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you know a motherboard is fancy when it comes with one of these built-in carrying handles meet the asrock Z 270 super carrier the name is a bit strange but I told asrock that I would make a video dedicated just to this motherboard because it's beautiful and it comes packed with features that I think you'll be very interested to hear about look you know a company's confident looks at their board we may include a physical door on the box itself but if you look right into the box to see the motherboard check out that beautiful silver sleek design aesthetically speaking it's one of the best-looking motherboards on the market I don't even think that's up for debate there's a prominent number 27 over the chipset heatsink followed by the company logo just below the CPU socket the entire board also lights up with integrated LEDs and is compatible with Aurra from a suit you'll also find four full-length steel reinforced PCIe slots more on that in a second as well as a large heat pipe that spans the center of the board most motherboards do include a few extra items usually SATA cables maybe an SLI bridge or something of that sort but it feels like there's much more in this box than just the board itself let's find out what else is in here this is one of the strangest as the library's I've ever seen this is a 4 Way NVIDIA GTX at the library of course you got your backplate SATA cables more SATA cables to Wi-Fi and 10 a another estimate another sli bridge another sli bridge and another sli bridge if this one's flexible you'll also find the usual paperwork a software installation guide user manual whatever this is a postcard I think included a postcard in a motherboard box and then your driver installation CD so what I'm getting from this board is that pretty much anything you can think that should be packed into any z170 or z2 70 motherboard is on this board I mean there's everything from doctor debug to dedicated reset and power switches you get a dedicated USB a physical USB type a port of top USB 3.0 type a your 24 pin your 8 pin over here and then all your other goodies down below to dedicated USB 2.0 hubs HD audio plenty of SATA micro SATA and also a separate connection for additional power to be supplied to any extra graphics cards you may squeeze onto the board you'll also find two USB 3.0 hubs on the board not sure what case would take advantage of that but you have it if you need it on the left side of the board a large silver sheen drear i/o panel spans the entire length from top to bottom you'll find purity sound floor which is as rocks take on the realtek driver if you're dedicated sound chipset is underneath here kind of isolated from the rest of the system which is good to see it keeps the static out of your audio basically what that does the larger part of the rear panel really serves no functional purpose that's how it is with most boards there's no built-in fan or anything like that there is a single led house here which is RGB capable so you can turn that to whatever color you want there's also a logo for Gigabit Ethernet kind of wish they had taken that off and replace that with just like their ass rocker logo so I don't like how they just kind of like pop a single feature of the board onto the rear panels being that you'll be seeing this in your case it's not the coolest quality but as for rear i/o ports I'm going to run down the list here two USB 2.0 ports a DisplayPort tool an rj45 ports a five Gigabit LAN port that's pretty awesome full-on 7.1 surround sound with optical support you'll find two USB 3.0 ports two USB 3.1 type-a ports and then two Thunderbolt three USB type-c ports so Thunderbolt 3 capability built into this motherboard here you'll also find a dedicated HDMI port CMOS reset switch and good old ps2 mouse and keyboard support so as you can probably tell by this point this motherboard makes no compromises whatsoever it even comes with a dedicated Wi-Fi card 4 Way SLI and crossfire are both supported without a doubt on this board you're not gonna have a problem running for any card even though that would be a bit unrealistic nonetheless the board does support it as well as for ddr4 dims capable of up to 37 33 megahertz and up and that's something that as Rock was very confident about going into this but ok let's talk about for what this board was really intended it comes with a 14 phase power delivery system which in and of itself should speak volumes about as rocks intent with overclock ability on this 14 phases is a metric crap-ton some of the best overclocking motherboards I've ever owned come with a maximum of 12 granted you might not notice you know a very clear evident difference between 12 and 14 what it really means is that the power delivery to your CPU will be very very stable it's very very redundant which is a good thing as rocks spared no expense in that department but on top of that I'm reading straight from the box here as rocks also included an external base clock generator which provides a wider range of frequencies and more precise clock waveforms so what this means is if you want to push your CPU to its limit let's say you have an i7 7700 K and you want to reach 5 gigahertz you want to hit that 5 gig threshold you might not only have to tweak your multiplier and your V core which are the two pretty much basic variables involved overclocking more on that right here kind of an old video but it just still stands but you might also have to tweak your base clock most motherboards include two base frequencies 800 megahertz and 1,000 megahertz that frequency multiplied by your multiplier hence its name yields your CPU frequency your base clock also affects your DRAM frequency by the way so when you tweak your base clock remember to double check those ddr4 settings but with a wider range of frequencies being generated by this board you can be a bit more specific with your overclocking settings case in point I was ever get this I 373 50k to 4.9 gigahertz without a hitch and that was on air mind you not only does this speak volumes about how well the CPU is binned but also about how capable the motherboard is at delivering power to the CPU and in a stable manner so if you don't have enough voltage being applied to the CPU at a certain frequency or if that voltage is being applied in a variable kind of state it's not a steady flow of voltage it's kind of more impulses which is not good for a CPU then you'll get something like this a blue screen of death I've had my fair share of those and they're kind of impossible to avoid if you're looking to push the boundary of what your CPU can do so if you if you're trying to find the highest possible frequency the lowest possible v core chances are you're going into a few blue screens of death good thing the board's got a clear CMOS button on there and you've also got a few other things to help you along the way doctor debug is also a very nice addition I like seeing boards with doctor debug makes diagnosis very simple I think looks gorgeous it has some insane overclocking potential I think it has the best of everything if you're looking for some of the most extreme overclocks and you're also kind of picky in the looks department which I understand I am as well this board is for you and though I wasn't paid to say anything in this video I could have just trashed it and you know then fine I'm sure as rock would have questioned my judgment but now I can say with certainty this is one of the best lea 270 boards ever and it likely will remain that way I dare I dare other motherboard manufacturers to try to beat this if you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you feel the complete obviously be sure to click Subscribe but if you haven't already find this motherboard in the video's description when available this is our studio thanks for learning with us