 So today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of a board from ASUS. This is the P6X58DE So let's get quickly zoomed in here I've got my camera propped on my makeshift cardboard cat tree which my cat is now exploring This may end badly if I do not in the video now. No, he's leaving the camera alone that works Okay, so this is part of their updated x58 board so you can tell because there's a D at the end that stands for USB 3.0, which they're calling out here as true USB 3.0 as well as true SATA 6 gigabit per second So then we've also got support for 16 plus 2 phase power as well as SLI and Crossfire It is an LGA 1366 motherboard So that means you've got support for all Intel's core i7 and core i7 extreme CPUs on that socket and then you can see this is also an extreme design board So that means that ASUS is going for number one reliability performance and safety here Let's move around to the back of the board now true USB 3.0 And true SATA 6 gigabit per second ASUS is calling that out because of the unique way that they have Been able to deliver the bandwidth required by those technologies now ASUS uses a Chip to split the PCIe lanes to make sure that even if you're running SLI or Crossfire they will get all the bandwidth that they need so three-way SLI Quad GPU Crossfire X that's all good and fine a hundred percent long life solid capacitors They've also got their Statcool 3 plus technology Statcool just means lots of copper in the PCB Allows it to dissipate heat more easily and they're calling it a unique layout I guess we'll have to have a look and see what I think of their unique layout as well as precision tweaker 2 software So let's get the board opened up here And you can see that once I remove the outer sleeve it looks exactly the same Cool, okay My mouse out of the way turn the monitor off here Let's get this board opened up and have a look at the accessories that are included The cat is eating Jonathan fatality Wendell's ram so I'm gonna go ahead and move that out of his way Okay, first of all we have an IO shield it uses ASUS's puffy shiny back, but it is not color-coded Next we have the user's guide which also has a driver and utilities DVD in here Don't use this download the latest off the ASUS website. There's also a little powered by ASUS sticker very nice Okay, the manual itself is in All English so it's quite a thick manual gives you some details on the bio some details on the physical layout of your board All of that good stuff now I may have actually made a mistake when I said that they needed a bridge chip together And that they needed a bridge chip to get full usb 3.0 and say the 6 gigabit per second, so I'm going to correct myself now That's only on asus's p55 boards not on their x58 boards with x58 There are more pcie lanes, and it is not necessary so in the as far as the sata cables go asus has included four Sata 2 cables okay, so two of them are right angle and two of them are straight connector And then they've also included two sata 6 gigabit per second cables now. I use the finger quotes because Really, they're exactly the same thing, but these ones are white and black and all cool looking so I would use those if it was up to me next we have a three-way sli bridge As well as a regular flexible sli bridge Then we've also got an empty baggy Which probably contained a three-way sli bridge at some point, but I guess it came out during shipping Just goes to show you shipping like anything can happen in shipping. I've seen some weird stuff Okay, and then we have their q connector So if you can you can hook up your front panel connectors as well as your usb To those and then plug those right into the motherboard now. Let's get the board out And see what we have in store here, so i'm just going to close this box so that I can uh Get a good look at this for you here All right, let's get the baggy open I love motherboards because the way they package it makes it really easy for me to remove it from the box It's very nice. There's no seals. No nothing. It's all very very simple that way Okay, so let's have a look at the layout of this board first of all in the very center I'm just going to zoom in a touch here for you so that you can see a little bit better almost as well as I can All right There we go. So in the center we will find our lga 1366 socket It is a lotes socket not a foxconn socket for those of you who care unless you know what i'm referring to You probably don't care. So don't worry about it. We've got nice beefy looking vrm coolers here I mean, they're not huge but what they are is they're efficient looking so they're just a simple fin design on both sides Okay, so you can see this one's actually attached via a heat pipe to the north bridge cooler here And then there is no heat pipe moving over to the south bridge, but that's not really necessary the south bridge here The ich-10r does not put out a whole lot of heat next of all we have the eight pin cpu power connector up at its ideal location at the top left then we have support for triple channel ddr3 memory Populate the blue slots first now. This is actually something that i've never mentioned before although it's present on Uh as far as I know every x58 board the primary channels that you're gonna populate are always the ones that are further away from the cpu and the reason for that is because there are many large cpu coolers these days and Most customers only buy one triple channel kit in the lifetime of the board So the manufacturers have cleverly made the primary channels the ones further away So it gives you that one extra slot if you have high profile memory That you can use to populate that space with your cooler. So there you go There's your tidbit for the day. We have a memo k button here So that means that it'll set any memory in here to very very default Timing so that you can make sure you can post even with high performance sticks Here we've got a oh, we've got standard ram clips. That's interesting So normally on asus's boards, they have only a one-sided ram clip But it looks like we've actually got clips on both sides on this board. Not sure why they've made that change We've got a 24 pin power connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board and moving down the board We have the southbridge stream phase then we oh, okay. Here we go. Here it gets gets more interesting again So the top ones the two gray ports here Those are say to six gigabit per second running off of a marvel chipset here These two right here the powder blue ones are a uh, say that Oh, man, i'm sorry. My cats are playing with the bag and they're probably going to destroy it anyway Okay, so these are say to two next we have overvolt d ram bus and overruled qpi d ram Jumpers, so I wish I knew exactly what those are Please leave a comment if you know exactly what those jumpers are for then down here at the bottom We've got two more say to two ports here We have our front panel connectors and then we've got a couple of usb 2.0 front headers And then moving on right along we've got an onboard power switch. That's the biggest one I mean a lot of manufacturers include like onboard power Onboard speaker onboard reset, but the power is the big one I do like seeing an onboard cmos from claire, but that one's actually on the back ios shield of this board So that's even better. Okay, so pci express slot layout First of all, we've got our two pcie 16x slots These are going to be our two blue primary ones And if you populate both of those with a dual slot graphics card you will be left with one pcie 16x slot And one pcie 1x slot I don't mind seeing both of the pcie slots covered on a board like this because let's face it if you're buying a High-end x58 board you're loading in two graphics cards. You don't need pcie slots You should probably have pcie updated pcie add-in cards So that brings us right around to the very back of the board where we've got our ios shield So you've got two ps2 ports, you know, i'm still not done with ps2 personally I find that when you're trying to get into the bios or sometimes when you're installing applications Usb keyboards don't always get recognized. I love having ps2 ports available to me Then we have a clear simo switch right here two usb 3.0 ports Optical audio out coaxial audio out digital both then we have four usb 2.0 ports one firewire port gigabit ethernet And 7.1 audio. So thank you for checking out my unboxing first look at the p6x 58 d e mother board