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hey what's going on Tech fans welcome back to tech of tomorrow I'm elric and today's co-host is JJ mr. a sous himself and what we got going on we'll check it out you guys all know that has walls coming out and we've got all of their desktop motherboards at least quite a bit of them right here on the desk so we're going to hand a photo JJ and we're going to go around these boards and tell you some of the great features and things about these new z87 series motherboards right yeah one hundred percent so as always thanks for having me boss oh yeah sure so like you just talked about you know we've done another video I'm sure you guys can check out here on the channel the covers actually kind of has well or if the fourth generation series core processors ends 87 the differences and some of the differences so if you guys want to find out more about just kind of some differences compared to z77 xe9 check out that video guy out here yeah check out that video what we're trying to focus on here is giving you guys an understanding we have an entirely new line of mainstream series motherboards so for you guys know asus there's four different divisions we have our mainstream series we have our rog series we have our tough series and we have our WS series and motherboards workstation so here we're covering our mainstream series so the mainstream series kind of give you some context where it's focusing at is kind of like the jack of all trades you know this is a board that really is going to be great about giving you a solid gaming platform it can be that you're a prosumer and you're looking to maybe some editing on your system it could be that your general user that wants productivity you're checking out youtube videos you're doing a little bit of gaming you're doing a little bit of everything you can just be building a standard box you know you could just be somebody that's trying out building for the first time it works well now our segment series boards like tough and RG and WS could of course also do any one of those things but they're going to have more features and functions that are specifically catered towards a certain user but that's going to be you know overclockers or gamers or content creation people things like that I was really surprised that particular boards on the thing here but last generation the saber-tooth motherboard just sold like unbelievable hot cakes every time I turned around every modern that I saw actually was going in the direction of that motherboard so we're going to have one of those motherboards also coming up from this series true yeah of course like we said we talked about tough and we're going to highlighting here on the channel Tough Series ROG and WS as well but this is focusing on the mainstream series so mainstream is always going to give you guys the best residential of what asus is doing in terms of designs features that are going to be consistent if you guys checked out last year's a video we talked a lot about the design consistency between what you would get between let's say like a deluxe the pro and even let's see maybe over more value or any solutions like the dash a so with that let's go ahead and first talk about what we really have here what's new to our platform features and designs and functionality so we've got here are actual deluxe port if you actually want to go ahead and take maybe out of the box we can go ahead and take a look at it that's why they're look at this book so we'll do like a unboxing for you here and here in terms of what you're seeing one of the biggest changes of course is that we've gone to Anna ninth entirely new ID right so we have a new color thing if being an entirely new color gold yes there's gold in them thar hills its goal and that's a pretty big change because we previously had blue as being our standard motherboard color design and kind of a little bit of design story from there has been that you know we've felt we've kind of set the gold standard in motherboard design for years in terms of the features or functionality and the overall quality of what we bring to the table so that's now represented in this new ID design or you've kidnapped Midas like I said and had them touch all the boards you know a circulating here but it's possible it is not a fan of breaking any any law so I think maybe we might have consulted with midas though let's go with that consultation so you know one of the things of course you're going to see is like always there's a huge amount of connectivity you're going to see that we maintained our inclusion of Wi-Fi on a large number of skews so we have the deluxe we have the expert we have the pro and we have the plus and we have the dash a now you guys might notice that of course here on the box we don't have p8 anymore right and that's because we've also changed our naming convention so the chipset name is now just see 87 and then the model name no more p no more p since pentium is gone why not what does just right in photo try to make it more simple and we've also tried to have the naming convention aligned with maybe understanding where the board sits so if we go from something let's say like the plus board which would be like our our entry level board right above the a its plus vs industry-standard you're getting a little bit more than what you would normally get right and then pro pro means you've kind of stepped up the next level you're a professional user you kind of really understand more about the boards design the feature set the functionality you know probably a bit more about overclock ability aspects like that and it's always a slight difference right between each board each board has a slight different set of features than a set of basic features that go across the one hundred percent agree that we have a great set of non negotiable features that are not going to change between any one of the boards that you look at and then you're going to get improvements in functionality as you keep stepping up because you're going to probably be a more advanced user going from the pro board what would you be after your professional you become an expert right at something so that's the expert series and then after the expert you have the deluxe which is that representation kind of everything right yeah um so on the deluxe here if we take a like everything bagel yeah like what we have you can see that we've got our Wi-Fi module which we had in the previous generation previous deluxe was 82 11n and gave you dual band Wi-Fi so that was a first amongst any mother board vendor and we had two point four and five gigahertz this generation has been updated to a two to 11 AC so we have now AC which is the fastest Wi-Fi to buy two solutions still giving you two point four and five gigahertz plus bluetooth 4.1 the board let's talk about something else though now this board with this new Wi-Fi also has a different type of connectivity through the board right which actually allows us to work much better and seamlessly through the board op taking away from any of the other pci stuff true correct well it's still linked into a pci express lane but if we go ahead and just set this guy down and maybe take a look at what we have here we lift this little guy up you can see right here this is kind of the module and we can show you guys here a little bit later on the board they were it's direct slot so the benefit of this type of design is one is that when it's house directly in the io backplane we're not affecting any of your slot expansion so sometimes other competitors have Wi-Fi integration but it's done through an adding card and so if it's something and adding card and I have let's say you know I'm communicating maybe three-way support no that's like as well it's not actually a three-way enabled board so our design even though the spec could quote-unquote be sane it's not really the same so it's more expense having a complicated design but we feel it gives you the best functionality so that's a great plus point in terms of the connectivity a lot of the things are going to be what you of course come to expect but there's going to be a lot of consistent asus staple points such as USB boz flashback so that's our exclusive technology which lets you flash the UEFI chip directly no cpu no memory no graphics card no I think it's great at the board the test station just you got it you're just looking to like hey want to flash the BIOS you can instantly do before we even start building your system exactly or if you had to recover your system maybe from a failed overclock or a surge of spike rasekh something you can do that I play Doran out that was actually really cool the Intel network controllers which we've been big supporters of we've updated this generation to the latest series so using intel yes but it's now the intel i Series network controller so this controller actually has even better performance more management functionality it's also you can even have lower cpu utilization so its overall a nice improvement to give you the best network connectivity and best performance for the audio side a large number the boards all the way going down to the pro board are going to feature a new updated alc audio codec so instead of the previous 800 series since now the alc 1150 so that supports a higher level specifications make a number jump there for those folks yeah because it's actually it's actually got a number of big changes to the codec we still keep the DTS ultra 2pc sound package so that's a nice software suite to go ahead and complement your audio now no I know on some of the rog boards it was such you know segregated away from the rest of chipset is it done on this board as well is it still separated for so you're going to get an improvement and audio compared to the previous generation but for you guys that want even better audio then of course rog is still going to maintain the supreme effects audio design so that's an exclusive point for the rog boards now we're still going to also keep other special functions like the TPU and the e pu technologies so we have our dual intelligent for processors which allow you to have a lot of advanced controls for overclocking or for power efficiency how about the instant overclock I gonna know previous generation boards there was like a little but you go and click it like automatically went to 4.3 and it was just like that's just in taneous overclock for like anybody could do is the same type of thing going on exactly one hundred percent right so we've got a two-stage epu because there's some changes than the thermals we can go ahead and now switch it into the second stage and you can have as easy as a 4.25 degree it's over clock and the float switch or you can go ahead and switch the EP you switch energy will be focus at power efficiency reduce thermals but it won't affect performance it will just be an under bolt to the CPU so if you want to keep stock performance you're good to go there I know there's a lot of guys out there now a roaming like all this Bitcoin type stuff like if you were doing that you could just switch that EP you switch make sure you're getting in those energy proficient set that thing and forget about it right one hundred percent now of course fan control functionality continues to be a big thing for AC series board so you know maybe you even take a look at another one of our boys that we have here which is the dash aid this is a value series motherboard but you're still getting a huge amount of a sous design quality and something that we feel we pride ourselves on is fan control functionality so all every single one of these headers are all going to be four pin fan headers and they all support both three pin and for pain control so you can control everything through the bios just like previous generation very fully through the UEFI as well as fully in the operating system through our AI suite three some of you guys out there you know you get a motherboard you look a bunch of fans on you going you're buyouts you notice like what the frak I can't control the fan at all I can't do anything with it you have to go out and buy like an aftermarket fan controller you don't have to do that at all in any of the ASA sports everything's inside the bios so anything you hook up with the fans go into the bios you'll be able to adjust it manually to how you want it to be yeah and we feel that's it's a great feature to have consistently even on something like our dash a series where this board is going to have great performance great overclock ability but even so have that really robust level of control when it comes to fans now we've gone ahead and made one other key improvement for the cpu fan heaters where i noted that the cpu fan headers also support three and four pin control just like all the chassis fan headers but we even have a new modified fan header if you look closely right here we'll have to get a tight inch oh yeah that's a cutting edge there yeah now this actually little depressants which which is right here on the cpu fan header for you guys are using more basic tower base heat sink with maybe the only single fan this will auto-detect the actual fan itself and allow it to know whether it's a three pin or four pin based solution that's really cool so you don't even have to actually assign that or configure that within there so that's kind of just another layer or touch that's already integrated with the great person most guys using those sealed liquid cooling systems too yeah a really nice touch now in terms of course all the component quality we still continue to be leaders and giving you best-in-class power delivery so all the boards are featuring 5k rated capacitors that's twice the lifespan of what you're going to see on competitors which are generally using only 2k rated capacitors Stenzel I for the motherboard yeah it just gives you overall a better confidence in their product over time is going to be able to be reliable but on higher-end boards of course we're still going to have great high-end power components so these these are all our inductors these are fully molded high-performance alloyed based inductors really beefy give you a great amount of power output and you can feel confident still high-end Japanese quality components yeah of course at the end of the day the bigger thing that you have to kind of keep in mind is what does that translate into if I by deluxe versus a pro override a che are you saying that deluxe because of those better components is going to have better overclocked ability actually no we feel confident that our power designs across all these boards are going to give you great overclock ability I've done 4.8 gigahertz on this dash a board I've done 4.8 on the pro board and I've done 4.8 on the dell export all of them can do that without any issues the main differential is going to be by the board that's going to give you the functionality and the connectivity you want you know dash 8 and the features because like you know some users may not want what's on the deluxe board you might go oh you know what this particular system that I'm building is very plain Jane system it's for an office I don't need that but I still want a high quality motherboard then you can go ahead and get the entry level board but if you're somebody who loves the line you want more features then you just move up the line and take a look at what your needs are make a decision that's really the key you know is take a look at you know dash a zone again I maybe have six out of ports but if I have a lot of connections that I need deluxe is going to give you ten you know maybe you don't need Wi-Fi whereas the deluxe and the pro are going to give you why fine with it deluxe even give you a toad 11ac so it's we feel that we've tried to give you a huge amount of consistency on there and there's going to be some really awesome features that we haven't talked on here about the UEFI as a whole or a a sweet three please make sure to check out those videos because those features in terms of the UEFI and the software are going to blow you guys away and they're going to be consistent on any one of these in terms of give you more functionality more feature set you know and features separate the wolf from the lamb I mean the features of a motherboard these days are what make it differentiate from something else and at the end of the day you know lie people make boards when you have all the extra features that are there for the same price that kind of what drives a user you know in a direction of buying one hundred percent agree and that's where we think that we've spent the most time and effort to give you guys unique thoughtful designed implementations that really benefit you guys so the last two things here they want to talk about is that you know as part of a whole lineup we've talked about from high-end to value on your product we're going to continue to offer diversify form factors like our mini ITX solutions you can see here a lot of you guys loved the dash I bored we took the dash I bored and we took a board that was essentially on steroids and we made it even better we went from four SATA ports to six SATA ports on it we've integrated for full fan headers onto the board they're all fully controllable for three pin and four pin operation it has a tattooed 11ac so dual band Wi-Fi support with AC and bluetooth you got that new Intel I series Nick you've got six USB ports on the back plus two more onboard the independent power board solution I mean it's just an outright beast of a mini-itx solution so you can see that this is a deluxe board just in the same vein as the ATX board is but no compromise this is our attention to detail where we've done things and we design them in the right way where you can see that the space between the CPU socket and the PCIe slot we actually give you space that's important because if you use a bigger cooler if you take a lot of other mini exports the suck is actually right above the PCIe slot so if you use a big cooler there's no way it fits it actually hits the graphics card with our design you can actually still use a normal full power the heatsink solution I've put in duel one hundred forty millimeter tower heatsink on here and it fits I know it's it covers the water line but it's assault but it fits you know lasting things out you know we're always about innovation we're doing a lot of first year we've done age of eleven AC we've done entirely new topology design so we have a new ID we have new UEFI options we have new types of software applications and this is going to be a cool exclusive feature that we have on asus z87 series sports it's NFC support so any one of the AC series board that you're going to see will actually come included it excuse me you can climb included with support for this box the deluxe duel which features Thunderbolt along the expert board which also has Thunderbolt deluxe tool will come included with this inside the box Wow for you guys that want it as an option but maybe by like the dash a or the pro or the mini ITX it will be sold as a separate accessory well R allow you to do is you can go ahead and connect it to one of the USB ports it'll give you two USB ports because it's also acts as a hub but you'll be able to go ahead and take your latest generation smartphone or tablet and be able to run some really cool functions directly through the NFC box such as logging into your system doing quick file transfers being able to launch even application so now the NFC is near field communications correct so that means basically like you told me earlier that it doesn't it's actually not a protocol itself but it allows things to use other protocols just to like basically make a handshake and instantly connect correct correct yeah it'll be generally using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to allow you to easily execute on functions that normally require a couple more steps handshaking authentication password stuff like so like I'm a guy I'm in my office i just took in a bunch of pictures of my dick and terry's that visited my office you know i want to really show them off with this thing sitting a meager is basically go ahead take my device stick it on here and it will automatically start transferring and everything onto my system right yes at what particular protocol up yeah once you initiate the share function then you can go ahead and do that for you what about for like music and stuff like that will be able to do that like to like it's late say you brought your music device here and place it here would it be able to transfer that and then play it through your motherboard well right now still fine-tuning the level of functionality we're gonna have available so there's definitely gonna be stuff that available at launch for you guys to check out such as login quick file transfers remote desktop but will love to hear you guys is feedback at how we can keep improving it so let us hear your comments in the comment section so okay I'm now Eric this is JJ we've got lots more videos coming for you folks so keep watching and we'll see you guys here on tech tomorrow you