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this video is brought to you by the Intel Core i5 46 70k unlocked processor add an Intel 520 series SSD to your Haswell system for unbelievable overall performance welcome to a dual unboxing of a couple of different products I've got the mod matte mainboard and the mod matte extreme which are both from mod right these are PC building gears so to speak and what they are designed to be is a static safe workstation covering that is portable is scratch resistant so it's not going to damage you know your side panel window or high-gloss finish on your graphics card or anything like that as well as provide you with some useful information that you might need to reference while you're in the building process inside the box you find not only the mod matte so there's the mod matte mainboard and here's the mod matte extreme but also an anti-static wrist strap and an anti-static alligator clip so let's get the unwrapping process documented here it comes with a plastic over layer with a paper under layer and then finally there we have it ah the mod mat itself so this is the motherboard version or mainboard version which hat is smaller but still has many of the same advantages that is to say that it's anti-static so check this out so the idea is you take this and you ground out your mod mat to something you know such as I plugged in but not powered on power supply or something in a ground outlet in your wall or whatever else the case may be that makes sure that this is completely anti-static and then now that we've got it spread out we can see where those two pieces clip on to so you can tie your anti-static wrist strap here and then you can ground out the mod mat itself by using the allele eight Allenwood alligator clip to plug into whether it's you know a ground outlet on your wall outlet or something like a power I plugged in but not powered on power supply or whatever else the case may be here this is cool so check this out I've got a motherboard handy which is why I have a motherboard here so this right here is to show you what size your motherboard is if you weren't sure so ATX is gonna be presumably I don't know presumably it goes here yes so that is an ATX board so you can see that an e ATX board would go all the way to here and hptx board so things like the SRX from EVGA would go all the way to here so if you were ever not quite sure you'd be able to quickly check and reference what size your board is so there's another convenient measurement here that tells you pretty much the same thing if you have any confusion about the ports on your motherboard you can also check this handy dandy reference chart here which tells you pretty much what all of this stuff is so there you go that matches up to that so the mainboard one isn't the one that has sort of the more advanced features and charts and graphs that is saved for the extreme model now we have the mod matte extreme spread out in front of us and you can see but there's an awful lot of room to work you can have a motherboard here your case here all your random accessories spread out and it has a lot of weh-weh super more useful stuff on it so for example you can quickly and easily find out what size of radiator is and check the spacing so there I can see okay Dada Dada Dada there you go that is a dual 120 millimeter radiator and then you've got your 140 s on the side it measures everything up to a quadrat very cool stuff you can quickly and easily I mean okay so some of the stuff won't be useful to someone like me I know what how big a radiator is just looking at it so you've got other things that again wouldn't be that useful to me because I know how big a three and a half inch hard drive is versus a two and a half inch hard drive so you can see I mean it makes for just cool schematics on it if nothing else but this is a cool one being able to quickly reference how big a fan is so there you go you got marks on here that show you this is a 140 millimeter if you line it up there and it lines up with all the other ones you got a 140 mm fan on your hands if it lines up here and goes to all these other ones you've got a 120 ml fan on your hands not everyone can identify fans just looking at them with for reference so that's really nice to have next up we've got tubing sizes so this allows you to take a piece of tubing and basically go yeah there that's five eighths inch OD that is 3/8 cents ID which means that it there that one see I had it on the wrong one and you could tell it wasn't quite lining up so you can see from how big the hole is and how thick the wall is that is the size that is you can make sure it's compatible with your compressions and you can see they've got a little chart here for that as well now this is the one that I really like this is the kind of thing that I would actually have to reference on an ongoing basis and that is wiring diagrams if you do any cable sleeving or anything like that these could save your life because they tell you exactly what the voltages are of all the pins they give you all the color coding and so if you do any custom wiring on your own that could actually be maybe not a lifesaver but definitely a component saver because you might not break something that you otherwise would have broken for your reference they also show you all the latest sockets from Intel and AMD and little diagram so you can make sure you don't screw up anything on that side so you can see quite clearly that this one right here is dentin on uh LGA 1155 or 1156 actually it's LGA 1150 but they had no way of knowing that when they manufactured this thing in all likelihood so it's a grippy anti-static workplace has some cool little references looks really good and the Xtreme has more mounting points for your anti-static wrist strap as well as your grounding strap so there's one over here on the far right and then there's one over here up by the top thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the mod mat main board and the 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