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on the surface this motherboard appears to suffer from a bit of an identity

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crisis Gigabyte couldn't figure out how to Brand the thing it carries their

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traditional mainstream board Ultra durable branding their G1 gaming

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branding and like Black Edition in huge letters in the middle of the Box what

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the heck is this

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thing with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is

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amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts all right so

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apparently I wasn't tall enough during the intro and Brandon gave me another

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Apple box to stand off on thanks for that Brandon the answer is all of the

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above this is by a considerable margin gigaby highest in z97 motherboard but

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before we get into that let's cover the accessories shall we in the Box you will

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find two-way three-way and four-way SLI Bridges yes the board uses a plx hub to

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give it quad Crossfire and SLI support a crossfire Bridge an IO Shield a wireless

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AC and Bluetooth combo PCIe card as well

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as an internal connector and antenna to go with that six braided SATA cables

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half with straight and half with angled connectors and finally a 3 and 1/2 in

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front USB module for your USB 3 in case your case doesn't have that all right

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and I guess there's also a manual stickers and a driver disc in there too

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on the board itself we'll kick things off with Aesthetics where Gigabyte has

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moved away from the green color scheme and guns and bullets branding elements

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towards a more subdued black gray and red color scheme that some will find

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attractive but others myself included will find uninspired in copycat I mean a

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red and black gaming motherboard we've never seen that before but you can

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hardly blame them for going with what obviously works right along with the

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more subdued practical looks comes a more subdued practical design you won't

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find any extra CPU power inputs and

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instead of an overbuilt 300 phase power

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design it's got a simple yet robust All Digital 8-phase CPU power design that is

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built for longevity rather than bling notable inclusions are the 10K black

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capacitors rated at 10,000 hours at 105°

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C and the 168 hour testing procedure

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that each and every one of these motherboards will go through before it

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makes it to your hands better QC is the

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kind of thing I don't mind paying more for especially given how little there is

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to differentiate one motherboard from another of these days the fan on the vrm

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heat sink from the Z87 equivalent is gone replaced by beefier or passive heat

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sinks but liquid cooling is still an option and Gigabyte has actually

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improved the flexibility of their solution significantly by providing G1

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quarter threaded holes instead of integrated barbs another thumbs up there

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CPU support is dictated by the LJ 1150 socket in Gigabyte figures you won't

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have any difficulty with a last generation Haswell chip a Haswell

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refresh code name Devil's Canyon chip or even an upcoming Broadwell process

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processor so z97 looks like a solid option for someone planning to build a

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system now then upgrade when Intel rolls out their new CPUs officially we've got

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dual Channel DDR3 RAM support up to 3200

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MHz but it should be noted that on hasbell CPUs maximum RAM frequency

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decreases as CPU frequency increases with overclocking so it's not a huge

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deal these days in the top right corner we'll find power reset and clear seimo

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switches along with a debug LED and contact points for reading onboard

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voltages with a multimeter rather than relying on soft Ware the 24 pin is in

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its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board with front USB 3 and

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an auxiliary SATA connector right beneath it make sure to plug that in if

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you're using more than two graphics cards on the board further down things

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get pretty interesting Gigabyte has added not one but two additional Marvel

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controllers to give this board a total of 10 SATA 36 GB per second ports and

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they've also implemented SATA Express which will consume two of the regular

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Intel SATA 3 ports should you decide to use that once SSD that support this new

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10 gbit standard become available at the bottom we find color-coded front panel

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connectors and physical switches to decide which of the two BIOS chips you

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want to use as well as whether you want to use dual BIOS at all although I'd

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recommend leaving that on the PCI Express layout of this board is what I

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would consider ideal not Everyone likes this spacing but here's why I like it

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you've got lots of space between the 16x

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slots here and here and you can cram four cards on the board all running in

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adex mode if you really want to by having the bottom card hang down a

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little bit and it does this without increasing the height of the board to an

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XL ATX form factor Love It audio has

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been a big Focus for Gigabyte since the beginning of the G1 series and it

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continues to be one here they're using nichon audio grade capacitors a gold

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shielded creative sound processor and a physically separated PCB in order to

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improve performance and reduce interference they've also thrown in gain

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adjustment switches for folks with difficult to drive headphones a

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swappable opamp socket if you're into that sort of thing and goldplated

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connectors on the back which won't improve audio quality but might help

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with longevity somewhat now things have

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gone really well for the layout of this board so far but Gigabyte bunged up the

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fan connectors a little bit in my mind look at pretty much any Modern

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Performance case and you'll see top mounted fans or at least mounts for them

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Gigabyte hasn't got any fan headers on basically the top half of the board

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they're here here here here here here and here which is perfect if your case

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has all of the fans in the front and the bottom a rare occurrence it's not a huge

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deal and fan extensions are cheap it's just something that I'd like to see

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improved rear IO is a strong point for the board PS2 is there for those random

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hardto diagnose issues the two USB 2.0 ports are Dack ports which supposedly

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provide more stable power and are good for USB sound cards not sure why we'd

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need two of those especially with the excellent onboard audio but I guess it

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saves me the trouble of peering back there to make sure I'm using the right

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one if I'm using a deck triple displays running DVI HDMI and DisplayPort are

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supported off the onboard graphics and then we find six USB 3 ports 2 GB

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Ethernet ports one Intel and one killer

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e2205 Network chip that enables packet prioritization for your most important

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applications this is a layout that I really like giving me the option of

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Intel or the killer one and then finally goldplated 7.1 audio ports as well as an

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optical audio port for good measure speaking of good measure I hope this

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video gave you a pretty good measure of the awkwardly named gab z97x gaming G1

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Wi-Fi BK Black Edition Uber clock I

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don't know whatever anyway it includes everything but the kitchen sync Hardware

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wise and even adds an updated easy UF ufi BIOS mode as well as a self-tuning

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overclocking feature within Gigabyte easz tune software but more importantly

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it adds more testing and validation so you're unlikely to end up with a lemon

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this is the kind of thing I really value these days and it's great to see

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Gigabyte raising the bar this way thanks for watching guys as usual the link to

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