today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the Gigabyte h67 a ud3h it
has a three-year warranty as you may or may not have noticed it supports Intel
Core Series processors on LGA 1155 and it uses the h67 chipset so that
means it supports turbo boost but it
does not support overclocking on unlocked CPUs and it does not support
turning up turbo CPUs past their default
turbo mode so I'm sorry if that's confusing but that's really the best I
can do with it it is compatible with core i5s but it is also compatible with
core i7s which the only difference is they have more cach and they feature
hyperthreading and when we have Intel core i3s on their second generation core
series processors it'll likely support those too up here there's a little note
LGA 1155 CPU only that is 100% correct
if you try and put an LGA 1156 CPU in this board bad things will happen none
of them good okay we have Ultra durable 3 which means we have have the 2x copper
PCB for you know better heat dissipation
more conductivity all that good stuff we also have gigabytes 333 concept although
the sticker appears to be missing from the box so USB 3.0 which is fast USB
power 3x which is a cool feature because
it allows you to use a hub on any one of the USB ports on this board and plug in
three times as much power draw as you
would be able to normally do with a hub so that's kind of neat okay we have SATA
3.0 which is good and over here we have onoff charge which means that even when
your system is powered off you can charge devices such as say for example
your iPhone and what other relevant stuff do we have ooh dual BIOS so it's
very very difficult to wreck your board by corrupting the BIOS it also
apparently supports ATI Crossfire X technology although I can imagine it's
not an ideal configuration with an h67 chipset board here is a big big warning
yeah we had a little tiny one on the front of the box but this is more appro rate 1155 CPUs not 1156 CPUs x no okay
we have a user manual that also includes
a utility and Driver DVD download the latest off the Gigabyte website um
cameraman is blocking most of our light at that angle so maybe we'll shift a
little bit this way there we go we have a colorcoded IO Shield we have a
multilingual installation guide book which is going to show you basic things
like installing a CPU installing RAM we have two right angle and two straight
SATA cables we have a Dolby Home Theater
sticker my understanding is this is quite an expensive sticker and then we
also have a Gigabyte powered sticker
that one is less expensive okay here we
go this is an interesting strategy I don't think I've ever seen this before
and I have unboxed let me tell you guys a lot of motherboards over the last
couple years here so hold on
there we are I have never seen a piece of foam
stuck in between the mosfet heat sink oh I see why well that's not on there very
well at all is it oh okay so this is in here to prevent it from wiggling around
durink shipping I mean here have a look okay so let's start let's start with
that since that seems like a bit of a concern but it's probably fine so we're
using plastic push pins here and then what appears to be like a
softer style of interface material under
this so you can see there's actually a very small contact point where this this
large heat sink is making contact with the vrms so in order to make sure that
it stays straight during shipping we got the foam but while the system's running
that's going to melt a little bit and it's going to be on there pretty good I don't think you're going to have to
worry about burning out your vrms so
same goes for the one up here it looks like this uses 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
looks like it uses 8 plus2 phase power for the LGA 1155 CPU and unlike most H
series chipset boards this is a full ATX board so we have support for our CPU
here we have our 8 Pin power connector and its ideal location at the top left
of the board we have full support for dual Channel DDR3 we have our 24 pin
power connector along the right hand edge of the board here is our Intel well
Southbridge to use an archaic term but our Intel I believe it's called an iio
Hub now which controls things like SATA ports USB ports all of that good stuff
and and then we also have our front panel connectors wow that's a lot of USB
ports that's five front panel USB
headers outstanding so you can hook up 10 front
USB ports on your case if it actually has that many here we have seven
expansion slots three PCI which is appropriate for an H series chipset
board because you can't expect a value chipset board buyer to be necessarily
running the very latest technology couple of firewire headers we've got two
PCI e1x slots and then two PCI e6x slots
now officially this board supports SLI although I really wouldn't recommend running SLI cuz you can see right here
even though this is a 16x physical slot
which has enough spaces in here for PCI e8x hopefully you can see can you see
the actual metal contact pins in there okay well the metal contact pins only go
up to here so that's only a 4X electrical slot now while I usually tell
viewers 8X and 8x is fine for Crossfire
or SLI 16x and 4x is probably not quite
ideal especially because these four lanes are running off the io Hub over
here rather than running off of the PCIe
controller that's directly off the chipset because h67 is not capable of
splitting into 8X 8X so it's a full 16x here and only 4X here here's your front
panel audio connector this uh this location for it from Gigabyte will
always baffle me everyone else in their dog puts it down here but uh usually I
don't use the front panel header anyhow here on the the back of the board
we will find some connectors which are conveniently covered so I can't see what
they are oh wow we have every display connector under the sun I think but
let's start over here we've got a PS2 uh keyboard mouse combo Port we've got 1 2
3 4 USB 2.0 ports that explains why there were so many on the board itself
we have VGA DVI DisplayPort and HDMI
yes the whole Shang and then we also
have optical audio out we've got fire
wire as well as eat on the back of the board we have two USB 3.0 ports gigabit
Ethernet and 7.1 audio out thank you for
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