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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the azrog x79 xtreme 11 motherboard this is pretty much as extreme as it gets I mean they took the dial from 1 to 10 and cranked it up to 11 so what's it got going for it this I'm not that sold on I don't think it has 5 times the system speed with X fast Ram and I don't think the USB is five times the speed of anyone elses USB 3 although it is five times the speed of USB 2 I don't believe that their LAN is five times the speed of anything it's gigabit which is either 10 times 10 100 or it's the same as gigabit so but what it does have is support for core i7 processors on the LGA 2011 platform SLI and CrossFireX compatibility Windows 7 or Windows 8 compatibility any new board is going to be just fine with Windows 8 you've got dual PCIe 3 PL X chips yes it is that extreme so this board is capable of running 4 Way SLI and four-way cross fire at 16 x16 x16 x16 x-s you heard me correctly four PCIe 3 graphics cards at full 16 XP is that crazy and because the board is all PCIe 16x connectors they can actually run at sixteen eight eight eight eight eight eight I mean if you were going to put like six read cards in a video card in a board this would be the line okay moving right along to some other things before I explain why the packaging is all beat up 24 + 2 phase power design with no coil line by the way I have already fired up this board and put it under load digital power ok 8 by ddr3 2500 + OC although the forms indicate that it's kind of hard to do that unless you have like exactly the right cherry-pick modules and really it comes down to the CPU more than the board for things like eight dim high-speed memory operation so bear that in mind you got to have a good memory controller on your cpu dual stack MOSFETs this is a new thing here so the silicon silicon die are you increased by stacking two dyes into a MOSFET very cool stuff eight SATA 3 / SAS connectors from the LSI controller and creative onboard sound with core 3d audio with premium headset amplifier so yes abs on board sound on board SAS with an LSI control or not Marvel not JMicron nothing like that LSI like the real deal um yeah dual PCIe three plx chips those are expensive chips by the way there's no other high-end board that uses more than one of them and that's very high-end under boards like this is this is in terms of the actual cost to asrock probably the most expensive possible way to implement everything that they've done here this is a premium board no jokes what else we got here premium gold caps yeah they just blink they put gold on the Cavs just because eight by usb3 forefront for back Scout mode here the anima K sure let's move right on has rock oMG online management guard ok internet flash oh cool searches for available UEFI firmware updates from asrock servers audio detect the latest bios from the servers and flash them within the ufi setup without entering the windows OS that's cool easy raid installer interactive UEFI with apparently music ok yeah visual BIOS Broadcom dual land ok that's unfortunate i would have liked to see although it does support teaming i would have liked to see intel lan however it's got so many PCIe slots that you can install of me sort of adding cards as you want if you're going to spend $600 on a motherboard I don't think the land card is that much of a stretch so you've got a front USB 3 three and a half inch adapter just in case you don't have that built into your case short hard PCB sli bridge another one 3-way SLI bridge whoops oh wow ok simplicity simplicity is like kind of my favorite thing ever this is the best 3-way SLI bridge that I have ever seen nothing no branding blank brandings here which is good but that is going to look so clean in your system love it 6a 2 3 6 game a 4 second cables another hard bridge again very clean nothing on the front of it here you can take this and install it in this and add additional back panel USB free if you don't want them in front handy 2 molex to SATA power connectors random feeling the power supply the SATA connectors on it you're buying $600 board your priorities are wrong io shield color-coded for convenience manual manual ok you got to be kidding me ok software setup guide this is a quick installation guide download the latest drivers from the ass rock website don't use this that's a novel not a quick installation guy that's a full manual guys now let's have a look at the board and I will sort of quickly explain why it looks like this this is my cat I have already tried this board I took it out so that I could so I could test it for coil whine because I'm looking for a new build for my person our new board for my personal rig and I was like super disappointed when I came back in the room and he had absolutely shredded the packaging for it so hopefully that's not going to be a problem for me at any point in time also it was strapped in with these but I have already undone them so it was zip tied in so that it's going to be totally safe and shipping I'm actually really impressed with the way this board is packaged no possibility for it to go anywhere a nice soft foam and this is the board so a few things that are unique about this board the engineering that goes into building something this extreme should not be understated because this is a standard ATX length board it's an e ATX and then it's a little bit longer but it's not fully to e-atx either so as long as you've got a decent case with a little bit of extra width this board will fit eight dims 7 PCI slots cannot emphasize that enough does not exist in a standard length board other than this one no one else was able to do it and the fact that they had to put in do plx chips to get so I mean no one else even did 16 16 16 16 1 1 1 or anything like that nobody did this and they had to build in additional chips in order to make it happen and they have 8 plus 6 hard drive connections so to say 2 3 6 gigabit per second ports off the Intel chipset for say 2 to 3 gigabit per second ports off the Intel chipset and 8 SAS 6 gigabit per second connections off the LSI chip so these are mostly intended for storage guys for your boot drive you should still be using the Intel controller alright post debug it ok I'm getting distracted here because I'm lit just on awestruck by the board there's your 24 phase power up there you can actually see 12 by 2 under this under this heat sink right here and then this is the one thing that I was not too thrilled about with this particular board the fact that it does include a chipset fan however my understanding is some water cooling company somewhere might be working on a full board cooler for this board which would make it pretty much the perfect board for the extreme user because there's no electrical noise and once you get that fan off it should be completely silent with all of these connectivity options built into it alright dual eight pin power connectors in the top left and in their ideal locations lots of room around the CPU socket for you know large coolers water blocks whatever else the case may be 8 DIMM slots which is unbelievable given that they've again squeezed it into this tiny form factor considering all like I mean look how dense the PCB is like even the top corner it's like yep put in everything you possibly can everywhere like here just do like a pen of like here down to the bottom how much stuff is on this board like a lot of the time you look at premium products and you're like yeah there's really not that much stuff on it like what were they spending money on and with this one there is actually no doubt that they spent a lot of money on it ok 24-pin power connectors in this ideal location along the right-hand edge 2 USB 3.0 front panel connectors they're not right-angle but I'll forgive them again their space constraint at some point I guess on something like this chipset cooler okay and for those of you who are suggesting on my blog channel that I just use a simple chipset waterblock I can't do that because there are four chips under there see there's the screws plx plx one of these is going to be Southbridge and then one of them is going to be the LSI controller this is probably the LSI controller would be my guess hold on where the trace is going now that might be the so yeah that's the LSI controller and that's the South Bridge as they used to call them and they don't call them anymore but I still do because I'm old-school like that onboard power connectors post header or post a readout us print USB connectors auxilary power is here and here so if you really did want to install for graphics cards I'd recommend using one or both of those to avoid burning out your 24-pin connector you've got onboard firewire onboard HD audio there's your bigger cap for the onboard audio a headphone amplifier C badge one looks kind of neat but I think the chips actually under there probably shielded in some way you know okay um I think that pretty much covers it other than oh yeah it's got the sexiest color scheme ever I wish it had a matte black PCB but since the PCB again is like so covered in stuff that you don't see it anyway this would have been just perfect for my build if I could get my hands on or on a chipset cooler for it that's not not a fan the fan actually doesn't turn on until the chipset gets hot but the dip chips that got hot pretty fast with all those chips under it so not to mention it's sharing cooling with this guy right here via this heat pipe and the power phases are bound to get pretty toasty as well so let's have a look at what we've got right right right right hold on hold on fan fan connectors one three pin one four pin one three pin one three pin so that's a total of what three three pins one for SK another for pin another three pin decent number of fan connectors not a ton long and back panel connectors ps2 port yay still a must in my opinion eight USB 2.0 ports clear CMOS dual Gigabit Ethernet firewire four USB 3.0 ports dual eSATA ports like overkill much so that gives us a total of Moses six eight fourteen sixteen sixteen SATA connections optical audio out and 5.1 audio with a mic input thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the asrock extreme 11x17 i motherboard don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from our boxing's reviews and other computer videos