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so anyway I just installed this motherboard in my computer and I'm now a pro gamer like I just lit them - under Pro gaming because I installed this pro gamer motherboard welcome back to techie see this is the rank I'm about to you guys today with a review of the b85 pro gamer from a Zeus now if you guys have followed me recently you'll know that I put this in my ultimate build guide as it was just simply a phenomenal bang for buck motherboard and let's quickly go over the features of this motherboard and I'll talk about what I like about this motherboard and then I'll go on to a quick mic test for you guys talk about the audio and then I'll go to a conclusion so here's the b85 pro gamer here from a Zeus now this is actually a new one that I've got I've actually got two of these motherboards because they were going out at $80 in Japan where I live absolutely phenomenal value for money considering you get the supreme FX onboard audio with this motherboard this is kind of the first time that the Zeus have put their premium onboard audio on a budget motherboard and this is kind of what I really like when companies do this they give these sort of premium features couple on things that you don't really need on a motherboard giving you awesome value for money for certain types of segments or target markets in this case me I don't use our cell light because I don't I prefer one video card over not having SLI so taking out SLI on a motherboard makes a lot of sense for me because I don't want to pay Nvidia five dollars every time I buy a motherboard that's right AMD fanboys every time you buy any motherboard with an SLI badge on it you're given Nvidia money so looking the motherboard closely though we can see the azusa decided to go with the red and black theme here covering up four phases of the vrm with one heatsink and another four phases of the vrm with another heatsink this in total gives us an eight phase-- vrm for the cpu and looking at the left of the board we've got two phases which are cut down for the four banks of memory they're supporting up to 32 gigabytes of RAM though it doesn't really matter with the vrm for the rambler because we can only with a b85 chipset go up to 16 under megahertz of RAM which is perfectly fine though even in today's world of workstation in gaming with a fork or CPU looking further down the board we've got for cider three ports here as well as to solder two ports here more than enough for the average user even mean editing videos a lot for you guys I only take up three to four SATA ports on average so that's pretty cool it's enough solder ports for me I'm pretty sure it's enough solder ports for most people out there looking to the right of the SATA ports we've also got a big chunky heatsink here covering up the platform chipset hub looking to the right here we've got our one PCI 3 Express 16 speed slot here as well as two extra PCI mini slots there and it looks like a legacy PCI slot they've decided to throw three of these on the board I guess they've got to get rid of them that's the only thing I can think of as well as getting an extra PCI slot down here which can support crossfire I believe so that's an interesting thing from a Zeus in this board so looking down the bottom of the board here we've got our standard input/output headers as well as support for for USB USB to outs over to ports you've got your standard got a chassis fan there a comp and there and also a TPM connector there as well as a clear CMOS header there as well as an SPDIF out and a front audio out there as well now let's look to the right of the board this is the supreme FX audio now they've decided to go with Elna capacitors which are considered pretty high-end in the audiophile realm so I like the fact that they've gone with Eleanor capacitors there you've got a shield on there as well covering up the supreme FX chip though ultimately it's just a real tech 1150 as I'll talk about this when I'm benchmarking the audio for you guys so moving up the top of the board here we've got two peers two outs therefore one for a mouse one for a keyboard we've also got a HDMI out there as well as an optical out there for audio we've also got a DVI port there and also a VGA port there for the support for the onboard Intel graphics there below that we've got four USB 2 outs as well as 2 USB 3 outs and then we've got the Intel eye 2 1 7 V which is a great solution especially for a b85 chips this is one of my favorite on board implementations I'd prefer probably the i2 one 8v but it doesn't really matter they're pretty much similar great solution there for gaming as well as for workstation application moving down here we've got support for 5.1 out analog as well as support for our mic in lining and headphone outs here as well okay so here is a quick test of what the microphone sounds like with no snow suppression on now for some odd reason when I first got this motherboard and when I tested it then the noise was a lot worse but when I tested it this time around and I listened to it I was like hey that actually isn't too bad at all so my sweet spot settings for the microphone are generally 50 with plus 20 decibel now it depends on the microphone you are using if you've got a less sensitive microphone you may have to turn that up so if you do turn it up to 30 decibels and you do turn the levels up higher then you'll find yourself incurring more noise but for what it's worth it doesn't actually introduce a lot of noise which is actually pretty impressive now let's talk about the audio out when I tested this with a variety of rock tracks either from the 80s old-school transformers 1986 I mean I was just left rocking on these headphones I think the impedance actually matches the headphones a lot better than other onboard audio solutions do and that will cause not to have those spikes especially around 7k so the audio for this is pretty good though one thing I will mention is the crosstalk isn't phenomenal I guess the Achilles heel of this onboard audio would be the crosstalk though again for an $80.00 motherboard I can't really critique that a whole lot let's move on now to some other things benchmarking this motherboard I mean power consumption was fantastic I don't really have any other b85 motherboards compared to but I will say out of all the motherboards I've tested on the BA dhat 797 line basically the LGA 1150 sockets this has the lowest power consumption of them all so what this means is that as Zeus are using quality parts on the VRM and it's showing in these results as for benchmarks I mean how does this motherboard compare in terms of performance I'd like to think that there's not a lot of differences between motherboards in terms of performance though for what it's worth this motherboard performed exceptionally well especially when I was doing SSD benchmarks as well as when I did my 3d mark firestrike benchmarks I was scoring pretty much the best scores for people with Zeon's and a single GTX 970 so that just shows that this motherboard definitely has what it takes to compete with even higher-end motherboards like z97 s and stuff like that so kudos to azuz for making a great motherboard that performs well in pretty much all the areas where I want it to perform well anyway but that being said let's move on now to a conclusion where I'll sum up everything I'd like and some of the things that I actually don't like about this motherboard as well so it's conclusion time and I'll talk about a few extra things as well things that I really liked about this motherboard things that I didn't like as well that I haven't mentioned earlier those things that I really like fantastic value for money I mean a Zeus have got it right with this motherboard it's got a great VRM I mean when I did power consumption figures this thing was just a champion the board was also staying so cool with the Xeon at 3.8 gigs also the BIOS allows me to overclock my Z on to the max turbo clock which is a really good thing it was the initial BIOS revision on this as well so if you're going to get one of these motherboards make sure you download that BIOS revision before it gets taken down if it is going to get taken down is when I installed a new version of the boss essentially I wasn't able to get my three point eight gigs anymore so it's cool that you can do that anyway so it's a great thing that you can get three point eight gigs higher your max turbo clock on your respective CPU and it supports the Haswell refresh is no problems though I'm not sure about Devil's Canyon which is more facility to 4690k and the for 790 K however let's get back to the motherboard itself the audio out was absolutely phenomenal especially on a board that came in at $80 it's pretty much on par with the asrock extreme 6 X 99 now the mic in it's something that was not good it wasn't that as pretty crap actually but I don't expect it to be good on a motherboard of this price range and when you turn on noise suppression which a lot of people will do the voice was completely audible as well the line-in is actually pretty good though it does introduce some noise after volume levels of 75 with me having a mic preamp this is no problems and generally if you're going to use a mic preamp you will want to turn that volume down that was opposed to other better variants out there you can generally hit it up to 100 and have no problems and most other motherboards though again on an $80 month would I'm not going to critique that too heavily another thing that I did like was the subtle red lighting it wasn't too excessive I would have liked to have seen him go away with that and it will as well as going away with some things like the PCI Legacy slots there's three of them there which I mean one of them would have been okay but three is a bit excessive as well as the rear HDMI DVI and VGA ports I would have liked to have seen maybe just the VGA and HDMI or vice for just maybe just only HDMI I mean I believe they can cut down costs even further and then give us things like a clear CMOS button on the rear as well as bring the cost down of this board even further which would be cool though things that I liked about it just was a solid board though on that note of solid boards I felt like when I was installing the memory I maybe if I applied too much pressure I could have broken the PCB so maybe I think I caught it on camera and I'll see if I can show you in slow motion so I do think the PCB is a little bit thinner especially compared to the gigabyte b85 that I had come through that thing felt really solid so maybe they've gone Costco today or maybe they're cutting costs on the PCB size in order to make the board cheaper which is fine with me I mean just be careful though if you are going to install things on this board it's not as strong as other boards that I've tested on the PCB size so just keep that and note on other things though I mean it's just a solid board it looks pretty good it's got great audio out it's got a great and I see it's got a great vrm which are the first three things that I look at when I'm grading a motherboard and this three and this motherboard has just hit all those marks and it's just cut down like you're not you don't for those people who don't use SLI you don't you get that feature for people who don't overclock you can still overclock on this board though and you can see you're not paying that for that feature to Intel which is a great thing and then you're paying for less solder ports the right to use less sided ports so you're just saving money on this chipset and that's why this chipset makes a lot of sense especially for most in-home users even for people using a workstation things like I'm doing so ultimately I like this board a lot and I can highly recommend it if you can't get it though the scarcity of this board is interesting it's actually pretty rare to find this board at solid prices I mean I looked in the US and the cheapest you get this board for 140 USD as opposed to the fatality from asrock which looks like on paper it looks like it has similar features which is only a hundred dollars so maybe if you're looking for an alternative then the asrock fatality definitely looks like a good option as well so you might want to check that out but all in all I can highly recommend this board I absolutely had an amazing experience with it and yeah I'm just blown away so this board it just I mean companies have to do this they have to say look this is what the end user or the average average end user wants they don't want to pay for features that they're not using and this board I'm not paying for features that I'm not using if that makes any sense so it's good I like it in that regards and kudos to azuz so if you have any questions about the b85 pro gamer from Mizzou stand be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can and yeah that's about it guys if 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