Mod Right Mod-Mat Mainboard & ModMat Xtreme Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,240 words · ~6 min read
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this video is brought to you by the Intel Core i5 4670k unlocked processor
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add an Intel 520 series SSD to your Haswell system for unbelievable overall
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performance welcome to a dual unboxing
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of a couple of different products I've got the mod matte main board and the mod
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matte extreme which are both from Mod right these are PC Building gears so to
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speak and what they are designed to be is a static safe
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Workstation covering that is portable is
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scratch resistant so it's not going to damage you know your side panel window
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or high gloss finish on your graphics card or anything like that as well as
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provide you with some useful information that you might need to reference while
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you're in the building process Inside the Box you find not only
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the modmat so there's the modmat main board and here's the modmat extrem but
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also an anti-static wrist strap and an
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antistatic alligator clip so let's get the unwrapping process documented here
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it comes with a plastic over layer with
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a paper under layer and then
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finally there we have it ah the mod mat itself so this is the
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motherboard version or main board version which H is smaller but still has
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many of the same advantages that is to say that it's antistatic so check this
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out so the idea is you take this and you
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ground out your modmat to something uh
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you know such as a plugged in but not powered on power supply or something in
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a ground Outlet in your wall or whatever else the case may be that makes sure
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that this is completely anti-static and then now that we've got it spread out we
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can see where those two pieces clip onto so you can tie your antistatic wrist
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strap here and then you can ground out the mod matat Itself by using the allig
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al alligator clip to plug into whether
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it's you know a ground Outlet on your wall outlet or something like a power a
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plugged in but not powered on power supply or whatever else the case may be
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here this is cool so check this out I've got a motherboard handy which is why I
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have a motherboard here so this right here is to show you what size your
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motherboard is if you weren't sure so ATX is going to be presumably I don't
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know presumably it goes here yes
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so that is an ATX board so you can see
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that an eatx board would go all the way to here an hptx board so things like the
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SRX from EVGA would go all the way to here so if you were ever not quite sure
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you'd be able to quickly check and reference what size your board is so
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there's another convenient measurement here that tells you pretty much the same
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thing if you have any confusion about the ports on your motherboard you can
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also check this handy dandy reference chart here which tells you pretty much
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what all of this stuff is so there you go that matches up to that so the main
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board one isn't the one that has sort of the more
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advanced features and charts and graphs
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that is saved for the extreme model now
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we have the modm extrem spread out in front of us and you can see that there's
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an awful lot of room to work you can have a motherboard here your case here
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all your random accessories spread out and it has a lot of way way super more
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useful stuff on it so for example you can quickly and easily find out what
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size a radiator is and check the spacing so there I can see okay da da da da da
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there you go that is a dual 120 mm radiator and then you've got your 140s
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on the side it measures everything up to a quad rad very cool stuff you can
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quickly and easily I mean okay so some of this stuff won't be useful to someone
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like me I know what how big a radiator is just looking at it so you've got
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other things that again wouldn't be that useful to me cuz I know how big a 3 and
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1/2 in hard drive is versus a 2 and2 inch hard drive you can see I mean it
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makes for just cool schematics on it if nothing else but this is a cool one
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being able to quickly reference how big a fan is so there you go you've got
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marks on here that show you this is a
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140 mm if you line it up there and it lines up with all the other ones you got
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a 140 mil fan on your hands if it lines up here and goes to all these other ones
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you got a 120 mil fan on your hands not everyone can identify fans just looking
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at them without another one for reference so that's really nice nice to
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have um next up we've got tubing sizes
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so this allows you to take a piece of tubing and basically go yeah there
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that's 5/8 in od that is 38 in ID which
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means that it there that one see I had it on the wrong one and you could tell
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it wasn't quite lining up so you can see from how big the hole is and how thick
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the wall is that is what size that is you can make sure it's compatible with
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your compressions and you can see they've got a little chart here for that as well now this is the one that I
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really like this is the kind of thing that I would actually have to reference
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on an ongoing basis and that is wiring diagrams if you do any cable sleeving or
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anything like that these could save your life cuz they tell you exactly what the
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voltages are of all the pins they give you all the color coding and so if you
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do any custom wiring on your own that could actually be uh maybe not a
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lifesaver but definitely a component saver because you might not break
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something that you otherwise would have broken for your reference they also show
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you all the latest sockets from Intel and AMD in little diagrams so you can
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make sure you don't screw up anything on that side so you can see quite clearly
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that this one right here
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is LGA 1155 or 1156 actually it's LGA
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1150 but they had no way of knowing that when they manufactured this thing in all
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likelihood so it's a grippy anti-static
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workplace has some cool little references looks really good and the
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extreme has more mounting points for your anti-static wrist strap as well as
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your grounding strap so there's one over here on the far right and then there's
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one over here up by the top thank you for checking out my unboxing and first
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