 So today we have a pretty exciting product to unbox from ASUS. This is the P8Z68V Pro, or if you prefer, P8Z68V Pro. Personally I don't care, I'll say whatever sort of works with the sentence. As many of you have noticed and commented one way or the other, if I say Z there's Zellitz running after me to tell me that it's wrong and this vice versa. Anyway, this board features digital power design as well as their TPU and EPU dual intelligent processors. So these are for energy savings and performance. Alright we've got full support for Intel's latest Core i5, i3 and i7 processors on the LGA1155 socket. This uses the Z68 chipset. So what that means is that besides supporting those technologies, besides supporting SLI and Crossfire and all those performance features, we also have support for Intel Smart Response SRT technology, which means that you can use a small SSD, 60 gigs or smaller, to boost the performance of your boot hard drive. And we also have the Lucid Virtue technology, which allows you to use the onboard video that's built into your Core i3, i5 or i7 CPU to accelerate certain key things like video encoding while normally using your dedicated graphics card for gaming. Pretty sweet. Alright we've got USB 3, a UEFI BIOS, we have BT Go, Bluetooth enjoyment, maybe we'll have to find out what that is. GPU boost for increasing the performance of the onboard graphics as well as their precise DigiPlus VRM. Let's have a look at the back, digital power design, the new standard, basically it's better. We have the ultimate turbo processor, so that's the TPU, the EPU for energy efficiency as I mentioned before. Oh here we go, diverse Bluetooth enjoyment, oh it means onboard Bluetooth. UEFI BIOS, okay, yep, that's pretty much it. Let's get this open. Oh, I have never seen, well at least not in a long time, no I don't think I've ever seen an Asus board that comes in a box like this where the board is on top of the package with the accessories underneath. You know what then? We're going to do something crazy and we're going to look at the board first and then the accessories because Asus has gone and turned my world upside down with their packaging change here. So here we go, here's the motherboard itself, let's start with the CPU socket where we normally start. You don't have to move around so much, just kind of pop down is okay. CPU socket, so there's your LGA 1155 socket which as I mentioned before features support for the latest i3, i5 and i7 processors on the LGA 1155 socket. You are surrounded by your 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, I don't know how many phases that power design is because I count 16 but it could be like a 14 plus 2 or something like that. So someone leave a comment on the video as well. How many phases of power in the DigiPlus VRM on the P8Z68V Pro? We have support for a dual channel DDR3 memory and that is pretty typical for an 1155 board because that's all the 1155 onboard CPU DDR3 memory controller actually supports. Alright on the side here we have the EPU and TPU switches. If you do want to use those technologies we also have the Memo K button. So what the Memo K button allows you to do is take out of JDex spec RAM modules and boot them up using a safe setting but then you can get into the BIOS and set them to whatever higher performance settings you desire. Our 24 pin and our 8 pin connectors are in their ideal locations along the right hand edge of the board and at the top left respectively. And moving down we have a USB 3 front panel header so that will have support for all the latest cases with USB 3 that do use a pin out rather than a pass through from a normal port like this. Okay. So we've also got SATA ports galore. So we have 4 SATA 2 3 gigabit per second and 4 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second. Now these two right here are coming off the Intel controller and these two are coming off of a third party controller. So if you did want to run like a 6 drive RAID array you would want to use these 6. So these are more like your auxiliary ones. Alright we've got a chipset cooler here using a similar kind of wave looking design to many of Asus's recent motherboards. We have 2 firewire ports. There's our front panel headers. 3 USB 2.0 ports. Built in switches. I'm a big fan of these because I often use boards on a test bench. This makes my life easier. Reset and power are both included. Front audio is right here and let's have a look at the PCI slot layout on this particular board. 7 slots. I love seeing 7 slots on an ATX form factor board. You want to know why? Because that's the most you can have and I always like having the option to install more stuff rather than not having the option to install more stuff. Okay so we have 3 PCIe 16x slots right here. The dark blue, the white one and the black one. These two, this one's wired for 16. This guy's wired for 8 and this guy's wired for 8 although I'm going to have to double check what bandwidth these actually run at. We've got 2 PCI slots, 2 PCIe 1x slots and on the back we've got a pretty normal looking array of connectors. We have 4 USB 6 USB 2.0 ports. Our little bluetooth guy right here. We have optical audio out, HDMI DVI and VGA out which are supported on all second generation Core i7 processors unlike the first generations where it was only supported on dual cores. We have 2 USB 3.0 ports. Intel Ethernet rather than a third party such as a real tech Ethernet solution and 7.1 audio. So now let's look at the accessories for anyone who actually cares about that. Okay one accessory, we thought this was neat, is a USB header to dual port PCI bracket for the back. So if you don't have front USB 3.0 you can add a couple more ports to the back at the very least. We have 2 SATA 3 6 Gbps cables, 2 USB 3 Gbps cables although they're identical other than the white color on the 6 Gbps ones and they're all right angle. We have an SLI bridge. We have Q connectors which are the easy connectors for the front panel headers. An I.O shield, a user guide, a drivers and utilities DVD, don't use it, download the latest from the ASUS website as well as a SATA mode notice. Interesting. Okay, how to turn on AHCI mode which is good. AHCI mode is better than IDE mode for more performance and what not. Give me just a second here guys. So I looked up the PCIe slots and I thought maybe because this one is wired for 8x they have some kind of splitter chip on here of some sort but they do not. So it's 16x, 8x 8x or 8x 8x 4x just as with most P67 boards. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look. 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