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welcome to another motherboard unboxing this is the

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z77x which as you guys might imagine uses the z77 chipset from Intel UD 5H UD

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implies that there is ultra durable technology but wait it's not Ultra

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durable 5 because that's not out yet the highest Ultra durable we have is ultra

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durable 4 and this one has it so moving along we've got the 3D BIOS logo here

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which includes the Dual UEFI BIOS with their unique graphical interface that

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allows you to actually click on the various parts of your board in order to

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access them so you want to access things about the SATA ports you just click on

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the SATA ports a bit more intuitive than you

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know shoot where do they usually keep that see I can't even remember where

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they usually keep the SATA options cuz they're all over the place it can be in like integrated peripherals sometimes

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what does that even mean integrated peripheral SATA port anyway so Gigabyte

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wants to make that simpler it also includes 3D power which is their All

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Digital engine meaning they are using all digital pwm for this particular

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motherboard this supports the latest Intel Core i7 third generation

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processors on the 1155 socket z77

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chipset we covered PCI Express Gen 3 is supported by this board so you want to

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run your latest GTX 680 I guess by the time you watch this video it might not

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be the latest but 680 or rad on hd7970

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and get the absolute most out of it yes the extra 1% or so PCI Express Gen 3 is

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the way to go if it's more important for S Crossfire though and I'll cover that

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more later the MSA connector is on board which I'll cover more once we've opened

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it up and Ultra durable for so this is a bunch of stuff high temperature

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protection humidity protection using their new woven glass fiber or sorry

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woven glass fabric PCB which can be

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relevant if you are in a high humidity environment such as say for example

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Taiwan or I mean you know I've had situations where I've accidentally

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spilled water on a board I hope it would help with that although you know no promises there guys electrostatic

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protection so they've integrated circuitry that actually protects the

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board from being damaged in the event of an electrostatic accident and power

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failure protection once again design choices that they've made to help

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mitigate the risk of that permanently damaging your motherboard so we'll leave

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that there so that we don't miss anything okay and let's open this bad

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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

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calm down slick we'll do the mother board

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later going to go through the accessories first so we have two right

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angle SATA cables one right angle K SATA cable and a straight SATA cable so three

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right angles and one straight then we have a USB 3.0 front panel 3 and2 in Bay

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user manual as well as driver and utility DVD don't use this download the

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latest from the Gigabyte website there's also huh look at that they they opened

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it up to the page with the Box contents and the motherboard layout see those are

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the little touches that you got to appreciate Gigabyte sticker multilingual

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installation guide book with more languages than I can speak uh we have a

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flexible black SLI Bridge the very best

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kind we also have an IO plate that is

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handily color coded love color coding

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love things that are black and love small finishing touches so far Gigabyte

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A+ as far as the included access are

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going next let's get the board opened up

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here this is a resealed board it's a sample board so yeah yours won't look

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like that unless you buy this one haha no just kidding you won't get this one

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um here we go so you know what let's shift our angle a little bit

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here well I meant turn the camera off for and we're ready all right so at the

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very center of the board the very focal point for me is the new well not new

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lg15 5 socket supporting the new uh IV

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Bridge code named Intel Core i7 and i5 and I3 Generation 3 processors the thing

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we also find right next to it is another cool Intel technology that is Intel

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smart response technology you can throw a little PCI E SSD in here not going to

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take up any of your PCI slots or any of your SATA ports and you can use that to

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run Intel SRT caching off of a drive that you have connected to the system

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very very cool all right we've got our

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power deliver delivery circuitry here along with beefy heat sinks that are

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connected by a heat pipe to the beefy heat sink that is also installed on the

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chipset itself we have our 8 pin connector in its ideal location at the

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top left of the board and we'll go around and count the pwm fan headers at

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the end of the video this right here is dual Channel DDR3 memory supporting up

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to four dims that so that is a chipset thing guys this is not a replacement for

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x79 this is a replacement for z68 so we still C dual Channel DDR3 we have a SOS

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switch as well as a reset switch and a power button built into the most

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sensible possible location up here at the top right of the board now this is

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ex is excellent this is only a ud5 level board so this isn't even a topend board

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but look at this it's got all of your voltage checkpoints that's that's like

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outstanding I cannot stress enough how outstanding that is you can check all your voltages with a multimeter even on

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this like sort of high-end but not quite like a ud7 or or G1 series board very

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cool the 24 pin connectors in its ideal location along the far right of the

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board and check this out if you want additional power for your graphics cards

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you can use a SATA connector instead of a Molex I think this is a great design

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choice and I yeah appreciate that as a

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user all right here we go SATA 2 Port

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will be disabled when msata slot is in

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use so there you go it is running off of

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the okay so you do use up a Port but I guess you get the benefit of like it

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looking badass and you don't have to use up an

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actual Bay in your case so there there's the benefit all right these guys right

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here are SATA 36 gbit per second these ones right here are SATA 2 3 gbit per

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second and these ones are also oh sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry these four are

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SATA 26 3 gbit per second and then these

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four are SATA 3 6 gbit per second this

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one is also 36 GB per second and check this out two front panel USB 3.0 ports

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so this is interesting because according to the Intel three front panel USB 3.0

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ports this is interesting because according to the Intel spec the front

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panel USB 3 Port like the Intel the Intel usb3 ports have to be integrated

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with two in the front two in the back so on this particular board you're going to

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be allowed to choose whether you want to run off of the Intel usb3 chip or off of

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the third party usb3 chip we have another sta 3 port I think I mentioned

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that and here are all of our front panel

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switches front USB with extra power for

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faster charging front panel USB 2 with

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not extra power for charging we have our TPM slot as well as a front uh fire wire

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and front audio Gigabyte has started putting front audio at the bottom of the board Kudos Gigabyte it used to be here

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and this is better all right having a look at the back of the board so the z77

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chipset supports Onboard video on supported Intel core I whatever you know

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processors that do have Onboard video all the IV Bridge ones do so we've got

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VGA DVI HDMI and DisplayPort so the full gamut of options and what's cool is

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that with Lucid virtue MVP we actually get a lot more options

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in terms of a how to connect your monitor because you can connect it

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either to the discrete graphics card or the onboard graphics card and you can

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choose D mode or IM mode whether you whichever one it's connected to it

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doesn't matter also you can use okay assuming the game

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supports it it comes down to software support again assuming that the game

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supports it you can use virtu MVP to actually dramatically improve the

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performance of a discrete graphics card by having the onboard GPU handle basic

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tasks and leaving the more complicated things such as tessellation to your

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direct X11 graphics card interesting hey

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all right moving on we've got optical audio out two USB 2.0 ports an

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additional USB 2.0 Port okay fire wire

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four USB 3.0 ports so two of these are off the Intel chipset two of them are

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off a third party chipset 2 GB Ethernet ports and 7.1

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audio so right I said I was going to go back and count all the pwm fan headers

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so here we go one two don't come in too close so that they can see where they

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are I think uh 1 2 3 4 five uh uh uh

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five pwm fan headers so don't forget oh

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oh right right right right right sorry I almost forgot so it's also got integrated creative Sound Blaster X5 mb2

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audio which has a built-in headphone amplifier so this is not quite as

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advanced a design as they've used on the past on their G1 motherboards but it's

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going to be a heck of a lot better than your standard onboard audio and then

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what else are we missing here hold on let me just make sure I didn't miss anything guys Intel gigb Ethernet all

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right yes one of these two built-in LS is Intel so as opposed to a thirdparty

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chipset which a lot of users do prefer

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and finally you know what let's go back to the back of the box where they do

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have some of their other stuff sorry guys this is in lie of

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notes so that outlines actually yeah you guys can just look at that if you really

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want to that outlines the benefits of ultra durable 4 which has uh continued

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to bring you know the same standard things like 2 O copper BCB which is for

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better heat dissipation as well as less interference along with a whole bunch of

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other cool stuff so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking

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out my unboxing of the z77x ud5h and

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that is the CPU the VT the memory and

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the Intel HD graphics which are all digitally powered ah yes the slot layout

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sorry guys I forgot three PCI e1x slots two PCI e6x oh okay three PCIe 16x slots

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but more on that in a minute and one PCI slot so I mentioned that PCI E3 support

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was going to be important for SLI Crossfire users on this platform that is

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because these are not both full 16x it's 16x or 8X 8X if you have two cards in

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them as per the same limitations as the

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z68 platform it's z68 right yeah z68 um

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wow dirt moment there guys uh right so

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remember PCIe 3.08 is the same bandwidth

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as PCIe 16x 2.0 so that means that if

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you're running PCI E3 on your CPU remember you need a PCI E3 CPU as well

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as your graphics parts that 8X bandwidth is going to be the same as last generation 16x so there should be no

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performance bottleneck there at all finally this PCIe 4X slot requires an

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ivybridge third gen CPU for more information please refer to the user manual so there you go 16x 60 or 88 or

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and 4x assuming you're using an IV Bridge TPU