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today we're gonna be unboxing a pretty premium product from masseuse so you can tell from the deluxe moniker that this is a high-end board this is their p8p 67 so I'm gonna go ahead and interpret that for you p8 means it is the current generation of Intel CPUs so that means we have full support for Intel's LGA 1155 socket processors P 67 is the chipset Deluxe is what this board is all about so you're gonna find pretty much every feature that you could possibly want we have dual Gigabit LAN we have USB 3.0 we have a Bluetooth okay we'll have to figure out what that is in a minute bluetooth enjoyment all right we have full digital vrm which is the most precise and this this one's actually the big one for me EF I BIOS so that means that you have a full Mouse interface with your bios including support for things like a scroll wheel like imagine that Mouse would scroll wheel support in the BIOS okay so moving over here to the right-hand side of the front of the box haywire oh hold on I'll turn it off for a second okay so full support for the Intel Core series of processors on 1155 you got the P 67 chipset and that's pretty much everything that's there up here this is interesting so they have their digital VRM EPU so that's there I think it's efficiency processing unit or it's basically for making things more energy-efficient and then they also have their TPU ok those are dedicated processors moving over to this side we have the world's first okay so the ultimate turbo processor TPU is a chip for their auto turning tuning and turbo B functions so that is their automated overclocking if also about the EFI BIOS which I talked about already AI suite 2 is their Windows software so it consolidates all of their sous features into one software package okay we've got their EP u which is as I said before is for energy efficiency and we have support for all that this isn't quad GPU SLI and quad GPU crossfire X okay DTS surround and let's move along to the back I like this box I love it when there's a window to see the boardroom big fan of that actually ok so let's find out what beat ego is ok bluetooth mono it just means it has bluetooth oh that's simple then ok digital power design the new standards so they're new generation and intelligent processors with the G+ VRM control and that's 16 plus 2 wow that's a lot of phases so they have a 16 plus 2 phase power design on this particular board basically that's to deliver cleaner power to your CPU it should allow in theory for better overclocking so that's a good thing complete USB 3.0 solution including back panel as well as front panel USB and they've called out the front panel USB again here extra SATA 6 gigabits per second support so you actually have 4 ports on this board whereas with all of the previous generation watch say almost all of the previous generation Intel boards that is on the p55 chipset we'd only see two USB 2.0 or 3.0 ports and 2 SATA 6 gigabits per second ports so let's have a look at what we have in terms of accessory package we've got an i/o shield we have 4 SATA 6 gigabits per second ports and to say the 3 gigabit per second ports please note these are identical other than the colors on the cables there is no reason that you can't use one for the other and vice versa we have an SLI bridge we have their two connectors so that allows you to easily plug in your front panel connectors and then plug the whole brick into your motherboard we have a front panel USB this thing's heavy ok so here it is so front panel USB 3.0 box it's got a nice sort of finish on the top of it here that is quite quite classy it plugs into our rather slots into a three and a half inch drive bay and then this cable is going to run over to your motherboard where they have a USB 3.0 front panel header I hope standing oh yeah there's what it looks like from the front as well ok so that's a great feature especially because most cases these days don't have USB 3.0 integrated in may in a head with a header on them like that in the front so did you plz show there's a little user guide and here is your full user guide for this motherboard including a powered by su sticker and a DVD that you don't need because you can download the latest drivers and utilities off of the assist website let's pull this guy out and have a look at what there is to see on the PAP 67 deluxe so first of all tell you guys I really like the aesthetic of this particular board it's pretty much in line with what they were doing on their p55 boards other than the Republic of gamers series board so we've got kind of a pale and dark blue and white and black color scheme which actually goes together a lot better than it might initially sound like as you guys can obviously see I love what a soos has been doing lately with their PWM heatsink designs my personal favorite was their what I call their fortress of solitude one where it was kind of like a spiky thing but I like this too this is kind of like could be waves or it could be grass could be kind of anything actually very abstract I like it you can see the 16 phase power design under these heat sinks ok so there's probably gonna yep there's a couple more going around the corner over here and then they've also got some of their key issues branding on the board as well so they've got their dual intelligent processors 2 over here as well as a sous logos sprinkled liberally along the board ok so let's have a look at the layout then and I'm just gonna lift this up so we can start in the middle where we have our LGA 1155 socket so as I mentioned before that has full support for Intel's new core series processors on the 1155 socket and here in the top left corner we have our 8 pin connector exactly where it belongs in its optimal ideal and preferred location over on the right side of the board we have our four ddr3 slots supporting dual channel operation as well as our 24-pin connector it's ideal location along the right hand edge of the board we have our memo pay button here as well as their TPU processor switch so bear in mind that is there okay let's keep moving down the board we're going to find our USB 3.0 header this might seem like an odd location for it but when you look at how short the cable is on the front panel connector that is probably the reason for the header to be located there so when you plug this in in the front of your case right you're going to only have to run it this far to get to the USB 3 header so you can pretty much reach anywhere in front of a typical case without any hassle okay in terms of storage we have SATA 6 gigabits per second so those are color coded dark blue and white and then we have 4 SATA 3 gigabit per second parts which are color-coded pale blue here's our chipset heatsink ok wrong you take this off you can see it a little bit like that check that out so it actually has a bit of texture to the suits logo on there it looks really really sharp aesthetics matter to me guys I I actually do care when I'm shopping for a motherboard I want to I have a windowed case and the cameraman is looking at my Star Wars t-shirt again I have a windowed case and I do like to see a nice looking board because really that the largest thing in your case so it's gonna be kind of overwhelming if it's ugly so here we have a LED post indicator so that will give you any error codes if you're having problems getting your system to boot up and next over here we have our USB 2.0 front panel headers we have a reset and power switch both built in there's our epu switch so that's for the other intelligent processor and then moving up to our PCI slot layouts so we have one two PCIe 1x slots we have two PCIe 16x slots but please note the p67 chipset alright yea p67 chipset much like the p55 chipset has support for a single card in 16x mode two cards in 8x mode and not two cards in 16x mode ok it doesn't matter in terms of performance but it is a distinction that you should be aware of if you want duel 16x slots you're gonna have to move up to X 58 so we've got 2 PCIe 2 PCI slots if you have any legacy devices and then down here this is a physical PCIe 16x slot but this one operates only at 4x so you can either put a 1 X card down here or you can put in a 4 X card like a RAID controller or something else like that really high-end Nick whatever the case may be moving along to the back of the board we have all of these options so let's oh yeah there's our Bluetooth ok so we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 USB 2.0 ports we have one of those ps2 mouse keyboard combo ports that I'm so fond of we have optical audio out as well as coaxial audio out to eSATA ports and then we've also got like I said before our Bluetooth we have one firewire port we have two gigabit ethernet ports and I should mention these are running off of the Intel built in land rather than a third party controller and that's one of the things that is seuss actually calls out write on their board Intel Ethernet great capability ok we have a clear CMOS which as well as 7.1 analog audio on the back of the motherboard that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the p8 p67 deluxe thank you for checking out my unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos