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hey everybody and welcome back to Pauls hardware I am back and I am doing a quick video here I've moved into my new house and I'm still very very far from being unpacked and having everything set up though but nevertheless I don't want to bring you guys a video and I do have a pretty nice product to share so this is the Maximus 6 impact motherboard if you guys haven't heard heard of it it's Asus ever rog mini ITX motherboard so the small smallest mainstream form factor for a full fledged desktop computer and the impacts has been on the radar for quite some time it's available now and this is not going to be a full overview I'm really just going to give a really quick unboxing talk about some of the parts of this motherboard that I really thought were compelling or some some innovative things that Asus did if you guys want a full rundown of everything on this board check out the new egg TV youtube channel because I did an interview with JJ from Asus and he gave just about all the gritty details you might want about this motherboard but that being said this is the Maximus 6 impact it's a socket 1150 motherboards so it has a z87 chipset right there and it's designed for Intel's fourth generation Core processors aka Haswell and here's the box so the m6 impact what they've done here is they've tried to give you a true rog our republic of gamers experience despite the small form factor now there's certain things in a SFF builds especially mini ITX typically you're only going to get one little PCI Express expansion slot and there's maybe multiple things that a gamer might want to install on there of course in this particular instance if you're going to be doing a gaming rig you're going to be installing a discrete graphics card right there so they've tried to integrate to a pretty solid effect I think anything else that you might have wanted so a discreet sound card is something that high-end gamers really wants say have actually done a little daughterboard implementation for the supreme effects audio to give you really high quality audio despite it being motherboard audio of course they've also included some cool stuff like an M PCIe combo 2 card that's a little riser card it gives you your wireless first of all so for Wi-Fi you get to 802 at 11a BGN AC so newest dot 11 AC standard supported right there and that so that's pretty cool on the little riser card they've also given you an mg FF form factor add-on right there so you can put an NG F F or m dot 2 SSD and that's the newest form factor it's designed for like small ultra books and that sort of thing now you also get sonic radar as part of the supreme effects audio which is like Steve's favorite thing he uses an FPS games and you can see where sounds are coming from via a graphical layout on-screen that's pretty cool all the rest of these specs are all right there's for our CPU support in memory and whatnot so if you guys want to take a closer look that's right there go ahead and pop open the box there's the board it's still in the little box and this is actually the same board that we did a little build with so I kind of disassembled that because it wasn't gonna be a permanent build anyway but you're of course gonna get your users guide it's gonna get your RG stickers which are very handy to have it's gonna have your Maximus 6 impact CD and JJ was pointing out don't throw this away you should go to the Aces website to download the latest drivers but there's a couple things such as the Kaspersky antivirus as well as daemon tools Pro which can let you do school stuff like doing a virtual optical drive so you can mount iso's we need to have a full-fledged software included so that's only available on this disc so don't throw it away apart from that IO shield of course serial ata cable a little rap for them one two three four pretty standard Asus ones those actually all have the straight plugs on both ends which I I kind of lean towards I like having the option to go straight plugs over the angled plugs but in a small form-factor you're often not going to have quite as much room for the angle here is your antenna this is actually Wi-Fi antenna and that's kind of a cool thing you can spin it around so you can set it up on the desk cover you wants and get good a good signal but also they've gone with these larger size standardized antenna connectors so you do have the option if you're positioning this somewhere really far away from their router for example to attach your own antenna to those connection points and you don't have to use an adapter speaking of antenna or wireless card here's that one at that little little riser card that they have on there and this is this is a cool device MPAs mm PCIe combo - I really like this when they first did it with the RG I think I first sat on the the Maximus 5 gene motherboard that we had and I what I really liked about it is a couple things first off you get your Wi-Fi and you don't have to use an expansion slot that's cool second off having the ability to pop in a little SSD and use that as like a boot drive especially for me because I take the systems and I tend to move them around a lot and not having a serial ata cable sneaking off of there with a SSD on it I just find that to be very handy and this is n GFS so this is an example of kind of what Asus likes to do with their rog boards and that is embrace new standards ng FF next generation form factor super small form factor and I'm kind of excited to see where this is going to go because it gives you the ability to not only do the little SATA connection basically through there but it also gives you the option to do direct PCI Express connection that's just part of the ng F F form factor spec PCI Express x2 or x4 so potential in the future we can see ng FF form factor SSDs achieving much higher throughput than is available on SATA at least with SATA revision 3 a little screw popped off of that I should probably figure out where that goes and put it back though it goes back there clearly but yeah I've heard from that you got your little riser card in there and that's also got a look how convenient I can spin the Santa in selnick on there of course you see that until probably hey hey hear that this was handy little extension there so kind of the mini ITX version of the q connector this actually saved my butt in our life build that JJ and I did because I hadn't plugged in my front panel connectors but I was able to take them all plug them into that I'm gonna take a little block and that's that's why BJJ BJJ in our build race to be fair he was doing a water cooling bill than I was doing a mini ITX bill the night I skipped a bunch of stuff look new ROG case badges those are kind of handy edges and here is that supreme effects audio board so as you can see gold plated audio connectors analog audio connectors which is actually a place for gold plating does help with analog connections there's your joint connector so that's where it makes contact with the motherboard get your shielded supreme effects audio chip and right there which I believe is the actual limit double check real quick okay I'm gonna cheat a little bit here just to make sure I get everything right here as far as the audio chip goes so rog supreme FX impact 6+2 channel high-definition audio line out digital the audio conversion playback signal-to-noise ratio a weighted differential output 115 decibel pretty pretty impressive specs right there for audio headphone DAC playback signal noise ratio 1 to 10 a DC recording signal-to-noise ratio of 104 aspect that I'm not quite as familiar with elma premium audio capacitors doesn't caps on they're specifically made for audio so they're gonna reduce you know the signal noise and that sort of thing TI LM 4 or 5 6 - high fidelity audio op amp so op amp is not swappable which is something that we've seen a little bit more frequently but a I'm kind of dubious about the value of a swappable op-amp but it is specifically made for audio and supports 600 ohms headphones so another thing that gamers in the rog series might be interested in using high-end headphones this one 600 ohms very nice content protection for full rate lossless DVD audio blu-ray playback Jack detection multi-streaming front panel pretty cool and of course sonic radar functionality also built in so that's pretty sweet ok let's take a closer look at the motherboard so here it is the Maximus 6 impact and right here I mean just looking at the amounts of hardware that they've managed to wedge onto this little mini ITX board is pretty insane especially to consider first off so that you still have the overclocking capabilities that you would with a full-fledged like ATX or micro ATX board they have this daughter board right there the impact power tech inside ROG right there it's got a little it's even got like a little backplate on it which is pretty cool right there looks sweet and then the the one thing that I found when actually building with this is it will ship with these these bolts in place right here so you need to pop those off and then that is where your actual connection points are for your mini ITX mounts a new mini ITX case the board of course is red and black keeping with the ROG standards for making their boards not just very functional but also quite appealing to look at as well there's your 1150 socket the daughter board of course the riser points which is a where'd that go I totally lost it oh they're both right here ok so these are your these are your two connection points here that's for your M PCIe combo card so you would just pop it on right there and they've also given you Phillips head screws but give you a very sturdy connection since those do feed back to places where you might actually be plugging and unplugging stuff just keeps it that much more sturdy one other thing I did want to point out about this this little riser card here the MPC combo to cart is that when you plug it in do that real quick like that of course you do get the you know you can screw it down in there make sure it's securely connected but also the way it's all laid out right here you've got your the position for the the audio daughterboard right there it's going to come out across this little section where they've made a groove in the heatsink but also with your ng FF form factor your m2 connector right there you have the ability to go with different lengths so they're shorter versions there's longer versions depending on what type of capacity you have this supports the lengths all the way up to 110 millimeters and it's going to be protruding across the board in this direction which means it's not necessarily going to conflict with your video card or the daughter board for your audio so that's pretty handy I'm definitely looking forward to seeing like some super high capacity 256 gig 512 gig maybe even one terabyte ng FF form factor cards because popping that in right there especially for me because that tends to set up little systems that aren't in cases and I move them around frequently not having a necessarily te cable hanging out for there that has the SSD connected to it it's just really handy I like it okay but apart from that's I guess that's pretty much gonna wrap it up again this has been a closer look at the isus Maximus 6 impact motherboard again thank you very much for bearing with me you guys over the past few weeks since I've been moving in all I know I haven't been posting videos but looking forward to getting the garage set up out there which should hopefully take place in the next couple weeks set up all my lighting and whatnot so I can produce more videos more frequently but thanks for watching this one if you enjoyed it if you liked this motherboard go ahead hit the like button maybe I was I'm thinking they should make that into a love button instead of just a like button that'd be cool but okay I digress thanks again for watching this video guys we'll see you as soon as I can possibly make another video very soon very soon I promise