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today we're going to be unboxing the asou saver - thanks 58 motherboard this is part of their the ultimate force or top series of boards so let's talk a little bit about what makes the tough series special number one not this number one is tough components certified by military standards so they are using the hard most hard core components possible to ensure that this board lasts for as long as possible and they do back it up a Seuss's standard motherboard warranty is three years whereas this particular top series board has a five year warranty which is pretty outstanding so let's talk a little bit about some of the other special things about the tough series it has ceramics heatsink coating tech which in theory allows better cooling than a purely metal heatsink we also have efficient switching power design so that means optimal power efficiency alright many as whose boards do feature technology like that for optimizing power efficiency but this particular one is tough evidently we have SATA 6 gigabits per second USB 3.0 mem okay which is a feature I have talked about quite a bit in the past so I'm not going to go too far into that as well as askew design so you've got a cue shield which means that you can easily put in the motherboard from the back and you're not going to bend pieces of metal into your slots you've also got Q connectors which I believe we have talked about and actually some of these I'm not familiar with oq dim right that's the quick installation dim so I'll show you that when we actually look at the board itself and maybe I gave you figure out what the other ones are huh here we go yes five-year warranty notice look at that it's in many different languages - here is the motherboard user guide including a powered bias - sticker and a disk that you shouldn't use you should download the latest utilities and drivers from the seuss website here is a certificate of reliability check that out it's certified reliable so test method 103rd will shock test look at this so these are all military standard tests are running on this thing on the chokes MOSFETs and capacitors alright that's pretty neat actually okay then we have a2 SATA 6 gigabits per second cables and twos dated three gigabit per second cables please note these are identical cables except for the white on the six gigabit per second ones they do not perform differently we have an sli bridge we have the assist cube connector as well as the key shield with the fuzzy foam on the back alright let's have a look at the board itself now the look of this board is a bit love and hate not everybody loves it but lots of people do because it's a very military themed look so youth that means you've got military greens military camouflage style browns you've got a black PCB which is definitely a must for high-end board these days and then you've also got a lot of black components as well so let's look at the layout overall of the board first of all you've got what appears to be an 8 + 2 power design around your LGA 1366 socket you've got a fair amount of room around the socket for aftermarket coolers and I think that's pretty much all there is to say about the socket itself you've got an 8 pin power connector up here and it's ideal location and I've been asked about this a few times but this little cover is in case you do not have an 8 pin power connector on your power supply you can just plug in 4 but if you have an 8 pin use it you've got support for up to 24 gigs of ddr3 memory in triple-channel mode so you want to populate the light brown ones first and then the dark brown ones second that is a limitation of the core i7 memory controller this board does support up to 6 core 9 ATX Extreme Edition processor over here on the right we have our 24 pin power connector in its ideal location and right here we have the mem ok button so that means that no matter what the memory will post so it'll find a very very safe setting allow you to post with your memory and then tweak the settings from there let's keep moving down the board we have SATA 6 gigabits per second which actually isn't here it's here so those ones that are white coloured those are your SATA 6 gigabits per second and the black ones are SATA 3 gigabit per second let's talk a little bit about the ceramics which you can see is right here so that's this kind of sandpapery feeling coating on all of the heat sinks on this board I don't know if it makes it cool better because I haven't like I don't have an identical board with identical sings to test again but I guess in theory it does and ultimately it looks pretty cool so I mean the x58 doesn't even get that hot anyway so it couldn't really matter one way or the other but looks great I think check that out those are cool heat sinks all right so let's keep going around so here's our front panel connectors here's our clear CMOS button we have three PCI Express slots on this particular board so your SLI slots are going to be these two that's why you did have a short SLI bridge included so when you're using both of these in 16x mode my assumption is this one is going to run in 4x mode just like on all x58 motherboards you do have one PCI slot but as soon as you install a graphics card that's covered assuming you're using a dual slot graphics card you could alternately install your dual slot graphics card here which would leave you one two three four more slots for additional expansion cards here's your front USB as well as your front audio and I'm going to go ahead and assume this is firewire although it is not labeled then other than that that's about all we have to say about the board itself on the front I think this looks really cool get a good close-up of that because it looks kind of like you know it's attached by they got pipe or something it's just the Southbridge heatsink I mean there's not a whole lot to it but it looks pretty neat okay the back of the board doesn't really have anything out of the ordinary about it so let's have a look at the i/o panel on the back we have one two three four five six USB 2.0 connectors this is not a combo connector so this is an eSATA connector this is also an eSATA connector here we have one of those handy ps2 keyboard or mouse ports we have optical audio out Gigabit Ethernet firewire I know I'm going in kind of a random order today USB 3.0 as well as 7.1 audio out so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the saber-tooth x58 top series motherboard from a soos