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okay so we know we haven't done any motherboard videos on this channel for a long freaking time and as for why well we've said it before there are parts of your computer that dramatically affect performance and there are part that if you're willing to forego a few creature comforts you can save a few bucks on but how low can you go today we are looking at the e CS a 55 s - m4 1.0 the cheapest motherboard on Amazon in a standard form factor it's only 30 bucks it isn't it beautiful Brow's privately and securely with tunnel there the simple VPN app try tunnel bear for free at the link in the video description now first things first to properly appreciate the ghetto fabulousness of this motherboard I gotta get in character meet el unit sort of a V anyway we're going to start by taking a look at this baby from the back I'm talking rear i/o man yeah nobody there don't worry about it anyway we can see it is absolutely packed with gaming features I'm talking to ps2 ports ps2 with support for n key rolled over something that's still rare even on high-end USB keyboards on that subject we have four USB 2.0 ports that puts this on par with the a since crosshair 6 and in a huge beam when you're installing windows 7 via USB like I always do on Friday nights throw in a touch of Gigabit Ethernet and audio jacks rated at signal-to-noise ratio and we are ready to get our counter-strike source on oh and did I mention it supports both VGA and HDMI more on that later first let's check out the internal connectivity as I call it junk under the hood not only do we get four see the three gigabit per second connections right there in the bottom right that's 12 gigabits per second total but we also have support for four more USB to ports via the front panel I mean you've got to be some kind of kid or some to afford enough USB is to plug into all that high-definition audio tech I know the definition of high know what I'm saying and Brit it we got Spitak BAM whatever that needs but let's get serious again what are those headers down there that my friends is a serial interface like serial killer and a parallel interface like a parallel dimension highly desirable features that very few motherboards come equipped with nowadays possibly as a cost-saving measure but no such corners were cut on the ECF a 55 F - m4 1.0 this version 1.0 because they get it right the first time no I'm saying and thanks to these we can use virtually any peripheral or printer that we want ok line aside so this board has more i/o than we know what to do with for a number of reasons but what kind of balls-to-the-wall hardware can we put on here well feast your eyes on this baby it supports up to the a8 3870 apu which unlike Rison needs ddr3 only to be flippin awesome and comes with integrated Radeon graphics processing it's better than some of the dedicated cards we tested and with 4 cores at 3 billion Hertz this one point seven eight billion transistor beast is unlocked primed and ready for the toughest gaming challenges we can throw at it plus it's compatible with socket am3 coolers so we'll be able to make use of our existing stock here now we got to match this beast with nothing but the best so we've got ourselves after we get it installed here yeah there you go it's on there get the RAM in there yeah it's fast like that so we're putting our gtx 980ti in what we got a full-length PCI Express slot here we're talking 168 ends of power and data here that's right so combining this with our four Llano course and 16 gigs of ram baby there is nothing this thing can't run technically speaking that is we aren't promising that it will run well compared to our kv leg test bench limiting ourselves to this class of cpu is actually a lot to give up even when overclocked single-threaded performance on this thing okay we can lose the we can lose the same thing it is anywhere from about 1/2 to 1/5 of the speed of Kb lake and multi-threaded performance is as low as 1/6 but we've all heard that DirectX 12 and Vulcan can actually favor weaker CPUs regardless of the GPU thanks to their lower API overhead and as we can see here oh well yeah it just gets dominated even with a 1080 Ti in CPU intensive games like Deus Ex mankind divided we get a decent bump with our overclock on DirectX 11 but not on DirectX 12 where we actually end up within our margin of error so then in all seriousness what are you actually getting with a board like this well you are locking yourself into an ancient platform that only had one very underwhelming generation of CPU support you are losing support for even sort of new features like USB 3 and SATA 6 gigabits nevermind nvme and USB 3.1 and you are stepping down to a level of build quality and firm where support that is frankly unacceptable for anyone let alone enthusiasts I mean yes technically you can overclock it but barely with that said is it usable well if you take anything away from this video it's that the advice of don't worry about the motherboard should really be taken with the caveat that it means within a given generation of hardware if you're buying the top-of-the-line board for the heck of it you are doing neither the board nor your wallet any justice but in the case of this thing well I think it's safe to say that buying the flat out cheapest is another way to achieve exactly that FreshBooks cloud accounting software was custom built for you small business owner or freelancer it's the simple way to be more productive more organized and get paid faster you can create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds you can track your expenses you can track your hours on the jobs and then you can actually accept payment even through the platform setup online payments with just a couple clicks and get paid up to four days faster this is a really cool feature I don't even know how they did this but you can actually see when your client has seen your invoice too and put an end to the nonsense did you get it oh no sorry I didn't I'll pay you next week now half of that pay now so for your unrestricted 30-day free trial go to WWF rectus and enter line of tech tips in the how you heard about us section so thanks for watching I hope you guys enjoyed our fun little look at the cheapest motherboard on newegg.com if you just like this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit the like button get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy maybe not this maybe we'll put some like reasonable motherboard and CPU option down there that we act recommend is a good value we've got that links in the video description and so don't forget to subscribe and oh yeah also down there we have a link to our merge stories to buy cool t-shirts like this no wait no three plus one I think it's like one phase for RAM wait no no there's no no nose for this is for face card what you talked about wills that's also that 32 nanometer CPU you know how big an animator is a tiny man there's like there's like not even any copper in it you know ah sorry do we even sleep that oh you're rolling oh good okay wonderful