Welcome to my unboxing and first look at a genuine Intel desktop board. Okay,
that's good. This is extreme series optimized for Intel K processors. So,
this is an Extreme Series board and is optimized for Intel K processors cuz
this is an LG 1155 board which means
that you don't have support for Intel Extreme Edition processors on LGA 2011.
The D77RE-75K has a bunch of cool stuff. So,
number one is an Extreme board. Supports Intel Core i7, i5, and i3. Highly
optimized for K processors, which means overclocking friendly. Yay. Intel visual
BIOS, which means UFI BIOS, PCI Express 3.0, LG 1155 processor support, NVIDIA
SLI technology, AMD Crossfire X technology. Look at that. It's AMD logo
on an Intel product. Haha. Um, Lucid Virtue MVP virtualization for
improved performance as well as the ability to use the onboard video for
quicks sync and your dedicated graphics card for gaming. And what else do we
want to talk about? Oh, yeah. It has Thunderbolt, which is Boss. So,
transformational high-speed dual protocol. Man, you know, Intel has like
the boringest way of talking about like the coolest stuff sometimes. No offense,
guys, but transformational high-speed dual
protocol PCIO delivering performance, simplicity, and flexibility. Fastest IO
connection to your
PC. What they really mean is like beastly Thunderbolt technology for like
the fastest daisy chaining awesomeness. And uh that's what they were trying to
say. Latest responsiveness technology. Ah, Intel smart response technology with
SSD caching. Intel rapid start. So you can quickly start up your PC and Intel
smart connect technologies are all present. Power supervisor. Oh, that's
neat. So monitor ensures system protection from power supply failure. Current surgeon overcurren protection
power spikes and power dies. The power supervisor will shut the power off.
That's really cool. So they're building in like a uh like breakers almost on the
board by the sounds of things, which is really neat. I mean, one of the biggest
risks to a PC in general is if you know
there's a power problem of some sort and your power supply explodes, which is
inconvenient and expensive cuz you got to get a new one. But it can also be a
total disaster because it can take other stuff with it at the same time. So,
Intel has thought of that and decided that they don't really want that to happen. And there's Oh, custom SLI
bridge. Love it. Look at that blue connectors. I
don't have one like this. I'm like totally pocketing
this. Intel mouse pad. Intel has awesome swag that comes
with their products. Check this out. I still have this from uh this was back
like some extreme edition LGA75 board. Warning, noobs, beware, you will be
pawned. Love it. Actually, it might have come with uh
what was that board? Skull trail or something. The one that was dual socket.
Yeah, that was the one. Extreme desktop boards. Sweet mouse pad. Actually feels
reasonably nice. Got nice grippyiness on the back. Very cool. We've also got Oh,
look at that. A front USB 3. So, internal header
to front 3 and 1/2 in drive with uh two
USB 3.0 connectors. And it's pretty nice. Like, it's brushed metal. It's not
plastic like some of the ones that I've seen included with other boards. Very
nice. I mean, that's the thing about Intel is it might be a little bit more expensive, but they tend to get some of
the finishing touches right. And I say some because these are red SATA cables,
and that's just tragic. Okay, moving
right along. Oh, neat. So, they include
a an external. I think this is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but let me just double check
before I go and, you know, get ahead of myself
here. Includes Bluetooth 2.1 Wi-Fi BGN
module. So, that's very, very neat. And they also include a cable to connect it.
So, this probably plugs in. Where on earth does this No way. It's internal.
Oh, that's cool. So, you can probably use this on anything. It's just USB.
Look at that. Internal USB plug to internal USB header. And you just stick
it somewhere to the inside of your case discreetly. Very nice. And this is even
pretty easy to sleeve as well. So, you could uh sleeve it black and it look
really good. Colorcoded IO
shield. Summary of a summary of post codes. Very nice. Love it when they
include a post readout. Love it even more when they actually tell you what
they mean. Driver disc integration guide
in color. Oh, in color. How to build your PC. Very
nice. There you go. And you can tell like a team of people worked on anything
that Intel releases. So, little quick guide to all the different various front
panel connectors, processor compatibility.
Yeah. Okay. the LG 1155 and some maximum
ownage Razor thing. Okay, cool. Moving
on to the board itself. Intel has really figured out the
aesthetics of their boards ever since LGA775, I think. And they've this whole
like skull theme thing that they've got going on, I think looks really good.
It's a lot better than like guns and bullets and stuff like that. It's got
like, you know, like a silvery sort of stylized look to it. goes really really
well with the dark blue. Love silver and dark blue as far as color schemes go.
And I'm not going to gush too much about how good-looking this board is, but it's
it's good-looking without being sort of overly flashy and kind of silly. So, all
solid state caps all over the entire board. There's no uh no liquid caps,
including the power delivery as well as every other component on the board.
There's the LG 1155 socket with a lot of
room around it, which is great if you have a large aftermarket cooler. your
eight pin power connectors in its ideal location. On the left, you've got
support for dual channel DDR3 memory up
to probably 64 gigs would be would be my guess, but uh we'll see. It depends on
uh it depends on dim availability over the next little bit. You can at least
put uh you can at least put 32 gigs in
today. 24 pin power connectors and its ideal location along the right hand
edge. Onboard power and reset buttons, very very nice. We've got SATA 3 6 Gbit
per second ports off the Intel chipset. SATA 2 3 Gbit per second ports. And it's
very rare for Intel to include like a
third party chipset, but they've got a Marvel chipset providing two more SATA 3
6 GB per second ports. That's uh that's fantastic. Wow. Front IO. I consider
this to be the ideal location for Front IO. I really like this. I don't really
like it when they put it over here cuz your front IO is always there and never
somewhere else and you're always using it. You know, it's not like USB 2 where
there's a chance you won't be using it. Um, okay. So, there are three front
panel USB 2 ports, two front panel USB 3
ports, spitif out, as well as front panel Oh, look at that front panel
FireWire. Nice to still see that. Where's the front panel audio, though? There it is. Okay. Expansion slots.
We've got seven. love seeing boards with seven expansion slots because what that
means to someone like me is that they put the effort in to make sure that uh
they were filling up all of the space and giving you as much expansion as they possibly can. So these will run in
either 16x or 8x 8x mode PCI Express 3.0
1 2 3 PCIe 1X slots and two PCI slots.
If you're using two dual slot graphics cards, you'll be left with two PCIe 1X
and one PCI slot. I consider this to be a very good mix. Good on you, Intel. All
right. Uh oh, yeah. Let's have a look at fan headers. So, we've got one, two,
three, four PWM fan connectors on the
board. Um the locations aren't as perfect as I'd like. I'd like to see
more fan headers sort of around here because otherwise there's not really
much to connect your front fans to. Uh top fans, can so CPU fan, top fan, rear
fan, and this is sort of in no man's land. I'd like to see a couple up here
instead, but it's not the end of the world. On the back, we've got four USB
2.0 connectors, a PS2 connector, FireWire,
ESATA. I'm going to have to find out what that is. Uh, dual Intel gigabit
Ethernet, four USB 3.0, HDMI, as well as
Oh, that must be the uh must be Thunderbolt. It just looks funny. No,
it's not. No, there it is. Yeah, we'll find out what that is. It's probably a clear SIMO switch, though. HDMI, 7.1
audio out, optical audio out, and a Thunderbolt connector. So, give me a
sec, guys. So, yeah, basically this will when you illuminate this, it'll get you
back to the BIOS at default settings, which is basically a clear SIMOS switch,
but not quite. However, this is a clear SIMOS jumper. So, you just go ahead and
flip that over in order to clear the SIMOS. I think that pretty much covers
it. Although, it does have a couple of uh yeah, a couple of interesting software bits that are included,
including McAfee, ESET, Smart Security. This is neat. Splashtop remote desktop
is included, although there's like an asterisk, so I don't know, other names
and brands, etc. Lap link PC mover and you can monitor PC health with the Intel
desktop utility. Neat stuff. So, what's the
point? Pretty much everything you need in terms of IO. I was wrong. It's 32
gigs max, by the way. Everything you need in terms of IO, every feature you
could possibly ask for, including the latest Thunderbolt technology, SLI,
Crossfire, all that good stuff. And I mean, it's built by Intel, so like, you
know, realistically, it's got a 3-year warranty, but if it's not working 10
years from now, I'll be very surprised. Thank you for checking out my unboxing
and first look at the D77RE75K from Intel. Don't forget to
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