**Unboxing Intel's Alien Capsule**

The moment we've all been waiting for has finally arrived – the unboxing of Intel's latest offering, a high-performance system worth of components that come packaged in an otherworldly alien capsule. The suspense is palpable as we plug in the AC adapter and turn on the valve thingy on top, aligning those red arrows to unlock the secrets within.

As we wait for the countdown to finish, our hearts are racing with anticipation – what could be inside this mysterious blue box? Will it be a processor, a solid state drive, or something entirely different? We're about to find out. The countdown is complete, and with a burst of light, the alien capsule springs open, revealing an unboxing we can do that.

Underneath the alien capsule lies another box, adorned with Intel's logo and the phrase "Solid State Drive 730 series Performance Unleashed – Impressive." This must be it, we think. We carefully extract the contents of this little box, and sure enough, it's a processor. But not just any processor – an Intel Core i7 5960x Octa Core Haswell e processor, the fastest desktop chip money can buy currently.

**The Processor Unveiled**

We're thrilled to finally lay eyes on this behemoth of a processor, which boasts eight cores and a whopping three GHz clock speed. The LGA land grid array for Intel's 8 core core i7 5960x Haswell e extreme Edition is prominently displayed at the bottom of the box. This is indeed an Intel Core i7 5960x processor – the kind that will take your system to new heights of performance and efficiency.

**The Solid State Drive Revealed**

Next, we unbox the little box labeled "Intel solid state drive 730 series." We weren't sure what to expect from this one, but it seems Intel was being honest when they said it was an SSD. The unboxing is a breeze, revealing a sleek and powerful 240 GB SATA SSD. This is indeed the Intel Solid State Drive 730 series – a marvel of modern technology that promises lightning-fast performance.

**The Accessories Revealed**

In addition to the processor and solid state drive, we also find a little SATA cable, some screws for the mounting hardware, and a tiny CD with drivers for the system. It seems Intel wants to make sure you're all set up and ready to go with this high-performance system. The SATA cable looks sturdy enough to withstand even the most demanding system configurations.

**Conclusion**

We've successfully unboxed an entire high-performance systems worth of components from Intel's latest 8 core Haswell e Core i7 extreme Edition processor, along with a solid state drive that promises unparalleled performance and efficiency. We're excited to assemble this system in the coming weeks and put it through its paces, benchmarking it against other top-of-the-line hardware on the market. In the meantime, be sure to check out our full review of the Intel Core i7 5960x processor at harbor.com, as well as battle-ready combos and systems unlocked for overclocking and performance on Intel's Pro Performance site.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey there it's Dave altavilla for hot Hardware you know we haven't done a whole lot of unboxing of things here at hot Hardware over the years quite frankly because we felt the trend was a little bit overdone sometimes however shortly after their core i7 5960x Haswell e extreme Edition processor launch our friends at Intel contacted us about a box of their own they wanted us to take a look at and quite frankly this thing's kind of freaky looking so let's take a look unbox it and hopefully there's some hot Intel Hardware inside first why don't we extract the contents of the box that was shipped to us it's your average cardboard box you know but there's definitely something unusual inside and look at this it's some sort of alien space pod capsule kind of thing it looks pretty official and it even comes with an AC adapter so there were a few more items in that box and it looks like we have at least a partial kit of components here with motherboard RAM and a flyer from Intel's Enthusiast Computing group hinting at what potentially might be in that alien pod so we've got some crucial ddr4 memory apparently here and and again we've got an Intel flyer highlighting Pro performance achieve Championship status it says with the new 8 core Intel Core i7 processor Championship status I'm all about that just put me in coach and finally the Asus x99 Deluxe motherboard is here and this is based on Intel's recently released x99 Express chipset and comes with a number of Asus bundled features like 80211 AC Wi-Fi their hyper m.2 X4 adapter for converting PC Express by four slot connections to an M2 interface for M2 mini SSD cards and the Asus OC socket with extra CPU pins for grounding less voltage droop and overclocking performance and taking a closer look at crucial's ddr4 memory here we see we've actually got a 16 gig kit of four 4 gig modules rated at 2133 MHz as you can see versus this older DDR3 dim the notch layout between the two pcbs is slightly offset regardless all told a quad Channel ddr4 2133 MHz setup with this crucial Ram can offer up to a wapping 45 gigs a second of memory bandwidth according to our recent tests of the new Intel Haswell e platform the x99 chipset and ddr4 memory so stop by hot hardware.com to check that out and taking a peak under the hood of the Asus x99 Deluxe motherboard box yep there's a motherboard in there all right and the inside of the lid of the motherboard box also of course highlights more of those custom Asus features that optimize stable performance and overclocking but let's free the Asus x99 deluxe from its plastic static bag and the first thing you'll notice is that this is a heavy well-built board with stylish black and white accents here's the a OC socket that we spoke of earlier with that modified version of the Intel LGA 2011-3 socket for Haswell e core i7 extreme Edition processors and the board has some serious heavyduty heat sinks mounted to the mosfet and vag power arrays around the CPU socket on the back side you'll see the io panel has a ton of usb3 ports 10 to be exact with two USB ports dual gigabit Ethernet land ports Wi-Fi antenna connectors and the standard assortment of Surround Sound audio and optical audio outputs on the top edge of the board is asus's Crystal sound 2 integrated audio system that comes with extra shielding around the circuit area to minimize noise and cross talk there are five fulllength PCI Express slots on the x99 deluxe and they have a nice latching mechanism to hold things like graphics cards and whatnot in place firmly but also allow you to release uh the card when pressed down similar very much in the way a dim slot Works a memory dim slot also on the board Edge is a wide assortment of features like power and reset switches clear seos and a debug LED display to show error codes and that's the Asus x99 Deluxe motherboard a solid foundation for any Haswell ebased system for sure all right it's the moment you've all been waiting for hopefully what exactly is inside that blue alien capsule pod thingy that Intel sent us what do you say we find out good idea first I'm going to plug it in cuz it came with an AC adapter and you know just guessing I'm going to turn this here valve thing up top and line up these red arrows like that oh seems to be counting down some sort of oh okay oh it lights up more likes to Blink a lot of lights it's blinking faster I'm going to back away now please don't blow up oh something Rises From Within what what might it be why it's a little blue box and it says Intel look inside okay fair enough it's an unboxing we can do that and underneath it's another box and it says Intel solid state drive 730 series performance Unleashed impressive and a little crooked hang on okay that says 240 GB that stands for gigabytes it's what I'm guessing cuz it's a solid state drive so 240 gig solid state drive just a hunch but I think we need to unbox it very impressive Intel it's quite a little alien capsule thing you've got there to house your components let's unbox some more shall we all right I'm going to attempt to extract the boxes from the Intel alien capsule that wasn't so bad I get that little blue F out of there and I'm guessing that's a processor but we don't know because we haven't unboxed it yet well that's what you do with an unboxing and let's extract this one takes a little bit more Force I don't want to break this expensive looking Intel alien capsule thing and I did extract the Intel solid state drive 730 series at least that's what it says in the Box unless they're lying they could be so we'll have to unbox this too because I'm feeling crazy and I've got an Intel alien capsule in the studio with me let's unbox these little boxes next Little Boxes little little boxes and they're all made out of ticky tacky Little Boxes Little Boxes they all look just the well these don't look the same at all now do they why don't we unbox this little fella first and I'll uh I'll stop the singing do you all a favor all right that is indeed a processor looking thing extract it further conductive plastic casing and yep behold this would be an Intel Core i7 5960x Octa Core octal eight cores 3 gahz Haswell e processor the fastest desktop chip money can buy currently and it's beautiful it's brand new and on bottom here are the uh the pads for the LGA land grid array for Intel's 8 core core i7 5960x Haswell e extreme Edition for Extreme Performance processor very nice let's uh put that aside and we'll open the next little box where they told us it was an Intel solid state drive 730 let's see if they're lying and indeed they're not this is Intel's 730 series SSD Freshly Wrapped look at this it's like it's like opening a bag of cheit it's beautiful and uh that is is Intel's extreme skull Extreme Performance performance unleash whatever you want to call it this is the 730 series SSD by Intel it's a Serial ATA 240 gig SATA SSD quick very quick solid state drive plug this in your system whether it be desktop or laptop as a boot drive and watch windows or whatever OS of choice you desire watch it fly with the kit you also get little Sata cable here looks like some screws for a mountain and some drivers on a tiny little CD isn't that cute and speed demon so State Drive intel.com gosd excellent that's right people we've successfully unboxed an entire high performance systems worth of components to set up for a build with Intel's latest 8 core Haswell e core i7 extreme Edition processor and we even survived an Alien Uprising in the process I call that a win we'll be assembling the system in the next few weeks to show you what it's capable of but in the meantime stop by H harbor.com for our full review of the Intel Core i750 960x extreme Edition processor with all of our Benchmark data system coverage and Analysis and then stop by Intel's Pro performance site at in. l/ unbox to check out battle ready Combos and systems unlocked for overclocking and performance it's daal Dilla with hot hardware and the Intel 8 core core i7 extreme Edition processor thanks for stopping byhey there it's Dave altavilla for hot Hardware you know we haven't done a whole lot of unboxing of things here at hot Hardware over the years quite frankly because we felt the trend was a little bit overdone sometimes however shortly after their core i7 5960x Haswell e extreme Edition processor launch our friends at Intel contacted us about a box of their own they wanted us to take a look at and quite frankly this thing's kind of freaky looking so let's take a look unbox it and hopefully there's some hot Intel Hardware inside first why don't we extract the contents of the box that was shipped to us it's your average cardboard box you know but there's definitely something unusual inside and look at this it's some sort of alien space pod capsule kind of thing it looks pretty official and it even comes with an AC adapter so there were a few more items in that box and it looks like we have at least a partial kit of components here with motherboard RAM and a flyer from Intel's Enthusiast Computing group hinting at what potentially might be in that alien pod so we've got some crucial ddr4 memory apparently here and and again we've got an Intel flyer highlighting Pro performance achieve Championship status it says with the new 8 core Intel Core i7 processor Championship status I'm all about that just put me in coach and finally the Asus x99 Deluxe motherboard is here and this is based on Intel's recently released x99 Express chipset and comes with a number of Asus bundled features like 80211 AC Wi-Fi their hyper m.2 X4 adapter for converting PC Express by four slot connections to an M2 interface for M2 mini SSD cards and the Asus OC socket with extra CPU pins for grounding less voltage droop and overclocking performance and taking a closer look at crucial's ddr4 memory here we see we've actually got a 16 gig kit of four 4 gig modules rated at 2133 MHz as you can see versus this older DDR3 dim the notch layout between the two pcbs is slightly offset regardless all told a quad Channel ddr4 2133 MHz setup with this crucial Ram can offer up to a wapping 45 gigs a second of memory bandwidth according to our recent tests of the new Intel Haswell e platform the x99 chipset and ddr4 memory so stop by hot hardware.com to check that out and taking a peak under the hood of the Asus x99 Deluxe motherboard box yep there's a motherboard in there all right and the inside of the lid of the motherboard box also of course highlights more of those custom Asus features that optimize stable performance and overclocking but let's free the Asus x99 deluxe from its plastic static bag and the first thing you'll notice is that this is a heavy well-built board with stylish black and white accents here's the a OC socket that we spoke of earlier with that modified version of the Intel LGA 2011-3 socket for Haswell e core i7 extreme Edition processors and the board has some serious heavyduty heat sinks mounted to the mosfet and vag power arrays around the CPU socket on the back side you'll see the io panel has a ton of usb3 ports 10 to be exact with two USB ports dual gigabit Ethernet land ports Wi-Fi antenna connectors and the standard assortment of Surround Sound audio and optical audio outputs on the top edge of the board is asus's Crystal sound 2 integrated audio system that comes with extra shielding around the circuit area to minimize noise and cross talk there are five fulllength PCI Express slots on the x99 deluxe and they have a nice latching mechanism to hold things like graphics cards and whatnot in place firmly but also allow you to release uh the card when pressed down similar very much in the way a dim slot Works a memory dim slot also on the board Edge is a wide assortment of features like power and reset switches clear seos and a debug LED display to show error codes and that's the Asus x99 Deluxe motherboard a solid foundation for any Haswell ebased system for sure all right it's the moment you've all been waiting for hopefully what exactly is inside that blue alien capsule pod thingy that Intel sent us what do you say we find out good idea first I'm going to plug it in cuz it came with an AC adapter and you know just guessing I'm going to turn this here valve thing up top and line up these red arrows like that oh seems to be counting down some sort of oh okay oh it lights up more likes to Blink a lot of lights it's blinking faster I'm going to back away now please don't blow up oh something Rises From Within what what might it be why it's a little blue box and it says Intel look inside okay fair enough it's an unboxing we can do that and underneath it's another box and it says Intel solid state drive 730 series performance Unleashed impressive and a little crooked hang on okay that says 240 GB that stands for gigabytes it's what I'm guessing cuz it's a solid state drive so 240 gig solid state drive just a hunch but I think we need to unbox it very impressive Intel it's quite a little alien capsule thing you've got there to house your components let's unbox some more shall we all right I'm going to attempt to extract the boxes from the Intel alien capsule that wasn't so bad I get that little blue F out of there and I'm guessing that's a processor but we don't know because we haven't unboxed it yet well that's what you do with an unboxing and let's extract this one takes a little bit more Force I don't want to break this expensive looking Intel alien capsule thing and I did extract the Intel solid state drive 730 series at least that's what it says in the Box unless they're lying they could be so we'll have to unbox this too because I'm feeling crazy and I've got an Intel alien capsule in the studio with me let's unbox these little boxes next Little Boxes little little boxes and they're all made out of ticky tacky Little Boxes Little Boxes they all look just the well these don't look the same at all now do they why don't we unbox this little fella first and I'll uh I'll stop the singing do you all a favor all right that is indeed a processor looking thing extract it further conductive plastic casing and yep behold this would be an Intel Core i7 5960x Octa Core octal eight cores 3 gahz Haswell e processor the fastest desktop chip money can buy currently and it's beautiful it's brand new and on bottom here are the uh the pads for the LGA land grid array for Intel's 8 core core i7 5960x Haswell e extreme Edition for Extreme Performance processor very nice let's uh put that aside and we'll open the next little box where they told us it was an Intel solid state drive 730 let's see if they're lying and indeed they're not this is Intel's 730 series SSD Freshly Wrapped look at this it's like it's like opening a bag of cheit it's beautiful and uh that is is Intel's extreme skull Extreme Performance performance unleash whatever you want to call it this is the 730 series SSD by Intel it's a Serial ATA 240 gig SATA SSD quick very quick solid state drive plug this in your system whether it be desktop or laptop as a boot drive and watch windows or whatever OS of choice you desire watch it fly with the kit you also get little Sata cable here looks like some screws for a mountain and some drivers on a tiny little CD isn't that cute and speed demon so State Drive intel.com gosd excellent that's right people we've successfully unboxed an entire high performance systems worth of components to set up for a build with Intel's latest 8 core Haswell e core i7 extreme Edition processor and we even survived an Alien Uprising in the process I call that a win we'll be assembling the system in the next few weeks to show you what it's capable of but in the meantime stop by H harbor.com for our full review of the Intel Core i750 960x extreme Edition processor with all of our Benchmark data system coverage and Analysis and then stop by Intel's Pro performance site at in. l/ unbox to check out battle ready Combos and systems unlocked for overclocking and performance it's daal Dilla with hot hardware and the Intel 8 core core i7 extreme Edition processor thanks for stopping by\n"