Asus Sabertooth P67 Core i7 LGA1155 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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now this is a motherboard unboxing that I've been pretty excited to do this is
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the assus Sabertooth p67 motherboard so
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it's part of their tough series which stands for the Ultimate Force which has
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a very clever little logo that's actually a t and then a u and then an F
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sort of but you you get the point right the Ultimate Force tough tough Series
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has a 5year warrantee so it has guaranteed reliability it also has a
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Fring axe on the front of the box so it
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is tough and will destroy you okay here
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we have its support for LGA 1155 so that
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means you have full support for all of the Intel Core i7 Core i5 and core I3
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CPUs on this platform it features the p67 chipset which means that the Onboard
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video on your core i7 processor will not be supported by this board but honestly
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who cares this is a performance board you're going to want to put a nice
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dedicated graphics card into it so let's have a look at what ASUS has to say for
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themselves about this board we have thermal armor armor which is total air
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flow boosting heat dissipation and we'll show you that once we get it opened up
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we have thermal radar real-time heat detection and heat removal so monitors
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temps and critical parts of the motherboard in real time automatically adjusting fan speeds to make sure the
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system maintains High stability without overheating we have tough components so
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certified by military standard for tough Duty hence the 5-year
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warranty Digi Plus vrm so fully digital
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vrm for excellent voltage regulation we
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have a front panel USB support uh compatible with any chassis enjoy faster
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throwbot without relegating cables or devices to the hard-to-reach rear iio so
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that means it has a USB proper pinout header rather than just a cable in that
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goes around to the back of the board EFI BIOS which is awesome because it even
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supports the scroll wheel in the graphical interface in the bio so you
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can use a mouse to change all those settings and of the keyboard and it has
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a complete USB solution double USB access double convenience okay what does
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that mean fac facilitates strategic accessibility for both the front and
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rear panel okay well we'll see what they mean once we get that opened up let's
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have a look at the back of the board where it probably says all of the same
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stuff tested server grade reliability so that's something they hadn't mentioned
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on the front and now let's get it opened up and have a look at this board this is
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a very unique looking motherboard and you can't really tell through that
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highly reflective surface I suspect so it will still we're still in suspense
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about what this new tough series board looks like let's have a look at the
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included accessories we have a users's guide a utilities and drivers DVD which
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you should throw away a powered by ASUS sticker so download the latest off the
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ASUS website we have a 5-year warranty notice that comes with it as well as a
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thermal radar Digi plus vrm user guide
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cool thank you next we have an IO Shield we have two SATA 2 3 GB per
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second cables and two SATA 36 GB per
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second cables although please note they are identical other than the white color
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coding on the cables they will both work with either speed grade we have four
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mounting screws not sure what those are for guess we'll hopefully find out then
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we have an SLI Bridge very tight spacing on the SLI uh compatible slot oh
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actually no that's not that tight uh no that's fine never mind and then we have
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their Q connect for the front uh case
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switch LED all that good stuff as well as the front USB too and finally the
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board itself so normally when ausa's boards come in one of these paper
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sleeves they actually don't have an antistatic bag on them but the
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Sabertooth p67 seems to be a bit of an exception to that rule and here it is so
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that's the thermal sheath that we were talking about before you can see it has
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like a like a plastic covering on it okay that oh okay so that's what these
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screws are for so you can actually you have alternate mounting screws to
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actually put a fan over the North Bridge should you so desire so wow this
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actually makes it kind of more difficult for me to point out a lot of the
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features of the board because I well maybe it makes it easier because I can
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only see the things that qualifies as features of the board one thing that
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this design will allow you to do is have a very clean looking interior of your
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case because the only Parts you're going to be able to see are the business parts
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parts of your board so let's start where we usually start which is the CPU socket
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very non-crowded CPU socket 1 2 3 4 5 6
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7 8 9 10 11 okay I'm not sure how many
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phases the power design is okay hold on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 okay looks like an
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8 plus two phase power design on this guy LGA 1155 socket as I mentioned
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before supports all lga1155 boards because you're using the p67 chipset you
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have full support for kseries unlocked processors overclocking those things to
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the max up here in the top left we have the 8 Pin CPU power connector and it's
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in exactly its correct location we have
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our mosfet heat sinks here as well as here using a typical assus tough series
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color scheme so we've got kind of a black um rough looking paint finish as
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well as like a green military rough looking paint finish on both sides we
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have full support for oops uh up to four
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sticks of dual Channel DDR3 memory on uh
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can I even get this off yeah there we go
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so these are also tough uh tough series
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looking uh color schemes here as well ASUS is using their quick install I
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forget what The Branding is for it but basically it allows you to slide in the
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modules from one side and then clip in with only one side so you don't have to
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clip in both sides at the same time we have the memo K button which allows you
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to post with any memory sticks even if they're not 100% compatible it'll
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default to a very safe setting to allow you to post and then adjust your memory
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timings for Optimal Performance we have our 24 pin power connector and its ideal
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location along the right hand Edge and here we have a USB 3 header so that will
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be for your front panel USB 3 we are
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also going to find uh what is this okay here we go so we have four SATA 2 3 gbit
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per second ports and it looks like we have four SATA 3 6 gbit per second Port
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so two of these are going to be running off of the Intel chipset and two of them
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are going to be running off some thirdparty chipset which I actually can't identify because most of the board
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is covered so here we have our front panel connectors that is your front
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power reset LEDs all that good stuff we
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have a set of three front USB 2.0
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headers so that means up to six front USB 2.0 devices we have a front fire
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wire header as well as our front audio header in
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terms of the PCI Express expansion we have a pretty good looking layout here
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so we have 1 2 three PCIe 1X slots we
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have two PCIe 16x slots remember p67
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boards that is all of them are going to
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split these PCI e6x slots into dual PCI
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e8x unless they have an nf200 or similar
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chip and then finally One loan PCI slot
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so if you're running sort of a mid-range configuration with one graph grac card
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then they leave you one two PCI e1x a
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PCI E up to 8X and then one PCI slot and
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if you're running dual Graphics so a high-end config they leave you two PCIe
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1X slots since those are the ones that a high-end power user is more likely to
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use here we have a like shroud on the io
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C on the io Shield so we have one of those PS2 keyboard mouse combo ports
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which I'm a big fan of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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USB 2.0 ports optical audio out e oh
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dual eata it looks like yep dual eata and then we've also
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got USB 3.0 fire wire gigabit Ethernet
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and 7.1 audio out on the back of the
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motherboard we find some mounting screws and not a whole lot else and one thing I
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sort of want to figure out here is whether it's possible to
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remove the thermal armor Shield should
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you so desire so sorry guys I'm going to take just a minute here on camera and
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yes it looks like you can so there's mounting screws on the back for it they
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go here here here here here here here
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basically they're all over the back and it looks like you can quite easily
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remove the thermal armor if you want so
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that would be totally up to you because there may be some aspects of the board
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that are more difficult to work with with this thermal armor plate on such as
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the PCIe um
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fasten or retention Clips there so I'm going to show you guys what I mean keep
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focusing that at the board while I walk over here and go get a graphics card
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so uh this is one thing that might be a little bit challenging when you've got a
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system completely loaded up it might be a little bit hard to access these these
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kinds of mechanism so you know like let's say you got one card you got a
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dual slot card here and then you've got
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like uh another dual slot card here so this is like you have this much room in
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between to press down on that and pull
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out the card so I'm not sure how challenging that's going to be but
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another thing that might be a bit tricky is if you have a screwdriver with a wide
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tip like mine it's probably not going to fit down here to fasten the motherboard
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so make sure you have a skinny screwdriver so those are the only considerations that I'd probably uh want
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to be sure of oh another thing is you might want to make sure you have enough
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clearance between the io shield and like a 120 mm fan here in your case uh to
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make sure that you have room for this so those are the only considerations that I
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can think of that would really be a concern for the p67 saber 2 thank you
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