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learn more welcome to my unboxing and overview of a product that's probably

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designed more for people who don't pay for Hardware than for people who

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actually buy their own Hardware so it is expensive and overbuilt to the point

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where it's hardly even practical unless you're one of those guys who's going for

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every possible frequency record whether it's on CPU or memory or whatever

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else and it farted or whatever else the

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case may be this is the z87x OC force

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from Gigabyte a proud continuation of the OC board traditions of orange slots

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black pcbs beautiful Aesthetics and

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overbuilt design so we've got a two-way

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SLI Bridge a three-way SLI Bridge a four-way

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SLI Bridge a 16-way SLI no I'm just

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kidding actually this is really cool so this is what they're calling the OC

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brace and it is basically a way to attach PCI brackets to the back of the

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board when it's on a test bench to support your cards so they don't lean

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over I mean that is so cool it's the

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kind of thing that no one one who actually pays for hardware and puts a motherboard inside a case will ever care

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about but like come on that's so cool I love it anyway two-way Crossfire

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Bridge uh V checkpoint adapter so you

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can monitor your voltages I'll show you those on the motherboard itself six SATA

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cables uh looks like yeah three right angle three straight connectors antennas

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for the builtin wireless so there you go

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Wireless N as well as Bluetooth card so

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that's a PCI e1x card you could install it in this board you could buy this

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board install it in some other board wouldn't matter it's just a proper PC

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e1x card uh front panel 3 and 1/2 in Bay

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USB 3.0 doohickey um some kind of USB cable for

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probably something ah yeah that's right that's for the Wi-Fi card and then we've

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got an IO Shield as well as all the documentation that you can conveniently

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find on the internets which to my

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understanding is something to do with tubes or something like that which leads

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us to the motherboard itself so I'm going to take you guys on a tour I

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actually had someone uh tell me sockets are sockets not that long ago when I was

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doing a video and I was saying how Gigabyte has their whole uh 15 micro

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goldplated CPU memory PCI Express pin

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thing going on and the truth of the matter is that no not all sockets are

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manufactured and provided by Intel and there are more expensive and less

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expensive of socket implementations that the manufacturers can put on their

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motherboard so Gigabyte has gone ahead and called out that they have a better

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socket for the CPU as well as for memory

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and the PCI Express slots they've also implemented a very high current 8 Pin

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plus four pin Design This is only going to be relevant if you're the kind of

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person who is even capable of using a board like this to its maximum potential

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and speaking of using the board to its maximum potential you have the option to

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either use air cooling or liquid cooling so the vrm cooler is using a hybrid

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design so you can turn on this fan which Gigabyte claims is silent but I'm going

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to go ahead and call them on that one because small fans are never silent or

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you can disable it completely or just take it off which is what I would

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probably do and use the 38 in integrated

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barbs to liquid cool the vrm which would

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be very very sweet around the CPU socket

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we find the vrm design which is Extreme beefy on this board using all

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International Rectifier brand components for the pwm as well as the ic's although

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most of that is hidden by the cooling solution here you can also see that

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whether it's here around the CPU socket or in other parts of the board is using

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all what Gigabyte is calling their durable black solid caps so it's all

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kind of part of the overall Ultra durable branding that Gigabyte has which

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refers to their 2 O copper PCB their glass fabric PCB design that improves

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humidity resistance as well as generally the use of better quality components

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which is useful not only from a better performance perspective because if you

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guys saw our recent video comparing a high performance ATX board to an ITX

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board performance-wise there might not be that much of a difference but there

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can be a longevity difference and a stability difference when we're talking

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about pushing things to the absolute limit I mean the board must have every

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possible onboard button reset power One

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Touch overclocking with the turbo button the tag button recalls a favorite

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setting that You' set up within the BIOS the ignition button I can't even

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remember what that one does ah yes allows you to jump allows you to keep

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the power on to the motherboard even once it is turned off so there are a

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variety of reasons overclockers might want to do this particularly not wanting

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the components to get too cold and have condensation form in an outof control

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fashion you've also got base clock up

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and down as well as multiplier up and

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down and a gear button that changes the ratios of up and down this for the other

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functionality and finally the Facebook button which allows you to fire up

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Facebook and tell your other social media followers all about your

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overclocking exp points no that's not actually what this does that is the

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trigger button which allows you to set up your benchmarking run you're ready to

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go boom boom boom okay at a nice low stable frequency flip the button boom

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you're running at your extreme frequency then once your benchmark run is done

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flip it back and now it's stable enough to submit your scores and all that

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you've got all of your voltage checkpoints whether it's for VC cor vdm

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blah blah blah etc etc etc as well as an onboard post debug led the 24 pin

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connectors it's an ideal location along the right hand Edge and the front USB 3

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connectors in its almost ideal location on the right hand Edge but not in a

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right angle configuration this is cool right here these are PCI Express

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switches that allow you to actually turn on and off different PCI Express slots

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these can be great for diagnosing issues whether you're on open test bench and

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there's the doorbell or whether you are just have something like a complex water

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cooling setup on your board and you're trying to figure out what's going wrong

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and it's a lot easier to turn off a PCI Express slot than it is to pull a

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graphics card also related to the PCI Express slots is this extra auxiliary

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SATA connector if you're installing more than two graphics cards plug a SATA

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connector in there and it'll give you a little bit extra power for those cards and those slots we've got six SATA 3 6

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GB per second ports powered by the Intel controller and then four more powered by

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a Marvel controller then finally we've got a SOS clear switch down here on the

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bottom right and more fan headers we'll cover those later front panel connectors

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for if you are installing this board in an actual case another front USB 3

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header two front USB 2 headers a com

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Port of all things and front panel audio although there isn't a particularly

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high-end audio implementation on this board unlike the more gaming optimized

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board from their G1 Series so this is really overclocking optimized not

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necessarily gaming optimized now I want to point out where all the fan

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connectors are on this board so we've got two up here on the top not a whole

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lot down the right hand Edge so there's basically just one here so that's three

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total now and boom High concentration on the bottom two more for five one more

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for six another two for eight and finally the ninth one is over here at

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the back which is great if you have a rear 120 mm fan that you want to install

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it on the PCI Express configuration is very very ample so Gigabyte is using a

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switching solution in order to achieve 4X or rather 8X 88x 8X 8X bandwidth

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required for four-way Crossfire or

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four-way SLI configuration so you can

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put pretty much whatever graphics cards you could possibly want on this

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particular board once we get around to the rear IO we find two usb2 ports two

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HDMI ports DisplayPort a PS2 keyboard

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mouse combo Port six USB 3.0 ports optical audio out 2 GB Ethernet ports

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and 7.1 audio out although most overclockers probably won't even care

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about the audio out I think I missed the memory support so of course it supports

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dual Channel DDR3 memory up to 8 gig dims at this point in time and pretty

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much any speed you could possibly see fit to put in it remember though the

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maximum speed achievable particularly on the Haswell platform is going to be

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determined by your CPUs integrated memory controller as well as the

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frequency you're pushing for on your CPU because the higher that frequency goes

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the lower your max memory over clock will be unless you happen to be

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particularly talented thank you for checking out this unboxing and overview

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of the z87x OC force from Gigabyte I

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think I actually missed one very important thing here and that is the

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dedicated switch to go between the two bioses on this board so if you do happen

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to Brick something or it just sort of the power goes out in the middle of a flash you will be able to recover it

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