WEBVTT 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:09.519 welcome to one of the most Crazy Town motherboard overviews I have ever done 00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:14.719 to start with most of these features are things that I can't even validate 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:19.960 without Subzero Cooling and a lot more overclocking skill than I possess and 00:00:17.439 --> 00:00:25.920 things I've never had any need for so most of you won't either but the 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:27.599 Gigabyte z97x so force does so many 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:31.960 things differently that I think it merits a pretty indepth video 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:43.399 the cmstorm sf7 uses a massive 18 cm fan 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:48.520 to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to learn 00:00:45.879 --> 00:00:53.760 more included in the Box are The Usual Suspects including a manual driver dis 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:58.320 two-way SLI Bridge Crossfire Bridge IO shield and four SATA cables then a 00:00:56.760 --> 00:01:02.840 couple of things that are a little bit more unique first up is adapters for the 00:01:01.160 --> 00:01:06.880 voltage checkpoints that can be used to measure anything from standard stuff 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:12.200 like CPU core voltage to some obscure stuff that I've never even heard of let 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:14.280 alone felt the need to measure and an OC 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:18.520 brace a metal bracket that supports your expansion cards so they don't flop over 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:22.880 if you're testing on an open platform or just putting it on top of the box Neato 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:28.000 moving on to the board itself it features a catchy orange and black color 00:01:25.119 --> 00:01:33.360 scheme with a matte black PCB and silver accents for gigabytes company branding 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:36.920 and Ultra durable branding now in the 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:39.159 past gaming features and overclocking 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:43.280 features were often synonymous and any high-end board would have the full 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:47.079 complement of both but this trend has started to change somewhat with the 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:52.119 release of gaming boards that have no CPU overclocking capabilities at all and 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:55.560 overclocking boards that kind of skimp on the gaming stuff so with this board 00:01:54.200 --> 00:02:00.719 it's somewhere in the middle and I'm going to do two separate physical tours 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:03.680 one for the general user and gaming features that make the product usable 00:02:02.600 --> 00:02:08.840 for folks who just want to build a normal PC with it and one for the 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:12.879 overclocking features that only the hardcores are really going to care about 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:18.319 so at the center of the board is an LGA 1150 socket with support for Haswell and 00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:22.080 Haswell refresh Intel Core Series CPUs with power provided by an 8 plus 4 pin 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:27.160 power setup going through an 8-phase digital vrm solution with custom black 00:02:24.519 --> 00:02:32.720 capacitors rated to operate for 10,000 hours at 105 degrees cels that 00:02:30.040 --> 00:02:38.360 collectively can handle up to 40 amps of current to the CPU wow moving over we've 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:43.440 got four DDR3 memory slots that run in dual channel will support for up to DDR3 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:48.120 3300 MHz memory listed on this spec sheet and then next up is one of the 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:53.440 most featur Den chunks of motherboard PCB that I have ever seen the onboard 00:02:51.480 --> 00:02:57.480 debug display is great for Reading Post codes and diagnosing random issues the 00:02:55.560 --> 00:03:02.040 OC turbo button loads a preconfigured overclocking profile for OneTouch basic 00:02:59.879 --> 00:03:05.519 optimization the onboard power button is great for folks like me who often use 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:08.599 boards without a case the clear seos button lets you clear bad settings that 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:13.879 you are that are keeping the board from booting and the Dual bio switch May save 00:03:12.040 --> 00:03:17.159 your bacon if a BIOS update gets interrupted at some point and you need 00:03:15.239 --> 00:03:21.840 to rescue your board without sending it in to be serviced everything else here 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:27.560 is very overclocking oriented so we'll come back to it later the 24 pin power 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:31.920 is in its ideal location which leads us to storage since there's not much else 00:03:29.239 --> 00:03:38.319 to say about that we've got the option to use either six standard SATA 36 GB 00:03:35.239 --> 00:03:41.799 per second drives or four of those and a 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:44.200 single SATA Express 10 gabit per second 00:03:41.799 --> 00:03:49.239 drive SATA Express is a new standard that is backwards compatible with 00:03:45.760 --> 00:03:51.720 existing SATA drives but can use PCI 00:03:49.239 --> 00:03:56.400 Express over a cable for improved latency and throughput there aren't 00:03:54.239 --> 00:04:00.319 really any drives yet but when new 2 and2 in ssds arrive using this connector 00:03:58.640 --> 00:04:04.680 they will be able to deliver better sequential performance than previous 00:04:02.519 --> 00:04:09.079 models further down we've got a couple of onboard USB ports these are great for 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:14.120 test bench use or even for normal use if you had something like an encryption key 00:04:12.239 --> 00:04:17.079 or a USB Bluetooth adapter that you basically wanted to have plugged in all 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:21.079 the time and not have it be in the way in the back of the machine and then to 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:24.720 the left this front USB 3 header isn't really great but I understand why it's 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:28.880 not on the right with all the fancy stuff that's going on over there front 00:04:27.080 --> 00:04:31.840 audio is plugged into the standard header on the separate separated PCB 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:36.199 that makes up the bottom left of the board you can tell that Gigabyte has 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:41.280 physically separated the traces because this blank PCB line will be illuminated 00:04:38.479 --> 00:04:44.840 when the system is powered on this slightly reduces interference for 00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:50.240 cleaner onboard audio and that combined with a pretty hefty amplifier and 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:51.560 realtech alc1150 audio codec should make 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:58.560 the audio Solution on this board actually pretty darn solid especially for an overclocking oriented board next 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:04.320 up we've got PCI Express Lots the board supports four-way Crossfire or two-way 00:05:00.919 --> 00:05:06.240 SLI with a single PCI e1x slot that will 00:05:04.320 --> 00:05:10.039 get covered even if you just have a single graphics card installed and then 00:05:07.919 --> 00:05:16.160 a couple of old school PCI slots rounding out expansion of note here is 00:05:13.039 --> 00:05:17.639 the six pin PCI Express female connector 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:20.960 above those slots that you'll want to plug in if you're running more than two 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:26.560 graphics cards to make sure that you don't burn out your 24 pin connector 00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:32.560 rear IO is pretty standard fair with four USB 2.0 ports VGA DVI DisplayPort 00:05:29.960 --> 00:05:36.240 and HDMI output for the Onboard video optical audio out a PS2 keyboard mouse 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:42.400 combo Port something I do still like to see four usb3 ports a killer e 2200 gbit 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:48.280 land port that does support networking prioritization and then finally that 7.1 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:50.039 audio that I was talking about before 00:05:48.280 --> 00:05:58.000 then shifting back to the inside the onboard fan headers are located here 00:05:52.720 --> 00:06:00.080 here here here here here here and here 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:04.800 so there are a total of eight of them meaning that even some of the most 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:09.759 ludicrous systems actually won't need to use anything outside of the onboard 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:14.280 headers to power up all the fans which leads us pretty well into one of the 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:19.680 more exotic features of this board here's one for you OC 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:25.080 ignition Powers the motherboard and connected components like fans while the 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:28.880 system is shut down this is great for maintaining air flow to combat 00:06:26.919 --> 00:06:32.919 condensation and reduce cold bug issues for extreme over clocking and it's also 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:35.919 great for building demo systems that just need to look nice and look like 00:06:34.479 --> 00:06:40.000 they're running but don't actually need to work the OC tag button lets you 00:06:38.479 --> 00:06:44.400 configure your favorite customized settings in the BIOS then apply them 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:48.479 with one touch the OC touch buttons let you manually raise and lower the CPU 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:52.440 multiplier at base clock speed and the rate at which they change using hardware 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:55.639 buttons the memory safe button runs relaxed RAM timing settings to help 00:06:54.240 --> 00:07:00.360 eliminate memory compatibilities when you're first booting up the boards you can get into the BIOS and make changes 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:04.120 speaking of getting into the BIOS the direct to BIOS button lets you boot 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:08.440 right into the BIOS without pressing delete when you boot up the system the 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:12.199 settings lock button remembers your last successful settings even if you clear 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:16.240 the seos which is kind of cool so you can like you can like override your 00:07:14.479 --> 00:07:20.319 settings and then you can override clearing the override and then there's 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:24.680 like another one that actually lets you override that by that's the cat switch 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:28.800 by removing the battery from the board just with a button and doing a full 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:33.039 clear so it's like crazy town the Dual bio switch enables or disables gigabytes 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:36.520 dual bio something I would suggest that you actually leave on and then there's a 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:39.840 bio switch that lets you manually switch between which physical BIOS chip you are 00:07:38.479 --> 00:07:45.240 working off this can be great for diagnosing issues and for analyzing 00:07:42.280 --> 00:07:50.599 performance between multiple firmware revisions the OC trigger switch lets you 00:07:47.919 --> 00:07:54.680 boot up with a safe easy setting then engage it to jump to an aggressive 00:07:52.560 --> 00:08:01.280 frequency only during your benchmark run and the PCI Express dip switches let you 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:03.479 turn the PCI E 16x slot on and off for 00:08:01.280 --> 00:08:07.800 easy diagnosis of issues when running multiple cards this is a fantastic 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:10.840 feature for water coolers as well as extreme overclockers when it can be kind 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.759 of a bear to get a card out and find out which one's causing the system to be 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:18.400 flaky and then they've got another related one also dip switches but this 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:23.800 time for the dim slot so you can switch slots on and off one at a time for 00:08:21.440 --> 00:08:27.159 finding out which one runs the best or for figuring out if there's a flaky 00:08:25.280 --> 00:08:31.440 stick when you're doing diagnosis without actually physically taking them 00:08:29.159 --> 00:08:36.279 out so that's pretty much it other than the 00:08:33.880 --> 00:08:39.519 usual Gigabyte you know Ultra durable you know great build quality thick 00:08:37.719 --> 00:08:46.279 copper PCB glass fabric humidity resistance stuff thank you for watching 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:47.680 my overview video of the z97x so force 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:52.000 and just like with all of my videos you can find a link with pricing and availability that includes my affiliate 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:55.480 code in the video description under the like share and dislike buttons which I'd 00:08:53.760 --> 00:08:57.720 love for you to use accordingly also in the video description is a support link 00:08:56.839 --> 00:09:02.279 where you can give us a monthly contribution buy a t-shirt or change your Amazon bookmarks to ones that 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:05.480 include our affiliate code so we get a small Kickback whenever you buy 00:09:03.560 --> 00:09:08.320 underwear or whatever it is you buy on Amazon thank you for watching guys I 00:09:06.959 --> 00:09:15.240 hope 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