ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe mITX Peformance Gaming Motherboard Unboxing & FIrst Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,045 words · ~5 min read
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I couldn't welcome to my unboxing and first look at a very exciting
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motherboard so good things yes this is a motherboard look at this it's like the
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size of my head uh this is the p8 z77 I
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deluxe from ASUS this is part of their minia Max series of motherboards forget
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about home entertainment center forget about Mini Max think gaming with this
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motherboard this is an ITX board Bo that has just you know what who cares about
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all of this stuff let's open it up and check this out because it's awesome okay
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so first we have the motherboard but I'm going to make you guys wait for that
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wait for the exciting part first I'm going to make you sit through the accessories which are actually pretty
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good for an IT export as you may or may not have noticed already mounting screws
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Dual Band Wi-Fi two Wi-Fi antennas at
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least I hope that's Dual Band Wi-Fi and I haven't screwed myself over here yep
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oh and Bluetooth 4.0 is also included with this board four SATA cables two red
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two black that's an odd Choice
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um seriously ASUS part number something
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something I will have to find out what that is I've never seen that before IO
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Shield okay manual with CD that you shouldn't use and let's have a look at
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the motherboard itself look at this they couldn't even find a bag that's the
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right size for a performance motherboard this small way too awesome
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okay here come on in come on in take a close look at this okay so we're going
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to start with this angle because this is like before it gets way too baller so
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you have an 1155 socket which means you have full support for anything up to a
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3770k yes you can overclock on this board yes it it is awesome okay so I
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know I've said it's awesome a lot of times but I'm going to keep I'm going to keep explaining why dual Channel DDR3 8
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Pin CPU power connector us usually ITX boards only
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have four pin power connectors this is to save space and it is also because the
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vrm on them isn't even remotely capable of delivering the kind of current that
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would require an eight pin okay so there's an eight pin just saying 24 pin
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power connector okay two SATA 3 6 gbit
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per second ports 2 SATA 2 3 GB per second
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ports um wait a minute no yes yes 1 PCIe 16x
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PCIe 3.0 lot so you can install even a
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GTX 690 in here and you'd have full
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speed for that card you know full speed no big deal okay chips set heat sink
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front USB 3 header two front USB 2
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headers I mean what ITX case even has
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six front USB ports because no motherboard has this kind of expansion
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on it there's your Wi-Fi card in that mini PCIe slot and then you got your
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memo K button which helps you post more easily you've got two fan connectors
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which I guess is pretty conservative but when you consider the size of the board it's pretty reasonable now I'm going to
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show you guys the ridiculous part check
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this out like look look look at this look at this you've got these solid
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connectors between a daughter board that
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actually does full digital
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pwm for this board and is capable of delivering the kind of current you would
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normally see on a desktop board to that
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CPU socket so they have managed to do this including cooling this is all
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cooling this is all a big fat heat sink this is oh so they have managed to do
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this while retaining adequate room around the CPU socket and while staying
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inside that ITX form factor but barely I mean look realistically at how much
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additional additional PCB space they
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have added to this ITX board by doing this this daughter board thing which is
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awesome so if you're doing like an overclocked liquid cooled ITX system and
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something like a bit Phenix prodigy or a Silverstone F3 mini or something like
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that this is the motherboard to end all
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motherboards for the z77 platform on the back you've got four USB 2.0 ports four
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USB 3.0 ports optical audio out HDMI DisplayPort DVI there's your two
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antenna spots gigabit Ethernet powered by Intel just like ASUS's all of ASUS's
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z77 boards 2 EA seos clear seos
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and flashback oh okay so those are two
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separate buttons for clear seos as well as their BIOS flashback feature and
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then I'm I'm sort of sad to see sort of ghetto on board audio I would have
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rather seen sort of more audio here as opposed to these however if you're doing
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a baller gaming rig you should probably be using an external USB sound card or
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something like that with a system like this so I'm just going to find out what
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the heck these cables do and then I'll be back okay it turns out all I had to
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do was open it up to figure out what it is this is really cool so because
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they've um to save space they've actually changed their normal layout a
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little bit for the front panel connectors if you're having trouble plugging them in you just plug this
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whole block in and then these are all little labeled header extenders that you
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can use to plug in your front panel connectors so aside from performance the
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p8 z77 I Deluxe delivers
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convenience don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews
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and other computer videos I me just take like another look at this look at this
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thing it's like awesome look at these look at these solid connectors to the
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see see how those go right through the PCB like very little very little loss
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there