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what's going on tech friends it's me or care once again on tech Eduardo we once again have a special guest mr. Asus himself JJ who's gonna be going over one of their brand new boards for the z97 chipset now this is the ROG gene board now the gene board has been actually one of the most popular series of motherboards that these guys have ever made the last generation when a lot of my friends came to me for a board when looking at what they had to be offered they said wow that gene works for me so now we've got a new gene and let's hear JJ talk about why you're gonna want to take a look at this yeah definitely I mean first and foremost it's an rog board and like we've talked about with our mainstream series overview a lot of what we're gonna be talking about in terms of the features and functionality are gonna be not only on this Maximus 6 gene but also what apply to our Maximus 6 hero so the ATX version of this board and of course you know with ROG the focus is really for gamers enthusiasts tweakers tuners overclockers you know if you're somebody that has a passion for tweaking tuning and really looking for that next level experience in gaming and enthusiast class motherboards then our G's gonna do it for you and we've spent a huge amount of time and effort to I think really bring an awesome level of functionality and feature set to the board so if we take a look here at our Maximus 6 gene one of the first things you're gonna see is the new ID that we have in terms of the overall design so I'm just going to go ahead and pop this little heatsink back on here just to give you guys some some little bit visual it looks a little bit bigger than the previous version gene 2 is a little bit bigger a little bigger nope so one of the biggest things you'll see is that we've gone for a matte black PCB finish on the board so that looks really clean really stylized we've gone ahead and pulled back the actual white accents that we've historically had an ro G and gone for just red and black as far as being the primary color set and we've also and we've also gone with chrome nickel plating on the actual CPU socket as well as the supreme effect shielding so the supreme effect shielding right here is the actual cover for the ALC 1150 audio codec so overall it's got a really premium look and feel and so let me just under the quick J so you're saying that the audio chip is actually in this particular piece it's not on the board at all it's actually in and in this piece right here correct and we'll go ahead and we'll remove that we'll talk a little bit more when we get to the audio section but for this generation for the actual supreme effects designed for the gene series instead of having that isolated audio design we trait we bring that over to this discreet daughter card just like we had actually with the Maximus 6 impact board where it had this isolated supreme effects daughter board card the Maximus 6 excuse me the Maximus 7 hero though will still feature the isolated audio design physically on the motherboard not having this actual discrete card now one of the big things that we did though outside of kind of really bringing this clean modern aggressive look to the RG boards is we wanted to take it even further and so we implemented a really advanced new type of color technology onto our PCB boards with this dual color PCB so let's go ahead and pull off this really nice high-performance heatsink that we have here and we can take a look at the overall vrm I just watch out there be careful we don't want to touch this thermal quite a bit of weight on to folks now actually quite heavy can double as a gun I definitely don't advocate that so if you take a look here a nice full gun a God of love all right gun Oh gaming so if you take a look here at the PCB you're gonna see that we have this dual color PCB it looks really cool it's subtle but it adds a whole nother kind of premium look and feel to the board that once you put that heatsink on there you just see that soft red accenting on there and this was actually a really complicated process to be able to achieve because when you actually put the board through the high temperature SMT process it changes the acro color that's been pre applied so it took us quite a bit of trial and error to be able to hit the color consistency and the color expectation that we wanted for the RG series of motherboards here we talked about her like one of my mom's so we started baking the color the color started changing we're like ah what's going on so baking stuff had change in temperature really can change the hue of a matte color yeah and so it was a very difficult process but one that we wanted to have to really assert why we feel rog is the absolute best of the best when it comes to gaming and enthusiast class motherboards even the process of the thickness was complicated because having it to be too thick could impact our ability to mount the actual on board components and affect their performance and functionality but moving past that let's actually talk about those components one of the things that ROG always prides itself is the quality and the performance of the VM components so this board maintains a Terra tidge of having class-leading components where we have very high performance parts so we have those niche econ 10k rated GT capacitors so they have ultra long lifespan and they have extremely high temperature and extremely low temperature tolerances along with very impressive SR performance that's much higher than that of Paz caps so what you're saying these things aren't made us recycling beer cans I told a fella they're the antithesis of recycled beer cans we've got these a really high-performance International rectifier on single mosfet driver packages which have very high thermal efficiency they have extremely high voltage threshold and they pair really perfectly with these ultra-high performance inductors which are fully molded giving us a huge degree of power output capability what that ultimately dispels down to is it just means that whether your stock whether you're overclocked you can hammer on this board and you have extremely stable stable stable great power delivery and overall can feel confident in the board design and of course that pairs up perfectly with this high performance sintered base heat pipe design that helps to keep everything cool and effectively regulated now from there we course still keep our dil a dual digital power design not only for the CPU but also for the DRAM so that gives us a whole bunch of advanced features and functions within the UEFI and the software to be able to manage the board for efficiency or for performance for however you want to tweak in tune the board so moving from there of course you're gonna see that there's a huge number of fan connectivity and for both the here and gene they're gonna have tons of fan headers that are all supportive of three pin or four pin fans on top of that for this generation we're giving you the ability to output the control signal for DC or PWM operation so with PWM operations support that means that we can go ahead and put on a fan splitter and be able to run additional fans that are controlled directly by the motherboard now on all of these new series that are coming out now as all this technology pretty much translating them across to the ROG through the main stream through every segment is this technology pretty much across the board all those board for fan expert 3 it's pretty much unilateral so there are going to be some of course features and functions that are exclusive to certain segmentations such as other features are going to talk about whether it's going to be supreme effects or key bought or things that we haven't yet touched on but something like fan expert 3 we consider an on so everything from our z87 - a to our saber-tooth z97 to our z97 WS to the z97 Pro they all feature that so moving on from there in terms of the fan controls we've talked about all of them supporting three pin four pin DC and PWM but you're also going to have the ability to map temperature input control so that means that you can pick more than just the CPU as being the source that that actual fan header responds to so there's gonna be different options available to you the UEFI that you can set it such as being able to respond to the PCH temperature giving you more flexibility to go ahead and define how you want that actual fan an actual cool more per area yeah and ultimately just gives you a flexibility make sure that the area's you want cooled can be effectively cooled as easily as possible so beyond that if you want I'm gonna go ahead and do it just set that guy down there but I want it JJ's I want to JJ it is pretty awesome moving on from the fan header support we've got Scott voltage Reed points we've got debug LED we course have this little guy with the memo K button for a single touch over excuse me single touch troubleshooting for memory related issues whether it's mix and match dims memory may be failing or you want to use it like a semi clear CMOS where you can just go ahead and reset the board for my frequency voltage and timing standpoint believe all your other let's see I thought that was what I couldn't remember anything I hit that button in my memory would become okay you know maybe for the next generation mm okay we're not there yet but we're working on it because sometimes you know I'm I know you're totally especially with art with our boards right we've got so many functions and features so moving down from there and it's Christmas list moving down from there we've course got your power connectivity we got front USB three for the front USB three of course just like the back USB three we're supporting our USB three boost to be able to improve performance for storage devices such as USB flash drives external high speed SSDs the back USB ports of course we also give you USB charger plus so you can quick charge your devices like smartphones or tablets even when your system is turned off let me ask a question JJ one thing to be up asking me for like two ROG series motherboard support higher in memory than say the mainstream boards or is that pretty much a feature like if you're like you're like we're summer one of the other boards or the mainstream that supports like you know 3,000 memory is that possible than ROG boards or even higher than that or is that other feature that's unknowable uh it's well for us it's kind of non-negotiable every single board we're gonna have enhanced DRAM topology layouts to be able to optimize and have great DRAM overclocking so really it's gonna go from outstanding to just insane on ROG ROG boards like this gene has already been validated for over ddr3 3200 the hero has actually been validated for ddr3 3300 so beasley memory speeds and realistically probably none of you guys are ever gonna run d around that fast but the boards are validated to do it we can just you know take the ddr4 and just tape it in there you can definitely do that going down to the serial ata both the here on gene they're gonna have tons of serial ata connectivity with the PCH as well as add on a s media 1061 we then move over into secondary storage both to here and the gene are gonna have MDOT to support but it's only gonna support pure PCIe they will not support m dot 2 SATA so just keep that in mind we're only gonna support the fastest MT based solutions with pci based devices on this particular board on all of the rog series board as i noted for both the hero and for the gene okay they will only support pure PCIe the advantage of that though is that since we're not going to run the legacy are essentially the slower serial ATA which would be the same speed as a normal system on the side of sixty port is that you don't lose any ports when you use this slot in conjunction with other pieces yeah mancom will compare to m2 base SSD performance right so we're focused on performance and connectivity here for the RG series so of course you've got tons of PCI connectivity both boards will be SLI and crossfire of course you got the socketable chip which is great in terms of being able to use the USB bios flashback technology you can plug in a fast drive no CPU no memory no graphics card just power you can update and recover your UEFI ROM chip or you can go ahead and use it to easily update the board either which way that one's also removed was well correct correct and like you noted it being removable and worst-case scenario if you can't use USB BIOS flash back to recovery you could contact everyone get a new one pop it in there as opposed to competitors which are using soldered based designs so moving past that we go into some really cool functions on sound so 4-seamer pre supreme effects we've really focused on always giving you guys the absolute best quality sound as i'm possible and for this generation we're definitely maturing that and extend the uneven further actually yes and you definitely guys want to check out is some demos of actually showing you what we're talking about do we're located right here we're going to show you guys can check out a video we actually did some testing and showing you some of this great stuff for supreme FX for 2014 first suit so for 2014 while the gene has this now on an isolated dot aboard the hero will still have the isolate audio design so you still get the Elna audio grade capacitor is the operational amplifier the shielding to the audio codec the improvement to the gain the noise floor isolation but we've got ahead and done a couple of other really cool things so one is we have sonic soundstage so that's going to be a button that you can go ahead and press on the board that it Just's the actual operational amplifiers hardware register to one of four different presets the great thing is this is on a pure Hardware scale and it's essentially the same as if you were to physically change the op-amp but without having to do so exactly and there and actually folks there's only really about seven total options out there that you can get which different sound ranges so having four is almost having the full gamut of everything ya know it's a great deal of flexibility and actually well there's actually a lot of op amps that you can get out in the marketplace the problem is that the audio circuitry is generally only designed for a very specific type of op amp so that's why I'm saying there's a lot different makers but as I've been like doing them there's usually it seems like about seven different like what I would call like tonality what I mean there's a kazillion coming but there's only about seven different tonality between the hard and soft which you can change out and get our sure and you really have to have it really specific here to listen to some we're so close that unless you're like a high-end golden ear person you're not gonna notice it anyway you're 100% right so with this we've also gone with a hardware out because it's going to give you the flexibility to have this also supported in things like steamos but of course for users once you get this all installed in the chassis you can entirely make these adjustments real time in the operating system so you can either adjust it via the button here or you can do it in the OS now in addition to that we've also incorporated another entire software suite that's going to be accessible in the operating system called Sonic soundstage sonic soundstage make sure to guys check out that overview video because it's going to go into depth a very interesting all the new options that we have such as Virtual Surround base adjustments support voice clarity support impedance control all kinds of really awesome functions but talking about impedance that's another new feature so we've got the sonic sound sage we have Sonic studio but we now also have a sonic sense amp the sonic scent amp is gonna allow you to go ahead and plug in your headphones into the front headphone connection and automatically detect your headphone impedance so whether it's 32 ohms 64 150 50 ohm it'll automatically set it to the correct it and this actually is folks something that nobody else is doing so so many other company you see comes down the line and says oh were the originator this you're gonna how about full of crap there because this actually really is and totally ASIS original I have not seen anybody use anything like that and I think it's something that honestly has just gone right are the top people's heads but it's actually really something damn cool yeah so overall I think that we're giving you guys the absolute best sound experience for you know for whether it's gonna be music movies or games you guys are gonna have an outstanding experience on our G Series motherboards and of course for you guys that are really that discerning and want the absolute best sound solutions then of course we have an entire range in our products for users that even want to go to higher higher degrees so moving them around beyond from that we've got ki baat ki baat is a really awesome new function so a lot of you guys out there love your mechanical keyboards or love your keyboards well we want to be able to even give you more functionality from your keyboards so what we did is we developed an entirely new microcontroller that we have here on the back of the motherboard called the ki baat microcontroller so what happens is this little microcontroller well.when and in conjunction with a specific USB port you plug in your keyboard you'll press this button and it will activate the key bought microcontroller so this'll allow us to go ahead and do advanced functions such as be able to hit the delete key and boot straight into your UEFI or you could single touch enable XMP or a single touch enable CPU level up for one touch okay with power without power so even if your system was entirely turned off you could hit the Delete key would turn on your system and jump straight into the UEFI mitzva s5 mode yes s5 correct in addition to that we're also gonna give you the ability to fully customize macros shortcuts and function keys and you're also even going to have the ability to do exporting and importing so as we get feedback from you guys on even new functions and features you want for keyboard you're going to be able to program this to your liking and the to share profiles amongst each other to be able to have the absolute best and flexible keyboard experiences keep off focus days gonna be really interesting especially for you guys out there were like me do a lot of testing you guys can set up a bunch of different things directly in the keyboard and then have your system booting to that so if you have a like four or five different overclocking profiles or different things you want to use the memory testing you can set it all up to keep up when you hit that kid automatically boots to it so no more action to go back in the BIOS make those changes resave it right from the get-go you just hit your key in away you go yeah we're really excited about key BOTS and definitely we're really looking forward to feedback from you guys as well as you know you guys that are testing it to be able to incorporate the types of features that you're talking about now but we've got a great set of functionality right off the bat that you guys can begin using with key BOTS and it's going to be on all these our G Series boards so that's another new rog innovation that we have so moving on from there if we just go over to the rest of the connectivity you've got tons of connectivity in terms of the back i/o where you can see a course you've got your USB 3 and you got your USB 2 connections and we've got also of course the Intel Gigabit Ethernet jack now of course with this Intel Gigabit Ethernet we've done a huge amount of testing to be able to ensure that it is absolutely the best network controller for gaming performance as well as general performance and as we showed you with some of our testing results that we've done with a chariot we're getting absolutely outstanding UDP performance that is much better than competing solution yeah a lot of people they rave on about the killer Nick but overall from my testing what I've seen the Intel solution works better overall a lot better packet control and a lot less loss and actually for us we've seen that the community you guys love the Intel based solution its maturity and its performance in its consistency as well as the Intel processor management class functionality is really unmatched but for this generation we've taken even further and we've gone ahead and incorporate in game first three so game 4 as 3 has been entirely redesigned from the ground up internally by our networking team along with our ROG development team to be able to make a program that has far more flexibility and customization for tweaking and tuning your packet priority for whether it's games music browsing downloading whatever might be and it's also agnostic it doesn't care if you want to use it with the Intel NIC port you can use it if you want to add in a PCIe wireless solution in the M combo card that's on the gene or USB or PCIe solution on the hero guess what it doesn't matter you can get that game first Packer priority control any which way you want just don't want those people at Westboro Baptist Church hey you say that son outside of that we've also physically improved the land Jack remember when I showed you the actual network controller the old generation rises totally revamped out you guys I don't know if you guys done this but you plug in all of a sudden you lose that connectivity I don't just happened you has happened to me we're all of a sudden I plug something in Jack looks like it's working fine I'll send you're getting a yellow signal well this new jack actual eliminates some of those problems yeah so what we've done here is we've actually gone from the handmade base Jack that previously is this and we've gone to a new one that has surface mounted design and it also has been designed to be able to enhance surge protection as well as ESD protection so we've rhetorically had ESD and surge protection mounted onto things for like your USB ports but not for your Ethernet port so now we're giving you the absolute best quality connection for your Ethernet port as well so overall when we look at all the ways that we can improve your experience from the hardware based design to the audio experience to the networking to the UEFI to you know your keyboard and so much more you're really getting an amazing experience with rog series motherboards and we've also course integrated new functions and features as well in the UEFI that we haven't even talked about as well as also keep in mind that all rog series motherboards all come included with a full one-year license version of Kaspersky antivirus as well as they also come with a full licence for daemon tools pro standard so wrapping things up if we also take a look some of these little cool Hardware accessories that we've I got here remember you can easily and effectively add Thunderbolt support to an orangey board by just dropping in the Thunderbolt exe to card so if you want to be able to have high performance you know uh external high-speed storage then BAM you're good to go with that if you want to be able to add in qi wireless charging support for your smartphone or your tablet you can go ahead and pick one of those guys up and you can rock that if you guys want to be able to take advantage of NFC we also have the NFC breakout box and this is gonna allow you to take your smartphone your tablet pass it over and do things like quickly log into your system quick launch applications you can transfer over photos wirelessly you can even do Bluetooth and video streaming straight from your desktop with your device by just holding it over and then streaming over that video or stream / that audio and lastly I know you've been digging it out but we also have awesome accessories like The OC panel which previously used to come available with our extreme series board which is compatible with both the gene and the hero and our new ROG front base that thing is amazing looking yeah the RG front base has a dedicated shielded stereo signal cable to give you the absolute best experience for your front headphone and microphones that also can be paired up with any Rd series motherboard so so if you guys never see JJ again this is his last video you noticed because we kidnapped him to keep that front panel I'm just saying let his mom know he's safe though locked in our basement well I love you mom I think that covers just a bit of the ROG and you guys are going to make sure to want to come back more detective tomorrow and find out more about what we're doing with our G and really setting the bar for what this is pretty much just touch the tip of the iceberg is this stuff comes out folks so you guys saw it here this is the gene you guys all know the ROG motherboards the Republic of gamers it's like one of the most popular out there for you guys that third want the red and black theme hey nothing else compares and nothing else can touch the azores product so I'm Mel Eric here with Jay Jay we'll see you guys back on Tekken tomorrow for more tech goodness