WEBVTT 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:15.120 today I will be unboxing the 990 fx8 ud7 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:18.119 this is a truly high-end 990 FX board 00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:22.080 from Gigabyte features a bucket load of features including unlocked performance 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:27.720 that is to say it is compatible with the upcoming unlocked FX chips from AMD it 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:34.520 features full support for AMD Crossfire X NVIDIA SLI 00:00:30.840 --> 00:00:34.520 oh man rocket give it a 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:39.480 rest so I guess he just needed attention 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:46.239 isn't that right rocket are you done bothering us 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:50.079 now okay here you go there you go 00:00:46.239 --> 00:00:53.680 sweetheart off he goes all right so uh 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:56.000 yes AMD Crossfire X NVIDIA SLI 333 00:00:53.680 --> 00:01:00.680 onboard acceleration that is USB 3 SATA 3 and three times USB power for 00:00:58.879 --> 00:01:05.600 additional power through us B hubs or charging higher powered devices Ultra 00:01:03.199 --> 00:01:09.479 durable 3 3year warranty and 8 plus2 phase 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:13.360 power okay moving along to the inside we see a window through to the motherboard 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:18.119 we see some glamour shots of the motherboard itself we see it features 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 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:25.560 SLI and four-way Crossfire now there's a 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:28.479 cool feature dual BIOS which means if you corrupt your BIOS during flashing 00:01:27.119 --> 00:01:34.520 you can restore it using another physical BIOS chip and hyfi technology 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:36.640 giving you support for 3 tbte plus uh 00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:40.840 hard drives we have a debug LED for diagnosing boot problems as well as a 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:48.079 couple of other things here including onoff charging for your USB devices with 00:01:44.600 --> 00:01:50.560 one of the front USB headers on the back 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:57.119 we see pretty much the same stuff that we were looking at on the 00:01:52.600 --> 00:02:00.680 inside so let's go ahead and open this 00:01:57.119 --> 00:02:00.680 bad boy up 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 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:10.440 here but it's full size here someone who 00:02:08.399 --> 00:02:13.560 was designing the inner carton of the packaging was not talking to the guy who 00:02:12.040 --> 00:02:17.959 was designing the outer carton of the packaging who thinks I could be wrong 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 00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:26.519 terms of accessories we have a Gigabyte 3-way SLI Bridge which is black very 00:02:23.720 --> 00:02:31.400 nice I hate seeing a black PCB gorgeous looking motherboard coming with a like a 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:35.640 blue three-way s Bridge all right we have two right angle and two straight 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:42.040 say to three cables we have a crossfire Bridge a four-way oh a 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:48.239 black very nice black four-way SLI bridge and another Crossfire Bridge okay 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 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 00:02:53.640 --> 00:02:59.480 hate mismatched mismatched three-way and four-way SLI Bridges because you go and 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 00:03:01.239 --> 00:03:07.319 very often colorcoded rear IO Shield we 00:03:04.760 --> 00:03:10.239 have a users manual with driver DVD throw that away download the latest from 00:03:08.799 --> 00:03:15.120 the Gigabyte website multilingual installation guide book a Gigabyte 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:17.519 sticker and a Dolby Digital home theater 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:21.760 sticker let's go ahead and close that up and have a look at the motherboard 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:27.040 itself so the last ud7 board from Gigabyte was an XL ATX form factor and 00:03:24.519 --> 00:03:33.159 it looks like they have actually gotten away from that with this iteration which 00:03:29.519 --> 00:03:35.799 I think is probably a move for in the 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 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 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:49.920 which supports all of your standard am2 am3 am3 plus CPU heat sinks as long as 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:55.400 it supports the wattage being output by the CPU then you should be fine and this 00:03:53.239 --> 00:04:01.599 is interesting these are labeled coupon 00:03:58.959 --> 00:04:06.760 coupon 2 three and four those look like voltage readouts but 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:12.079 uh fascinating so if anyone knows what the coupon those four coupon things are 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 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 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:27.639 board we've got our very nice heat pipe 00:04:23.320 --> 00:04:30.280 connected chipset and um mosfet cooling 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:33.320 solution going on here so top chipsets here bottom chipsets here we used to 00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:38.120 call them North Bridge South Bridge now they're not and then the mosfets are 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:42.160 here moving along to the right hand edge of the board we find our 24 pin 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:46.600 connector in its ideal location we find power reset and clear seos buttons in a 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:51.320 way better than usual location for onboard connectors down here is all fine 00:04:49.280 --> 00:04:54.000 and good until you install a PCI Express graphics card near the bottom of the 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:57.680 board and then you can't reach it anymore so this is very smart Gigabyte 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 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:06.919 you can actually put four graphics cards in it and still access the features good 00:05:05.080 --> 00:05:11.560 on your Gigabyte all right we've got auxiliary 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:13.600 power for our graphics cards here so you 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:18.440 can plug in additional SATA connector love seeing this as a SATA connector 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:20.039 rather than a PCIe or a Molex connector 00:05:18.440 --> 00:05:24.160 because you're bound to have more extra SATA connectors than PCIe connectors if 00:05:22.479 --> 00:05:29.440 you go and install four graphics cards am I right okay we've got gigabits G 00:05:26.960 --> 00:05:33.720 Gigabyte SATA 36 gbit per second ports here so those are running off a third 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 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 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:49.280 running off the AMD chipset these two are running off a Gigabyte third party 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:51.560 chipset here is our debug LED here are 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 00:05:54.759 --> 00:06:02.440 extra power one you can tell from the red background two front USB 2.0 front 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:05.240 fire wire and front panel audio headers 00:06:02.440 --> 00:06:09.960 are available in terms of our PCIe layout we've got a very Advanced looking 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:14.440 PCI layout here so here's a 16x slot here's another 16x slot so if 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:18.639 you're installing two cards those are your guys right there those are the ones 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 00:06:20.599 --> 00:06:28.479 because it's right next to your primary PCI e6x slot we have another 4X slot 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:31.000 here and we have a PCI slot okay so if 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 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:40.599 left with an 8X a 4X and an 8X for 00:06:37.919 --> 00:06:46.080 expansion okay if you're installing three PCI Express graphics cards you 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 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:55.960 PCIe 8X slot for expansion and these will run at 8X 8X 8X in all likelihood 00:06:53.960 --> 00:06:59.280 although it might be 168 and 8 if you are running four graphics cards you'll 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 00:07:03.479 --> 00:07:09.759 will still get pretty much full performance out of all four graphics 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:13.479 cards and you better watch out because you're going to want to make sure your 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:17.440 case has additional room to hang over that uh Second slot on the bottom 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:22.080 graphics card such as if you have a Corsair 800d then you're in good shape 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 00:07:23.960 --> 00:07:30.479 does have a ventilation slot under that last expansion card okay the overall 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 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 00:07:36.840 --> 00:07:44.039 pin here we've got a four pin here we 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:46.080 have a three pin here and that's about 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 00:07:48.599 --> 00:07:55.840 back we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 USB 2.0 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 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 00:08:05.960 --> 00:08:11.520 Port um PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port 00:08:09.039 --> 00:08:16.400 Optical and coax seal digital audio out fire wire two USB 3.0 ports gigabit 00:08:14.400 --> 00:08:22.960 Ethernet and 7.1 audio so this is pretty much the 00:08:21.080 --> 00:08:29.159 cream of the cream for AMD boards you can install anything from a four-way 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:31.840 6970 graphics card configuration with 16 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 00:08:34.599 --> 00:08:40.919 you can install a bunch of SATA 36 gbit per second ssds this will accept pretty 00:08:38.760 --> 00:08:45.519 much anything you throw at it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 990 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:49.040 fxa ud7 from Gigabyte and don't forget to subscribe to Linus techtips for 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:53.160 unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys one thing I neglected 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:58.120 to mention is this is slightly wider than ATX it's not eatx which would be 00:08:55.560 --> 00:09:03.640 about here but you can see that past these three uh mounting holes there is a 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 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:10.760 does support slightly wider than ATX specification