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bill its coverage of copy text 2019 is brought to you by fantex Coolermaster gigabyte enter max team group NZXT and Corsair to learn more about our sponsors click on the links below alright at the ASU spoof look at that engine ease for excellence yada yada yada just show me the x5 70 boards damn it oh and x5 70 boards they have they actually already have six different ROG options on x5 70 platform which is kind of unprecedented for AMD support in the past we've seen this many options for Intel but to actually have this 14 read/write from launch is pretty telling of their confidence in the new platform horizon 3000 for starters we have three ROG from the crosshair boards and we have three ro 2 Strix boards the Strix boards are a little bit more affordable I would say than the crosshairs but they still don't slouch on many of the gaming features that gamers use however there are some premium gaming features that Asus realizes the mainstream consumer might not be interested in and so they've actually stripped those down for the Strix models to keep the prices a bit more reasonable so we actually have the ROG Strix next 578 gaming right there looking very very nice and blingy the Strix x5 70f gaming and not gee it would have been fitting if they had a G but this is the x5 7 TI gaming the Mini ITX version which is actually pretty pretty pretty cool i really like this large heatsink that looks like it's for an m2 slot i believe there's also additional cooling under that don't quote me on this but it looks like there's additional cooling under there for the x5 70 chipset itself because as we know it does get fairly warm it's actually got a much higher TDP than X 470 I think it's something like 10 to 13 watts as opposed to 5 watts on the last gen so that's quite a big difference you can see why there's so many active cooling solutions on these new boards we also have a pretty nice sort of i/o cover here which looks to be metallic correlates parts of it are metallic which is also going to aid in heat dissipation and then we have the big boy the big boys the ROG crosshair 8 hero Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 6 you can see the antennas they're a very nice sleek aesthetic active here on the on the chipset we also get an rog supreme FX 1228 channel codec high-definition deck so if you have a nice pair of cans this is going to pair nicely with that the sport is incredibly well engineered from the looks of it and from what Asus is telling us however it goes up a step further to the ROG crosshair eight formula this is their flagship board you see it's actually got water cooling integration water block from the BR ends courtesy of ek just like on the crosshair seven formula that I used for hot line two we have active cooling once again looks like there's an LCD screen right there on the IO shield or the IO cover I should say I'm sure that's configurable as well it's for the same onboard audio sound card as the crosshair 8 hero and down here we have the ROG crosshair 8 impact Mini ITX actually no mini DTX you can see here this is actually a little bit longer than your standard ATX board which I have not seen in quite some time so we actually have this little guy right here it's actually serving as a heat sink for 2 m2 slot so you can do PTC ihn 4 of course the whole x5 70 platform is is built around PCIe Gen 4 so that's actually pretty cool it's actually slotting in a horizontally for a reason that's actually to allow for more airflow to permeate through the actual array and heatsink and stuff so it actually stays a bit cooler actually thought that through of course there is still a full sized 5/16 PCIe gen four slot just beneath it so you can add a discrete GPU otherwise what's the point look at that pretty fancy supreme FX a sound card right there that looks that looks pretty cool I know that there's something special about that but we haven't been able to find an AC enough to help us so I'm not sure what else to say about it look at it over the eye okay when you hear there's some mesh design but more importantly there's actually what looks to be two fans underneath there for active erm cooling right on top of the heatsink because of course it's gonna get relatively warm under love so asus wants to make sure that it stays for a fairly cool for extreme overclocking on this mini dt x board this is a mini ITX concept case from asus completely concept so it's not very sure if we're gonna bring it to market or not doesn't even have a name yet just concept case but it's a mini ITX of course they're actually fitting the mini dt x board the the ROG won the ROG crosshair that we just showed off earlier X 570 you can see we've got 240 millimeter radiator right here on the side there's actually supports five fans which is pretty impressive for the sides you got one intake at the bottom there two of course on our radiator and there's two more up top which is exhausting hot air currently we also have a very interesting motherboard layout it's it's impossible to see really with all this glare but the board is actually mounted 11 degrees slanted the 11 degree tilt that's basically for it for a couple reasons for starters it actually allows us a little bit more breathing room for our GPU you can see we've got a nice Strix card here and by the way full-size Hardware pretty much across the board even ATX power supply at the bottom but it gives you a little bit more breathing room particularly on the left side of the GPU because it's at a slant it's further away from the front panel and if you notice here there's actually a bunch of ventilation I'm sorry ventilation right here which is of course going to be helping air flow for your GPU so you've got a fast running powerful card is it's not going to be suffocated too much the tilt also gives us more room behind the motherboard tray for cable managing and I believe you might be able to mount a driver to back there of course they do have an RGB SSD that's mounted right over here over top of the the drive cage which also has a reservoir pump mount if you wanted to do some custom water cooling in here you very well could you can see here we've got some RGB lighting it also have you look up there above the motherboard you can see the rear i/o cables are actually routed down to the backside of the case so they actually come out relatively gracefully one with the power supply the concept of this case is to really use a small form factor but not compromise on performance full-size Hardware thermals and even acoustics so you kind of get everything in here pretty much anything that enthusiasts might desire in a relatively small footprint what do you guys think in this case let me know so what we have here is the asus rog swift PG 2 7 you q-x as the name suggests this is a 27-inch monitor 4k 144 Hertz but that's not even the most special thing about it those are a dime a dozen these days what really sets this motor apart is it's actually the world's first mini LED Peck based monitor mini LED actually offers a lot of the same benefits that OLED does for example having really rich true deep blacks which also gives you better contrast higher dynamic range however because of their smaller size they actually don't create any burnin there's zero risk of burnin you can leave it just pretty much idle like this without moving it for four years okay that's maybe a little dramatic but for days on end and you would not burn in whatsoever so they've kind of got the best of both worlds here between an OLED panel for example in a more traditional LED the actual picture quality I know it's impossible to tell from the camera but it looks like an OLED display the blacks are extremely extremely deep and rich very accurate because the LEDs are actually turning off for those darker spots there's actually between 5 to 600 LED zones that can locally dim which is fantastic and we also have quite a bit of other specs that are noteworthy including DCI p3 so if quantum technology with DCI p3 and Adobe RGB support there's also a way I pretty much covered it well I'm good I'm really good at this no definite word on pricing or availability but expect this monitor to be relatively close to the $2,000 mark I have my sources okay yes day 1 is officially a wrap we're all pretty much tapped out but we'll be back tomorrow thanks for watching