1 00:00:08,120 --> 00:00:16,199 welcome to my unboxing of the z68 XP ud3p from Gigabyte this is a very value 2 00:00:14,559 --> 00:00:20,880 oriented motherboard in terms of the price but a very performance and looks 3 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:24,960 and just generally awesome oriented motherboard when you have a look at the 4 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:29,080 features that are included uh which are all of the z68 features and let's go 5 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:36,280 through them so the first one is easy smart response which is a Gigabyte exclusive patent pending asteris Asterix 6 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:41,039 C LTD whatever the case may be basically what that means is it is a really easy 7 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:45,760 way to use Intel SRT or smart response technology which allows you to take a 8 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:50,039 large affordable hard drive and cash it improve the performance of it with a 9 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:54,600 small affordable SSD it works really well everyone who can't afford an SSD 10 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,640 for their system because the capacity that they need is just like oh well then 11 00:00:56,399 --> 00:01:02,600 I can't afford that capacity I just won't get one do this instead touch bio 12 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:08,600 so hybrid EFI technology allows 3 terab plus hard drives okay 60% okay yeah yeah 13 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:13,920 ready for Intel's nextg 22 nanm CPUs very cool okay so that's Ivy Bridge 14 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,960 ready for Native PCI Express gen 3 so 15 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:20,479 upcoming graphics cards uh that won't be around for a while but there you go 16 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:24,720 supports it driver mosfets uh three times USB power which is a great feature 17 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:28,680 allows you to charge more devices or power more devices through a hub 12 18 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:32,079 phase power design on the board itself and here's all those z68 features so 19 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:35,640 Intel HD graphics if you don't want to put in a dedicated graphics card Quicks 20 00:01:34,159 --> 00:01:40,119 sync which allows you to use the dedicated graphics and an integrated 21 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:46,520 graphics card in order to get great gaming performance and great uh uh video 22 00:01:44,119 --> 00:01:50,119 encoding performance Lucid virtue that's the switchable Graphics that allows you 23 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:54,920 to do that and support for Intel's K series overclocking let me see if I'm 24 00:01:52,799 --> 00:01:59,200 missing anything else on this very complicated and fooking box I don't 25 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:04,280 think so so let's have a look at what's included we've got got an HDMI to DVI 26 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:10,959 adapter these are handy we have an IO Shield which is helpfully colorcoded aha 27 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:13,800 flexible black SLI Bridge my very 28 00:02:10,959 --> 00:02:16,560 favorite kind we have four SATA cables so two are right angle and two of them 29 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:21,959 are straight we have a users manual 30 00:02:19,519 --> 00:02:25,319 including a driver DVD don't use this download the latest from the Gigabyte 31 00:02:23,319 --> 00:02:29,200 website as well as a guide for smart response technology which you probably 32 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:32,840 won't need a guide for because it's so easy with the gab utility multilingual 33 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:38,599 installation guide book I actually have a video about that on my ncixcom channel 34 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:45,519 so you can feel free to check that out and uh I show you how to install SRT 35 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:51,360 technology using the Gigabyte utility which is basically you download the exe 36 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:55,200 to your desktop and then you run 37 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:57,040 it yeah really it's that easy although I 38 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:02,000 have had people ask me so do you install the OS initially to the hard drive and 39 00:02:59,879 --> 00:03:06,159 the answer is yes you do and then you add the SSD later all right so let's 40 00:03:04,599 --> 00:03:11,680 look at the layout of the board overall it's a very slick looking all black 41 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:16,280 board so we've got almost nothing on here that's not black or white or silver 42 00:03:14,239 --> 00:03:19,680 or Chrome or some sort of shade in between we've got yeah I know that's 43 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:23,640 white we've got a little blue accents on some of the capacitors but look how nice 44 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:28,920 that looks guys all right so there's our LGA 1155 socket compatible with the 45 00:03:25,799 --> 00:03:31,840 latest core I3 Core i5 and core i7 CPUs 46 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:36,120 we've got a nice beefy power design which I do not expect to see normally on 47 00:03:33,799 --> 00:03:40,840 a ud3 class board this is more like what I'd expect to see on a ud4 or ud5 class 48 00:03:39,159 --> 00:03:44,280 of board but Gigabyte's really gone all out on this one we've got our eight pin 49 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:49,000 power connector and its ideal location in the top left I'll go through fan 50 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:52,319 headers later we've got pretty beefy looking cooling but they are attached by 51 00:03:50,799 --> 00:03:57,239 plastic pegs so be a little bit careful with those when you're taking them out of the box just make sure you got good 52 00:03:55,519 --> 00:04:03,879 contact between the mosfets and the heat sinks and then you shouldn't have too much to worry about we've got four DDR3 53 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:07,599 dim slots supporting dual Channel memory we've got our 24 pin connector in its 54 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:10,480 ideal location along the right hand Edge Gigabyte SATA ports are right here so 55 00:04:09,319 --> 00:04:14,000 those are powered by a thirdparty chipset if you're running SATA 3 drives 56 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:19,600 I would highly recommend you stick with the two Intel powered ones which are right here and then you've also got four 57 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:23,520 SATA 2 connectors to go along with those so total of eight SATA connectors our 58 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:28,400 chipset heat sink is right here nice and low profile so you're not going to have any problems with graphics cards being 59 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:32,600 interfered with we've got our front panel connector our TPM 60 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:36,840 uh we've got front USB 3 right about here front High powerered USB 2 so 61 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:41,800 that's for charging your iPad or other tablet with the included utility one two 62 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:46,320 more front panel usb2 ports we've got front fire wire front audio and then 63 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:51,120 we've got what looks like a fairly ideal setup so three PCI e1x of which two of 64 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:55,639 them will be available when you install a dual slot graphics card two PCI of 65 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:59,199 which one will be available when you install a dual slot graphics card so 66 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:04,280 that gives you room for one two three more uh devices in addition to your SLI 67 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:08,880 or Crossfire graphics cards and you can have one PCI and two PCI 68 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:12,680 e1x on the back of the board we find almost nothing except you can see that 69 00:05:10,479 --> 00:05:18,960 that chipset heat sink maybe due to its size is affixed by screws so that's nice 70 00:05:15,199 --> 00:05:22,440 to see on the back we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 71 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:25,080 7 8 USB 2.0 ports one of those PS2 mouse 72 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:29,680 keyboard combo ports optical audio out HDMI out that is what gives you the 73 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:34,720 ability to use Lucid virtue and Intel Quicks sync technology and then we've 74 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:40,319 got two USB 3.0 ports gabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio out don't forget also you know 75 00:05:39,199 --> 00:05:45,560 what I don't think they even mentioned this on the box I can't believe they didn't mention that must be on here 76 00:05:43,639 --> 00:05:49,039 somewhere yeah there it is okay dual BIOS yeah don't forget about dual BIOS 77 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:54,360 dual BIOS is awesome because it means that if your BIOS gets pooched you can 78 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:58,440 actually restore to the other BIOS chip no problem so that's a very convenient 79 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:02,240 feature makes it so that you are less likely to brick a Gigabyte board with a 80 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:05,120 BIOS flash than anything that doesn't have dual BIOS thank you for checking 81 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:10,400 out my video don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips from unboxings reviews 82 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,400 and other computer videos