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the BitFenix prodigy M is compact and ready for anything click now to learn more welcome to my unboxing an overview of these z87 I Deluxe which is a product that I'd be more excited about if Asus hadn't unleashed the Maximus 6 impact on us with this generation of product so that's an ROG grade MIT export this one is still very fully featured but in some slightly different ways so unlike the last generation product it's got six SATA ports unlike the last generation product it's got support for Ultra HD 4k output however if you are you know running some kind of a 4k display setup I would really recommend grabbing a dedicated graphics card unlike the ROG board it has onboard wireless AC which is actually pretty darn cool and I guess I mean okay that's already enough differences that the board justifies its existence somewhat it has a very very high-end vrm solution just like the last generation z77 i Deluxe board so you can see that like all of their super premium ITX boards it has a riser like a dotter PCB with a heatsink all over the front of it a heatsink all over the back of it and beyond component rebuilt onto it because there just wasn't enough room to put all of that Ober stuff onto one of these boards it has therefore way optimization which is a little bit different from how they implement things on the ROG boards so that means that it can optimize for you know running faster it can optimize for saving power when you're away and it can even do things like you can set a maximum power consumption for the CPU itself thank you for the CPU itself that it cannot exceed through the AI Suite software which is again incredibly cool so let's take you on a bit of a tour of the board up here in the top right is the 8 pin CPU power connector next is the 24 pin power connector it's hard to really say what the optimal locations are for things like this on an ITX board because the chassis really do vary a fair bit there's six say two three six gigabit per second ports as I mentioned before and you'll notice the spacing this gives you a quite a bit more flexibility in terms of where you're plugging them in because again with that variation in the layouts of mitx cases you don't always have a guarantee as to where you're actually going to be able to reach the SATA ports full support for dual channel ddr3 memory so you can easily plug in up to 16 gigs and check this out I really like this they have changed the way that the PCI Express slot latch is accessed so that's a full speed pcie 3.0 16x slot and you can access it from this side or this side which again is very tailored to the challenges that people face when building these little tiny systems that expert 2 has been added to the board which means full control whether you're running three pin or four pin fans using the AI Suite software and the fan headers are him here here here and here so they're all in pretty much the same spot asus has their patent pending sensing connector as well for the cpu so that it can automatically apply the right control profile it is an LGA 1150 board you've got support for the latest Haswell processors and as we move around to the back we find a pretty darn complete IO so for USB 2.0 ports 6 USB 3.0 ports that's more than the impacts which has a sort of a bit of a different loadout if you will it has a BIOS a clear scene will switch as well as a BIOS flash back switch so if you brick the board in the middle of flashing the BIOS you can restore it that way dual link DVI DisplayPort and HDMI optical audio out Intel powered Gigabit Ethernet as well as wireless AC and Bluetooth 4.0 and this this is the thing that is really to me the key difference between the impact and the deluxe so it has onboard 5.1 audio however you're only going to be able to run 500 Audio 5.1 audio like that can be reconfigured to 5.1 because normally you'd have sort of you're lying in your your line out your mic and your headphone out and that's kind of or speakers out and that's kind of it whereas the impact has a very premium audio solution built into it this one has a sort of a ho-hum audio solution but it brings that Wireless to the table as well as the extra SATA ports if you were to build like a really high-end storage server or something like that that you want to put away in a closet you want to trust it that it's going to be super reliable so you still want something really high-end this would work for that so it's just about the different use case scenarios oh yeah I probably should have mentioned there's a USB 3.0 header right here in kind of the middle of the board not a very optimal location for that would have preferred it at the edge and that leads us to the accessories which I sort of tore out in my hurry to check out the board itself six SATA cables and by six I mean five that's very odd there's only there's only one in this package I kind of wonder if that's actually just oh there's another one that's individually wrapped as well so six SATA cables as well as the magnetic antenna for the onboard wireless connectivity so there you go you can sort of stick it down flat you can fold it up like this and then stick it to something else like that it'll stick to anything that's got some you know iron or nickel content in it io shield as well as your manual with the driver disk and this it's actually I don't know this might sound kind of crazy but this is one of the cleverest innovations that I think a Seuss brought to the table with their latest generation ITX boards this is instead of the older style cue connector which is like a little brick that plugs into the board and check this out it's a pre-done smaller brick that is a breakout cable instead of actually having to plug the individual things from the case into the top of the connector itself so you take this whole thing it's keyed so you can only install it one way you plug that in then you can run it wherever it needs to go and plug all your front panel you know power switch reset switch and all your LEDs into that instead which i think is actually really really cool so thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the z80 7i deluxe don't forget to subscribe - tactic to run boxing through these and other computer videos like the video if you liked it dislike it if you just liked it and leave a comment if you think my teeth are just too yellow and I should just stop making YouTube videos because I'm disgusting