WEBVTT 00:00:08.120 --> 00:00:16.199 welcome to my unboxing of the z68 XP ud3p from Gigabyte this is a very value 00:00:14.559 --> 00:00:20.880 oriented motherboard in terms of the price but a very performance and looks 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:24.960 and just generally awesome oriented motherboard when you have a look at the 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:29.080 features that are included uh which are all of the z68 features and let's go 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 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 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:45.760 way to use Intel SRT or smart response technology which allows you to take a 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:50.039 large affordable hard drive and cash it improve the performance of it with a 00:00:47.480 --> 00:00:54.600 small affordable SSD it works really well everyone who can't afford an SSD 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.640 for their system because the capacity that they need is just like oh well then 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 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:08.600 so hybrid EFI technology allows 3 terab plus hard drives okay 60% okay yeah yeah 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:13.920 ready for Intel's nextg 22 nanm CPUs very cool okay so that's Ivy Bridge 00:01:10.600 --> 00:01:15.960 ready for Native PCI Express gen 3 so 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:20.479 upcoming graphics cards uh that won't be around for a while but there you go 00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:24.720 supports it driver mosfets uh three times USB power which is a great feature 00:01:22.360 --> 00:01:28.680 allows you to charge more devices or power more devices through a hub 12 00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:32.079 phase power design on the board itself and here's all those z68 features so 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:35.640 Intel HD graphics if you don't want to put in a dedicated graphics card Quicks 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:40.119 sync which allows you to use the dedicated graphics and an integrated 00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:46.520 graphics card in order to get great gaming performance and great uh uh video 00:01:44.119 --> 00:01:50.119 encoding performance Lucid virtue that's the switchable Graphics that allows you 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 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:59.200 missing anything else on this very complicated and fooking box I don't 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 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:10.959 adapter these are handy we have an IO Shield which is helpfully colorcoded aha 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:13.800 flexible black SLI Bridge my very 00:02:10.959 --> 00:02:16.560 favorite kind we have four SATA cables so two are right angle and two of them 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:21.959 are straight we have a users manual 00:02:19.519 --> 00:02:25.319 including a driver DVD don't use this download the latest from the Gigabyte 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:29.200 website as well as a guide for smart response technology which you probably 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:32.840 won't need a guide for because it's so easy with the gab utility multilingual 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:38.599 installation guide book I actually have a video about that on my ncixcom channel 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 00:02:42.920 --> 00:02:51.360 technology using the Gigabyte utility which is basically you download the exe 00:02:48.200 --> 00:02:55.200 to your desktop and then you run 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:57.040 it yeah really it's that easy although I 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 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 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:11.680 look at the layout of the board overall it's a very slick looking all black 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 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 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 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:28.920 that looks guys all right so there's our LGA 1155 socket compatible with the 00:03:25.799 --> 00:03:31.840 latest core I3 Core i5 and core i7 CPUs 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 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 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 00:03:42.760 --> 00:03:49.000 power connector and its ideal location in the top left I'll go through fan 00:03:46.920 --> 00:03:52.319 headers later we've got pretty beefy looking cooling but they are attached by 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 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 00:04:01.640 --> 00:04:07.599 dim slots supporting dual Channel memory we've got our 24 pin connector in its 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:10.480 ideal location along the right hand Edge Gigabyte SATA ports are right here so 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:14.000 those are powered by a thirdparty chipset if you're running SATA 3 drives 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 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:23.520 SATA 2 connectors to go along with those so total of eight SATA connectors our 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 00:04:26.440 --> 00:04:32.600 interfered with we've got our front panel connector our TPM 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:36.840 uh we've got front USB 3 right about here front High powerered USB 2 so 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:41.800 that's for charging your iPad or other tablet with the included utility one two 00:04:39.440 --> 00:04:46.320 more front panel usb2 ports we've got front fire wire front audio and then 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 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:55.639 them will be available when you install a dual slot graphics card two PCI of 00:04:53.960 --> 00:04:59.199 which one will be available when you install a dual slot graphics card so 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:04.280 that gives you room for one two three more uh devices in addition to your SLI 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:08.880 or Crossfire graphics cards and you can have one PCI and two PCI 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:12.680 e1x on the back of the board we find almost nothing except you can see that 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 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:22.440 to see on the back we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 00:05:18.960 --> 00:05:25.080 7 8 USB 2.0 ports one of those PS2 mouse 00:05:22.440 --> 00:05:29.680 keyboard combo ports optical audio out HDMI out that is what gives you the 00:05:26.960 --> 00:05:34.720 ability to use Lucid virtue and Intel Quicks sync technology and then we've 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 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 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:49.039 somewhere yeah there it is okay dual BIOS yeah don't forget about dual BIOS 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:54.360 dual BIOS is awesome because it means that if your BIOS gets pooched you can 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:58.440 actually restore to the other BIOS chip no problem so that's a very convenient 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:02.240 feature makes it so that you are less likely to brick a Gigabyte board with a 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:05.120 BIOS flash than anything that doesn't have dual BIOS thank you for checking 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:10.400 out my video don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips from unboxings reviews 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:10.400 and other computer videos