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take vans what's going on glad to see you guys back here on the channel today we're gonna be taking a look at a very nice AMD motherboard and the people over at ass rock this is the x4 70 Taichi let's jump in let's check this board out so obviously first off we're going to take a look at the box use the from the box not a lot to it however on the back of the box though there are a lot of different features we'll be talking about all these different features as we check out the motherboard like I said this motherboard is the x4 70 it's going to support all of the latest AMD CPUs with that said though let's go ahead and let's just start seeing what actually comes inside the box I'm gonna go ahead and just pop the top cap here go ahead and take the motherboard out of a giant sized box flip it around once again see the ass rock nomenclature on there go ahead and pop the cap again so starting off on the top we're going to have all of the different stuff that comes in the motherboard so I'm gonna go ahead and remove all of this stuff out of the box first take all this stuff out of the box so and you first unbox everything in the box figure thing out of the bubble now the box is empty as you can see I'll set that off to the side here's the motherboard and here are all the accessories now there are quite a bit of accessories so first up we have a software setup guide next up we have a quick installation guide this is gonna have all the different information about your motherboard all of its features everything you're gonna want to know about the motherboard is pretty much gonna be in this book I'm glad I kind of open it up right there cuz there's actually some stuff be between the pages now these little screws right here or one screw this is for connecting the M to SATA and there are 2 m 2 SATA slots in this board and there are two screws to go ahead and put those in there and we'll get that part later you'll notice that the M 2 s are also covered so they have a heatsink on top of them now this is kind of interesting this looks like a postcard so if you want to send someone a postcard you go hey man my motherboard is better than the years well here's a postcard to do it you know next step we have to BNC antennas this is for the a pong board Intel Wireless and actually the Wireless is pretty interesting because it actually doubles as a two point four five gigahertz Wireless and it's Bluetooth as well here is the SLI on this particular bracket only works on the 1080 and 1070 motherboards it won't work on I mean excuse me the 1070 and and 1080 video cards rather excuse me it's not gonna work on the newer cards so we'll set that out there we've got a total of eight SATA cables and you'll see on the motherboard there's actually eight SATA headers as well we have the rear i/o we have a little system case bed if you get that in there a little system case badge and then the driver CD and that's all that stuff that's the contents they come beyond the motherboard go ahead I'm going to take the motherboard out of its protective packaging now so now the way of the motherboard Abbot's package you guys can see there's a lot of room on this motherboard lots of room around the CPU for using aftermarket coolers and all that type of stuff now starting at the top of the board underneath here you can't see it but this is an XXL aluminum alloy heatsink now underneath the shroud and by the way this shroud is called IO armors to protect your IO here in the back right here now underneath that there's a premium sixty eight power choke there's also a premium memory alloy choke features a dual stack MOSFET Nietzsche con 12 K black caps this is actually going to make the motherboard run for a long time all these black caps are lined up right along here you can see those would also have Mitchell con caps in the auto we'll get to the audio as well we'll get to that a lot of the stuff you just can't see another interesting thing about this motherboard is it's a matte black PCB and the design of the motherboard is very different as well it features a high density glass fabric PCB and two of copper now you guys are going okay lark what the heck is a high density glass fabric PCB well what it means is that everything on the motherboard is denser and closer together and this helps to keep away from electrical shortages I'm just like on your monitor the more didn't you know dense the pixel the better the picture the same thing with them with the motherboard in the PCB the more dense everything is the better that it's going to run I'm gonna go ahead and just take the motherboard I have us a little thing here I'm gonna go ahead and just sit it out right here so let's start off the very top of the motherboard on the top of the motherboard on the left hand side you guys can see are the two power connectors is a single eight pin a single four pin there are also five different headers for different types of fans and there's actually even a connector if you want to hook up a water pump now you can see this shroud right on top the shroud completely covers this this particular part is there I of protection this right here is their digi phase control this has a 16 phase power design so this will actually keep all the power running to your motherboard without problems the particular socket here this is the am for socket it supports all of the current AMD CPUs that are on the market this includes the pinnacle ridge CPUs the summit ridge CPUs and the Raven Ridge CPUs now right to the left of that is the memory now this is dual channel ddr3 memory now what's interesting about this is depending on what CPU use it actually has different support for the memory now right behind the memory you guys are going to see the 24 pin power connector that's the last of the power connectors now as far as the five fan header connections go there's one right next to the top where the first two power connectors are there are two more up at the top of the board there's a single one to the right of the memory and there's also another one right here below the CPU and right here below the CPU is also where the connector is if you're going to be hooking up water cooling or using a water pump another thing that's interesting about this motherboard is you actually have a Type C connection on the motherboard right below the ddr4 memory next up underneath the CPU you're going to see the first of the m2 SATA connections this supports the latest Intel now there's one here on top and there's another here on the bottom now underneath that are the first two of the PCI slots now these particular PCI slots both have steel around them so they're going to be very strong stuff you put a video card and that's really kind of heavy this is going to help eliminate the sag that you see in a card between these two you're gonna see a PCIe 1x you're gonna see another PCI 1 X down here at the bottom there's also another PCI Express this is called the PCI 5 slot now if you use this particular slot on its own it's a 16 X but when you're using this particular slot it actually disables the m2 above it so you might want to take that into consideration if you plan on using both slots now 2 left of the PCI slots this is all of your audio right here now this is 7.1 channel HD audio and it also has content protection this is the realtek ALC 1220 I do codec now this features premium blu-ray audio support it has surge protection it supports purity sound 4 it has nichkhun fine gold series audio caps 120 DB signal-to-noise ratio has a really premium built-in headphone amplifier so don't have to worry about buying a separate headphone amplifier to listen to your headphones it has PCB isolates the shielding so you know that none of the electricity from the motherboard is actually going to get into the sound this is actually a pretty cool feature and hopefully this sounds is good at to my ears as it sounds on paper another thing I need to mention is that there are 15 gold contacts on the DIMM slots on the PCI slots and there's also gold connections on the audio on the other side of the motherboard you're going to notice that there are eight different SATA connectors and these SATA connectors are actually different six of them are all supported by the motherboard chipset and two of them are supported by the as media ASM 1061 now the six Sata's that are by the chipset these support raid 0 raid 1 raid 10 ncq 8ci and it does have hot plug availability the other chipset supports ncq HCI and it also has the hot plug feature now another thing about the storage of this motherboard this particular motherboard does feature AMD store and my technology if you're unfamiliar with this what this particular software does is it allows your standard hard drive to run it almost the same speeds as an SSD so you get much better transfer rates much faster everything all the way across the board using this technology and it's also something exclusive to AMD motherboard now the motherboard actually lights up in three different places next to the Taichi gears next to the audio and next to the i/o shield and all this can be controlled like I said through the PI chrome sync software and the RGB lighting actually comes with some pre-installed settings such as static breathing and that type of stuff so you can change it to actually match whatever style you prefer now at the very bottom of the motherboard you're going to notice here's where all your case wiring gets hooked up next to here you're going to see the post LED this will light up and tell you if there's a problem with your motherboard starting up so you can diagnose it and fix the problem and something that's actually interesting down here there's also two different headers for the RGB lighting one of them is addressable so this means you can actually hook up another set of LED lights and still control them all from the motherboard software now checking out the rear i/o we'll start off on the left-hand side you can see there are two BNC connectors this is toward the built-in wireless LAN it supports 2.4 gigahertz 5 gigahertz and also doubles as Bluetooth connectivity next to that we see a ps2 port 2 standard USB 3.0 ports below that next to that we see the reset button now next up as an HDMI port this can be used with your CPU so if your CPU has onboard graphics you can use this connection to hook up to your monitor next up we see the Intel and below that 2 more of the USB 3.0 connectors next to that there are two more USB 3.0 connectors the next of that is something actually interesting this is a type A and a Type C USB connection this is something kind of interesting so what kind of USB device you have you'll be able to fit up to this motherboard now last but not least we see the audio now the audio feature is a spit of connector it also features 7.1 like I said and all the connectors you can't see them but these are all gold-plated to ensure the best connectivity alright Tech fans so there you have it the asrock x4 70 Taichi now not only does this motherboard look good you have to admit this is a very clean design all the new features that have been implemented in this motherboard make it a very high quality product it's coming to market of about two hundred and nine dollars but like I said two ounces of copper and the PCB features a whole new different PCB design that's much denser the slots for your video cards both have steel inside of them so if you're using a bigger video card you have to worry about them flopping over all of your support for your audio is really really nice you get 7.1 you got mystic on caps neat Yukon comes with saying that right you have been here on the audio you have them up here so you know your motherboard is going to last a good long time as far as the memory goes depending on what CPU you're using like I said you can even use some ECC memory depending on what CPU you're using so that's actually pretty cool the designs nice the price is nice next up is for us to build a system see how all that cool RGB lighting works with all the sophomore and just see overall Albert's motherboard works I mark you guys been watching Tekken 2 mark you guys want to get more information about this particular motherboard we'll have that down below so you click that link if you want to buy one for yourself or just check out more information you can do that also if you like what you see in the channel and you'd like to be sub thing we'd love to have you here as part of the family I'm mark thanks for watching we'll see you guys back here for more tech on Tekken tomorrow tomorrow