okay uh zoom in zoom in zoom in N I'm
just playing around with the camera in okay so today we'll be unboxing the Gigabyte 880gm ud2h so this is this is a
sticker that's okay though it's six core CPU ready out of the box it's part of
AMD's uh brand new 800 series chipsets
so the 880g is the replacement for the 785g that means it has Onboard video as
well as excellent performance support for all the latest CPUs all that good
stuff but you're going to be missing little things like say for example
Crossfire support because it's not designed to be an extreme gaming
platform that said you do have a lot of the other Gigabyte benefits with this
board you've got Ultra durable 3 classic whatever that means so that means you
got a 2 O copper PCB 50,000 hour Japanese solid caps as well as dual BIOS
it has a three-year warranty in US and Canada and it features their easy energy
saving let's move around to the back did I already mention it has support for the
fenom 2x6 I think I did but either way it's all good this is just more details
on the back about the motherboard itself you got support for up to DDR3 1800 plus
so that's through overclocking then you have a 4 plus one phase power design and
that pretty much covers the specifics
okay oh oh yeah we have lower Emi so
lower electromagnetic uh interference I believe it stands for that means just
sort of less General electromagnetic junk going on out of
this board did you know that that's what IO Shields are for it's to stop
electromagnetic like radiation from coming out the back of the PC where you
have a completely open Gap that's why all the PCI slots and the io Shield is
is covered with metal there you go you learned something today unless you
already knew so it has an IO Shield it has a Dolby Home Theater
sticker it has two SATA cables one of which is right angle and one of which is
straight as well as an IDE cable person I'd probably rather see four SATA cables
included but a lot of people are still using IDE DVD drives so that's what this
is great for you got a couple hard drives you got a DVD drive you're covered next we have the users
manual and inside we will find the 8
series utility DVD don't use this download the latest off the Gigabyte
website and then you've got a full English users manual covering a lot of
Bio settings how to install drivers how to plug in all of your front panel
connectors all that good stuff then we have a multilingual installation guide
book that covers the physical installation in 300 million different
languages all right then we have the motherboard itself so it's a pretty bare
accessory package although it is a fairly lowish end board so you that's
sort of the expectation that you got to have with a motherboard like this so
let's take this out now the one thing that I do see is
missing so this is not using the latest
Southbridge from AMD it is using the
latest 800 series Northbridge but it does not have support for SATA 3 so
you're still running SATA 2 but honestly if you're buying a value motherboard
you're probably not buying a a an S SATA
3 SSD anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about it cameraman's having a look
at gigabytes pretty sweet looking Northbridge heat sink I really you know
what now that North Bridges and South bridges for example this one run so cool
I I think it's great that some of the manufacturers are taking an opportunity
to make it more of a design element rather than just focused on you know oh
here's a heat sink here's some fins it cools it really good because the reality
of it is AMD's chipsets run so cool you could probably put this heat sink on
that chipset and no heat sink on this chipset and the board would probably run
just fine with a little bit of air flow but instead Gigabyte spends a couple
bucks they put a nice heat sink on it it looks cool they put like a turbo 3
thing on it that's pretty cool too why don't we have a look at the layout of
the board before I just start rambling here so up at the top left we have an
8pin um EPS connector so that is going
to be providing the power for your CPU I'm surprised to see an8 pin on a value
board like this but since you can install six pin CPUs and presumably you
can overclock at least a little bit on a board like this it's great to see that
guess the CPU is going to be pulling some real power next you've got your uh
two sets of dual Channel DDR three support so that's up to I believe 16
gigs if I recall correctly and 4 gig dims are finally getting reasonably
priced so you could actually load this up with six cores and 16 dims in a
microatx form factor I mean wow even a
couple years ago that was like impossible to Fathom next we've got a
floppy connector as well as an IDE connector your 24 pin PO is along the
right hand edge of the board exactly where it belongs and then down at the
bottom right it seems like an odd number we've got five SATA two ports it's not
that odd because the sixth SATA 2 Port running off this chipset is actually at
the back of the board you got three USB 2.0 headers your front panel headers and
then as far as the layout of the slots goes you got one PCIe 1X slot a 16x slot
and then two PCIe slots so if you're running a dual slot graphics card it'll
sit right here in the middle and then you'll have access to one PCI slot and
one PCIe 1X slot now one thing I do want
to comment on in this board is that if you are running a dual slot graphics
card it's going to take up this whole chunk of the board it's going to cover
up three of your SATA slots I would have liked to see that a little bit better
thought out but you can get around this when you're ordering this board just
make sure you order um at least one
right angle SATA cable so that you can just kind of put it in under the video
card and you can get access to it that way all right let's move on to the back
of the motherboard where we've got all of our IO connection so first of all
we've got a PS2 uh keyboard mouse combo
Port then we have one 1 2 3 4 5 6 USB
2.0 ports then we have DVI HDMI and VGA
out very handy we have optical audio out fire wire eat so that's that sixth
connector I was talking about then we've got gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio thank
you for checking out my unboxing of the Phenom X6 ready 880gm ud2h