corner, including their patent pending one that detects and automatically configures for three pin 116 00:08:09,919 --> 00:08:16,319 or four pin fan control for your CPU. 117 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,280 Um, you've also got an LG 1150 socket. I 118 00:08:16,319 --> 00:08:24,400 guess that's important. So, you can run the latest Haswell processors, including the 4770K. And then you can overclock 119 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:31,039 the snot out of it because you're on a very, very sort of desktop grade like 120 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:34,959 miniITX board. On the back, in terms of IO, we've got that optical audio port 121 00:08:32,719 --> 00:08:40,959 that I talked about before, HDMI and DisplayPort out, as well as their 122 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:44,720 impact control. And what the impact control on the back here does is it adds 123 00:08:43,279 --> 00:08:48,800 more functionality. So you can see it's a little PCB riser that would normally 124 00:08:46,959 --> 00:08:51,680 be on the board itself, but there wasn't enough room. So we've got a post 125 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:55,519 readout, which is cool because you can actually read it from outside the case, 126 00:08:53,440 --> 00:09:00,560 as well as the memo K button and direct key BIOS flashback and ROG connect, 127 00:08:58,959 --> 00:09:04,080 which they no longer include the cable for, but the hardware implementation is 128 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:08,880 still there. So as long as you have a USB A to cable, you can get that going 129 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:12,560 no problem. Four USB 2.0 ports, four USB 3.0 0 ports. ESATA is something we've 130 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:18,080 started to see less of, but there it is. It's on this board. And an Intel gigabit 131 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:23,120 nick supporting their game first packet prioritization technology through ASUS's 132 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:26,800 AI suite, too. Now, they also include their usual value ad software with RG 133 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:31,839 board. So, that is Kasperski antivirus demon tools as well as their RAM 134 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:37,279 software. So, I think that pretty much covers it, guys. Would I recommend the 135 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:39,600 Maximus 6 Impact? The answer is yes. If 136 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:45,600 you want the very best possible experience for gaming for an MITx build, 137 00:09:43,519 --> 00:09:50,320 this is pretty much the way to go. They have a new generation i Deluxe. If you 138 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:54,080 want more SATA ports, then that one, I guess, looks pretty compelling. Um, if 139 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:59,760 you want their four-way optimization, which is their EPU as well as CPU clock 140 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:02,880 speed, uh, the VRM control, there's a b there's a bunch of stuff that it does to 141 00:10:00,959 --> 00:10:07,600 optimize your system for power as well as performance. um that is not how ROG 142 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:12,800 boards overclock with their one button overclocking whereas the other one is like it's like dynamic and it figures it 143 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:16,959 out on its own. These use CPU level up. So if you really want that functionality 144 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:22,120 then go for it. Otherwise I really would prefer personally to go with the ROG 145 00:10:18,959 --> 00:10:24,800 board and do it manually because 146 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:32,320 man between this and the and the six formula like I I can't think of another 147 00:10:27,519 --> 00:10:33,680 board that I would necessarily buy. 148 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:37,680 Don't forget to subscribe to Lance Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Don't forget to 149 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:41,920 like this video if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it. Leave me a 150 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:44,800 comment and let me know what you think about this board. And I know you're 151 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:58,919 considering not leaving a comment, James, but you should probably do it.