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welcome to my unboxing of the Asus Sabretooth z77 motherboard this is what I would consider to be a true successor to the saber-tooth p67 because it brings back that did after the thermal armor so the exclusive thermal armor armor covers the entire board with dual turbo fans directing cooler to critical parts and dissipating heat faster for better stability Tough Series motherboards better be stable and they better have high quality components because they come with a five-year warranty these are the only issues motherboards that do come with a five-year warranty and they have a number of features to back it up so first of all we've got the thermal armor we'll show you that in a moment Thermal radar this is really cool if you check out on my NCIX comm channel I've got a video where I talk about the a seuss specific features of their z77 boards where I show you thermal radar it's really really cool dust defender repel the dust expand the lifespan I'll show you those in just a minute you can cover your slots when you are not using them tough components certified by military standard so there you go you're going to give a five-year warranty on something you better make sure you're using proper components that are going to last a long time new DIGI+ power control so this is 8th generation digital power control from Asus meaning you are controlling the RAM the CPU and the integrated GPU USB flash bios flashback allows you to easily recover your BIOS in the event of a failure even without a CPU and RAM installed network eye control allows you to prioritize various applications through AI suite in order to make sure that your you know utorrent that's running in the background is not affecting your pings in your game server UEFI BIOS we take that for granted these days USB 3 boost is also available whether it's just the regular boost mode or you ASP with compatible devices on the A's as media controller USB charger plus allows you to charge up to three times faster ESD cards in theory protect the board from electrostatic discharge yes we - is there software that allows you to control this stuff and finally complete USB 3 whatever they mean by complete usb3 I'm not quite sure I think they mean they have a front panel header and rear panel ports they also have both Intel and third-party chipsets supported on this particular board because the z77 chipset does include Intel USB 3 ports however the Intel USB 3 ports and don't support you ASP at this time so you're going to want to use the as media controller if you want to get the best performance possible so this platform is using the z77 chipset which means you got support for 22 or 32 nanometer CPUs that is second generation or third generation Ivy Bridge Intel Core i3 i5 and i7 processors we've also got support for Intel Smart Response technology which means that you can use an SSD to cache your boot drive nvidia sli and AMD crossfire x technology are supported virtue MVP gives you the ability to a plug in a dedicated graphics card still make use of quick sync technology which is the integrated GPUs a quick video encoding as well as use the integrated GPU as a way to augment the performance of your dedicated GPU as a way to reduce the tearing that is caused by frame rates that are above the refresh rate of your monitor and finally with the newer virtue you don't have to worry about whether you plug into the dedicated graphics card or the integrated graphics card you can switch to I Mon or D mode whichever you prefer okay now let's do access erease really quick here I've actually opened some of these already guys because I did already use this motherboard to film my other video and slick in his infinite wisdom opened up the board before we prepped the other video and before we had a chance to unbox it so he's feeling the shame right now all right so we've got some pieces here that we took off the board in order to install these fans so there's a fan right here on the chipset blowing air down in order to direct air exactly where it needs to go so through the chipset fins across any of the other chips that are installed on the board itself and you know eventually sort of out the gaps around it there's also a fan here so this I would probably suggest using it as an instead of as an intake but I guess the choice is yours the slick installed this one and then next we've got our dust covers so this one this one these basically allow you to keep dust from accumulating in slots that you're not using Asus has included a full complement of them for the PCI Express slots as well as look at these these are cool so we've got other placeholders for the RAM slots that we're not using so you don't look they can go either way they've got slots so you don't have to worry about which way you install them take Mike and going that way and going that way there you go so your board will look like really sweet even if you have absolutely nothing installed on it so if you're into aesthetics which I happen to be that is cool all right io Shield including a cutout for the fan at the back so that you're going to get adequate ventilation we've also got a poor SATA cables two of them are SATA three to the Mercedes two but it doesn't actually matter they're both single to right angle or all four of them are single to right angle SLI connector right there cute connectors for your front USB as well as your front panel headers for your power and whatnot you've got a driver and utilities DVD you don't use that download the latest from the Asus website you've also got a certificate of reliability it's gold and top Series five year warranty notice that's the one I'm concerned about not this one so much because that means Isis is going to stand behind it you've also got a sticker that you can put on your case tough inside no sorry can you see that there we go cool moving on let's have a look at the layout of the board which is quite tricky because it's completely covered with the thermal armor which you can take off should you see fit so we've got our CPU socket right here LGA 1155 supporting the latest Intel processors we've also got our eight pin power connector and it's ideal location at the top left of the board we've got our 24 pin power connector and it's ideal location on the right-hand edge there's the memo K button that means even if you're using a high-performance dims you can use that button to ensure that it will post no matter what we've got a front USB 3.0 header very good orientation of this love it good job Asus thumbs up because this will run more easily to your front pad and will require less you know kinking of the cable and you don't want something coming out like this if you're buying this board you probably care about the look of your build this will help next we've got four SATA to three gigabit per second ports to say two three six gigabit per second ports and two more say two three six gigabit per second ports running off of a third party chipset so those guys are just like here's our front panel headers for your power and reset and all that good stuff three USB two front panel connectors moving on we've got a power LED we've got clear CMOS jumper prefer to see a switch especially on a gaming oriented board but it is what it is we've got our Thunderbolt header yes so you can install an optional isus accessory into this slot and then plug that into the Thunderbolt header and you will add Thunderbolt support to your board debug port as well as front panel audio at both right here and moving along we've got the PCI Express slot layout so we've got one two three PCIe 1x slot three PCIe 16x slots although it's going to run at 16 X or 8 X 8 X and I really wouldn't recommend running a graphics card in here this is more intended for accessories you know LAN card raid card Thunderbolt card whatever else the case may be moving along to the back we've got our usual assortment of ports so 4 USB 2.0 ports the BIOS flash back button so handy so useful to eSATA ports 4 USB 3.0 ports 2 of those running off of a third-party chipset and 2 of them running off of an Intel chipset DisplayPort and HDMI video out optical audio out as well as 7.1 audio now I want to show you guys where all of the fan headers are because you can use the AI Suite software in order to configure custom fan curves 1 2 3 4 5 & 6 asu's has done a fantastic job of putting all the relevant ports around the very outside of the edge of this board in order to keep a clean aesthetic that is not easy so they have done a tremendous amount of work in order to make things convenient for you so I hope you guys appreciate it here's another cool thing check this out ventilation holes in the board I call them bullet holes but I don't think that's actually a Seuss's intention but check this out so we got likes like random ventilation holes like in the board I think these ones are for the socket itself but yeah there's like some ventilation holes and whatnot pretty cool right perforated PCB that's like the latest technology I'm not even joking thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the saber-tooth z77 this looks laughing he's making me lose it don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from Ron unboxings reviews and other computer videos miss something PCI Express 3.0 is supported on this motherboard as long as you are using a CPU that has a built in PCI Express 3.0 controller