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yes half of this channels name changed but does that make it a full name change or just a halfway name change first the first word was replaced we discussed this extensively on Twitter I dropped the word science because not everything I do on this channel involves it to any substantial degree and I feel miss characterizes the direction we're headed don't worry most of what we cover will still remain technology it's my favorite thing after all so I don't know why I would leave that but I don't want to be limited towards like science or tech so if I want to upload something that really has nothing to do with either of them but I think would be pretty cool for all of you to see I don't want to feel I guess held back by any particular channel name and that's why what with my last name Salazar is my last name so it just kind of is all-encompassing that's that's what I usually use to describe the name change to people who are a bit questionable about it I know I'm going to have some people ranting in the comments about or your name change you know another another tech tuber changing his name but look it could be worse okay you know exactly where I'm going with this another announcement the winner of the custom white asus strix rog gtx 1070 from walter white version 1.0 was said Torres a fan from Guadalajara Mexico congratulations mr. Torres you will have your graphics card at some point hopefully within the next few weeks now to the topic of this video the asus toughs sabertooth z1 70s motherboard i'm reviewing this one because many have requested it like literally you won't wanted me to give it to you and this is clearly a beautiful board packed with features let's start off with that alluring white silver PCB it has no functional purpose other than to make the board look gorgeous it's one of only a select a number of boards sporting this color scheme and is also reasonably priced at that it's splattered with an army winter camouflage theme I don't personally mind it although it wouldn't be bad to have an all-white PC me either and then the back is also almost completely white in case you were wondering every now and then you'll find a hub that's painted tan I don't know how that fits with the color scheme but at least it's not overdone the 24-pin is tan the ape and eps up top is tan and then the two USB 3.0 hubs are there's also a fan of a pitot span but you probably won't notice that there's also a hint of metallic silver lingering over the power phases there are twelve of those by the way MOSFET heat sinks and chipset he the saber-tooth is covered by a large z170 s logo followed by a subdued a soos on the bottom do you keep in mind that much of this will likely be covered by your graphics card but it's a nice aesthetic nonetheless me Rio is shielded by an off-white plastic housing with the words tough if that's how you pronounce it - UF and saber-tooth line along the edges and a shield bird further down is that what is that right a shield bird it's a shield with wings so yeah I'm gonna go with shield bird so how about functionality let's stick with the rear i/o for a second where we find a plethora of options starting from the top four USB 2.0 ports a fifth and just below a BIOS reset switch great for overclocking HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort ports I guess two USB 3.0 s a Gigabit LAN controller a USB 3.1 in type-c ports and 7.1 surround sound as well as optical support you can also cram a 40 millimeter vrm mosfet fan right here if you're a bit nervous about on-board temperatures one is not included but you likely won't need it to my surprise the chips that heatsink is also fitted with the kind of led notification hub great for diagnosing issues with your PC and checking on current status think of it like a doctor debug without all the confusing number codes each LED is extremely bright as well so you definitely won't miss anything out of the ordinary to the left of the chipset you'll find three full-length PCIe slots and three x1 slots only this one supports a full 16 lanes so this is the ideal slot for a single graphics card if you intend on SLI or crossfire on - of any card both of which are supported by this motherboard you'll be running each with eight lanes now let's count fan hubs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 that's right 11 van hubs granted one is just an assistant fan hub without PWM support so fine 10 that's more than most motherboard support and should eliminate the need for a third party fan hub this board also supports up to 64 gigabytes of ddr4 non-ecc of course this isn't a server motherboard and dual-channel architecture for frequencies up to 2400 megahertz I've installed 4 4 gigabyte DIMMs here from team force these modules are gorgeous and relatively inexpensive rated for up to 3,000 megahertz you can find these in the video's description as for overclocking this one's a beast as you might expect I could reach 4.8 gigahertz without hiccups apart from relatively unnerving thermals around 90 C but this is a function of the CPU and cooler not necessarily the motherboard MOSFET and vrm temperatures remain satisfactory and the overclock was stable although I did ultimately tune things back a bit for the sake of the CPU the BIOS is also a pleasant surprise very easy to navigate through and void of any freezes or glitches which I cannot say for certain competitors so in closing do I recommend this motherboard even with price taken into consideration yes 100% it's beautiful and functional and comes with pretty much anything you could possibly imagine as e170 motherboard packing I purchased this one with my own money and I would do it again in a heartbeat when I should mention it'll look great in any black or white case in particular but especially walter white and all for a great deal less than 200 US dollars its link is in this video subscription check it out and let me know what you think if you liked this video be sure to give it a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you do feel the complete opposite or if you hate everything about life be sure to click Subscribe any hammer and stay tuned for another future PC build and I guess Walter White a version 2.1 I got to upgrade this thing again it's having so many issues I don't know what's going on z170 Walter White was beautiful version 1.0 was just a perfect flawless build but for some reason now that I've moved it to x99 I keep having issues from the power supply to the graphics card SLI configuration not getting the full frame rate I expect and it's it's a long story I'll talk about it more in detail later also I'm gonna be uploading a video as to why I change from the 10 core Xeon to the 8 core 6900 K that's it should be pretty obvious why I did but I'll explain in more detail the things that I noticed with the grand reduction in frequency this is Salazar studio you still learn with me so I'm still gonna say it thanks for learning with us