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hey guys Paul here today I'm gonna be doing a quick unboxing of the Asus Eee 7 pro this board Falls kind of right in the middle maybe a little bit towards the high range from Asus mainstream or channel boards it's for of course the z87 chipset and the new Haswell or Intel 4th generation Core processor today it's just gonna be a quick unboxing as well as some specs so let's just jump right in and we're taking a look at the retail box this is the z87 - pro which means it's based on the z87 chipset sports 2-way SLI 3-way crossfire X it also has for weight optimization that's dual intelligent processors - TPU in the EPU is gonna be something I might look into in a future video tape you an EP you listed right there of course for overclocking as well as energy savings you also have the ultimate cool and quiet technology as well as Asus Wi-Fi go which is pretty cool flipping around to the back here's a closer layout of the board itself if you guys want to take a closer look these are all pointed out I'm gonna try to also point out as much many of these as I can while we're taking a look inside the box detailed specs listed as well as some of the additional technologies that asus has built in more info on the dual intelligent processors right there it's one click for weigh optimization actually works pretty effectively now see it Y if I go it's got onboard 802 that 11 a B G and n you can use that along with the Asus software to set up some pretty cool Wi-Fi and streaming technologies like making your computer into a router also USB BIOS flash back still there one of my favorite feature is you also get USB 3 boost which can really improve your USB 3 speeds as far as accessories we have an input up with shield of course it's white it's got some labels on all those we have serial ata cables these are pretty standard ones that they've been including for a while they're all SATA rev3 I've got a couple with L brackets and a couple with straight plugs I also get an SLI bridge for two-way SLI configuration is one of the flexible ones look a Q connector and it's gold I really like the colored q connectors because they tend to stand out a bit but I really like their convenience you also get one there for USB this is actually a your Wi-Fi antenna it's kind of cool it's got two leads on there it's got two antennae built in you can kind of twist it around to prop it up on your desk and give yourself a better signal pretty cool design in there and then also all those instructions there on the back to chemistry that is set it up here is a manual for the dual intelligent processors and your Wi-Fi go and here is the main users guide which also includes your driver disk which is going to be outdated and your ace who's powered by Asus badge go to the website to download latest drivers and there's your big users guide which is very detailed and I'm not gonna go to depth on that let's move on to the board here's a closer look at it you'll notice it is golde golde is a new color for the HP's mainstream series of motherboards if you don't like it well I don't know I don't know what to tell you if you are looking for something similar in this line and you really don't like the gold try the Maximus 6 hero because that's not gold the PCB is black even some nice attention to detail here like the brushed metal finish on the metal back plates for the heat sinks I like attention to detail apart from that gold heat sinks of course sort of yellow gold slots for all the dims and everything else and pretty much black and gold throughout so uh yeah I kind of like the gold I think they did a good job with it but you know your your your opinions may vary we all have our own opinions when it comes to color schemes but look let's take a look at the bottom of the board because there's a bunch of connectivity down there in the lower right there's a front panel connectors next to that you get chassis fan above there the EP you and TPU switches so those are going to enable different modes for epu and TPU stage one and two this is something I might jump into and do some more in-depth coverage on if you guys do want to see that let me know in the comments I also got clear CMOS jumper right there and above the the front panel connectors there's a direct direct key header and JJ's tip for that was to connect it over to your reset switch you can use that your reset button on your computer to go directly into UEFI pretty quick but anyway moving along from there you have a chassis fan header all that teenagers on this board a 4 pin 4 USB 2.0 to get all that kik connectivity up and going USB bios flashback key as well as LED q-code LED and also a surface mount of power switch right there Thunderbolt header front panel connector and spdif out and then finally trusted platform module header on the Left PCI Express you got plenty of connectivity you got 4 x1 slots little short ones there also got three x16 slots you get 16 PCI Express 3.0 lanes from Haswell so we're gonna run it x16 on the top slot x8 and x8 if you're going with slot 2 and slot 5 and then x8 x8 x4 if you're going to 5 and 7 the chipset of course is e7 there's your heatsink on that's controlling your SATA so around on the side we have state a rev 3 6 gigabits per second also exports for that from the chipset it's beautiful they also get raid 0 1 5 and 10 support from there to the right a couple more SATA rev 3 and those are controlled by an add-on as media chip let's move up the side you got your power connector of course on the top right you have a dram LED and a memo k button mo k is gonna help you with the memory troubleshooting memory slots right next to that DDR 3 dual channel and supports up to 32 gigs and overclock speeds up to 2800 and even beyond above the memory there's a pretty cool little feature for your CPU fan header I wanted to point out really quick it's the fact that it's it's got an extra little tab in there and what that tabs gonna do is if you plug in a 3 pin had a connector it'll treat it as a three-pin plug in a 4 pin pwm the tab will recognize that will automatically set your fans to PWM mode which is a really cool little feature nice little little thing that ace uses come up with moving out of CPU socket 1150 for your Haswell processor you'll notice some attractive heat I'm sorry power delivery elements there under the gold heat sinks your jokes and your caps MOSFETs are under the heat sinks really high quality components asus is used throughout this board and there's just a close-up look along with the heat sinks finally for IO on the back you have a ps2 ports combo for mouse or keyboard you also have six more USB 3.0 ports all of the blue ones that you see there Wi-Fi antenna hookups right next to that video outs for your eye GPU hdmi displayport DVI and VGA also an optical Toslink out your intel NIC and then of course all your analog audio connections on the right for your Realtek ALC 11:58 channel high def audio and that is gonna do it for this video everyone if you would be so kind I would love to hear your feedback on what types of additional videos would like to see covering these boards I have these e87 Pro here I also have the z87 sabertooth from the Tough Series I'm going to be doing some follow-ups with those so if you'd like to post a comment in the comment section down below let me know what types of use case scenarios would like to see or whether you'd like a deep dive on the the UEFI or the utilities that are included anything like that so leave your comments that's all for this video though I'm gonna go ahead and start packing and I guess we'll see you in Taiwan yeah