1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:07,839 welcome to another lonus tech tips unboxing this is going to be for 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:10,880 gigabytes highest end p67 series board 3 00:00:07,839 --> 00:00:13,719 this is the p67a ud7 we have full 4 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:19,119 support for Intel's latest core I3 i5 and i7 processors on the LGA 1155 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:23,160 platform although if you're putting an I3 on this thing shame on you um so the 6 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:29,560 first thing we're going to find out about this board is that it has a three-year warranty okay and it delivers 7 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:33,399 maximum CPU power so why don't we go ahead and open up the front of the box 8 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:40,480 and find out what exactly Gigabyte means by that well they have equipped this 9 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:43,680 motherboard with a 24 phas power design 10 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:45,680 because on the p67 platform most of the 11 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:48,960 overclocking Intrigue has been removed from the motherboard side because we're 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:53,399 pretty much just overclocking using the CPU multiplier the most important thing 13 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:58,160 the motherboard manufacturers can do for you these days is provide a stable 14 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:01,840 platform with lots of features and great power delivery because that's how you're 15 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:06,520 going to get the most out of your chip they've also designed their chipset 16 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:08,560 cooling design to be uh cooled well by a 17 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:13,920 downdraft CPU Cooler so something like a Noctua NH c14 would be a great choice 18 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,040 for a board like this let's go ahead over here and have a look at what else 19 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:21,600 Gigabyte has to say for themselves on this board here's the 24 phase power 20 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:26,119 yeah delivers maximum CPU power we get it you've got uh overclocking 21 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:29,280 performance which they're saying is more higher is better okay and then they're 22 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:35,399 saying they've also got a longer lifetime because because they have their Ultra durable 3 technology plus dual 23 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:40,320 power switching okay thanks guys next we have their 333 onboard acceleration 24 00:01:37,759 --> 00:01:46,159 which means you have support for SATA 3 6 gbit per second you've got USB power 25 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:50,600 3x which means that you can run up to three times the number of peripherals 26 00:01:47,719 --> 00:01:57,880 off one USB 3.0 Port using a hub and then you've also got 3x uh USB 3.0 which 27 00:01:54,280 --> 00:02:00,600 is up to 10 times the speed of USB 2.0 28 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:04,880 support for three-way SLI and three-way oh I'm sorry that totally moved and 29 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:09,360 three-way Crossfire which is a bit unique for our p67 board because most of 30 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:14,599 them are only going to have support for two-way SLI and two-way 31 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:20,360 Crossfire and that's pretty much it oh yeah also they're onof charge feature so 32 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:23,360 you can charge your uh iPhone or iPad or 33 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:26,720 whatever other device even when this PC 34 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:29,560 is powered off so they've got nice black 35 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:34,319 internals or in internals interior here on the all the packaging let's see what 36 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:42,640 Gigabyte has included with this board okay first we have a warning 37 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:45,519 socket 1155 is not socket 1156 so please 38 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:51,959 please make sure if you're buying a p67 board like this one you are not trying 39 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:54,120 to install a socket 1156 processor in it 40 00:02:51,959 --> 00:02:57,840 here we've got our users manual as well as a six series drivers and utilities 41 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:03,319 DVD which you should throw away and download the latest from the Gigabyte website multilingual installation guide 42 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:07,239 book showing you how to install your CPU RAM all that good stuff next we have a 43 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:13,159 couple of stickers a Gigabyte one and a Dolby Home Theater one finally we have 44 00:03:10,519 --> 00:03:17,840 an IO Shield so that'll go on the back of the board handily 45 00:03:14,799 --> 00:03:21,440 colorcoded for your convenience next we 46 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:23,599 have uh two no four SATA cables uh two 47 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:27,720 right angle and two straight we have a three-way SLI Bridge a two-way SLI 48 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:32,439 Bridge remember that if you need Crossfire Bridges those will be included 49 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:38,080 with your graphics card we have one of their awesome back panel 50 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,680 eSATA PCI guys so you plug that into two 51 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:43,560 of your internal ports you get more eSATA then you can use that adapter to 52 00:03:41,959 --> 00:03:47,560 plug in a couple Standalone drives and you got some eSATA cables this is a 53 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:52,400 great little kit big fan gigabytes been including that with their boards for a 54 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:56,120 little while so this is appropriately bright yellow okay so 55 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:59,879 let's go ahead and close that up we're done with that let's have a look at the 56 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:07,040 board itself this is it the p67a ud7 now unlike some 57 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:09,400 of their uh last generation ud7 boards 58 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:14,680 Gigabyte has not opted for a non-standard size to this board this is 59 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:19,560 a standard ATX board although other than that there's nothing really very 60 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:23,880 standard about it this is an exceptional looking board and out of all of the p67 61 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:30,680 boards I've seen so far I think it features the best color scheme which yes 62 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:33,840 I'm shallow whatever guys deal with it I 63 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:36,840 love the color scheme I was pretty tired 64 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:38,520 of seeing the traditional here I happen 65 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:46,320 to have one handy the traditional Gigabyte baby blue 66 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:48,120 and you know white and blue and I mean 67 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:52,520 it looks all right but show me something it matches that's the challenge right so 68 00:04:50,759 --> 00:04:57,080 let's start with the uh the overall layout of the board here we've got our 69 00:04:53,919 --> 00:05:00,360 LGA 1155 socket right here in the middle 70 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:03,039 surrounded by 24 phases of C CPU power 71 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:07,039 delivery we have our 8 pin connector up here in the top left of the board 72 00:05:05,039 --> 00:05:11,120 exactly where it belongs we've got a pretty Innovative looking cooling design 73 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:14,720 going on here on the mosfets as well as on the chipsets so you can see there's 74 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:18,440 heat pipes connecting these two heat pipes connecting this guy and this guy 75 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:24,319 and then I can't tell if it's one heat pipe going all the way through but there's also a heat pipe running between 76 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:28,160 the North Bridge and the mosfets up here 77 00:05:24,319 --> 00:05:30,680 uh in terms of RAM support we have uh up 78 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:35,160 to four dims in dual Channel mode so that is 79 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:39,520 a two Banks of dual Channel memory supported by this particular board this 80 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:46,120 is DDR3 memory just like the last generation p-55 so if you are upgrading 81 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:48,639 you can reuse your old p-55 compatible 82 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:51,600 memory moving down this uh right hand edge of the board we've got a couple 83 00:05:49,919 --> 00:05:56,120 useful things first we have an onboard power switch love these and I love the 84 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:59,280 location of this I'm actually pretty tired of seeing them down here on the 85 00:05:57,919 --> 00:06:04,360 down on the bottom edge of the board because when you have a bunch of graphics cards installed you can't reach 86 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:08,960 that anymore so this is great next we have a clear Simo switch also 87 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:11,960 conveniently located right here and last but not least we have a reset switch 88 00:06:10,599 --> 00:06:15,880 right here the reset switch you don't use as much so I can uh definitely 89 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:19,680 forgive them for using a cheaper switch than the power one there we have our 24 90 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:25,280 pin connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board 91 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:27,599 and then next we have our let's see what 92 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:34,919 are these okay here we go so these ports are sort of colorcoded these are SATA 2 93 00:06:30,479 --> 00:06:38,360 3 gbit per second these ones are SATA 3 94 00:06:34,919 --> 00:06:40,919 6 gbit per second and these ones are 95 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:46,599 running off of the thirdparty chipset SATA 3 6 gbit per second so SATA 2 SATA 96 00:06:44,599 --> 00:06:52,479 3 this one's running off the Intel chipset this one is not we have an LED 97 00:06:50,039 --> 00:06:58,280 post reader and apparently there's a clear SEO somewhere around here although 98 00:06:54,360 --> 00:07:00,080 I don't actually see it um so maybe you 99 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:04,879 guys can sort of point out where that is for me here's all of your front panel 100 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:11,639 connectors here is your USB there is your front USB 3.0 apparently wow you've 101 00:07:08,919 --> 00:07:16,800 got look at that you've got two front USB 3 how many chipsets did they put on 102 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:21,000 this thing okay well that's outstanding so you have two front panel headers for 103 00:07:18,639 --> 00:07:24,240 USB 3.0 that's great right now there aren't really any cases that support 104 00:07:22,639 --> 00:07:28,840 that standard yet but hopefully by the time you watch this video there will be 105 00:07:26,199 --> 00:07:32,800 if you're watching it a lot later here is fire wire which if you're honestly 106 00:07:30,759 --> 00:07:36,759 still using then good for you I guess someone has to and then let's have a 107 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:44,159 look at our slot layout we've got a single PCIe 1X slot we've got three PCIe 108 00:07:41,039 --> 00:07:47,879 16x slots which are all actually only 109 00:07:44,159 --> 00:07:51,120 wired up to PCIe 8X and then we have an 110 00:07:47,879 --> 00:07:53,759 oh sorry okay these two are wired for 111 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:58,039 full 16x operation although I don't know what they actually run at and then this 112 00:07:55,919 --> 00:08:01,800 one is wired only for 8X and this one is wired only for 8x 113 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:05,280 so if you are running three-way Crossfire or three-way SLI don't kid 114 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:10,919 yourself you're not going to be running it 16x 16x 16x but it hasn't really been 115 00:08:08,879 --> 00:08:16,080 demonstrated that it impacts performance negatively anyhow all right we have two 116 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:19,280 Legacy PCI slots in what I'd say is pretty much an ideal location because it 117 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:25,520 looks like the way it's set up these are going to be your uh 16 X1 and 16x2 Slots 118 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:28,800 so you would cover these these ones if you're running two dual slot graphics 119 00:08:27,199 --> 00:08:32,519 cards it doesn't leave as much spacing as I normally like to see but it does 120 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:39,120 leave you pretty good expansion options you have one 8X slot left as well as one 121 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:42,080 PCI slot and one 1X PCIe slot for any 122 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:45,800 expansion cards that you require let's move around to the back of the board and 123 00:08:43,959 --> 00:08:50,600 have a look at is one of the more impressive IO Shields that I've ever 124 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:55,760 seen so we've got our PS2 combo Port which I'm still a big fan of love these 125 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:57,279 things they're great we have six yes 126 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:05,200 count them six USB 3 2.0 super speed ports we have 127 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:12,880 digital audio in both Optical and coax seal flavors we have dual EA two USB 2.0 128 00:09:09,959 --> 00:09:17,920 ports and two fire wire ports dual gigabit Lan as well as 7.1 audio out so 129 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:22,480 thank you for checking out my unboxing of the p67a ud7 don't forget to 130 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:30,519 subscribe to Linus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and 131 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:32,040 other videos about computers and stuff 132 00:09:30,519 --> 00:09:37,560 so I just want to give you guys a brief explanation of how the PCIe slots work 133 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:44,040 on this board there is an nf200 chip which is basically splitting the two 8ex 134 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:46,000 slots into either okay here so bear with 135 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:51,920 me here it's either taking the 16x bandwidth and splitting it into 16x 16x 136 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:58,279 or it's taking that 16x bandwidth and splitting it into 8X 8X 8X and 8x so you 137 00:09:55,399 --> 00:10:02,519 still do have good bandwidth to all four slots even if they're all populated