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welcome to my unboxing of the Asus p9 x79 deluxe so out of their non sabertooth and non Republic of gamers boards this is the highest end it's pretty much a fully loaded x79 board with all of the standard x79 features as well as some more unique Asus ones so the first thing we see over here it is pcie 3.0 ready so there you go that's there in the corner we got that out of the way right off the back it uses the x79 chipset supports intel core i7 extreme edition or non extreme edition processors on LGA 2011 we've got support for nvidia sli as well as AMD crossfire x quad channel ddr3 memory with up to 8 dims supported we've got bluetooth 3.0 which is basically what they're included app it allows you to do a few cool things with it and it's also better bandwidth than any previous versions we've got there UEFI bios which their implementation was very very good on their previous generation board so I'm expecting it to be excellent here Asus SSD caching uses a third-party controller so even though Intel doesn't have SRT support on this chipset ASUS is how it found a way to use a third-party chipset to support SSD caching anyway precise power control using their sixth generation of digital vrm solutions including not only digital vrm on the CPU itself but also on the memory what else we got here so dual intelligent processors with new digi plus power control so that is there TPU as well as their epu so the TPU is responsible for any performance tuning it can do automatic tuning and Asus claims you can achieve up to pretty close to what you can do without automatic tuning so by manually dialing in your overclocking Zeus figures with the with this module doing it for you rather than working off of just a preset profile the TPU tweaks it adjusts it and can get pretty close to what you can do on your own so I'm looking forward to testing that out we've also got their EP you which is basically under bolting profiles as well as some utilities that allow you to make your PC more power efficient USB BIOS flash back this is really cool so just by putting the BIOS on any USB storage device renaming it to a standard name and then holding down this button it takes about 30 seconds to two minutes and you can reflash your BIOS no matter how corrupted it is even without a CPU or memory installed in the system phenomenal USB 3 boost allows them to use you ASP which isn't supported by many devices now but this will be important in the future to get faster transmission speed over USB it can also use the scuzzy protocol as well all right not discuss its protocol sorry the which ones the other one that it uses hold on I'm just gonna cheat and look over my notes there and you ASP oh yeah okay legacy mode scuzzy and USD okay I was right excellent we've also got fan experts which gives you five five configurable fan headers including the CPU one and for the case ones and then an additional one that runs in clone mode or mimic mode off the CPU 1 and finally DTS audio so they have upgraded the codecs that are included with this particular board and I think that pretty much does it for the packaging let's get it opened up and have a look yes I think everything on the back is pretty much what we've seen already supports 3-way SLI and up two quad crossfire X for those who were wondering here's the board itself but I'm just gonna show you guys the accessories before we get into the board itself and we'll find those down here ah all kinds of good stuff included here so we have Bluetooth V 3.0 HS module okay it's instructions for how to mount or is it here this thing Hey all right we've got an i/o shield which is helpfully labeled we've also got some SATA cables so one two three four so looks like four SATA 3 six gigabit per second cables and four SATA 2 3 gigabit per second cables we've also got an antenna we've got an SLI bridge a 3-way SLI remember your crossfire bridge should be included with your with your video card not your motherboard we've also got their cue connector so that's for your front panel connectors as well as one of your front USBs we have a driver disk which I'm probably gonna have to use this disk because this is a pre-release sample board and we've also got a user guide which is probably incomplete at this time as well but your retail board will come with a proper driver disk and you'll be able to go to the Asus website to download the latest drivers whereas I can't because the word is not yet released alright let's open it up and have a look at the board itself so a Seuss's layout is what I would consider to be fairly ideal here so you've got one two three slots that are going to be your go-to slots for a 3-way SLI or 3-way crossfire without overhanging the end of the board which would require you to have an eight slot chassis you know what the let's okay let's start at the socket so here's your LGA 2011 socket if you guys aren't familiar with this already which you're probably not too familiar with you do need to unfasten both arms and lift up the flat in order to open up the socket install your 2011 processor and then you have to put down this arm and then this one in order to get it closed again before anyone asks and I always get these questions no you cannot put a 1366 or an 1155 core i7 or Core i5 processor in there it will not work you will need a 2011 processor this is a brand new socket and a brand new architecture so speaking of brand new architectures we've got support for quad channel memory so look at that eight DIMM slots gives you up to 64 gigs of memory using what's available on the market today you can buy eight gig unbuffered dims Wow or 32 gigs of memory on the cheap because Ram is so inexpensive these days you can have a 32 gig system which is workstation class at that point without spending a ton of money simply awesome okay we've got our 8 pin power connector in its ideal location up here at the top left we've got moving over here a couple of those fan headers that I talked about before as well as an additional one so there's in the top right corner here for more DIMM slots our 24-pin connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge one more fan connector front USB 3 and what I personally consider to be its ideal location along the right-hand edge because one way or another this is going to plug into either sort of up here or down here it's going to go to the front of your case though not the bottom of your case which is where we typically find USB front panel headers here we find for us say 2 3 6 gigabit per second ports and 4 SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports as well as our front panel headers our TPU so remember that's the performance one and our EPU which if you'll recall is the efficiency one remember to remember guys these don't actually like if you if you flip the TPU that switch that's not actually going to like affect any overclocking settings that you're using you just you're just using that if you want to use like the the tools that asus has built for pre overclocks ok we have 4 USB to front panel headers just a lot yeah yeah they're all USB we've got a clear seamless which built-in reset and power switches a post LED readout this is truly a very high-end board so everything on here is pretty much the cream of the cream we've got one held on which ones are actually wired for 16 x12 that are wired for full 16x operation and it looks like that's why asus has included a long sli bridge because if you are running dual cards they want you to run in this one and this one which would leave you with two 8 X slots for additional expansion remember you can install 1x or 4x or 8 X cards in an 8 X slot so that gives you the best flexibility so 2 dual slot graphics cards is going to cover up your next 2 1 X's but leave you with two more slots so it's not not a bad little layout there in terms of cooling and vrm so this is this is interesting so if Zeus actually has their vrm heatsink stretches all the way around here so I just want to give you guys a good sorry I'm trying to find a good angle for you that you guys can check out the cooling solution so there's a heat pipe linking the two coolers and I'm just turn it over here so you guys can have a look now one thing that's really challenging from a board design perspective on these eight dam LGA 2011 boards is that compared to previous generation products there's very little room to put power delivery systems over here and on top of those on the top of the word because this socket is so much larger than a 1366 socket I mean a 1366 socket is more like this plus you're adding a full two additional DIMM slots and making it so that you pretty much have to put them on both sides of the CPU socket so that's an engineering marvel to be perfectly honest with you guys on the back we're gonna find no ps2 port look at that 1 2 3 4 USB 2.0 ports that handy-dandy BIOS 3 flash button so there's the color-coded port for that we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 USB 3.0 ports we have two Gigabit Ethernet ports optical audio out two eSATA ports and 7.1 audio out so truly the kitchen sink is pretty much included there check this out we've also got power delivery circuitry built into the back of the board so here's a heatsink here's some modules and then here is your prototype back plate for the LGA 2011 board here so one thing that you guys might want to bear in mind if some of the newer cases these days their top cooling fans are designed for exhaust but if I see something like this where I've got heat sinks here that are in a crowded area that's difficult to cool and then I've also got additional components on the back of the board I might think about in a case that has a top fan turning that fan around and blowing it down on to the CPU socket in order to get additional cooling remember these CPUs and once you're overclocking are capable of sucking about 200 watts through the CPU socket alone that it's a serious amount of power and a serious amount of heat to dissipate in a very small area so based on seeing that if you have this board and you can get some benefit from the additional cooling on the back of the board I say go for it so thank you guys for checking out my unboxing of the p9 X 79 deluxe from Asus don't forget to subscribe from on boxing's reviews and other computer videos