WEBVTT 00:00:07.319 --> 00:00:14.120 welcome to my unboxing of yet another z77 board this one took me a little bit 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:20.160 longer sorry about that but here we are this is the 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:22.160 z77x ud3h gigabytes whole uh slogan for 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:25.680 this is insist on Ultra durable so they mean a new version of ultra durable 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:30.039 Ultra durable has been through a number of revisions so it started with the two 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:35.600 times copper PCB which is better for heat dissipation as well as for 00:00:32.800 --> 00:00:38.800 performance and it's now up to ultra durable 4 which includes high 00:00:37.239 --> 00:00:44.280 temperature protection humidity protection with their new glass fabric 00:00:41.239 --> 00:00:47.120 PCB which apparently allows it to be 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:50.079 more resistant to humidity and moisture uh next is their electrostatic 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:53.399 protection as well as power failure protection so that is ultra durable 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:57.359 according to Gigabyte and they want you to insist on an ultra durable 00:00:54.640 --> 00:01:01.719 motherboard for your new pc we also see a couple other Focus things here that is 00:00:59.199 --> 00:01:06.439 their patent pending 3D power All Digital engines so that means all 00:01:03.519 --> 00:01:11.360 aspects of your CPU and memory are being powered digitally so that is your 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:13.560 onboard GPU your uncore your core your 00:01:11.360 --> 00:01:18.520 memory all of that good stuff very cool as well as their 3D bio so what they 00:01:15.119 --> 00:01:21.200 mean by 3D BIOS is dual ufi BIOS uh that 00:01:18.520 --> 00:01:25.960 is graphical interface BIOS that has um kind of a unique interface I 00:01:24.520 --> 00:01:30.880 think they have they usually have a picture of it yeah so there's a picture of it here so they show you like a 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:34.600 picture of a motherboard and you just click on the SATA ports if you want to 00:01:32.399 --> 00:01:38.159 change something about your boot order or whatever and it's it's very graphical 00:01:37.119 --> 00:01:42.000 so if you want to change something about your CPU or memory you click on the CPU 00:01:40.119 --> 00:01:48.680 socket it gives you all the relevant options in one place so this is a an LG 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:53.560 1155 board with the z77 chipset which means we've got support for all that 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:57.920 cool z77 stuff including PCI Express gen 00:01:53.560 --> 00:02:00.840 3 as well as Intel's Intel's uh onboard 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:04.000 USB 3 Port so that is the front ports and two rear ports are going to be 00:02:02.399 --> 00:02:09.239 powered by the Intel chipset we've got virtue MVP which is an upgraded version 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:14.599 of lucid virt which allows you to use the onboard GPU that's built into the 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:18.800 CPU to do things like transcoding video which is very very fast compared to the 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:23.720 traditional methods but still take advantage of a dedicated graphics card 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:25.760 for 3D games Crossfire and SLI are both 00:02:23.720 --> 00:02:29.120 supported as well as the MSA onboard connector but I'll show you more about 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:33.920 that in just a moment so all digital power there you go see CPU Graphics 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:36.080 memory and VT and what else we got load 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:38.480 line calibration okay most modern boards that are somewhat decent for 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:42.280 overclocking do have load line calibration this is a good one smart 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:46.680 response so Gigabyte has a much easier way than their competitors of setting up 00:02:44.360 --> 00:02:50.480 smart response it's basically like two clicks on a little application that you 00:02:48.920 --> 00:02:55.239 download it's really really simple to set up remember smart response allows 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:59.879 you to take up to a 60 gig SSD and use it as a cache for your boot hard drive 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:02.560 or any other hard drive I guess although I'm not convinced that it makes much 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:07.360 sense to use it on something that's not a boot Drive unless maybe you you play 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:12.720 like MMOs or whatever you have your MMO installed on a separate drive and then 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:16.400 uh that way smart response will make sure that you've got all of the most 00:03:14.440 --> 00:03:20.239 relevant things that you use most frequently cached into the SSD so okay I 00:03:18.640 --> 00:03:24.799 guess I could kind of see that most games don't benefit much from an SSD in 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:28.680 terms of uh of loading times though so just something to be aware of I would 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:32.239 usually use Smart response for the boot Drive Right accessories 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:36.159 four SATA cables two of them are right angle two of them are not right angle 00:03:33.959 --> 00:03:40.120 we've got a flexible black SLI Bridge exactly the right kind we have an IO 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:44.480 Shield a multilingual installation guide book and a user's manual including a DVD 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:49.879 with utilities and drivers which you shouldn't use and you should download the latest off the Gigabyte website here 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:54.959 is the board itself Gigabyte does such a good job of their board Aesthetics these 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:57.959 days we've got just a nice slick black 00:03:54.959 --> 00:04:00.159 white and blue color scheme don't worry 00:03:57.959 --> 00:04:04.120 these are stickers these are stickers this isn't a sticker this is my one 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:09.640 complaint actually about the x79 board that I'm using in my system right now it 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:11.920 looks so Sleek except for bam orange 00:04:09.640 --> 00:04:15.599 light red button so what I'm probably going to do on on that board is just 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:20.440 paint over it in black nail polish or something like that and uh it'll be all 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:24.120 good so there's the LG 1155 socket supporting Second Generation and third 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:29.280 generation Intel core processors code name Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge uh as 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:33.320 well as our power delivery with kind of a neat looking little heat sinky thing 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:38.320 going on with got like an arrow going on in the middle and some wavy looking kind 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:41.560 of things uh the the TDP of the CPUs 00:04:38.320 --> 00:04:44.039 that go in here is 77 Watts for Ivy 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:47.400 Bridge or 95 Watts for Sandy Bridge so we don't need a ton of power delivery 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:51.120 we've got an eight pin power connector anyway and it's in its ideal location up 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:55.400 at the top left of the board speaking of Ideal locations I'm personally a big fan 00:04:53.520 --> 00:04:58.880 of having the power button up here as opposed to down here the onboard power 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:04.840 button the reason for that is that this is easier to reach when you have a couple graphics cards installed which 00:05:01.880 --> 00:05:09.680 sometimes I do we've also got our simos switch Button as well as our reset 00:05:06.840 --> 00:05:14.639 switch uh SOS SOS switch I think they mean SOS 00:05:12.479 --> 00:05:19.840 clear switch at least I hope that's what they mean there's another clear seos down 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:25.880 here you know what give me a moment here guys I'm going to try and figure this out so this is fairly straightforward 00:05:23.400 --> 00:05:30.479 that is the seos clear switch this guy right here switches you between the main 00:05:27.919 --> 00:05:35.919 BIOS and the backup BIOS so that's more of like a SEO or um like a BIOS 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:40.400 chip switch and then this one these two jumpers right here are a clear seos 00:05:37.960 --> 00:05:44.280 jumper as well so you've got a multitude of different ways to manage the BIOS or 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:48.000 the ufi I should probably sto calling it a BIOS it's not really called that 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:50.600 anymore of this motherboard your 24 pin connectors and its ideal location along 00:05:49.479 --> 00:05:55.639 the right-handed Edge and you've got another auxiliary connector here so that's kind of interesting uh someone 00:05:54.039 --> 00:05:59.080 actually messaged me not that long ago saying that their friend had 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:04.319 misunderstood uh when I was talking about one of these these connectors on 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:06.560 the x58 OC board from Gigabyte um and 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:10.039 had thought that he could plug his hard drive into it that's not how it works 00:06:08.479 --> 00:06:14.520 this is auxiliary power for the motherboard using a SATA power connector 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:18.280 from your power supply so it's if you have multiple graphics cards installed 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:22.039 just for additional stability I can't imagine you'd need it on this board but 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:25.919 it's there if you want it uh we've got two SATA 36 GB per second ports powered 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:31.360 by the Intel chipset as well as four SATA 2 3 GB per second ports please note 00:06:28.599 --> 00:06:36.160 SATA port 5 that is uh they're numbered zero to five so the last one is going to 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:40.400 be disabled if you plug something into the M SATA slot here so M SATA as a 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:44.599 standard that's used for ssds particularly useful if you want to run 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:50.680 Intel smart response technology without actually plugging in SSD into a bay in 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:56.560 your case you can just clip it in right there it's just running at SATA 2 3 GB 00:06:53.639 --> 00:07:00.960 per second mode we have a post debug LED which has all the codes uh outlined in 00:06:59.280 --> 00:07:04.759 the manual we have our front panel connectors for your power and your reset 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:08.840 and all that good stuff front panel USB 2 I couldn't help noticing the absence 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:13.080 of one of their uh supercharging USB ports so that's uh 00:07:11.919 --> 00:07:17.039 that's kind of interesting I guess that's a feature this board doesn't have 00:07:14.960 --> 00:07:21.360 that the higher end board does have a very useful one indeed it does have 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:26.039 onoff charge though which means that you can charge your devices even when the system is powered off we've also got a 00:07:24.360 --> 00:07:30.039 front panel audio header and it's ideal location at the bottom left of the board 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:33.520 and in terms of PCI Express slot layout we have something that actually looks 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:38.039 pretty good so if you have a low-end system that is to say One graphics card 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:42.720 your PCI slot will be accessible which stands to reason whereas if you do a 00:07:39.840 --> 00:07:47.800 high-end configuration with dual PCIe graphics cards it will cover that PCI 00:07:45.479 --> 00:07:52.000 slot so they kind of aim it towards the higher end of build you go for on this 00:07:49.919 --> 00:07:54.639 the fewer Legacy PCI slots will be available which kind of makes sense so 00:07:53.159 --> 00:08:00.199 if you do install dual graphics cards you're going to be left with one two PCI 00:07:56.479 --> 00:08:03.960 e1x as well as a PCI e8x a 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:05.599 PCIe or sorry and a and a PCIe 4X so if 00:08:03.960 --> 00:08:09.199 you're run in SLI or Crossfire these two are going to run in 8X 8X mode but 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:13.680 remember that's PCIe gen 3 with an ivybridge CPU which means that the 00:08:11.039 --> 00:08:18.879 bandwidth is equivalent to PCIe Gen 2 16x I forgot to mention earlier that uh 00:08:16.520 --> 00:08:24.080 DDR3 dual channel is supported up to four dims and remember guys ivybridge 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:27.400 CPUs will also unlock a plethora of ha I think that's the first time I've used 00:08:25.080 --> 00:08:32.080 that word on Tech tips of uh new memory speeds that were not available on Sandy 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:35.800 Bridge CPUs now at the back of the board we find a few interesting things so one 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:41.719 of them is a PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port still like to see those 1 2 3 4 5 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:45.200 six USB 3.0 ports these two of them are running off the Intel chipset and four 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.720 of them are not now I have a concern about the fact that this board doesn't 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:55.240 have any USB 2 ports because from time to time usb3 drivers um are not going to 00:08:53.040 --> 00:08:59.120 be automatically installed by your OS which means that if you're operating all 00:08:57.399 --> 00:09:03.600 of your peripherals based on the back panel ports and you haven't installed 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:05.480 the driver for those ports yet your 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:08.519 keyboard and mouse might not work so I would definitely recommend if you have 00:09:06.959 --> 00:09:12.600 one of these boards and you're having trouble with it just use one of your 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:15.600 front headers plug into your front USB 2 in order to get up and running and then 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:20.320 install all your drivers and then these should all work just fine we've also got 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:23.839 VGA DVI HDMI and DisplayPort out options remember with ivybridge you can 00:09:21.839 --> 00:09:29.600 support up to three displays out at a time even on onboard Graphics optical 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:32.640 audio out dual eSATA uh gigabit Ethernet 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:36.480 as well as 7.1 analog audio out round 00:09:32.640 --> 00:09:39.320 out the I/O options on this board nice 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:42.720 little touches Matt Black PCB using proper screws to attach all of the 00:09:41.160 --> 00:09:47.800 coolers on this board in spite of the fact that it is a ud3 level board so 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:51.279 this is not a premium level board another nice touch is the fact that they 00:09:49.560 --> 00:09:55.839 have included SLI support even though this is a more value segmented board as 00:09:53.880 --> 00:10:00.040 well as oh yeah there's the front USB 3 which I don't think I ever showed you so 00:09:58.160 --> 00:10:05.560 uh finally last but not least we have one two three 00:10:03.160 --> 00:10:09.079 four five wow that's actually not bad five four pin pwm fan headers and don't 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:13.480 forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos