{"video_id":"P6T1xSlIkWE","title":"Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 Gaming Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":336,"segments":[{"start_s":7.68,"end_s":16.16,"text":"today I'll be unboxing the Gigabyte z68x ud3h B3 so this has most of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.36,"end_s":21.76,"text":"features you have come to expect from Gigabyte including touch BIOS hybrid EFI","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.64,"end_s":23.76,"text":"technology which allows you to use 3 TB","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.76,"end_s":30.119,"text":"plus hard drives a 3-year warranty in the US and Canada Ultra durable 3 it's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.48,"end_s":32.84,"text":"got NVIDIA SLI AMD Crossfire and it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":30.119,"end_s":38.36,"text":"supports all the latest Intel core I3 i5 and i7 processors on LGA 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checking","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":331.319,"end_s":337.84,"text":"out my unboxing don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":334.52,"end_s":337.84,"text":"other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"today I'll be unboxing the Gigabyte z68x ud3h B3 so this has most of the features you have come to expect from Gigabyte including touch BIOS hybrid EFI technology which allows you to use 3 TB plus hard drives a 3-year warranty in the US and Canada Ultra durable 3 it's got NVIDIA SLI AMD Crossfire and it supports all the latest Intel core I3 i5 and i7 processors on LGA 1155 let's look around on the back of the board and have a look if they have anything else to say for themselves yes we've got dual BIOS which allows you to restore it to the other physical BIOS chip even if you corrupt the BIOS during a flash we have 3x USB power which allows you to charge uh more powerful devices and run more powered devices off a hub than you can on competing motherboards we have USB 3 SATA 3 6 gbit per second and Driver Moss fets which reduces mounting area by 50% apparently interesting the onboard audio includes a 108 DB sound to noise ratio and that is definitely a good thing more sound less noise always a plus we have four SATA cables included two straight to right angle we have an IO Shield which has convenient color coating on it we have a little warning telling you not to put a socket 1156 CPU in this board and we have an SLI cable next we have a user manual with a useless utility DVD download the latest off the Gigabyte website to make sure you have the latest versions finally a dual be home theater sticker and a multilingual installation guide book next we have the board itself which has foam look at that never seen foam on a motherboard like that before and I'm not even being fous I have never seen foam mounted on a motherboard like that so let's go ahead and find out why it has foam on it take that out oh beautiful motherboard especially for like a value price point board so there you go that is to I'm going to go ahead and guess prevent the mosfet heat sink from moving around during shipping there you go cuz it does use plastic push pins so while those are not a risk while the board is stationary while it's being moved around yeah it could loosen the uh bond between the thermal compound and the mosfets themselves so let's have a look at the overall layout of this guy right here we're going to start with our 1155 socket in the middle of the board so that's where you put your CPU then we're going to move on to our looks like 1 2 3 4 6 plus one phase power design we've got our 8 pin connector in the top left of the board and its ideal location we've got our dual Channel DDR3 RAM over here on the side and our 24 pin connector also in its ideal location we've got seven SATA ports so this is SATA 36 gbit per second right here is SATA 36 GB per second and we've got three SATA 2 uh 3 gbit per second so this one's running off the Intel chipset this one's running off a third party chipset these ones are going to be your higher performing ones and these are your fallbacks the last SATA port is going to be on the back panel of the motherboard and I'm a big fan of that running Intel off the Intel chipset because it can be more convenient for raid configurations here are our front panel connectors as well as our front USB 3.0 fire wire powered front USB remember you can charge a tablet off the one with the red background and then 1 two three more front USB headers in terms of the PCI slot layout we've got 1 2 3 PCI 1X 2 PCI 16x although this one is only wired electrically to 8X and two PCI slots this is a very very solid layout because it's going to give you two PCI 1X and one PCI left if you install two dual Slot Cards on the back here we've got a variety of good features remember this is a z68 motherboard so we have video out including VGA DVI HDMI and DisplayPort yes everything is supported we've got 1 2 3 4 USB 2.0 ports one of those PS2 keyboard mouse combo ports optical audio out fire wire ESAT off the Intel chipset two USB 3.0 ports gigb Ethernet and 7.1 audio out so I would say an ideal type configuration for a motherboard like this is making sure that you've got a nice decent quadcore CPU I mean if you're going to get the z68 chipset you might as well go for a quad core this is a high-end chipset also you're going to want to put most people aren't going to be running SLI or Crossfire on a board like this although you will have the option so maybe go with a value board like or value card like a good bang for I shouldn't say value cuz they're still expensive but a bang for the butt card like a GTX 560 or a radon 6870 something along those lines RAM is so cheap these days so I'd probably throw 8 gigs of RAM I'd throw an SSD in here remember this board supports Lucid virtue so you can use the Onboard video here out the Onboard video here and still use your dedicated graphics for games but you can use this one to do video transcoding and it also supports Intel SRT technology so you can take a 60 gig SSD even a SATA 31 throw it on the SATA 3 port and then throw a a big hard drive like a wd black on one of the other ports in order to use the SSD as a cash for awesome performance without blowing a bunch of money on 120 or 240 gig s s SD thank you for checking out my unboxing don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}