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now this is a motherboard unboxing that I've been pretty excited to do this is the asou saber-tooth p67 motherboard so it's part of their top series which stands for the ultimate force which has a very clever little logo that's actually a tee and then a u and then an F sort of but you get the point right the ultimate force tough tough series has a five-year warranty so it has guaranteed reliability it also has a friggin axe on the front of the box so it is tough and will destroy you okay here we have its support for LGA 1155 so that means you have full support for all of the intel core i7 core i5 and core i3 CPUs on this platform it features the P 67 chipset which means that the onboard video on your core i7 processor will not be supported by this board but honestly who cares this is a performance board you're going to want to put a nice dedicated graphics card into it so let's have a look at what a seuss has to say for themselves about this board we have thermal arm or armor which is total airflow boosting heat dissipation will show you that once we get it opened up we have thermal radar real-time heat detection and heat removal so monitors temps in critical parts of the motherboard in real-time automatically adjusting fan speeds to make sure the system maintains high stability without overheating we have tough components so certified by military standard for tough duty hence the five-year warranty digi+ vrm so fully digital VRM for excellent voltage regulation we have a front panel USB support aa compatible theny chassis enjoy faster throw book without relegating cables and devices to be hard to recreate oh so that means it has a USB proper pin out header rather than just a cable and that goes around to the back of the board efi bios which is awesome because it even supports the scroll wheel in the graphical interface and the bios so you can use a mouse to change all those settings instead of the keyboard and it has a complete USB solution double USB access double convenience okay what does that mean - still facilitate strategic accessibility for both the front and rear panel okay well we'll see what they mean once we get that opened up let's have a look at the back of the board where it probably says all the same stuff tested server grade reliability so that's something they haven't mentioned on the front and now let's get it opened up and have a look at this port this is a very unique looking motherboard and you can't really tell through that highly reflective surface I suspect so it will still we're still in suspense about what this new tough series board looks like let's have a look at the included accessories we have the user's guide a utilities and drivers DVD which you should throw away a powered by a su sticker so download the latest off the assess website we have a five-year warranty notice that comes with it as well as a thermal radar digi+ vrm user guide cool thank you next we have an i/o shield we have two SATA to three gigabit per second cables and two SATA 3 6 gigabit per second cables although please note they are identical other than the white color coding on the cables they will both work with either speed grade we have 4 mounting screws not sure what those are for guess we'll hopefully find out then we have an SLI bridge very tight spacing on the sli compatible slot I'll actually they know that's not that tight no no that's fine gentlemen and then we have their cue Connect for the front case switch led all that good stuff as well as the front USB 2 and finally the board itself so normally when a Seuss's boards come in one of these paper sleeves they actually don't have an anti-static bag on them but the sabre-tooth p67 seems to be a bit of an exception to that rule and here it is so that's the thermal sheath that we were talking about before you can see it has like like a plastic covering on it okay that oh okay so that's what these screws are for so you can actually you have alternate mounting screws to actually put a fan over the Northbridge should you so desire so wow this actually makes it kind of more difficult for me to point out a lot of the features of the board because I maybe it makes it easier because I can only see the things that qualifies features of the board one thing that this design will allow you to do is have a very clean-looking interior of your case because the only parts you're going to be able to see are the business parts of your board so let's start where we usually start which is the CPU socket very non crowded CPU socket one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven okay I'm not sure how many phases the power design is okay hold on one two three four five six seven eight nine ten okay it looks like an eight plus two phase power design on this guy LGA 1155 socket as I mentioned before supports all LGA 1155 boards because you're using the p67 chipset you have full support for k-series unlocked processors overclocking those things to the max up here in the top left we have the eight pin CPU power connector and it's in exactly its correct location we have our MOSFET heat sinks here as well as here using a typical a soos Tough Series color scheme so we've got kind of a black rough looking paint finish as well as like a green military rough looking paint finish on both sides we have full support for up to four sticks Abdul channel ddr3 memory on can I even get this off yeah there we go so these are also tough tough series looking color schemes here as well as soos is using their quick install I forget what the branding is for it but basically it allows you to slide in the modules from one side and then clip in with only one side so you don't have to clip in both sides at the same time we have the mem okay button which allows you to post with any memory sticks even if they're not 100% compatible it'll default to a very safe setting to allow you to post and then adjust your memory timings for optimal performance we have our 24 pin power connector and it's ideal location along the right-hand edge and here we have a USB 3 header so that will be for your front panel USB 3 we are also going to find what is this okay here we go so we have 4 SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports and it looks like we have 4 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second port so 2 of these are going to be running off of the Intel chips and two of them are going to be running off some third party chipset which I actually can't identify because most of the board is covered so here we have our front panel connectors that is your front power reset LEDs all that good stuff we have a set of three front USB 2.0 headers so that it means up to six front USB 2.0 devices we have a front firewire header as well as our front audio header in terms of the PCI Express expansion we have a pretty good looking layout here so we have one two three PCIe 1x slots we have two PCIe 16x slots remember p67 boards that is all of them are going to split these PCIe 16x slots into dual PCIe 8 X unless they have an NF 200 or similar chip and then finally one lone pci slot so if you're running sort of a mid-range configuration with one graphics card then they leave you one two PCIe 1x a PCIe up to eight X and then one PCI slot and if you're running dual graphics so a high-end config they leave you two PCIe 1x slots and so those are the ones that a high-end power user is more likely to use here we have a like shroud on the i/o cup on the i/o shield so we have one of those ps2 keyboard mouse combo ports which I'm a big fan of one two three four five six seven eight USB 2.0 ports optical audio out eSATA dual eSATA looks like yep dually SATA and then we've also got USB 3.0 firewire Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio out on the back of the motherboard we find some mounting screws and not a whole lot else and one thing I sort of want to figure out here is whether it's possible to remove the thermal armor shield so should you so desire so I'm sorry guys I'm going to take just a minute here on camera and yes it looks like you can so there's mounting screws on the back for it there go here here here here here here here basically they're all over the back and it looks like you can quite easily remove the thermal armor if you want so that would be totally up to you because there may be some aspects of the board that are more difficult to work with with this thermal armor plate on such as the PCIe fasten our retention clips there so I'm going to show you guys what I mean keep focusing that at the board while I walk over here and go get a graphics card so this is one thing that might be a little bit challenging when you've got a system completely loaded up it might be a little bit hard to access these these kinds of mechanisms so you know like let's say you've got one card you got a dual slot card here and then you've got like another dual slot card here so this is like you have this much room in between to press down on that and pull out the card so I'm not sure how challenging that's going to be but another thing that might be a bit tricky is if you have a screwdriver with a wide tip like mine it's probably not going to fit down here too fast in the motherboard so make sure you have a skinny screwdriver so those are the only considerations that I'd probably want to be sure of oh and other thing is you might want to make sure you have enough clearance between the i/o shield and like a 120 millimeter fan mounted here in your case to make sure that you have room for this so those are the only considerations that I can think of that would really be a concern for the p67 sabertooth thank you for checking out my unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos