Gadgetory

so today I'm gonna be doing a quick unboxing of a very high-end board for masseuse now the WS series of boards is a little bit different from their extreme Republic of gamers branding so it's more of a workstation w/s workstation oriented board but what you will find here is actually I'll wait till we get inside okay first of all let's tell you what it says on the front this is a core i7 or z on board so it's an LGA 1366 board it supports Tesla with CUDA of all things okay again a workstation feature it supports SLI and CrossFireX so it's perfectly gaming ready all right it has 5000 hour vrn the blahblah 100% Japanese made solid capacitors it has sass on board again a very workstation oriented feature because you do need a SAS controller if you want to run 1500 are 15,000 rpm drives for example 16 + 2 phase power for your CPU EP 6 engine and 7 Gen 2 PCI Express 16x loves that is what I was going to give away which is that the 7 in the name but I guess they spoiled the surprise on the front okay they have Express gate super hybrid engine it did it to do okay what do we got inside first we have support for 3-way SLI and crossfire best choice for intensive CUDA parallel computing so those seven PCI Express slots you could theoretically install as many as seven single slot GTX 260 s which do exist which would be a folding machine on a board like this okay so 16 plus Q phase power SAS onboard okay this is all the same stuff from the front I'm not going to bother to list it again this is the same stuff from the front again that ok so let's have a look at the board itself in terms of accessories first so we've got one of those firewire and USB 2.0 combo back plates ok thank you for that then we have an SLI bridge remember you don't need a crossfire bridge to come with your motherboard because it should come with your video cards then we have what is this I'm gonna have to open this to find out what it is because I haven't seen this before okay it's kind of small PCB okay oh cool all right neat okay so this has the onboard power and reset switches as well as a diagnostic LED display okay so I'm assuming that plugs in somewhere on the board and well I'll put that aside for now so that hopefully I can show you later where it plugs into then we have a 3-way SLI bridge hopefully you've seen one of those before you know what that looks like okay SATA cables we have six SATA cables three of which are right angled and three of which are straight then we have one molex to 2 SATA power adapter then we have oh we've got a couple of those neat okay so these are these are kind of these are SATs cables basically this is designed to be a more secure connector I've seen people use them for SATA as well because remember a SAS cable is pretty much the same thing as a SATA cable so it plugs right into both the power and the data and then off the back of it you've got the power cable and then a data cable so the whole thing is built into one unit supposedly makes it a little bit harder to dislodge then you got the isuzu q connector okay in most cases they come in blocks now anyways so charm that big in the deal there's your i/o shield here is your user's manual which is which is uncharacteristically thick you've also got your suitcase badge as well as your driver DVD don't use this download the latest off the assist website all right here we've got a lot of information in probably a few different languages no it's wow it's all English check that out this is one thick all English manual that's impressive okay let's get the board itself up mmm which is very shiny I like it already there you go so like all LGA 1366 boards this does support an LG a 13-6 CPU you've got a load socket there in case anyone cares there was some rumors going around about load sockets being superior so a Sue's has not gimped on the socket right off the bat you've got support for triple channel ddr3 memory up to 24 gigs if memory serves then you have your power in its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board now these heat pipes I can't even begin to tell you exactly what they're cooling but I'm gonna go ahead and start taking some guesses first of all I'm gonna guess that this is cooling the power delivery mechanism for love the ramp okay so that heat pipe is coming out of the chipset area where I'm assuming they're using some size some sort of PCI bridge chips probably at F 200 in order to provide all of these PCI Express lanes because the x58 chipset does not support this many PCI Express lanes natively ok so then moving on down the board we've got six SATA connectors which are powered from the x58 chipset as well as two SAS connectors which are powered off a third-party chipset so you can see they're labeled here C 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 and SAS 1 & 2 then over here we have our 7 PCI Express connectors now I haven't done my research ahead of time to be able to tell you which ones are running at which speed let's see if they've been nice and labeled them for me no they haven't so let's just assume they're all running at some kind of mixture of 16x and 8x down here we've got our USB headers as well as a firewire header and front audio header then we have the cooling solution for setting an attached anything oh yeah that is attached to something let's attach to a Marvell chipset okay and then it comes all the way up here and we have more cooling radiators for the voltage delivery system for the CPU then we have our 8 pin power connector up at the top of the board exactly where it belongs top left and then let's move on to the i/o at the back so you've got one of those ps2 keyboard mouse combo ports I love those then you have 1 2 3 4 5 6 USB 2.0 ports this is a bit of an older board so it doesn't have support for USB 3.0 you have both coaxial and optical digital audio out 2 Gigabit LAN 2 eSATA which is really nice to see and 7.1 audio on the back you've got your standard LGA 1366 backplate and they've got the little stack cool to label here which is basically allowing the PCB to dissipate heat more effectively throughout itself by using more copper so it's a way of keeping things a little bit cooler so thank you for checking out my unboxing the Seuss p67 workstation supercomputer motherboard