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welcome to an unboxing that many of you have requested this is the ass Rock fatality professional series z77 motherboard so this is an LGA 1155 board using the z77 chipset which means you've got support for all the latest features including third generation Intel Core processors nvidia sli ati/amd crossfire X technology Windows 7 which is sort of not really the latest as well as a bunch of other stuff so they've got five five five which I guess is better than gigabytes three three three maybe that's what they were going for here so five times land speed five x USB speed and five times system speed with X fast Ram X fast USB next fast land ok so you can Photoshop apparently up to five times faster X fast Ram will create oh that's cool no no this might actually be cool okay so X fast Ram will create a virtual disc from the system memory to boost the performance for Photoshop it can even perform five times faster than before neat lower latency in games with as rocks motherboard with X fast land versus other motherboard without it and USB comparison five times faster although they don't really say why powered by F net okay high performance this is a feature of lucid virtu MVP which is an updated version of virtue of allowing switchable graphics so you can get the best of your dedicated graphics part card and your onboard graphics card as well as virtual vsync which I don't know I tried it felt like there's more input legs so I didn't really like it that much in high performance which adds performance to some games using the onboard VGA on your CPU smart connect technology rapid start technology turn on really fast as well as a bunch of other cool stuff premium gold caps yes they are gold-plated very cool digital power design sixteen plus eight power phase design I capable of four dims at up to twenty eight hundred megahertz plus and the fatality Mouse port is pretty cool because what it allows you to do is automatically customize the polling rain and other features of the mouse port to be the same as what Jonathan fatality you can play quake no but seriously I've seen him play he's much much better than me I don't mean to be ragging on the guy it's just that I think you should for things like Maus said that settings I think you should find what works for you that's all I don't think that necessarily using the same polling rate on your USB port is going to dramatically improve your gameplay however that doesn't take away from the fact that this looks like an absolutely beastly motherboard with a very very complete accessory package by the look of things so let us continue moving on with the fatality professional z77 so first you got your quick installation guide which ironically is about 8 meters thick you've also got a utility DVD download the latest from the Azeroth website six SATA port SATA ports SATA cables an i/o shield that is handily color-coordinated and apparently there's a lot of different help points on this motherboard so we're gonna check that out to molex to SATA adapters these are super handy even if you don't use them for this build you might run into a use for them sometime in the future okay that's just a hard hard SLI bridge we've also got a front USB three three and a half inch to internal header this is super handy it's great that it comes with it and you can even unscrew it from the three and a half inch bay piece and put it on to an i/o shield and use it for the back of your case if you already have front USB three so that's really really neat a couple of more guides as well as a software setup guide and now let's have a look at the board itself so it's got a very unique look it'll go really well with your fatality 1000 watt power supply where is that oh you know what we actually did an episode on the NCIX comm channel not that long ago about color coordinating your build where we had an asus crosshair 5 formula and the fatality power supply we had Radeon 7970 graphics cards red LED lighting it looked absolutely amazing so a board like this on the intel side would go great with a build like that so here we go we got our gold-plated capacitors we've got our LG 11:55 CPU socket remember this is compatible a 2nd gen Sandy Bridge or 3rd gen Ivy Bridge Intel Core processors these memory slots as I mentioned before support up to ddr3 2800 megahertz look at that an IDE port it when's the last time you saw an IDE part I mean as Rock has really gone all out to include everything I mean maybe Jonathan has like an IDE optical drive that he really likes I do I have I have one of those BenQ ones that was like the epitome of optical drives in his IDE I haven't had a board I can use it on in ages so there you go maybe he has one too so we've gone an 8 pin power connector in the top of the board in its ideal location 24 pin power connector along the right-hand edge of the board and it's similarly ideal location front USB 3.0 port 6 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports with 4 SATA 3 say 2 to 3 gigabit per second ports and for better performance we suggest port 0 to 5 is boot devices so that's these ones remember for 0 to 5 is 1 to 6 in sort of real people terms so these are the ones running off the Intel controller these guys are running off of what is evidently an AZ media controller alright onboard power buttons also fatality themed power and reset onboard post debugging LED we've also got front USB to front firewire our front panel connectors which aren't helpfully labeled we've got really a floppy connector can you install quick off a floppy drive I'm not actually sure it's pretty old game check this out though we've got a PL expert John here so you should be able to see some pretty intelligent switching of the PCI Express Lanes it's really tricky the more stuff you build in to these z77 boards whether it's third-party chipsets for SATA whether it's more USB 3 whether it's additional PCI Express slots the trickier it gets for this the onboard CPU PCI Express controller to manage it so the plx chip I'm not sure what it's working on over there but it's probably just allowing it to get the best performance possible these chips aren't cheap so they you go it's on the board in terms of pci express slots we've got two PCIe 1x two PCI and three PCIe 16x oval please note this one's only wired for 4x and is only really going to be fully functional and basically I wouldn't put anything too demanding in it like a graphics card unless you're running an Ivy Bridge CPU and even then it's not going to be ideal for all intents and purposes this is a 2-way SLI onto a crossfire compatible board that is two cards you can still run in Quad SLI and crossfire with dual GPU cards this one is only at 8x but remember this is 8x pcie 3.0 so that means you've got the same bandwidth as pcie 2.0 16x so you're gonna get full performance on a two cards going here front audio is over here in its ideal location and you got it let's have a look at like the cooling solution that we got going on here and get some close-ups of that it looks pretty good Jonathan signed it over here got some more beefy aluminum heats things going on over here he wants me to keep turning it I think now you're talking about fans Oh fans good thinking apparently this means fans according to stick which is like sort of abstract but whatever so we've got 1 2 2 4 pin pwm fan headers and then 1 2 three pin no.4 3 pin fan headers so mostly done by 3 pin 2 PWM personally to me it doesn't make much of a difference I very rarely plug fans into my motherboard anyway because I usually use a real fan controller but there you go now you know yeah that's right ok good job thanks Lee on the back you find not really much of note other than a backplate and then oh and some via chip cool now let's have a look at what we've got in terms of i/o you have lots of different i/o so we have 6 USB 3.0 port speaking of adding extra things you know like more USB 3 we've also got a ps2 keyboard mouse combo port these are huge if you have a high-end keyboard that only runs on ps2 and a lot of the mechanical ones do you're gonna make sure to get one of these ps2 ports HDMI and DisplayPort out cover your digital display out options remember if you want to run the onboard graphics in addition to your dedicated graphics card in order to take advantage of quick sync which allows you to quickly encode video or transcode video you will want to run off of one of these or over here you just have to make sure the software is connected correctly 6 USB 2.0 ports eSATA firewire dual Gigabit LAN optical audio out as well as 5.1 audio or 7.1 rather audio out via analog I think I never mentioned the front USB 3 header that's running off the Intel chipset and this is like I said one of the more complete boards I've seen in a very long time I mean even to the point where it's got like floppy and IDE connectors on it very cool so you can connect a grand total of like two drives here ten drives here and like a floppy drive 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