welcome to another motherboard unboxing this is the
z77x which as you guys might imagine uses the z77 chipset from Intel UD 5H UD
implies that there is ultra durable technology but wait it's not Ultra
durable 5 because that's not out yet the highest Ultra durable we have is ultra
durable 4 and this one has it so moving along we've got the 3D BIOS logo here
which includes the Dual UEFI BIOS with their unique graphical interface that
allows you to actually click on the various parts of your board in order to
access them so you want to access things about the SATA ports you just click on
the SATA ports a bit more intuitive than you
know shoot where do they usually keep that see I can't even remember where
they usually keep the SATA options cuz they're all over the place it can be in like integrated peripherals sometimes
what does that even mean integrated peripheral SATA port anyway so Gigabyte
wants to make that simpler it also includes 3D power which is their All
Digital engine meaning they are using all digital pwm for this particular
motherboard this supports the latest Intel Core i7 third generation
processors on the 1155 socket z77
chipset we covered PCI Express Gen 3 is supported by this board so you want to
run your latest GTX 680 I guess by the time you watch this video it might not
be the latest but 680 or rad on hd7970
and get the absolute most out of it yes the extra 1% or so PCI Express Gen 3 is
the way to go if it's more important for S Crossfire though and I'll cover that
more later the MSA connector is on board which I'll cover more once we've opened
it up and Ultra durable for so this is a bunch of stuff high temperature
protection humidity protection using their new woven glass fiber or sorry
woven glass fabric PCB which can be
relevant if you are in a high humidity environment such as say for example
Taiwan or I mean you know I've had situations where I've accidentally
spilled water on a board I hope it would help with that although you know no promises there guys electrostatic
protection so they've integrated circuitry that actually protects the
board from being damaged in the event of an electrostatic accident and power
failure protection once again design choices that they've made to help
mitigate the risk of that permanently damaging your motherboard so we'll leave
that there so that we don't miss anything okay and let's open this bad
boy up so the motherboard comes first but I'm going to make you guys wait for it and we'll go through the ex no no no
calm down slick we'll do the mother board
later going to go through the accessories first so we have two right
angle SATA cables one right angle K SATA cable and a straight SATA cable so three
right angles and one straight then we have a USB 3.0 front panel 3 and2 in Bay
user manual as well as driver and utility DVD don't use this download the
latest from the Gigabyte website there's also huh look at that they they opened
it up to the page with the Box contents and the motherboard layout see those are
the little touches that you got to appreciate Gigabyte sticker multilingual
installation guide book with more languages than I can speak uh we have a
flexible black SLI Bridge the very best
kind we also have an IO plate that is
handily color coded love color coding
love things that are black and love small finishing touches so far Gigabyte
A+ as far as the included access are
going next let's get the board opened up
here this is a resealed board it's a sample board so yeah yours won't look
like that unless you buy this one haha no just kidding you won't get this one
um here we go so you know what let's shift our angle a little bit
here well I meant turn the camera off for and we're ready all right so at the
very center of the board the very focal point for me is the new well not new
lg15 5 socket supporting the new uh IV
Bridge code named Intel Core i7 and i5 and I3 Generation 3 processors the thing
we also find right next to it is another cool Intel technology that is Intel
smart response technology you can throw a little PCI E SSD in here not going to
take up any of your PCI slots or any of your SATA ports and you can use that to
run Intel SRT caching off of a drive that you have connected to the system
very very cool all right we've got our
power deliver delivery circuitry here along with beefy heat sinks that are
connected by a heat pipe to the beefy heat sink that is also installed on the
chipset itself we have our 8 pin connector in its ideal location at the
top left of the board and we'll go around and count the pwm fan headers at
the end of the video this right here is dual Channel DDR3 memory supporting up
to four dims that so that is a chipset thing guys this is not a replacement for
x79 this is a replacement for z68 so we still C dual Channel DDR3 we have a SOS
switch as well as a reset switch and a power button built into the most
sensible possible location up here at the top right of the board now this is
ex is excellent this is only a ud5 level board so this isn't even a topend board
but look at this it's got all of your voltage checkpoints that's that's like
outstanding I cannot stress enough how outstanding that is you can check all your voltages with a multimeter even on
this like sort of high-end but not quite like a ud7 or or G1 series board very
cool the 24 pin connectors in its ideal location along the far right of the
board and check this out if you want additional power for your graphics cards
you can use a SATA connector instead of a Molex I think this is a great design
choice and I yeah appreciate that as a
user all right here we go SATA 2 Port
will be disabled when msata slot is in
use so there you go it is running off of
the okay so you do use up a Port but I guess you get the benefit of like it
looking badass and you don't have to use up an
actual Bay in your case so there there's the benefit all right these guys right
here are SATA 36 gbit per second these ones right here are SATA 2 3 gbit per
second and these ones are also oh sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry these four are
SATA 26 3 gbit per second and then these
four are SATA 3 6 gbit per second this
one is also 36 GB per second and check this out two front panel USB 3.0 ports
so this is interesting because according to the Intel three front panel USB 3.0
ports this is interesting because according to the Intel spec the front
panel USB 3 Port like the Intel the Intel usb3 ports have to be integrated
with two in the front two in the back so on this particular board you're going to
be allowed to choose whether you want to run off of the Intel usb3 chip or off of
the third party usb3 chip we have another sta 3 port I think I mentioned
that and here are all of our front panel
switches front USB with extra power for
faster charging front panel USB 2 with
not extra power for charging we have our TPM slot as well as a front uh fire wire
and front audio Gigabyte has started putting front audio at the bottom of the board Kudos Gigabyte it used to be here
and this is better all right having a look at the back of the board so the z77
chipset supports Onboard video on supported Intel core I whatever you know
processors that do have Onboard video all the IV Bridge ones do so we've got
VGA DVI HDMI and DisplayPort so the full gamut of options and what's cool is
that with Lucid virtue MVP we actually get a lot more options
in terms of a how to connect your monitor because you can connect it
either to the discrete graphics card or the onboard graphics card and you can
choose D mode or IM mode whether you whichever one it's connected to it
doesn't matter also you can use okay assuming the game
supports it it comes down to software support again assuming that the game
supports it you can use virtu MVP to actually dramatically improve the
performance of a discrete graphics card by having the onboard GPU handle basic
tasks and leaving the more complicated things such as tessellation to your
direct X11 graphics card interesting hey
all right moving on we've got optical audio out two USB 2.0 ports an
additional USB 2.0 Port okay fire wire
four USB 3.0 ports so two of these are off the Intel chipset two of them are
off a third party chipset 2 GB Ethernet ports and 7.1
audio so right I said I was going to go back and count all the pwm fan headers
so here we go one two don't come in too close so that they can see where they
are I think uh 1 2 3 4 five uh uh uh
five pwm fan headers so don't forget oh
oh right right right right right sorry I almost forgot so it's also got integrated creative Sound Blaster X5 mb2
audio which has a built-in headphone amplifier so this is not quite as
advanced a design as they've used on the past on their G1 motherboards but it's
going to be a heck of a lot better than your standard onboard audio and then
what else are we missing here hold on let me just make sure I didn't miss anything guys Intel gigb Ethernet all
right yes one of these two built-in LS is Intel so as opposed to a thirdparty
chipset which a lot of users do prefer
and finally you know what let's go back to the back of the box where they do
have some of their other stuff sorry guys this is in lie of
notes so that outlines actually yeah you guys can just look at that if you really
want to that outlines the benefits of ultra durable 4 which has uh continued
to bring you know the same standard things like 2 O copper BCB which is for
better heat dissipation as well as less interference along with a whole bunch of
other cool stuff so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking
out my unboxing of the z77x ud5h and
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that is the CPU the VT the memory and
the Intel HD graphics which are all digitally powered ah yes the slot layout
sorry guys I forgot three PCI e1x slots two PCI e6x oh okay three PCIe 16x slots
but more on that in a minute and one PCI slot so I mentioned that PCI E3 support
was going to be important for SLI Crossfire users on this platform that is
because these are not both full 16x it's 16x or 8X 8X if you have two cards in
them as per the same limitations as the
z68 platform it's z68 right yeah z68 um
wow dirt moment there guys uh right so
remember PCIe 3.08 is the same bandwidth
as PCIe 16x 2.0 so that means that if
you're running PCI E3 on your CPU remember you need a PCI E3 CPU as well
as your graphics parts that 8X bandwidth is going to be the same as last generation 16x so there should be no
performance bottleneck there at all finally this PCIe 4X slot requires an
ivybridge third gen CPU for more information please refer to the user manual so there you go 16x 60 or 88 or
and 4x assuming you're using an IV Bridge TPU