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so today we have a pretty exciting product to unbox from a soos this is the p8z 68 V Pro or if you prefer p8z 68 V pro personally I don't care I'll see whatever sort of works with the sentence as many of you have noticed and commented one way or the other FSA Z there's Z zealots running after me to tell me that it's wrong and that's vice-versa anyway this board features digital power design as well as their TPU and EPU dual intelligent processors so these are for energy savings and performance alright we've got full support for Intel's latest Core i5 i3 and i7 processors on the LGA 1155 socket this uses the z68 chipset so what that means is that besides supporting those technologies besides supporting SLI and crossfire and all those performance features we also have support for Intel Smart Response SRT technology which means you can use a small SSD 60 gigs or smaller to boost the performance of your boot hard drive and we also have the lucid virtu technology which allows you to use the onboard video that's built into your core i3 i5 or i7 CPU to accelerate certain key things like video encoding while normally using your dedicated graphics card for gaming pretty sweet all right we got USB 3 au efi bios we have bt go bluetooth enjoyment maybe we'll have to find out what that is GPU boost for for increasing the performance of the onboard graphics as well as their precise digi+ VRM let's have a look at the back digital power design the new standard basically it's better ok we have the ultimate turbo processor so that's the TPU the epu for energy efficiency as I mentioned before oh here we go diverse Bluetooth enjoyment oh it means onboard bluetooth ok UEFI BIOS ok yeah that's pretty much endless stuff get this open oh I have never seen well at least not in a no I don't think I've ever seen in this new sport that comes in a box like this where the board is on top of the package with the accessories underneath you know what then we're going to do something crazy and we're gonna look at the board first and then the accessories because the suit has gone and turned my world upside down with their packaging change here so here we go here's the motherboard itself let's start with the CPU socket where we normally start you don't have to move around so much just kind of top down as okay CPU socket so there's your LGA 1155 socket which as I mentioned before features support for the latest I 3 i5 and i7 processors on the LGA 1155 socket you are surrounded by your one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 hmm I don't know how many phases that power design is because I count 16 but it could be like a 14 plus 2 or something like that so someone leave a comment on the video as well how many phases of power in the digi+ vrm on the p8z 68 v pro we have support for a dual channel ddr3 memory and that is pretty typical for an 1155 board because that's all the 1155 onboard CPU ddr3 memory controller actually supports all right on the side here we have the EPU and TPU switches if you do want to use those technologies we also have the mem ok button so what the mem ok button allows you to do is take out of J techSpec RAM modules and boot them up using a safe setting but then you can get into the BIOS and set them to whatever higher performance settings you desire our 24 pin and our 8 pin connectors are in their ideal locations along the right-hand edge of the board and at the top left respectively and moving down we have a USB 3 front panel header so that will have support for all the latest cases with USB 3 that do use a pin out rather than a pass-through from a normal port like this ok so we've also got SATA ports galore so we have 4 SATA 2 3 gigabit per second and 4 say 2 3 6 gigabit per second now these two right here are coming off the Intel controller and these you are coming off of a third-party controller so if you did want to run like a six drive raid array you would want to use these six so these are more like your auxiliary ones all right we've got a chipset cooler here using a similar kind of wave looking design to many of us uses recent motherboards we have two firewire ports there's our front panel headers three USB 2.0 ports built-in switches I'm a big fan of these because I often use boards on a test bench this makes my life easier reset and power are both included front audio is right here and let's have a look at the PCI slot layout on this particular board we've got seven slots I love seeing seven slots on an ATX form factor board you want to know why because that's the most you can have and I always like having the option to install more stuff rather than not having the option to install more stuff okay so we have three PCIe 16x slots right here the dark blue the white one and the black one these two looks this one's wired for 16 this guy is wired for 8 and this guy is wired for 8 although I'm going to have to double check what bandwidth these actually run at we've got two PCI slots two PCIe 1x slots and on the back we've got a pretty normal looking array of connectors we have four USB six USB 2.0 ports our little bluetooth guy right here we have optical audio out HDMI DVI and VGA out which are supported on all second generation Core i7 processors unlike the first generations where it was only supported on dual cores do we have two USB 3.0 ports Intel Ethernet rather than a third party such as a real tech Ethernet solution and 7.1 audio so now let's look at the accessories for anyone who actually cares about that okay one accessory thought this is neat is a USB header to dual port PCI bracket for the back so if you can if you don't have front USB three you can add a couple more ports to the back at the very least we have to us to say two three six gigabit per second cables two USB three gigabit per second cables although they're identical other than the white color on the six gigabit per second ones and they are all right angle we have an SLI bridge we have Q connectors which are the easy actors for the front panel headers an IO shield a user guide a drivers and utilities DVD don't use it download the latest from the Sue's website as well as a SATA mode notice interesting pretty ok how to turn on HCI mode which is good HCI mode is better than IDE mode for more performance and whatnot give me just a second here guys so I looked up the PCIe slots and I thought maybe because this one is wired for 8x they have some kind of splitter chip on here of some sort but they do not so it's 16 X 8 X 8 X or 8 X 8 X 4x just as with most p67 boards thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos