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welcome to my unboxing and first look at a genuine Intel desktop board ok that's good this is extreme series optimized for Intel K processors so this is an extreme series board and is optimized for Intel K processors because this is an LGA 1155 board which means that you don't have support for Intel Extreme Edition processors on LGA 2011 the d77 re 75k has a bunch of cool stuff so number one is in the extreme board supports Intel Core i7 i-5 and i3 highly optimized for K processors which means overclocking friendly yay Intel visual BIOS which means UEFI BIOS PCI Express 3.0 LGA 1155 processor support nvidia sli technology and d crossfire X technology look at that it's aimed a logo on an intel product um lucid virtu MVP virtualization for improved performance as well as the ability to use the onboard video for quick sync and your dedicated graphics card for gaming and what else do you want to talk about oh yeah it has Thunderbolt which is boss so transformational high speed dual protocol yeah you know Intel has like the boringest way of talking about like the coolest stuff sometimes no offense guys but transformational high speed dual protocol PCI Oh delivering performance simplicity and flexibility fastest IO connection to your PC what they really mean is like beastly Thunderbolt technology for like the fastest daisy-chaining awesomeness and that's what they were trying to say latest responsiveness sectionals yot Intel Smart Response technology with SSD caching until a rapid start so you can quickly start up your PC and Intel smart connect technologies are all present power supervisor well let's need some monitor insurance system protection from power supply failure current surge and over current protection in the event of power spikes I reduce the power supervisor will shut the power off that's really cool so they're building it like a like breakers almost the board by the sounds of things which is really neat I mean one of the biggest risks to a PC in general is if you know there's a power problem of some sort and your power supply explodes which is inconvenient and expensive because you got to get a new one but it can also be a total disaster because it can take other stuff with it at the same time so Intel is thought of that and decided that they don't really want that to happen and there's all custom sli bridge love it look at that blue connectors I don't have one like this I'm like totally pocketing this done Intel mousepad Intel has awesome swag that comes with their products check this out I still have this from this was back like some extreme edition LGA 775 board warning noobs be where you will be pwned love it actually it might have come with what was that board skull trail or something the one that was dual socket you have hot story extreme desktop boards sweet mousepad actually feels reasonably nice got a nice grip enos on the back very cool we've also got look at that a front USB 3 so internal header two front three and a half inch drive with two USB 3.0 connectors and it's pretty nice like as brushed metal it's not plastic like some of the ones that I've seen included with other boards very nice I mean let's think about the Intel is it might be a little bit more expensive but they tend to get some of the finishing touches right and I say some because these are read SATA cables that's just tragic okay moving right along body so they include a an external I think this is Wi-Fi and bluetooth but let me just double check before I go and you know get ahead of myself here includes bluetooth 2.1 Wi-Fi b/g/n modules that's very very new and they also include a cable to connect it so this probably plugs in where on earth the system know when it's internal oh that's cool so you can probably use this on anything it's just USB look at that internal USB plug to internal USB header and you just stick it somewhere to the inside of your case discreetly very nice and this is even pretty easy to sleep as well so you could sleep in black and it look really good color coded i/o shield summary of a summary of postcodes very nice love it when they include a post read out love it even more when they actually tell you what they mean driver disk sort away integration guide in color all in color how to build your PC very nice there you go and you can tell like a team of people worked on anything that Intel releases so little quick guide to all the different various front panel connectors processor compatibility yeah ok LGA 1155 and some maximum image breezy things ok cool moving on to the board itself Intel has really figured out the aesthetics of their boards ever since LGA 775 I think and Dave this whole like skull theme thing that they've got going on I think looks really good it's a lot better than like guns and bullets and stuff like that it's got like you know like a silvery sort of stylized look to it it goes really really well with the dark blue love silver and dark blue as far as color schemes go and I'm not gonna gush too much about how good-looking this board is but it's it's good-looking without being sort of overly flashy and kind of silly so all solid-state caps all over the entire board there's no no liquid caps including the power delivery as well as every other component on the board there's the LGA 1155 socket with a lot of room around it which is great if you have a large aftermarket cooler your 8 pin power connectors and it's ideal location on the left you've got support for a dual channel ddr3 memory up to probably 64 gigs would be would be my guess but we'll see it depends on depends on availability over the next little bit you can at least put you can at least put 32 bigs in today 24 power connectors and it's ideal location along the right-hand edge onboard power and reset buttons very very nice we've bought say two three six gigabit per second ports off the Intel chipset say two to three gigabit per second ports and it's very rare for Intel to include like a third party chipset but they've got a Marvel chipset providing two more say two three six gigabit per second ports that's that's fantastic Wow front i/o I consider this to be the ideal location for front i/o I really like this I don't really like it when they put it over here because your front i/o is always there never somewhere else and you're always using it you know it's not like USB to where there's a chance you won't be using it ok so there's three front panel USB 2 ports two front panel USB 3 ports spit if out as well as front panel oh look at that front panel firewire nice to still see that where's the front panel audio though there it is he okay expansion slots we've got seven love seeing boards with seven expansion slots because what that means to someone like me is that they put the effort in to make sure that they were filling up all of the space and giving you as much expansion as they possibly can so these will run in either 16 X or 8 X 8 X mode PCI Express 3.0 1 2 3 PCIe 1x slots and 2 PCI slots if you're using two dual slot graphics cards you'll be left with 2 PCIe 1x and one PCI slot I consider this to be a very good mix good on you Intel alright low yeah let's have a look at fan headers so we've got one two three four PWM fan connectors on the board the locations aren't as perfect as I'd like I'd like to see more fan headers sort of around here because otherwise there's not really much to connect your front fans to top fans can so CPU fan top fan rear fan and this is sort of in no-man's land I'd like to see a couple up here instead but it's not the end of the world on the back we've got four USB 2.0 connectors a ps/2 connector firewire eSATA I'm gonna have to find out what that is dual Intel gigabit ethernet 4 USB 3.0 HDMI as well as oh that must be the must be Thunderbolt it just looks funny no it's not no there it is yeah we'll find out what that is probably a clear seamless switch though hdmi 7.1 audio out optical audio out and a thunderbolt connector so give me a sec guys so yeah basically this will when you illuminate this it'll get you back to the BIOS set default settings which is basically clear CMOS switch but not quite however this is a clear seamless jumper so you just go ahead and flip that over in order to clear the CMOS I think that pretty much covers it although it does have a couple of yeah a couple of interesting software bits that are included including McAfee ESET Smart Security this is neat Splashtop remote desktop is included although there's like an Asterix so other names and brands etc flat blank PCmover and you can monitor PC health with the Intel desktop utility these stuff so what's the point pretty much everything you need in terms of Io I was wrong it's 32 gigs Mac's by the way everything you need in terms of i/o every feature you could possibly ask for including the latest Thunderbolt technology SLI crossfire all that good stuff and I mean it's built by Intel so like you know realistically it's got a three-year warranty but if it's not working 10 years from now I'll be very surprised thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the D 77 re 75 K from Intel don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and how exactly am I gonna put this motherboard in this box okay you're in my spot