1 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:15,120 today I will be unboxing the 990 fx8 ud7 2 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:18,119 this is a truly high-end 990 FX board 3 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:22,080 from Gigabyte features a bucket load of features including unlocked performance 4 00:00:20,359 --> 00:00:27,720 that is to say it is compatible with the upcoming unlocked FX chips from AMD it 5 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:34,520 features full support for AMD Crossfire X NVIDIA SLI 6 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,520 oh man rocket give it a 7 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:39,480 rest so I guess he just needed attention 8 00:00:38,079 --> 00:00:46,239 isn't that right rocket are you done bothering us 9 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:50,079 now okay here you go there you go 10 00:00:46,239 --> 00:00:53,680 sweetheart off he goes all right so uh 11 00:00:50,079 --> 00:00:56,000 yes AMD Crossfire X NVIDIA SLI 333 12 00:00:53,680 --> 00:01:00,680 onboard acceleration that is USB 3 SATA 3 and three times USB power for 13 00:00:58,879 --> 00:01:05,600 additional power through us B hubs or charging higher powered devices Ultra 14 00:01:03,199 --> 00:01:09,479 durable 3 3year warranty and 8 plus2 phase 15 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:13,360 power okay moving along to the inside we see a window through to the motherboard 16 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:18,119 we see some glamour shots of the motherboard itself we see it features 17 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:23,360 driver mosfets and what else we got over here so we've got support for four-way 18 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:25,560 SLI and four-way Crossfire now there's a 19 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:28,479 cool feature dual BIOS which means if you corrupt your BIOS during flashing 20 00:01:27,119 --> 00:01:34,520 you can restore it using another physical BIOS chip and hyfi technology 21 00:01:31,079 --> 00:01:36,640 giving you support for 3 tbte plus uh 22 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:40,840 hard drives we have a debug LED for diagnosing boot problems as well as a 23 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:48,079 couple of other things here including onoff charging for your USB devices with 24 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:50,560 one of the front USB headers on the back 25 00:01:48,079 --> 00:01:57,119 we see pretty much the same stuff that we were looking at on the 26 00:01:52,600 --> 00:02:00,680 inside so let's go ahead and open this 27 00:01:57,119 --> 00:02:00,680 bad boy up 28 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:08,399 all right now we see the window is huh that's kind of funny the window is small 29 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:10,440 here but it's full size here someone who 30 00:02:08,399 --> 00:02:13,560 was designing the inner carton of the packaging was not talking to the guy who 31 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:17,959 was designing the outer carton of the packaging who thinks I could be wrong 32 00:02:15,959 --> 00:02:21,000 though it's happened before all right let's have a look at what we've got in 33 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:26,519 terms of accessories we have a Gigabyte 3-way SLI Bridge which is black very 34 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:31,400 nice I hate seeing a black PCB gorgeous looking motherboard coming with a like a 35 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:35,640 blue three-way s Bridge all right we have two right angle and two straight 36 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:42,040 say to three cables we have a crossfire Bridge a four-way oh a 37 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:48,239 black very nice black four-way SLI bridge and another Crossfire Bridge okay 38 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:51,760 so we have oh yeah there it is there's a two-way SLI Bridge all of these are 39 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:56,360 black all of them are very very nice looking that's uh very good to see I 40 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:59,480 hate mismatched mismatched three-way and four-way SLI Bridges because you go and 41 00:02:58,159 --> 00:03:04,760 build a high-end system and then you put a eyes sore on it that doesn't happen 42 00:03:01,239 --> 00:03:07,319 very often colorcoded rear IO Shield we 43 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:10,239 have a users manual with driver DVD throw that away download the latest from 44 00:03:08,799 --> 00:03:15,120 the Gigabyte website multilingual installation guide book a Gigabyte 45 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:17,519 sticker and a Dolby Digital home theater 46 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:21,760 sticker let's go ahead and close that up and have a look at the motherboard 47 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:27,040 itself so the last ud7 board from Gigabyte was an XL ATX form factor and 48 00:03:24,519 --> 00:03:33,159 it looks like they have actually gotten away from that with this iteration which 49 00:03:29,519 --> 00:03:35,799 I think is probably a move for in the 50 00:03:33,159 --> 00:03:38,640 right direction so let's have a look at the you know what I'll do my usual thing 51 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:44,599 and then I'll go back and look at some of the things that are special about this board so here's our socket am3 plus 52 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:49,920 which supports all of your standard am2 am3 am3 plus CPU heat sinks as long as 53 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:55,400 it supports the wattage being output by the CPU then you should be fine and this 54 00:03:53,239 --> 00:04:01,599 is interesting these are labeled coupon 55 00:03:58,959 --> 00:04:06,760 coupon 2 three and four those look like voltage readouts but 56 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:12,079 uh fascinating so if anyone knows what the coupon those four coupon things are 57 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:17,600 let me know I think maybe they mean CPU I got nothing okay guys uh the eight 58 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:23,320 pin power connector in its top is in its ideal location in the top left of the 59 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:27,639 board we've got our very nice heat pipe 60 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:30,280 connected chipset and um mosfet cooling 61 00:04:27,639 --> 00:04:33,320 solution going on here so top chipsets here bottom chipsets here we used to 62 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:38,120 call them North Bridge South Bridge now they're not and then the mosfets are 63 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:42,160 here moving along to the right hand edge of the board we find our 24 pin 64 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:46,600 connector in its ideal location we find power reset and clear seos buttons in a 65 00:04:44,759 --> 00:04:51,320 way better than usual location for onboard connectors down here is all fine 66 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:54,000 and good until you install a PCI Express graphics card near the bottom of the 67 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,680 board and then you can't reach it anymore so this is very smart Gigabyte 68 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:03,199 has said oh we're going to design a board that's going to have up to four graphics cards in it let's make it so 69 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:06,919 you can actually put four graphics cards in it and still access the features good 70 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:11,560 on your Gigabyte all right we've got auxiliary 71 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:13,600 power for our graphics cards here so you 72 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:18,440 can plug in additional SATA connector love seeing this as a SATA connector 73 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,039 rather than a PCIe or a Molex connector 74 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:24,160 because you're bound to have more extra SATA connectors than PCIe connectors if 75 00:05:22,479 --> 00:05:29,440 you go and install four graphics cards am I right okay we've got gigabits G 76 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:33,720 Gigabyte SATA 36 gbit per second ports here so those are running off a third 77 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:39,680 party controller then we have SATA 3 6 GB per second ports here oh oh oh okay 78 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:43,800 right so we've got eight total SATA 3 6 gbit per second ports these six are 79 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:49,280 running off the AMD chipset these two are running off a Gigabyte third party 80 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:51,560 chipset here is our debug LED here are 81 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:56,240 our front panel connectors here is our front USB 3.0 front USB 2 that's the 82 00:05:54,759 --> 00:06:02,440 extra power one you can tell from the red background two front USB 2.0 front 83 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:05,240 fire wire and front panel audio headers 84 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:09,960 are available in terms of our PCIe layout we've got a very Advanced looking 85 00:06:07,199 --> 00:06:14,440 PCI layout here so here's a 16x slot here's another 16x slot so if 86 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:18,639 you're installing two cards those are your guys right there those are the ones 87 00:06:16,319 --> 00:06:21,960 you want to use we've got a 4X slot this is pretty much not intended to be used 88 00:06:20,599 --> 00:06:28,479 because it's right next to your primary PCI e6x slot we have another 4X slot 89 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:31,000 here and we have a PCI slot okay so if 90 00:06:28,479 --> 00:06:37,919 you're installing two 16x cards they will run at full 16x 16x and you will be 91 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:40,599 left with an 8X a 4X and an 8X for 92 00:06:37,919 --> 00:06:46,080 expansion okay if you're installing three PCI Express graphics cards you 93 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:50,960 will use this one this one and this one and you will be left with a single 94 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:55,960 PCIe 8X slot for expansion and these will run at 8X 8X 8X in all likelihood 95 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:59,280 although it might be 168 and 8 if you are running four graphics cards you'll 96 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:05,879 use this one this one this one and this one they will run at 8X 8X 8X 8X so you 97 00:07:03,479 --> 00:07:09,759 will still get pretty much full performance out of all four graphics 98 00:07:07,639 --> 00:07:13,479 cards and you better watch out because you're going to want to make sure your 99 00:07:10,879 --> 00:07:17,440 case has additional room to hang over that uh Second slot on the bottom 100 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:22,080 graphics card such as if you have a Corsair 800d then you're in good shape 101 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:26,440 because even though it's a 7 PCI slot case it does have an overhang and it 102 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:30,479 does have a ventilation slot under that last expansion card okay the overall 103 00:07:28,919 --> 00:07:34,440 layout of the board Bo looks very very nice let's show you guys where the fan 104 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:40,199 headers are so we've got our four pin CPU fan header here we've got a three 105 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:44,039 pin here we've got a four pin here we 106 00:07:40,199 --> 00:07:46,080 have a three pin here and that's about 107 00:07:44,039 --> 00:07:53,479 it actually not too many fan headers on this guy all right having a look at the 108 00:07:48,599 --> 00:07:55,840 back we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 USB 2.0 109 00:07:53,479 --> 00:08:03,680 ports uh this one is one of those combo USB 2 e SATA ports we have another 110 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:09,039 USB wow what is this thing no that must be ESAT Okay so we've got another eSATA 111 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:11,520 Port um PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port 112 00:08:09,039 --> 00:08:16,400 Optical and coax seal digital audio out fire wire two USB 3.0 ports gigabit 113 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:22,960 Ethernet and 7.1 audio so this is pretty much the 114 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:29,159 cream of the cream for AMD boards you can install anything from a four-way 115 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,840 6970 graphics card configuration with 16 116 00:08:29,159 --> 00:08:36,680 gigs of RAM and a high-end six core or even 8 core once they're released CPU 117 00:08:34,599 --> 00:08:40,919 you can install a bunch of SATA 36 gbit per second ssds this will accept pretty 118 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:45,519 much anything you throw at it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 990 119 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:49,040 fxa ud7 from Gigabyte and don't forget to subscribe to Linus techtips for 120 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,160 unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys one thing I neglected 121 00:08:51,399 --> 00:08:58,120 to mention is this is slightly wider than ATX it's not eatx which would be 122 00:08:55,560 --> 00:09:03,640 about here but you can see that past these three uh mounting holes there is a 123 00:09:01,079 --> 00:09:07,760 little bit of extra PCB on the edge here so you should make sure that your case 124 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:10,760 does support slightly wider than ATX specification