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so today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of a board from a soos this is the P 6 X 58 d e so let's get quickly zoomed in here yeah I've got my camera propped on my makeshift cardboard cat tree which my cat is now exploring this may end badly if I do not end the video no no please leaving the camera alone that works okay so this is part of their updated x58 board so you can tell because there's a D at the end that stands for USB 3.0 which they're calling out here as true USB 3.0 as well as true SATA 6 gigabit per second so then we've also got support for 16 plus 2 phase power as well as SLI and crossfire it is an LGA 1366 motherboard so that means you've got support for all intel core i7 and core i7 extreme CPUs on that socket and then you can see this is also an extreme design board so that means the deceased is going for number one reliability performance and safety here let's move around to the back of the board now true USB 3.0 and Troost and six gigabit per second as soos is calling that out because of the unique way that they have been able to deliver the bandwidth required by those technologies now Isuzu uses a chip to split the PCIe lanes to make sure if you're running SLI or crossfire they will get all the bandwidth that they need so 3-way SLI quad GPU crossfire X that's all good and fine a hundred percent long like solid capacitors they've also got their stack cool three-plus technologies that cool just means lots of copper in the PCB allows it to dissipate heat more easily and they're calling it a unique layout I guess we'll have to have a look and see what I think of their unique layout as well as precision Tweaker to software so let's get the board open up here and you can see that once I remove the outer sleeve it looks exactly the same okay up here let's get this board open up and have a look at the accessories that are included the cat is eating Johnathan fatality Wendell's rim so I'm gonna go ahead and move that way okay first of all we have an IO shield it gives us a Seuss's puppy shiny back but it is not color coded next we have the user's guide which also has a driver and utilities DVD in here don't use this download the lead to stop the assist website there's also a little powered by a su sticker very nice ok the manual itself is in all English so it's quite a thick manual gives you some details on the BIOS some details on the physical layout of your board all of that good stuff now I may have actually made a mistake when I said that they needed a bridge chip to get full USB 3.0 and SATA 6 gigabit per second so I'm gonna correct myself now that's only honest thesis p55 boards not on their x58 boards with x58 there are more PCIe lanes and it is not necessary so in the as far as the SATA cables go as Seuss's included four SATA 2 cables ok so two of them are right angle and two of them are straight connector and then they've also included 2 SATA 6 gigabits per second cables now I use the finger quotes because really they're exactly the same thing but these ones are white and black in old cool-lookin so I would use those if it was up to me next we have a 3-way SLI bridge as well as a regular flexible SLI bridge then we've also got an empty baggie which probably contained a 3-way SLI bridge at some point that I guess it came out during shipping just goes to show you shipping link anything can happen in shipping I've seen some weird stuff ok and then we have their cute connector so if you can you can hook up your front panel connectors as well as your USB 2 doubles and then plug those right into the motherboard now let's get the board out and see what we have in store here so I'm just going to close this box so that I can get a good look at this all right Betty Betty open I love motherboards because the way they package it makes it really easy for me to remove it from the box it's very nice there's no seals no nothing it's all very very simple that way okay so let's have a look at the layout of this board first of all in the very center I'm just going to zoom in a touch here for you so that you can see a little bit better on this as well as I can alright there we go so in the center we will find our LGA 1366 socket it is a load socket not a Foxconn socket for those of you who care unless you know what I'm referring to you probably don't care so don't worry about it we've got nice beefy looking vrm coolers here I mean they're not huge but what they are is they're efficient looking so they're just a simple fin design on both sides okay so you can see this one's actually attached via a heat pipe to the Northbridge cooler here and then there is no heat pipe moving over to the Southbridge but that's not really necessary the Southbridge here the ich10r does not put out a whole lot of heat next of all we have the eight pin CPU power connector up in its ideal location at the top left then we have support for triple channel ddr3 memory populating the blue slots first now this is actually something that i've never mentioned before although its present on as far as I know every x58 board the primary channels that you're gonna populate are always the ones that are further away from the CPU and the reason for that is because there are many large CPU coolers these days and most customers only buy one triple channel kit in the lifetime of the board so the manufacturers have cleverly made the primary channels the ones further away so it gives you that one extra slot if you have high profile memory that you can use to populate that space with your cooler so there you go there's your tidbit for the day we have a memo k button here so that means that it'll set any memory in here - very very default timings so that you can make sure you can post even with high performance Stix here we've got this oh we've got standard round clips that's interesting so normally on a Seuss's boards they have only a one sided Ram clip but it looks like we've actually got clips on both sides on this board not sure why they've made that we've got a 24-pin power connector in its ideal location along the right-hand edge of the board and moving down the board we have the Southbridge streaming things then we okay here we go here it gets to gets more interesting again so the top one is the two great ports here those are SATA 6 gigabits per second running off of a Marvel chipset here these two right here the powder blue ones are a say that sorry my cats are playing with the bag and they're probably gonna destroy it anyway okay so these are SATA 2 next we have over volt dram bus and overall qpi dram jumpers so I wish I knew exactly what those are please leave a comment if you know exactly what those jumpers are for then down here at the bottom we've got two more SATA 2 ports here we have our front panel connectors and then we've got a couple of USB 2.0 front headers and then moving on right along we've got an onboard power switch that's the biggest one I need a lot of manufacturers include like onboard power onboard speaker on board reset but the power is the big one I do like seeing an on board see mostly player but that one's actually on the back i/o shield in this board so that's even better okay so PCI Express slot layout first of all we've got our two PCIe 16x slots these are going to be our two blue primary ones and if you populate both of those with a dual slot graphics card you will be left with one PCIe 16x slot and one PCIe 1x slot I don't mind seeing both of the PCI slots covered on a board like this because let's face it you're if you're buying a high-end x58 board you're living in two graphics cards you don't need PCI slots you should probably have a PCIe updated PCIe add-in cards so that brings us right around to the very back of the board where we've got our i/o shield so you've got two ps2 ports you know I'm still not done with ps2 personally I find that when you're trying to get into the BIOS or sometimes when you're installing applications USB keyboards don't always get recognized I love having ps2 ports available to me then we have a clear CMOS switch right here two USB 3.0 ports optical audio out coaxial audio out digital both then we have four USB 2.0 ports one FireWire port Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the P 6 X 58 d e motherboard