WEBVTT 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:11.040 Buy a qualifying Intel product and get entered in the Intel Dynamic Ticket 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:16.560 Giveaway for a chance to win great prizes. Visit intelgamingromo.com to 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:24.359 learn more. This, you guys, is the board that people like me have been waiting 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:28.320 for ever since EVGA released their NF4 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:29.480 NATX SLI ready board. The whole concept 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:34.960 of high-performance fullyfeatured small 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:40.320 motherboards is extremely exciting to nerds like me who get excited about 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:44.800 small fully featured motherboards. So this is about look I mean look how look 00:00:42.239 --> 00:00:52.640 how full to the brim the accessory package is for the first 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:55.039 MITx ROG motherboard. So here we go. 00:00:52.640 --> 00:01:01.039 Let's get into this because I'm pretty darn stoked. One of the big problems 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:03.280 with many ITX systems is that you can 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:06.720 only have one expansion slot, which means that if you're a storage 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:10.400 enthusiast, you're fine. Throw a RAID card in there. If you're a graphics 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:14.000 enthusiast, you're fine. Throw a graphics card in there. If you're an 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:18.000 audio enthusiast, you're fine. Throw a great sound card in there. But what if 00:01:16.240 --> 00:01:21.759 you happen to be enthusiastic about two of those things? Now you're boned 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:27.520 because it's only got a single PCI Express 16x slot. even on high-end 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:30.320 boards. As ASUS has addressed that in a 00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:34.240 very very meaningful way. So, we'll start with the accessories here. So, 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:39.280 first up, oh yeah, high-end networking enthusiasts, don't worry, you'll be 00:01:35.600 --> 00:01:42.320 fine. Wireless AC, that is dualband 2.4 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:47.040 5 GHz wireless AC is built into this 00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:49.759 board on their MPCIE combo 2 module. So, 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:54.880 this acts not only as a wireless AC card, but also as an NGFF or M2 00:01:52.399 --> 00:01:59.200 expansion slot, so you can put upcoming SSDs in there as well. So, these two go 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:03.360 together just like uh previous generation Intel uh antennas. You can 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:07.200 actually stick this to something that's made of metal, which I, go figure, don't 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 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:17.599 aluminum. All right, next up, we've got some SATA cables. So, there's uh four 00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:22.239 SATA cables, two straight uh oh, all straight. No right angle SATA cables. 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:26.720 This board, unlike the i Deluxe board, only has four SATA ports compared to six 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, 00:02:29.920 --> 00:02:34.480 you know, storage or media center ccentric build. With that said, it has a 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:38.560 cool media center feature I'll tell you about later. All right. Uh, no, I'm 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:42.640 saving this one for later. We've got a couple of different screws for mounting 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:48.879 various things to the board, such as the wireless module. Okay, we've got uh 00:02:45.519 --> 00:02:51.440 whatever the devil this is. Looks like a 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. 00:02:53.920 --> 00:02:59.680 Oh, this is way better. they should 00:02:56.959 --> 00:03:03.599 include this on all of their new boards instead of the Q connector, which I've 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:10.000 always felt is a very cludgy solution because it uh dramatically increases the 00:03:06.720 --> 00:03:13.200 profile of the front panel connectors as 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:15.519 well as um like just you know not 00:03:13.200 --> 00:03:20.879 feeling very sturdy and just being very wobbly. This right here is an expand or 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 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 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. 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:39.599 Love it. Great idea. All right, we've 00:03:36.799 --> 00:03:48.159 got an IO shield. And then finally, this, my friends, is where I start to 00:03:42.959 --> 00:03:52.080 geek out. This is the Supreme FX Impact. 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:55.599 This is a sound card that is also 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:57.920 intended to be used at well as a sound 00:03:55.599 --> 00:04:03.920 card and can be used without taking up your PCI Express slot. So remember guys, 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:07.360 you can get 5.1 output by reconfiguring 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:09.760 jacks. So that's that's a thing, but 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:14.159 you're going to be probably mostly using this as kind of your headphone out and 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:18.400 microphone in. I mean, what is this board designed for? More like LAN use. 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 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 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:33.840 what makes it possible to have a truly high-end machine from every perspective 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 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:42.160 something similar to uh well, ASUS is telling me this is second only to the 00:04:40.080 --> 00:04:46.280 Maxima 6 formula in terms of the Supreme FX implementation. So, you have their I 00:04:44.479 --> 00:04:50.800 forget what they call it, but it's uh uh yes, sonic radar feature, which 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:53.600 allows you to see visually where sounds are coming from, but that's much less 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:58.160 important to me than the fact that you've got a 15 decel signal to noise 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:02.000 ratio. And you've got a lot of the technologies that we've come to expect 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:05.680 from Zonar cards built into something that comes with your motherboard. And 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:10.400 so, this is probably equivalent to somewhere in the range of a $35 to $50 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:15.680 dedicated audio solution, and it comes with your board. It also is able to 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:17.600 drive up to 600 ohm headphones. So that 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:24.320 is very very high impedance headphones either off of the rear port or even off 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:28.800 of the front port. So they have configured it so that you're not going 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:30.800 to get necessarily a hugely deteriorated 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:35.479 audio experience off your front panel port like you see with many audio 00:05:33.039 --> 00:05:39.520 solutions that might otherwise be very high-end. So extremely exciting. They've 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:43.440 also got one other cool mediacentric feature that allows you to, if you have 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:46.880 it configured correctly, have the board completely powered off as long as it 00:05:44.960 --> 00:05:49.919 just has standby power and you can actually plug something into the line in 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:53.440 in the front of the case. So that would be a microphone jack is would probably 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 00:05:55.840 --> 00:06:00.639 back of the motherboard. So you can actually run content through the 00:05:59.039 --> 00:06:03.360 speakers that are connected to it even when the board is not powered up. So 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 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:12.880 on to the actual layout of the board itself. So, right here, this is impact 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:16.319 power, compact dynamo of full scale 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:18.639 power. These chokes can handle up to 60 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:22.560 amps of power. So, it uses the same Blackwing chokes and 10K black metallic 00:06:21.039 --> 00:06:27.360 solid state capacitors that are going to give you better temperature tolerance, 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:31.840 cooler operation, much longer lifetime than generic capacitors. And all of this 00:06:29.039 --> 00:06:36.400 is on an MITx board. The first time we saw this was with the 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:39.039 P8Z77i Deluxe, which was the MITx board 00:06:36.400 --> 00:06:43.680 last generation. So, this is an even higherend implementation. It looks 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:49.280 better. God, man, it looks better. Here's the uh like huge solid metal 00:06:47.440 --> 00:06:54.479 connectors that lead from the general PCB to the There you go. I hope you guys 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:58.160 can see that those like massive think of it in terms of like you know thicker 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:02.400 thicker lines for transmitting power means less loss and more more stability 00:07:00.479 --> 00:07:05.759 for the current to flow. So there you go. They're taking it very seriously 00:07:03.919 --> 00:07:10.720 putting the VRM up here. All right, let's move along to the Oh man, that 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:14.440 looks looks so good. Water cool this. Put like a nice block there. Dead sexy. 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:19.520 Anyway, uh two DDR3 um dual channel slots so you can 00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:23.360 run up to 16 gigs with uh currently available DDR3 modules. The eight pin 00:07:21.599 --> 00:07:26.960 and 24 pin connectors are right next to each other. This I've never really seen 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:30.400 before. And it really depends on the MATX case you use whether these are 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:35.599 optimal configurations for them, but you shouldn't have too much trouble. Onboard 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:37.759 start as well as onboard. Hopefully this 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 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 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:50.160 SATA ports I was talking about before. The MPCIE Combo 2 actually goes down 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:53.680 here at the bottom of the board as opposed to on the larger desktop boards 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 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:03.520 pin fan connectors that are all configurable from within Fan Expert 2. 00:08:01.440 --> 00:08:06.479 So there's one here and then three actually clustered up here in the top 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:13.080 left corner, including their patent pending one that detects and automatically configures for three pin 00:08:09.919 --> 00:08:16.319 or four pin fan control for your CPU. 00:08:13.080 --> 00:08:17.280 Um, you've also got an LG 1150 socket. I 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 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 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:34.959 miniITX board. On the back, in terms of IO, we've got that optical audio port 00:08:32.719 --> 00:08:40.959 that I talked about before, HDMI and DisplayPort out, as well as their 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:44.720 impact control. And what the impact control on the back here does is it adds 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:48.800 more functionality. So you can see it's a little PCB riser that would normally 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 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:55.519 readout, which is cool because you can actually read it from outside the case, 00:08:53.440 --> 00:09:00.560 as well as the memo K button and direct key BIOS flashback and ROG connect, 00:08:58.959 --> 00:09:04.080 which they no longer include the cable for, but the hardware implementation is 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 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 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 00:09:15.680 --> 00:09:23.120 nick supporting their game first packet prioritization technology through ASUS's 00:09:21.040 --> 00:09:26.800 AI suite, too. Now, they also include their usual value ad software with RG 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:31.839 board. So, that is Kasperski antivirus demon tools as well as their RAM 00:09:29.920 --> 00:09:37.279 software. So, I think that pretty much covers it, guys. Would I recommend the 00:09:33.920 --> 00:09:39.600 Maximus 6 Impact? The answer is yes. If 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:45.600 you want the very best possible experience for gaming for an MITx build, 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 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:54.080 want more SATA ports, then that one, I guess, looks pretty compelling. Um, if 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:59.760 you want their four-way optimization, which is their EPU as well as CPU clock 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 00:10:00.959 --> 00:10:07.600 optimize your system for power as well as performance. um that is not how ROG 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 00:10:10.640 --> 00:10:16.959 out on its own. These use CPU level up. So if you really want that functionality 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:22.120 then go for it. Otherwise I really would prefer personally to go with the ROG 00:10:18.959 --> 00:10:24.800 board and do it manually because 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 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:33.680 board that I would necessarily buy. 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 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:41.920 like this video if you liked it, dislike it if you disliked it. Leave me a 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:44.800 comment and let me know what you think about this board. And I know you're 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:58.919 considering not leaving a comment, James, but you should probably do it.