Crazy ASUS Camo Motherboard & RGB Lighting Everywhere - CES 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,099 words · ~5 min read
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all right guys welcome to the ASUS Suite we'll be checking out motherboards here
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we've got a white one a multicolored one and a small one let's go thank you to
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Squarespace for bringing us to CES 2016 this year check out a link to them in
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the video description down below so like I said starting with the white one this
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is the Sabertooth uh Zed 170s or sa Branco or whatever you want
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to call it it looks pretty sick and that's kind of honestly the biggest
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Point here unlike a lot of other sabertooths it doesn't have the armor on
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the front or the armor on the back or any of that kind of stuff there's a
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minor rumor that there might be the ability to buy those as an add-on
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afterwards but that's totally not a thing as of right now so don't don't
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Bank on that I think it looks super cool in terms of headers and plugins and all
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that kind of stuff it has a boatload of fan headers I think it's 11 in total
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there's one there's four across the top three on the right hand side uh three on
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the bottom and then one in the middle of the board for a grand total of enough fans to literally take your entire
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computer off the ground if you want if you're tired of hoverboards you can have
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a hover computer I don't know it's ridiculous on the I/O on the back
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there's a bank of four USB 2.0 ports another USB 2.0 Port just to the right
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of that a BIOS reset switch DisplayPort HDMI dual USB 3.0 a gigb Ethernet port a
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USB 3.1 port a USB type-c port and then
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a bank of audio plugins next up we've got the multicolored crazy shiny one
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which is the Maximus 8 formula whose tagline is see the light we'll figure
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out why in a moment first off they've got some cool stuff like high
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performance water blocks co-designed by EK water blocks under these little
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rubbery grommets up here and you're don't worry you don't have to use those
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your computer will function just great without them now in terms of I/O on the
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back I want to cover this real fast because it's absolutely insane they have
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2x2 802.11 AC M mimo so multi-user mimo
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Wi-Fi through these two antenna ports right here you've got a cosos clear
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you've got BIOS reset HDMI DisplayPort quad USB 3.0 gbit uh land USB 3.1
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standard a connector or USB 3.1 type- C
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connector a PS2 Port which while some of
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you might think that's funny I actually appreciate so whatever man uh two more
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USB 3.0 ports and then a bank of audio ports now I know I glossed over some
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things but the main important thing about this is the new lighting stuff so
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there's three lighting zones there's one here one more in the middle and one up
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there this area is not technically a lighting Zone it's always going to stay
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white just so you guys know but another
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cool thing is down at the bottom there's this white little header which is going
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to enable you to plug in a lighting strip and then use their Rog Aura
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lighting software to control that lighting strip and all the RGB Lighting
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on the board so they're all in sync which is super cool because you could
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then Bridge off of that lighting strip and make it even longer or go all around
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the case or make under lighting or whatever the heck you want and everything's going to be be in sync and
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it's going to be nice and good last and
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honestly maybe least we have the ASUS b150i Pro gaming Wi-Fi Aura board which
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would have maybe been helpful if you've seen the Fallout build considering it is
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ever so slightly shorter in the heat sink department and that might have
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actually helped me anyways this is basically just a cheaper version of
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their currently available current generation ITX boards which is really
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good to see because ITX being a value proposition is something that should
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definitely stay a thing and kind of wasn't for a little while there it does
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have one funky feature which is along the right hand side of the board just
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under the board or is it in the board no it's under the board is RGB stuff so
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just like we saw on the previous board it has the aura RGB lighting system in
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terms of plugging in fans you have three headers two that are up and near the top
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right hand is kind of corner one that is just above where you'd plug in your
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expansion card in terms of fancy features that it carries over from more
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higher-end boards it does have 2x2 mimo
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AC Wi-Fi which is pretty badass and an m.2 slot which is hidden behind the
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board it actually kind of took me a sec to find that one for Io you've got two
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USB 2.0 ports a PS2 Port badass DVI
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Optical HDMI uh USB type-c gigabit
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Ethernet two USB 3.0 ports that Wi-Fi
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that we were talking about earlier and a bank of audio ports all right guys
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thanks for checking out our video at the a to Sweet unsurprisingly ASUS has a
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