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excellent hello everyone and welcome to Paul's hardware today's video is going to be all about x99 specifically Asus x99 motherboards and if you're not familiar haswell-e has now launched it is available there's new CPUs there's new motherboards there's ddr4 memory and there's also JJ who is graciously agreed to speak to us and share all of his knowledge about this so JJ thank you thank you and thank you for guys for checking out the content no no no no really not just the beginning of the video standard like hey man thanks really like I want to thank you because you share your knowledge with everyone and I think you have real passion for this so so I really appreciate that and I want to dive into this actually I need to give you guys a warning first off this is going to be the long video so if you haven't already looked at the timecode down there I don't know what it's going to end up being but it's gonna be long we're not gonna pull anybody living on the edge here we're gonna keep talking until the cameras stop working or until our boys just stopped working one of the others let's start by explaining where this other motherboard just came from but not all right so what's what's available from Asus at least right at launch you should get you guys should be able to find the x99 deluxe available that's the mainstream series beautiful black and white motherboard design we also have the x99 a yes which is going to be the I guess entry-level if you want to call it that and granted this is enthusiast so everything here is going to be a little bit more expensive than the mainstream stuff but that's okay you're paying for performance also the next 99 WS the workstation right here which looks glorious sexiest workstation board I think I've ever seen and then of course the r5 e rampage 5 extreme whoa what happened okay more more more Hardware just keeps appearing in front of us oh all right so here's how I wanted to start off JJ we have three new Intel CPUs that are going to be available right now let's tell people some of the characteristics of those okay and maybe some recommendations since we're and then from there going to go into segmentation of these boards because let's talk about segmentation of the CPUs first so we had the 5820k which is going to be again the kind of entry level so to speak correct still uh still a pretty high in part feel 6 for 12 threads 15 Meg's of cache in 28 PCIe lanes okay and that is the difference there that the intel has decided to go with a little bit less PCI connectivity yet for the the kind of entry-level enthusiast part there but it's still fully overclockable but still fully overclockable so that's nice it's a case cue it's unlocked so um and still 28 lanes of PCI so so more than like any z97 platform yeah than anything you get with it with the mainstream platform still so still very nice but that is the one thing to watch out for is if you really need that full 40 lanes that you give it the other ones then it might be a reason to step up to the next level which is the 59 30 K correct which is also six core also 12 threads this one also has 15 Meg's of cash 15 Meg's of cash right and then this one you're going to get the full 40 lanes PCI Express connectivity correct again 3d I should point out and then of course if you want the best of the best you got to go for the X level the extreme edition 59 60 X and that was going to be quite pricey but they do give you actually compelling reason to maybe buy that one this time around that's because it's 8 8 core 16 threads it's pretty beastly and 5 more Meg's of cash so you get 20 Meg's of cash on that one so many Meg's of cash it's it's obscene so I feel like it's compared to last generation or at least with Ivy bridge-e where you looked at the the extreme edition and then the the K part the 49 30k it was kind of like really the extreme edition felt more like a like a like a halo product than it did actually but this time around I think I think there's gonna be folks actually J here also do we thank J yes we did we take J but it was over there's no girl thing I really enjoy the Maccabean it thanked me in this video we didn't thing in this video so we're here J's two cents a studio filming room and and thank you J for letting us film we thank you for his gracious about a quick aside there how do you welcome alright so J is given some heavy consideration to the to the extreme edition one just for the for those extra cores and for the extra benefit you'll get there from from rendering and everything because you said in your testing you guys have worked with a lot of these is actually a pretty significant boost yeah I mean overall I mean just one one of the big benefits that we have here is that Intel's done some really intelligent things in the overall architectural design and what's been put into the CPU so you're getting IPC improvement compared to the previous generation on top of all the hardware based specification improvements such as the such as the number of cores as well as the actual cash so even architectural a clock - clock performance you get those improvements so overall I mean it's really truly an enthusiast class platform and they've really brought it to be able to really say in every single way compared to the current high-end mainstream based performance category you're getting an improvement in every single respect so you don't ever feel like you're going to get a lower performing product whether it's going to be you in relation to expansion whether it's going to be a relation to bandwidth whether it's going to be relation to frequency whatever it's going to be this is truly the highest and platform that's out there on the market okay and then if you guys have been following stuff about as well and that launch that has well last year and has will refresh this year that might that CPU architecture is what's used in haswell-e of course and a lot of those features have carried over to this new cloud so we have a fiber for example we fully intrigue or integrated voltage regulation correct so I'm what are some of the elements of that when it comes to specifically things like overclocking you know the the fiber just like we talked about in previous generations is really an interesting design previously you know motherboard vendors had to do a lot of work in terms of the power delivery control implementation to be able to kind of effectively manage that so you had a lot of options how on how the board could engage with the processor in terms of what definable parameters can be controlled now the fiber helps to kind of equalize that to an extent in terms that all motherboard vendors now kind of have a parity position in that respect but there's still a huge amount of work that goes into the overall topology and other aspects of the power delivery and once it going to recap the fiber doesn't have anything to do with power delivery on a motherboard all it does is pretty much just manage the control parameters and the conversion process regulating the voltage yeah so so it pretty much just comes down to in terms of making sure that voltage I'd say parameters of adjustment are more consistent across all board vendors okay I would say it would be how it leverages and how it benefits the consumer but outside of that you know a lot of this still ultimately comes down to the quality of the tuning that goes into the UEFI and the firmware and how that works with the fiber and how it works with the platform and Asus has actually done a bit specifically to certain hardware based designs and as part of our total topology to even be able to maximize what this what the CP allows for this generation allow us to do some really interesting things in terms of scaling the cash ratio on the DRAM dividers so there's still actually a lot left on the table in terms of helping us to maximize performance okay but definitely the fiber being part of this overall just helps to give us a very consistent degree of tuning but as we talked about you know as a whole overclocking things along lengths of things along those lines you're still having actually a fairly wide degree of variability on the CPU overclocking you still get a guaranteed kind of baseline of most CPUs achieving at least about four to about four point two gigahertz range on the I'd say the worst case EP use but that's still a significant overclock compared to the base clock speeds but as far as what the best case EP is will be best K CPUs could be anywhere between you know forty five to as much as forty eight so when you consider the effective range being between about four to is four point eight years that's a little pretty big swing and and the the extreme addition has a base clock of three gigahertz and a boost clock of three point three so that's that's over a gigahertz that you're getting correct and overclocking and as JJ has tested a lot of these CPUs already that's at the low end so if you get that next golden ship you might even get beyond that now I'm so to draw a quick comparison just to round out that fiber discussion was the eighty seven you guys showed a demo showing overclocking was the eighty seven 4770k your entire series of mainstream boards and how you were able to achieve the same levels of overclock all across the entire line when you talk an injury level all the way up to the top yeah I'm is is that the same kind of experience that you might have hundred-percent we we design our boards purpose-built from the perspective we don't ever want you to buy a board under the presumption that you need to buy the higher-end board to be able to ensure that you get a great degree of what we're talking and associated reliability and stability okay so whether you're going to buy the - a whether you buy the Pro which will also be coming out or you buy the deluxe they all can reach you know four point eight gigahertz if your CPU had that capability now margin was there you know if it's a four point six capable CPU all of these are all equally going to be able to offer four point six gig or its stability DRAM is going to be the same thing CPU impacts the RAM overclocking to a large degree because once again there's margin within the memory controller but the work that we've done on terms of tuning the UEFI tuning the topology and the layout that's all giving you great ddr4 overclocking potential and speaking to the fiber that you just noted also that is impacted also by board design because the fiber doesn't handle power delivering control for the DRAM so we still have to put on our digital power management control for actually the quad-channel memory design implementation but all the way around yes any board that you're going to get you can have a great overclocking Spokane so don't necessarily buy the RFI of extreme because you think it's going to overclock your cpu better yes but there's many many many other reasons to do that we're gonna get into all that right now but I will Cabot that there is kind of a little bit of a design that relates to overclocking and so how that relates is keep in mind that the - a right has a smaller heatsink assembly yes right then which you might have on the deluxe so of course the overall thermal efficiency of the VRM is going to be better on the deluxe so in terms of the load that you might put on it when overclocking this will give you better thermal efficiency and better overall you know thermal performance as you load the vrm under high overclock scenarios so if you're somebody that kind of cares about that to a degree this is still going to be great before me and it's not going to stop you from being able to overclock but as you get to more aggressive aggressive levels and you load it up is there a little bit of difference in those regards yes okay and there also would be improvements further in terms of the power component rewrite you know the ws and the ROG boards will even have higher grade power delivery systems than what's offered on the deluxe so same thing overall will they be able to run with better thermal efficiency and better thermal core characteristics and potentially even be able to hold a little bit better loads at higher frequencies yes okay but overall you know from a realistic perspective for what most users care about in terms of their target frequencies they're gonna have a consistent experience there also will be always a bit of a difference on our G boards where we push it to the next level in terms of the level of kind of tweaking and tuning and granularity and how you can define your overclock because exotic cooling right there's a lot of features not necessarily just exotic cooling there are actually specific tuning parameters that we put into the UEFI sometimes even on a hardware topology layout specifically is tuned to give us certain tolerances that we can push more in one direction than we might do on any other board but that might come in to users saying you know most users are probably only going to buy 2133 - probably 2400 memory some of you guys might jump into maybe higher grade kits like here we've got this awesome Corsair memory it's 2,800 this is 20 666 is a really high performance base kids oh yeah but we've even done validation course here for 3,000 and 3200 right now if you get into that class there's tweaking and tuning you might want to be able to do and keep in mind we've even seen DRAM where you can go from like 21 33 to 3,000 on some dim side so having fine tune characteristics of how you can tweak in tune that is also kind of another element that's built into the DNA for an RG board and then you were saying earlier for memory that we're just looking at the beginning right now as far as ddr4 is concerned we're potentially going to see 4,000 and upwards in the fall yeah it's not a question of if you you will see it it's just a question of what all right perfect so from there let us move into a segmentation because when it comes to Asus an ASUS motherboards you can't necessarily just look at the price and figure this is the expensive one that's better and this is a less expensive one that's maybe not as better Asus designs boards specifically for use case scenarios and specifically specifically for segments of the market that you feel will get the most benefit out of the features that are inner sure so shall we begin with mainstream well the mainstream series is really that it's actually trying to target the widest range of our users you know when we design the boards as you noted initially we have you know rrg which is segmented towards overclockers and tweakers and tuners and gamers and then ws for content creation professionals or general people that are going to be doing high productivity on their system and then mainstream actually really actually needs to be able to complement both those type of users okay um and maybe serve somebody that actually might be doing a little bit of all of that on their system we don't know so in that respect but we want to try to do with the mainstream series of motherboards is be able to complement just about any type of usage model so whether it comes into the level of expansion that's going to be supported whether it's going to be in the storage configurations whether it's going to be in the connectivity that's going to be offered we want to really be able to try to align that with any type of user so that if they get the board it's almost the best representation of ACS in a lot of ways we want you to be able to have an outstanding level of reliability stability features and functionality they should all be there but as you progress to maybe a more specific usage model might there be a better choice for you within the ws within a tough series within an ro g-series board yes that's an entire possibility but it really comes down to what's going to be that specific usage of what you're going to first and foremost be doing on your system almost maybe more than anything else and if you're somebody that kind of does a little bit of everything right or maybe even just like the statics or specific features that might be exclusive to the mainstream series which might complement it maybe a little bit more of a kind of an automatic nature or you know a little bit more streamlined kind of lovely usability that's really who we try to target with and even that's going to come down to even the usability of the the board design right these are a TX based specification in terms of the form factor worse with WS said with ROG they actually take out a little bit liquor a larger form factor okay so well you know probably all these platforms are still high in and you're probably going to always mean a chassis that could fit any one of these you know it still complements that flexibility of being able to try to find itself in more situations and I like as you talked about flexibility not only in the the features that are integrated into the board but purely from an aesthetic standpoint I feel like these days particularly folks who are building their own system who are di wires and who are building a system on this platform since it's the enthusiast platform it's very high-end are going to be keen on aesthetics as well so yeah no doubt that's one of the reasons why we introduced white you know I like the black and white aesthetic yeah I think it's it looks awesome you know I think our ID team did really great job on taking a lot of the feedback that we provided to them to have something that had a fresh modern clean kind of vibe to it but also complement a wide range of the new types of colors that we're seeing from PSU and from chassis vendors but also equally confined it's a kind of place and a wide range of systems it really complements a really I think great look and feel that's just going to be awesome and it gives you just our board range if you look at it color and thematically a great amount of depth so any type of color scheme that you have planned for your system you can probably integrate this and Jay has already talked about like oh you could probably remove these and do different colors with them or that sort of thing but black and white it's it's hard to clash with that too much so very nice there and then I like how you talk about how this sort of a sort of a set of an non-negotiables for Asus where these are the features we know everyone's going to want yes you're going to find those in the mainstream series of boards for sure as well some additional features that you feel will fit pretty much everyone's needs depending on who you are of course and that's yeah that's a really important point because you know historically when you take a look at board design that hasn't always been a trend I mean for Asus now going on multiple generations it has been for us whether it's in UEFI whether it's in fan control whether it's in advanced connectivity options whether it's going to be like USB 3 boost or USB baz flash back even Intel NICs things like that we're starting pretty much just put on every single of kind of the enthusiast class level boards because we want those features to not be a reason why you're going to jump from one more to another board that should be the expectation it should be the given what should make the board different is going to be specific points of usability or functionality which align more specifically with certain type of user nice ok so let's move on to the actually wait a quick question for you before we move on to the workstation there's another series of boards in the mainstream or at least in the end our normal combinati dizziest platform the tough series which I've always been a big fan of and and I'll let you guys know I've already asked JJ this before so I know the answer but is there going to be a tough series x99 board JJ there actually will be a tough board we're still currently working on design and development as you guys know we take the board design really seriously and we want to make sure that we have an awesome board in terms of its features and functionality and really this has taken a huge amount of design work just to put out all these guys but there will be a tough coming to the market for you guys that are always excited about what we're doing under the toughened ice and the qualities of the tough series I mean if you aren't patient or if you're just not a big fan of military color scheme I guess the work station series of boards share some I feel like some of the characteristics of that just in that the quality of the components you guys have chosen in here really meant for a long-term use and reliability and that's that's where the workstation comes from as well whether you're talking about a workstation or server this board is really designed for people who are relying on the computer that they use for their day-to-day work they want it to be reliable they want it to never no component on here to ever have a chance of failing and they want to make sure that of course has all the the power that they need so um is that a fair assessment of workstation I'd say it's pretty close you know I mean there's a couple of kind of Halo points right one is going to be just a depth of expansion flexibility WS boards are always going to generally offer more connectivity in terms of what you can do on expanding upon the board okay so that's the course evident by the number of PCI Express there's a lot of those so this this is more than 40 yeah JJ what because it because there we have a course actually plx and complementation on the site so 40 wasn't enough you got a general you get you guys got users that want to be able to have not only GPUs may be high in rate controller cards may be multiple HDMI capture cards make me a lot of different configurations ws also historically always has dual NIC implementations for maybe let's say connecting to your internet okay for as well as being able to connect to the internet right or maybe you want failover support built into it there's also generally can be very advanced robust storage configurations although all exclaiming nine boards have a lot of storage configurations available onto them and then also validation is a very big part of WS boards okay they go through an even more stringent process than our board our traditional boards in terms of reliability and validation testing especially for complex devices we do special option run validation for complex cards like high end RAID controller cards Quadro and tesla cards firegl fire pro all these type of devices you know they can be very expensive so if you buy let's say a two hundred four hundred five hundred thousand dollar adding card you want to know that it works this is something that a traditional user that builds a productivity or gaming related system it's probably not dropping those type devices in so this is where like a key area where the ws product differentiate itself but at the same time could this just make an awesome high-end gaming system for sure easily easily I think I think J was Jay has machinations on this board let's just put it that way and that was the first thing that my mind went to when you talk about the PCI Express connectivity is like a Quadra with a stack of Tesla's in there something like that I could be over you know I mean we're doing videography right now right I mean we actually get a lot of users right now especially with 4k progressing into more accessible price points you're seeing guys put in just one GPU and they're doing like three to four HDMI capture cards pulling in for multiple camera sources and then letting the system do all the active tuning I can imagine now and like premiere Vegas or these are linear editing programs you have multi camera angle adjustment abilities this is the type of platform that's purpose-built for that stuff and it gets really excited beautiful alright I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of high-end workstations and of course since we do video specifically for that really really excited to see what type of stuff folks are going to come out with there anything any other last words in the list I think that covers it but you know we talked about video a lot but really I think it content creation as a whole you could be doing everything from 3d modeling to audio editing and production to video editing and production you could also be in entirely different houses you know we get actually people to do analysis and research financial work you know you can imagine guys that are doing actually trading they're writing sometimes four to six panels you're doing high computation processing there's a crazy amount of environments and like you said at the end of the day it's a board built for expansion stability and reliability it's going to get the job done so beautiful all right so that's the workstation now this is the rog series board this is the our 5e or rampage v extreme and the rog series has had such a magnificent run for for quite some time now I feel like pretty much anyone who's like your super EXTREME overclocker super extreme gamer anyone who wants to do exotic cooling liquid Ellen - yep dry ice anything like that I feel like the rog series has really set the standard in that area for a very long time and then the other thing that we've discussed before with ROG is I feel like you guys take more risks with this board and that's not - not risks as far as like anything that could possibly affect stability but the ideas they come up with drop into the board that you don't see elsewhere because they're they're unique they're different yeah but we've seen that type of innovation trickle down to the other series of your 5% right you know we kind of treat ROG all mosa in the same way that you know Ferrari treats its Formula One team right and taking a lot of advanced technologies and how that might try to find its way into the consumer yeah a consumer high-end Ferrari oh yeah but that's kind of the same concept as we right we really try to treat the ROG product design group with a sense of saying push the envelope think about things that might not be possible or buck the trend even if they're more expensive even if they're more complex and put it onto the board and it's a way that we've also used that to leverage a lot of key technologies that have found their way into the other products over I'm in a lot of ways if you're somebody that supports RG you're helping to support pushing the industry forward you know the most advanced fan control functionality that we now are offering here really came from RG having way more advanced fan controls than competitors I did for a long period of time digital power delivery and control way before until even had a thought of doing the fiber was being put first on the rampage three extreme to be able to push in the air of saying digital power delivering control is the right direction of move motherboards right they said you were crazy well yeah well you had actually even competitors right they still said analog designs were better and then all of a sudden they all started switching digital and then you see now fiber is built into all the CPUs now every class digital yeah and you know and all these little interesting ways whether it's in the topology the layout the hardware based accessory implementations all those things we definitely do treat rog is kind of an innovation platform to say let's push the envelope and let's really complement it towards the tweakers tuners and gamers and you know I think if you look at what the industry has done in terms of also embracing gaming motherboards that was really born from the designs that we've done on ROG and that's really what it is if you're looking for a board that is about tweaking tuning and really complementing a gamer that's where the feature set is going to lie could you entirely use this board for financial work we actually do you'd be surprised I get I get guys that do financial analysis and do day trading and do simulation and they buy it because they know the RG boards are built like tanks right and they want to run it you know so at the end of they marketing exists only inside of a marketing department right you can build with any one of these boards and any which way that you choose but is there going to be certain features and functions that align more closely with your your usage model yes so that's where our G is if you'd like to push the envelope you like to tweak you like to tune you like the game that's where the fixtures are going to be okay so just a couple random questions just for me looking at the board right now it looks like you have a special socket on this is that the what what's the deal with the special socket why is it different and what was the what was the reason behind that you know we've we've put a lot of interesting design work and we're not going to go into all the details as what we've done in terms of some specialized design implementations okay but we've gone and made some special design tations it really allow us to maximize the overall total platform overclocking capability especially for the cash ratio and for DRAM capabilities and for overall just being able to have our total topology you know we've talked about the apology a lot in the past tres layout specialized DRAM layouts right to be able to to give you guys the best experience possible and actually ROG doesn't just have this all x99s use motherboards have these special design implementations to allow us to get the best experience possible from haswell-e based processors so it's an exclusive hardware based design that acs features it allows us to push the performance envelope but ROG does take it to the next level you know it is it has to be a 10 layer PCB along with very specialized topology and layout that's been tuned to really push the envelopes of what the platform has to offer excellent so not going to give up any trade secrets from Asus here but there's there's something going on with the socket we'll figure it out eventually I'm sure ok apart from that for ROG not only everything that's integrated onto the board itself of course which spec lists are available if you want to head over the Asus website if you don't see every single item that they've integrated onto this board it's a very long list but not just the board itself but accessories so we're maintaining the ROG Swoopes I dropped a little rubber cover there so we have the the monitoring unit this has a special name if I'm not mistaken right yeah so I mean all ROG boards of course at currently produced all have support for what's referred to as the OC panel with Osasuna as well as the ROG front base so these really kind of complement once again the tweakers tuners and gamers out there you know you want live real-time monitoring that's going to be available to you if you want improved audio experience when it comes to your headphone and microphone the RG front base gives that to you and complementing the isolated sound design that we have as part of the supreme effects 2014 design that's on the motherboard but you know the OC panel isn't just something that can serve the normal user in terms of being able to put your five and a quarter bay like we talked about in the past you know it's got an extensive level of really diehard Tweaker and tuning controls you can do temperature monitoring you can have the ability to do thermocouples attached to this for more advanced monitoring on different points whether it comes to benching or different types of temperature monitoring you know you got the VGA hot wire technology to be able to over volt in overclocked graphics cards even higher degrees there's tons and tons of stuff in there but that's part of the kind of the ROG DNA is that you know you can even have more than what's just built onto the motherboard by quickly integrating these type of accessories onto the board and if there's anybody out there who's been using this with the the Maximus series of yards and that's fully compatible I'm looking forward to it with x99 it is of course available and that this is is this a new unit if we seen this another yeah so the front base section was released uh this year okay you know we made an ounce for it actually at CES but it came out a little while ago but it's fully compatible right now with our entire range of ROG products so across the board any current new ROG board does fully support the ROG front base excellent so apart from these which I think are these are ROG exclusive we have some other add-ons here that you might couple with these boards some of them come with and some of them are sold separately if I'm not mistaken so I mean in terms of the segmentation it you know it breaks apart kind of a little bit you know as we get into kind of more detail on the boards and we can you know kind of scope that out but in terms of what you see here there are some generalized accessories that will work across all boards so you don't have to feel that because you jump in at one segmentation you're limiting yourself so the Thunderbolt 2 e^x module that we're at have right here a lot of users from the x79 chipset wish that they had Thunderbolt oh yeah but now the great thing is with x99 every single of the x99 boards fully supports this so you can go ahead and drop that in you've got Thunderbolt 2 right off the bat so you're good to go now we just need some Asus discount Thunderbolt cables that's coming soon I'm sure all right so we got Thunderbolt functionality said all these boards will support right bouts of Thunderbolt headers so you just need to buy that add-on card we've got still we continue support where we can also evolve the application and the software for our NFC Express breakout brock's so this is a really awesome accessory that gives you NFC support as well as two front USB 3 ports you can go ahead and plug into any one of these boards and it allow to go ahead and do some really cool levels of functionality such as quickly login your system auto launch multiple applications stream audio from your devices you can do all kinds of really cool stuff so that's an awesome accessory you just take your phone set it there a lot of matically recognizing the optical stuff this little guy right here a very specialized module so I guess you know beginning to get into some of the design features of course on the boards you know we've always been a big supporter of fan control functionality on our motherboards and for the mainstream series specifically this is an exclusive accessory it comes included with the deluxe but is compatible for both the dashing and the pro boards okay but pretty much what this will allow you to do is go ahead and have more headers so the board's like the deluxe comes with six fan headers this is an honor to have nine fan headers now set in addition to that they're fully support our fan x-43 technology so that full fan calibration you can do DC or PWM output control it's got three additional temperature input sources so that you can go ahead and leverage those input sources either on the internal headers or you can drive them to the to the actual headers that are on the card itself I mean it's pretty crazy I mean there's not any fan controller that you can buy in the market that's going to give you that level of control externally and then when you tie that into the fact that that can immediately complement and be available to you within the UEFI or in the operating system when you tie it into the board it means you have a total of nine fan headers that are all fully controllable and tunable and support calibration so this isn't just like a glorified splitter like it's still going to see one fan and those four right it's going to see each one individually correct and then you also have temperature leads built in there and of course direct power to provide power and excellent so if you need more fans then asus has you covered and that's the words just for users that look at it from the core perspective because of course the board supporting PWM output control it means that you could also exponentially increase fan connectivity on the board even without that because all you need to do is then just buy PWM splitter cable pop it onto your fan header and Afsaneh you could have three or four more fans but just powered by the PSU but controlled by the motherboard on the headers that are on the board itself okay and then this this is a LAN card a riser PCI Express card which gives you an additional m dot two by four slots and you're saying this was actually not a not a terribly difficult piece to to add on a design but from from the way I'm looking at it I'm already super excited to see m dot 2 ports across all these boards and I really love the implementation as well you have support for at least 20 to 42 up to 20 to 80 on everything every verse every board will support up to 20 to 80 all right beautiful but this will allow you to add another than any city could also potentially software raid yeah okay yeah we've done some cool tests I mean it's crazy bandwidth because of course you're just using PCI Express so if you want to get crazy throw to them together and throw a software raid then you're good to go just keep in mind software rates of course aren't bootable so they work best generally if you're using them as a local local volume okay but you know it's just just an added level of flexibility that we've given to our users in terms of being able to go ahead and install the storage device the way that they would like to now it's obviously going to be very dependent on what's SSD you have installed here but any ballpark figures as far as sequential reads and writes it totally depends on on the device you know we've seen some next-generation controllers that we can't speak to much but definitely a significantly faster than pretty much any numbers that you've seen right now short of jumping into stuff like you know Ram caches or Ram disk all right beautiful so if you like to shoot 4k video and like to edit multiple streams something like that is what I feel like an implication like that I did wait you're into hi oh you're into uncompressed video you're into high bitrate audio you're into raw photography this that's a great option for you one other thing I wanted to bring up which is something I know you guys are very proud of is the 5 way optimization that was originally introduced with z97 series and motherboards of course we've had four-way optimization before that but bumped up to five way that's available on the mainstream boards as well as the workstation board if I'm not mistaken now if you guys are interested in a more hands-on demonstration of that I will direct you over to the J's $0.02 YouTube channel he should have a video up on that now if not now very shortly Nia can guys see a little bit more of how that actually works five-way optimization is specific to the mainstream series and the wo series for ROG while it does feature 5 bi optimization the overclocking portion is executed through a feature that we call CPU level up so that works off of three presets in terms of target frequencies as opposed to the dynamic real-time auto overclocking options which are executed on the main stream or the WSB okay and then just one more quick note about the auto overclocking there's a few new functionalities that are built in there so for instance you can set you can actually set a specific voltage like is that is it a voltage ceiling that you can pretty much tell yeah so you know by default we limit the actual voltage to 1.3 volts but you can go ahead and scale that up higher voltages so if you want to do you know one point three to five one point for assuming that you have cooling and you're willing to take on that risk as far as the amount of current that might be pulled through your CPU you can do that we also now have selectable ATX instruction sets which allow you to have significantly higher thermal loads and a higher degree of stress testing to the CPU it'll bring down the total ceiling but allow you to conditionally make sure that the stability of the overclock is as far-reaching as possible for applications when we were watching the demo you did with J that actually had an effect so with the AVX instruction sets it didn't achieve as high of an overclock but it's also testing ABS ATX instruction sets which means that when you use applications that do that which which day does that's something you want to test for as well for sure and you got memory stress testing that's built into there we have modifications to the actual Auto tuning rules where we can now start for pure stock value allowing it to cover a widest range of CPUs to make sure that it can overclock even though I'd say the lowest overclocking capable CPUs it's available to you and we have new what's referred to se tolerance options which allow the actual auto overclocking to dynamically extend the overclocking range for a lower court count as opposed to on all court counts so this allows you may be in a situation to have 4.6 gigahertz on four cores and then on let's say all course drops it down to 4.3 so there's just a huge degree it's really the most comprehensive and complete all over clocking utility which has ever been released by us and definitely is far more reaching in terms of what you can do automatically and easily than any other product that's really out there nice I'm very excited J was actually impressed enough that he recommended it and J doesn't like automatic overclocking stuff he prefers do it we've had a lot of comforts I think over time you know I'm I'm indictable enthusiast and I think the fact is I challenge any user day one if there are manual clock er to come in and be able to produce the results that we can produce within 10 minutes by clicking a button and having a B system specific so it's it's a really impressive tool and I think the granularity that we giving actually complements the Tweaker in the tuner and the manual guy because if you know what you're doing you can go in and tweak those things and all have it dynamically a kirpan and even if you're still a skeptic about this go ahead and use it try it out and just use it as a start as a starting off way and then go we go ahead and do all your manual tweaking that you want to do all on your own but it'll give you if nothing else it will give you a really good starting off point for that but JJ has also turned down the gauntlet that he thinks it'll stand up to even it said I mean it saves an amazing amount of time I'll definitely I'll definitely give it that that what we were able to get to in in five to fifteen minutes of opportunity I would be able to do it okay yeah JJ's conferring on overclocking for a decade I wouldn't be able to do it just impossible so well and the big thing is it does actually what you do as a normal user it actually goes through incrementally raises frequencies raises voltages text temperatures and does this all dynamically real-time without you having to engage in it and then it gives you a great report at the end of it how many of us sometimes are saving screenshots writing little things down in our notepad so that we can go back and check all this stuff it does all that for you so like you said you can use it as a baseline you can use it as a tool but I do want to continue to stress sometimes people they've never heard of the option before and they're now just starting to realize it this is not software this is a pure interaction layer on a firmware and hardware process you could install the whole tuning application remove it from the system after it's done and it's still there the reason why is because it's been coded into the UEFI so this is actually literally just an automatic process of taking literally the thousands of hours that we've worked on this platform since we started research and development and production on it and just put it into a single and easy to execute program I think the one thing that you guys might still need to integrate there is for it to throw a temper tantrum when you're 59 60 X can only hit four point six and not four point seven on air I will make sure they discuss that with our seven phases engineers to take another look at alright this has been a very long video so thank you guys for sticking with us and I'm at jj1 one last chance any last I mean I know there's more things there's always more things but any last any final things to mention here for you know yeah I mean those are stuff like you said a lot you know we continue to integrate our full isolated audio design on every single news board so for you guys to care about you know music movies and games every single one of these boards feature full isolated audio design implementations of course some of the boards a little bit different than others where you know ROG has some more options for you know virtual surround and you know there's specialized profiling options there it's a little bit more complementary to you know in-ear monitors over your headphones or desktop speakers on the mainstream series but all the board's have that outside of that all the boards are featuring all Intel NYX which is a course a big plus they all have a packet priority software - that allows you to go ahead and optimize in tune for gaming downloading browsing whatever you're going to be doing and compared to the fixed Nick solutions like something like a killer Nick we can map our packet priority software to any port so the advantages take for instance the deluxe and the extreme these both actually come though the world's first boards that feature full 3x3 a to the live in AC wireless built on boys so that is extremely fast it's actually the fastest form of desktop Wireless that you can currently get in the marketplace it's built onto the motherboard and we can also still do packet in priority control to those Wireless clients if you decided to buy an add-in card for some premium maybe you get our PCIe AC 68 or in a 4x4 client maybe that we release at a later date you can do that you can map it to any one of those ports with a killer NIC it's only going to prioritize that one single network connection and when you talk about the Intel NIC - its performance on UDP is unmatched which is really where games live is in the UDP environment and the management control set is awesome so there's a lot more you know we've covered a different things in the past in terms of the UEFI enhancements UAF is absolutely awesome on here a lot of really cool stuff but you know like always we've put in a huge amount of design and work and I think that if you guys look at the individual features and functions across here value I think is something that always comes into play when somebody buys a board regardless of maybe $200 $300 or $400 we try to look at the perspective that regardless of the price that you pay we want to try to give you the most complete experience regardless of the price point so that you really walk away with a sense of it you have a great degree of value excellent alright and if you want to see more of JJ if this hasn't been enough go ahead and check out the Asus PC DIY YouTube channel you can see more from over there also the PC DIY website which is yeah it's a PC DIY Swisscom it's a great way if you guys have any questions comments or feedback you know one of the things I think that we're most happy about and I think Paul can definitely adhere to this is that we take feedback to earnest I don't think anybody else is coming literally chipset to chipset and putting in the work that we're putting in the board so if you guys have it feel free to drop in my way I heartily agree and thank you guys so much for sticking with us 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