welcome to another lonus tech tips unboxing this is going to be for
gigabytes highest end p67 series board
this is the p67a ud7 we have full
support for Intel's latest core I3 i5 and i7 processors on the LGA 1155
platform although if you're putting an I3 on this thing shame on you um so the
first thing we're going to find out about this board is that it has a three-year warranty okay and it delivers
maximum CPU power so why don't we go ahead and open up the front of the box
and find out what exactly Gigabyte means by that well they have equipped this
motherboard with a 24 phas power design
because on the p67 platform most of the
overclocking Intrigue has been removed from the motherboard side because we're
pretty much just overclocking using the CPU multiplier the most important thing
the motherboard manufacturers can do for you these days is provide a stable
platform with lots of features and great power delivery because that's how you're
going to get the most out of your chip they've also designed their chipset
cooling design to be uh cooled well by a
downdraft CPU Cooler so something like a Noctua NH c14 would be a great choice
for a board like this let's go ahead over here and have a look at what else
Gigabyte has to say for themselves on this board here's the 24 phase power
yeah delivers maximum CPU power we get it you've got uh overclocking
performance which they're saying is more higher is better okay and then they're
saying they've also got a longer lifetime because because they have their Ultra durable 3 technology plus dual
power switching okay thanks guys next we have their 333 onboard acceleration
which means you have support for SATA 3 6 gbit per second you've got USB power
3x which means that you can run up to three times the number of peripherals
off one USB 3.0 Port using a hub and then you've also got 3x uh USB 3.0 which
is up to 10 times the speed of USB 2.0
support for three-way SLI and three-way oh I'm sorry that totally moved and
three-way Crossfire which is a bit unique for our p67 board because most of
them are only going to have support for two-way SLI and two-way
Crossfire and that's pretty much it oh yeah also they're onof charge feature so
you can charge your uh iPhone or iPad or
whatever other device even when this PC
is powered off so they've got nice black
internals or in internals interior here on the all the packaging let's see what
Gigabyte has included with this board okay first we have a warning
socket 1155 is not socket 1156 so please
please make sure if you're buying a p67 board like this one you are not trying
to install a socket 1156 processor in it
here we've got our users manual as well as a six series drivers and utilities
DVD which you should throw away and download the latest from the Gigabyte website multilingual installation guide
book showing you how to install your CPU RAM all that good stuff next we have a
couple of stickers a Gigabyte one and a Dolby Home Theater one finally we have
an IO Shield so that'll go on the back of the board handily
colorcoded for your convenience next we
have uh two no four SATA cables uh two
right angle and two straight we have a three-way SLI Bridge a two-way SLI
Bridge remember that if you need Crossfire Bridges those will be included
with your graphics card we have one of their awesome back panel
eSATA PCI guys so you plug that into two
of your internal ports you get more eSATA then you can use that adapter to
plug in a couple Standalone drives and you got some eSATA cables this is a
great little kit big fan gigabytes been including that with their boards for a
little while so this is appropriately bright yellow okay so
let's go ahead and close that up we're done with that let's have a look at the
board itself this is it the p67a ud7 now unlike some
of their uh last generation ud7 boards
Gigabyte has not opted for a non-standard size to this board this is
a standard ATX board although other than that there's nothing really very
standard about it this is an exceptional looking board and out of all of the p67
boards I've seen so far I think it features the best color scheme which yes
I'm shallow whatever guys deal with it I
love the color scheme I was pretty tired
of seeing the traditional here I happen
to have one handy the traditional Gigabyte baby blue
and you know white and blue and I mean
it looks all right but show me something it matches that's the challenge right so
let's start with the uh the overall layout of the board here we've got our
LGA 1155 socket right here in the middle
surrounded by 24 phases of C CPU power
delivery we have our 8 pin connector up here in the top left of the board
exactly where it belongs we've got a pretty Innovative looking cooling design
going on here on the mosfets as well as on the chipsets so you can see there's
heat pipes connecting these two heat pipes connecting this guy and this guy
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
the North Bridge and the mosfets up here
uh in terms of RAM support we have uh up
to four dims in dual Channel mode so that is
a two Banks of dual Channel memory supported by this particular board this
is DDR3 memory just like the last generation p-55 so if you are upgrading
you can reuse your old p-55 compatible
memory moving down this uh right hand edge of the board we've got a couple
useful things first we have an onboard power switch love these and I love the
location of this I'm actually pretty tired of seeing them down here on the
down on the bottom edge of the board because when you have a bunch of graphics cards installed you can't reach
that anymore so this is great next we have a clear Simo switch also
conveniently located right here and last but not least we have a reset switch
right here the reset switch you don't use as much so I can uh definitely
forgive them for using a cheaper switch than the power one there we have our 24
pin connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board
and then next we have our let's see what
are these okay here we go so these ports are sort of colorcoded these are SATA 2
3 gbit per second these ones are SATA 3
6 gbit per second and these ones are
running off of the thirdparty chipset SATA 3 6 gbit per second so SATA 2 SATA
3 this one's running off the Intel chipset this one is not we have an LED
post reader and apparently there's a clear SEO somewhere around here although
I don't actually see it um so maybe you
guys can sort of point out where that is for me here's all of your front panel
connectors here is your USB there is your front USB 3.0 apparently wow you've
got look at that you've got two front USB 3 how many chipsets did they put on
this thing okay well that's outstanding so you have two front panel headers for
USB 3.0 that's great right now there aren't really any cases that support
that standard yet but hopefully by the time you watch this video there will be
if you're watching it a lot later here is fire wire which if you're honestly
still using then good for you I guess someone has to and then let's have a
look at our slot layout we've got a single PCIe 1X slot we've got three PCIe
16x slots which are all actually only
wired up to PCIe 8X and then we have an
oh sorry okay these two are wired for
full 16x operation although I don't know what they actually run at and then this
one is wired only for 8X and this one is wired only for 8x
so if you are running three-way Crossfire or three-way SLI don't kid
yourself you're not going to be running it 16x 16x 16x but it hasn't really been
demonstrated that it impacts performance negatively anyhow all right we have two
Legacy PCI slots in what I'd say is pretty much an ideal location because it
looks like the way it's set up these are going to be your uh 16 X1 and 16x2 Slots
so you would cover these these ones if you're running two dual slot graphics
cards it doesn't leave as much spacing as I normally like to see but it does
leave you pretty good expansion options you have one 8X slot left as well as one
PCI slot and one 1X PCIe slot for any
expansion cards that you require let's move around to the back of the board and
have a look at is one of the more impressive IO Shields that I've ever
seen so we've got our PS2 combo Port which I'm still a big fan of love these
things they're great we have six yes
count them six USB 3 2.0 super speed ports we have
digital audio in both Optical and coax seal flavors we have dual EA two USB 2.0
ports and two fire wire ports dual gigabit Lan as well as 7.1 audio out so
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so I just want to give you guys a brief explanation of how the PCIe slots work
on this board there is an nf200 chip which is basically splitting the two 8ex
slots into either okay here so bear with
me here it's either taking the 16x bandwidth and splitting it into 16x 16x
or it's taking that 16x bandwidth and splitting it into 8X 8X 8X and 8x so you
still do have good bandwidth to all four slots even if they're all populated