ASUS Poseidon GTX 780, Thunderbolt 2 & SATA Express Showcase - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Digital here in the isus suite they've got a number of cool demos running we're
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going to start with the components so first up is the Rog front Bas so this is
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a dual Bay display SL knob SL front
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panel connectors device that allows you to control your overclock monitor fan
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speeds control fan speeds as well as pass through your front audio it adds
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another USB connector to the front and it uses the same interface
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as right there the O panel so it's
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compatible with the Rampage 4 Black Edition as well as any of the Z87
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motherboards that feature that OC panel header connector the second thing in
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here is one that I'm actually personally a little bit more excited about this is
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Theus Poseidon GTX 780 now there will be
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a 780 Ti version that I've heard Rumblings about but basically guys the
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Poseidon concept which we first saw at computex is an air cooling SL liquid
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cooling hybrid product now isus is telling me that from an air cooling
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perspective the Poseidon only runs a handful of degrees warmer than a regular
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card that doesn't have the built-in liquid cooling and while they're not giving us an exact number with these
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standard G1 quarter fittings and the ability to hook it up to whatever liquid
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cooling system you could possibly want I can assure you that if you're going from
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air and you're you're thinking about upgrading to liquid it's going to be uh
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worth a look to consider the ability to
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easily add liquid cooling to it if and if all you're sacrificing is a couple of
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degrees when you're running on air next up we've got what looks like a standard
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assus Z87 Deluxe board except no this
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one has some pretty different looking connectors on the bottom corner here
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this is the first time I've seen SATA Express in person now what the connector
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looks like is three discrete connectors all next to each other but they actually
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serve as one interface to a single drive
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so two of them look like standard SATA 3 connectors and then there is a third
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that actually is a direct PCI Express 2x
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link so what this enables once you connect a drive to it is transfer speeds
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of up to 1,000 megabytes per second or 1
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Gigabyte per second so we're finally getting to the point where we are
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removing the SATA 3 bottle neck that exists on many modern ssds without
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taking up a PCI Express slot at the back of the case by going with something like
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an isus Raider or other PCI SSD solution
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rounding out our components showcase we've got the Thunderbolt ex2 now going
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back to z77 even we've seen these TB
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header ports on ASUS motherboards that promised the ability to add Thunderbolt
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one to your motherboard as an as an aftermarket upgrade option now we never
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actually saw that productized and I maybe it was a certification issue or
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something like that so for me personally I was like oh that's a little
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disappointing because I was kind of hoping that we'd see that well guys it's
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here now this is Thunderbolt ex2 and you can plug it into the TB header plug it
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into a PCI Express slot and you can actually add Thunderbolt connectivity to
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any ASUS motherboard that has that TB uncore header even the older ones so the
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older TB uncore header is just as compatible with Thunderbolt 2 as it was
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with Thunderbolt one so you can get that full 20 gbit per second connectivity now
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speaking of 20 gbit per second connectivity ASUS is also showing off
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their okay now this one's this one's got a bit of an odd name on it so this is
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their Z87 Deluxe quad which has two
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Thunderbolt 2 connectors so the quad
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rational this is four times the potential total bandwidth that you would
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get with a single Thunderbolt one connector now speaking of total
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bandwidth in order to even demo this they grabbed a couple of ASUS Raiders
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they built a custom PCB here so you can see we've got a daisy chain coming out
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from the back of the board and then from one Raider to the second Raider and then
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they're using a real-time test to show you data throughput of these two cards
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together on Thunderbolt 2 now to be clear Thunderbolt 2 is actually capable
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of even higher speeds than this but it just should give you some idea of what
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we're looking at in terms of capability of this Tech technology moving forward
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and that is running off of Just One of the Thunderbolt two ports on this
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motherboard of course there are two of them which makes it the quad motherboard
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so thanks for checking out our isus component suite update here at CES 2014
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