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hey what's going on everybody welcome back to another edition of TECA tomorrow I'm mark your host my co-host is JJ from Asus and today we're gonna be taking a close-up of their new motherboards for Haswell and now we're gonna be taking a look at the rog series which is Republic of gamers geared for those folks out there who want the absolute most out of their gaming motherboard so JJ what's up yeah no definitely what's up is that what's up is that we have three of our brand-new rog series motherboards that are gonna be launching as part of the z87 chipset so as always you know we're really excited about bringing our G to the table in terms of the product stack because we feel that it's going to be providing you know the enthusiasts the best of the best not only in terms of tweaking tuning performance options but of course is special set of features that really complement the gamer and the enthusiast that khana is looking for the best the best the most innovation when it comes to giving them you know competitive advantages you know more performance oriented technologies or you know new layers of flexibility at tweaking or tuning in their system so for the core launch we're going to be having our Xtreme board which is the top in on our og we're going to actually be introducing a new board in terms of our og in terms of the value segmentation which is going to be the Maximus hero hero correct hero versus the Maximus Xtreme and then lastly we're going to have the gene so if we kind of consider a little bit of lay of the land extremists Oracle II always taking precedence as being that kind of the flagship board gives us the most expansion in terms of the amount of PCIe connectivity as some very specialized features really geared towards the tweakers and tuners and overclockers out there but it's also targeted to the guys that are really looking for the best of the best in terms of individual component Ori that they're gonna expand upon with the board in the past where we've had formula which formula will be coming soon but won't be launching initially with these three boards formula and gene have made up kind of that focus at the hardcore or the real focused gamer where we've had specialized technologies in terms of networking as well as audio and other specialized designs hero is kind of aligning with gene at being at a more aggressive price ban in the past we've tried to talk about gene being really the value point for our G at saying look if you're looking to build and get the benefits of what an RGB or des to offer don't just be limited from the respective the gene as a migrated XQ look at it from the aspect you know 90% of users they only use one single GPU if you're talking about that at the same price man you're getting a board that may be just it has a couple extra slots it could have inferior audio not as advanced network conductivity it doesn't have anywhere near maybe the the power component quality or even the supplemental RG features so MPEG sound will be on this gene board yes supreme effects continues to be there but you know some people always kind of work oh you know when I'm thinking about building an ATX system or you know an entry-level system for gaming if I wasn't thinking about doing small form-factor they weren't recognizing the gene what's that kind of entry-level option that we were being able to provide so that's where hero comes in here on is kind of divining a real big point for value for us in terms of being able to give you all the key things that make an RG board in our G board but in a much more aggressive price point so come with a cape and no it doesn't come so you're probably the Cape I'm just saying but you know before we touch on a lot of things that really make the hero special board let's go ahead and and take a look at the extreme on the top inside so you know and a lot of ways you're going to continue to see aspects that look very very similar to what you've kind of come to expect with the extreme series boards you're going to have a course a super high performance PRM section that's our Xtreme engine GGT power design so you've got the niche econ GT block capacitors those are 10k rated if you remember on the mainstream series those are five times later it's it has twice as much life correct and this is actually then 5x compared to what the competitors are using in the marketplace so that's giving you an outstanding level of performance in terms of lifespan plus they offer significantly lower and higher temperature tolerances that's going to be important especially for the guys that are pushing their systems or running multiple GPUs you're just having that much more comfort in the fact that the components that are on there can come from be running more hot or or even colder environments if maybe you're putting this unit under extreme forms of cooling now also jay-z like with cards like the matrix construct for those still work the same this you know if those cars up directly to the motherboard just like traditionally other series were as well yes and no we've actually made some changes that the extreme is actually smaller it's formal it's actually fitting within the standard ATX dimensions but we've gone ahead and moved some of the specialized functions like VGA Hotwire and sub-zero sense which we had before off the board but that doesn't mean that we've taken them away we're going to be touching on a very special item that we have over there in the corner called the OC panel that will allow us to go ahead and touch on a lot of new functionality that we're introducing for our RG series of boards but continuing on with extreme engine DD power design we've got the 10k caps we have these super high performance what are called black-winged inductors so these guys are rated for 60 amps apiece and like always you know we stress that it's not about quantity it's about the quality and the design of your power topology you know this board is already done over seven gigahertz and thirty seven hundred megahertz on memory you know in our maximum performance testing so it goes to show you once again in terms of the world record performance you have capable for you that the power solution that we have is unmatched at being able to just give you outstanding performance and flexibility of making sure that you have stability and great power delivery and the great thing is you're going to get this consistent high performance power implementation across all the RG SKUs even boards like the gene and the hero so that's that's a really nice touch to know that you're not getting anything dropped down just by dropping down to the board you're still going to get that great rog kind of DNA consistent across all of these and from there of course we continue to use ultra high performance MOSFETs and drivers to round out the power G's of your solution now this is going to be a four-way capable board so you can of course have three-way and fully expansion support or if you're running only two GPUs you get the optimal layering effect in terms of being able to have spacing even with two triple slot based cards so that's a nice touch of course you got a huge amount of SATA conductivity ten set of 6g ports and a ton of expansion now if you remember in the last generation we had the M combo module which allows you to have Wi-Fi and an M SATA we actually have now a new generation M combo module which will show you guys to slide up because we don't have it here on hand but this board will come integrated with a dogeleven AC but instead of mSATA we've transitioned it to the latest generation specification called ng FF or what some people are now referring to as it's correct name which is m dot 2 m dot 2 yes m dot 2 is a new standard for ultra small flash storage the benefit of m dot 2 is as opposed to being linked into a PC H or a SATA port it's actually directly linked into PCI Express so it has the officer the option and the capability of offering you lower latency and even higher potential throughput so we're really excited to be the first vendor that's interfacing this new MDOT to support on our M combo modules so MSA is already pretty much coming on yeah it's it's transitioning away in terms of being a specification that's going to be rolling out and for the extreme board as well as for the gene and the upcoming hero they will support the M combo module so you can have that on board determines the rest connectivity of course you get what you would expect in terms of USB 3 integrated Intel Gigabit Ethernet and a ton of rest in terms of the expansive connectivity I mean you got all your fan headers which once again our course controllable within the UEFI or within the software so with that let's go ahead and talk a little bit about us very special accessory that's going to be are coming included with the extreme board this thing yes this thing yes some people Meehan is sure why not alright are you so uh this guy right here is the OC panel so the OC panel is really an awesome piece of hardware that we've been working on for a long time if you guys remember we've had kind of a trend of always doing new and innovative ways of being able to tweak and tune the motherboard we've had things like the original OC panel which kind of went into a bay and had kind of like a screen we've done an OC panel that was limited the extreme community we've had ROG Connect if you even remember back to like the rampage 2 days we had on board tweak it controls exact and it's funny because we've seen competitors copy some of these controls even on current generation products and the reality is we've done more work with the enthusiast community than any other vendor and on board controls that give you riff for real-time control functionality even though we had a small set of users that really appreciate it yeah they found that almost nobody was using them that's the reason why we actually transitioned away all the way back on the rampage to extreme and when we launched the rampage 3 extreme we killed all those controls because nobody was using them and we went ahead and we integrated ROG Connect which we still offer on the boards in terms of giving you that full hardware level control to monitor overclock and tune your system via USB enabled product like a tablet or um you know or a desktop or a notebook you have the ability to directly control it while it's in game or what's running a benchmark but you know maybe some people don't want to have to be limited to having to have that type of device connected in on hand so we wanted to evolve something and that's what we have here so with this little guy it's an awesome handheld unit that gives you a lot of functionality we have a full VFD display that gives you real-time information such as your temperatures it's going to have your frequency information your voltages we now keep the sub-zero sets in the v-j a hot wire technology but we integrated on here so you can see right here this is for the sub-zero sense and then from there if we pull this off then we go ahead and we have the VGA how our technology so you can still link in the graphics card directly to this and be able to have advanced level tidge control you're gonna have even direct digital control similar to VGA Hotwire that will work on any graphics card as long as it's using a digital controller we've got four fan it who's here and we even have our advanced slow mode and a special overclocking related technologies on here that you can go ahead and switch on and off so it's your salute man that's my slow-mo sounds good sounds good so from there of course you have the ability that you can dynamically increase your BC LK or your ratios you can enter that in and it's all hardware based no software required now this is really awesome right but at the end of the day what happens if you're somebody like me that overclocks tweaks and Tunes their system but I don't bench right I don't I don't necessarily need something handheld like this yours is all inside your case right I run everything inside my case and this is cool but I might not necessarily want you know actually be able to take advantage of it all the time you know I could maybe connected to my board and maybe kind of have it sitting on my desk something like that but you know what we wanted to try to do is complement not only the extreme users but the normal users so what we've does it a transformer it does actually kind of transform so it will also come with this actually five and a quarter Bay adapter what we can do is we can go ahead and we can adjust it like this we can do this and then now you can install it directly inside your chassis and with the flip of a switch it will change from extreme mode into normal mode so normal mode will give you a whole different set of information such as CPU temperature you'll be able to make adjustment to your primary CPU fan header to change it from maybe like performance oriented coolant to silent oriented cooling if you want maybe a quick one-button overclock you can go ahead and just press that button to be able to overclock your system you can turn on and off the actual display does it have any built-in overclocking profiles that you can set that you can actually go back to and remember you actually can you can go inside of our UEFI and you can define your own profile so that you can load it at that touch of a button so it really speaks to actually the enthusiasts out there not only from normal everyday users but also the extreme community so we think that we've actually really provided a high degree of flexibility and value to different people in different segmentations but with one device a lot of flexibility yeah 100% so this is a really cool awesome piece of hardware it will come included with the maximum of six extreme but be fully compatible with the rest of the rog lineup all you need to do is they'll just be a basic little cable that connects to the bottom of the unit and then connects to a special header on the actual board and from there you'll be good to go so with that let's go ahead and maybe move down to the hero so hero we feel is going to be a really really special SKU and the respect that it's going to allow users to be able to go into the RG product line at a significantly more aggressive price point and be able to be able to t still exceeds we still be able to take advantage of all kind of the key things that really make this an orangy board so you're still gonna get all the ultra high-end component quality that makes it rog right you're still gonna get awesome fan control functionality you're going to get an Intel NIC you're going to get our game first packet priority software to allows you to optimize to get better performance in terms of reduced ping lower latency you can tune this for anything from downloading your applications to streaming to general web browsing you can go and have great management over that high performance Intel iSeries NIC because just like in the mainstream is it automatic like through a GUI we just go ahead and click it and automatically changes the way that it work where I packets 100% and you can also go ahead and manually optimize it for different game profiles so if you want to go in there and let's say modify it for Battlefield 3 and make specific tweaks and adjustments you can go ahead and do that even if a game title doesn't exist within the application you can go in and you can map it to any executable you want to always be able to take advantage of it the other cool part about game first is that it's not limited to just the Intel network controller if let's say maybe you know six months down the road you decide you want to buy like one of our high performance wireless adapters whether it's a USB bass adapter like a PCI Express space adapter game first can be mapped to any network controller so unlike sometimes other more limited solutions which are only specific to one controller we could that to any type of networking device that you have on your system you're going to course get the exclusive supreme effects audio design as well but one thing that's going to be really special is that we've also for this generation not only maintained the supreme effects audio implementation and even brought in some of the higher-end features that we had on the formula board like the Elna audio capacitors but we have a brand new exclusive feature called sound radar so you guys are actually gonna see a video that we're gonna overlay here so keep in mind that this is not a finalized version of the video but the cool thing that we're gonna have within sound radar is it's a real-time detection of ingame related sound which shows a really cool thing is like who are shooting at you how many people are shooting at you bombs going off yeah and we can map it for actually different types of things so you can imagine right here in the counter-strike engine you're gonna see that it's detecting everything from gunshots - footsteps - bombs and so you could imagine if maybe you're taking a corner and you have multi people shooting at you before you might have not known how many people were waiting there for you but now based on sound raters information you're gonna be able to prepare yourself and be able to take those guys out before they're able to get to you so a whole new level of kind of functionality and versatility that we feel it's just taking our audio design to the next level and really speaking once again to that gamer demographic and giving them best-in-class audio designs and that is going to be on any one of the boards that feature our supreme effects audio implementation so moving past that of course we're going to continue to have a great layout in terms of connectivity expansion you know you're gonna have SLI and crossfire support you're still going to get eight SATA ports on the board and you're still going to course get onboard a buttons such as debug LED restart power and reset as well as our advanced like cue LED technologies USB Boz flashback USB 3 boost so you're gonna get all the hallmark stuff that you always expect on now on an Asus class series board but everything else that makes it ROG there's even going to be some really nice software we've made updates to both daemon tools Pro and Kaspersky antivirus where you going to latest versions of those and we've even added really cool software such as RAM disk we now have the ability to fully take and map your memory and create your own localized RAM disk on your system and it's not going to cost you anything because the software comes included with the motherboard so of course the benefits and the performance of running something directly from RAM were pretty self-explanatory is very very fast yeah so that's gonna be a great level functionality it's offered there so rounding that out we can take a look here at the gene board so pretty much you know gene is always represented the best of the best when it comes to small constable so if you're looking to have no compromise in terms of connectivity overall overclock ability and just robust features set on a board the gene takes the cake can I so cringy is there really any difference though between these two boards other than the bottom PCI solder all the features pretty much the same as I'm looking at the boards these two boards look pretty much identical and when you move up to this one you just take the sound off you get a lot more expansion for your video cards and more USB support but these two look really much quite a bit alike though they're not most definitive it's very similar to the mainstream series that's one of the things that we pride ourselves on we don't want you to feel like you're getting a compromised value right you're gonna get the same high performance you know digi digi plus power design the extreme engine dg3 right with all the same capacitors with the same inductors and same chokes technically the gene is positioned above the hero so there is some additional optimizations and layout on the hardware side board is actually considered a higher skew than that board that is correct huh because it does offer the EM combo module where the hero to be at a more aggressive price point doesn't come included with the EM combo module so it's smaller and has a better scale yeah so I mean even in terms of maximum tweak ability and overclock ability the gene boards gonna actually be a little bit better than the hero but keep in mind all these boards are all fully capable of hitting what the maximum is that has well has to offer yeah you know I've done personally on every single one of these 4.8 gigahertz plus with twenty eight hundred megahertz memory on for dents on every single one of them there's no sacrifice whatsoever in the overclocking element all these boards are gonna be able to overclock they all have the same chance of hitting those same clock speeds would no matter which one you use yeah it's all coming down to the CPU quality as well as the thermal solution if your ultimate looking for more granularity and even more precise level of controls as you move up to let's say something like the extreme board you're gonna even have that much more flexibility at how you can tweak tune and define your overclocking parameters but in terms of the capability they're all super robust although I will say extreme has some special hardware designs that just take it to a whole nother level so what you would come to expect there is pretty much everything we've also discussed with the exception like I said this one also includes the M combo module like the Xtreme board but it won't hi I am saying but it won't come with Wi-Fi integrated on it so it'll be just like the previous Jean where you have the M combo module so if you want to put in your own mini PCI Express to have Wi-Fi or your own flash storage so you have integrated flash storage conductivity that'll be available to you you're just a third party manufacturers right yeah whatever you want to go ahead and integrate it's up to you whether you want a 2g 11ac you want dual bad and you know you want maybe 120 gigabyte drive for caching or you want a 240 for full OS totally up to you so the jeans gonna be an awesome SKU comes with the same software set that we've also described here and also fully compatible with the the OC panel so that gives you a bit of perspective I think on terms of what we're doing with ROG and on awesome our right series of boards I mean if you take a look at the software feature set its unrivaled the UEFI which we're going to do hopefully some coverage here I'm talking about all the new functions we have inside the UEFI is going to be really impressive RG has even more specialized options on top of that one killer one for you guys is that secure race if you're familiar with secure racing and SSD we now have secure race built inside of the UEFI that gives you like government level encryption right clears the drive off actually allows you to regain the performance for an SSD after it's become degraded over certain sort of defrag it's kind of like a defrag type of thing for an SSD similar a little bit different but ultimately it allows you to recoup and maximize the performance getting your SSD back to about a hundred percent performance before you had to use maybe special tool boxes or you would have to use third-party programs and booted to like Linux and that's and all those are just this board built into any of the rog series UEFI s so we're gonna do something separately on ua5 make sure that you check out that video guys there's gonna be features in there that you're gonna be totally blown away by and like said one of those super special ones outside of things like GPU dimbo s-- GPU didn't post tweakers paradise rd ram profiles and CP level up options is gonna be that secure race so we're already friggin elected and also JJ you said there's gonna be one more board coming up for the RG serious what's that is that coming out like a month or so like yeah there's gonna be a slight delay in terms of that it won't be out immediate launched so for a lot of you guys that have always been interested in the formula board it's kind of being that the ultimate gaming motherboard that's really focused at giving you that super high-end audio integration great not work networking technologies built in we're doing something super special with the formula so you know make sure to keep it locked here to take it tomorrow you guys will get the probably opportunity to see it before too many other people and we're really excited about bringing that but it'll be about coming about a month after the launch ok all right on so that's it folks really exciting stuff coming up from a Zeus and the ROG family as you guys can see stayed through the channel cuz we got lots of videos and it looks like the dog 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