{"video_id":"SKnTlryLpI8","title":"Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Gaming Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":352,"segments":[{"start_s":7.72,"end_s":15.16,"text":"now this is one of the cooler and more Innovative z68 Boards out there this is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.519,"end_s":16.68,"text":"the z68 XP ud3 from Gigabyte Gigabyte's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.16,"end_s":19.76,"text":"usually pretty good at calling out their key features on the packaging so here","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.24,"end_s":23.72,"text":"you can see it's the biggest feature there there's an onboard M SATA","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.0,"end_s":29.32,"text":"connector well so what that means is you can use Intel's SRT caching feature","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.32,"end_s":32.2,"text":"using a little onboard MSA Drive 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features on the packaging so here you can see it's the biggest feature there there's an onboard M SATA connector well so what that means is you can use Intel's SRT caching feature using a little onboard MSA Drive rather than install an SSD in the actual system Drive Bay so it's very very compact very very cool feature okay so it has a three-year warranty in the USA and Canada has Ultra durable 3 supports NVIDIA SLI as well as AMD Crossfire X it uses touch BIOS to support 3 TB plus drives it also has dual BIOS which enables you to restore the BIOS even if you corrupt it during a flash driver mosfets all ferite core chokes all lower RDS mosfets and all 50,000 hour Japanese caps mean that even though the this is a ud3 value board it has very high build quality finally up to four times faster performance using Intel SRT technology means that you can install that MSA SSD get way better performance and you don't actually have to buy a high-capacity SSD for your system let's see if there's anything on the back they have to say for themselves 3x USB power is a great feature it allows you to run a hub or run higher powered devices off of your USB ports it does support USB 3 as well as SATA 3 6 gbit per second so let's get this baby opened up here's our little guide telling you not to install an 1156 CPU that's good advice we have a user manual an IO shield with colored coding as well as a driver DVD which you should throw away and download the latest off the Gigabyte website Intel smart response technology so up to four times faster performance these are this is actually has a basis in reality unlike some manufacturer claims on products yes it does perform way faster using an SSD as a cache than with only a hard drive you've got a multilingual installation guide book dual be home theater sticker as well as a powered by Gigabyte sticker an SLI connector black flexible my favorite kind as well as two straight and two right angle SATA 3 6 gbit per second cables here on the motherboard itself we find a motherboard actually give me a your guys I'm having a little bit of trouble getting this out why don't we try from the other side yeah there we go okay so let's take it out of the package now this is a value oriented board but high qual high build quality and good features mean that you can actually build a very very decent system around something like this throw a 2500k in there oh give me a sec throw 8 gigs of RAM in there throw a GTX 560 or an HT 6870 something along those lines you've got a very potent little gaming system so here you can see the power design is a 6 plus one phase power we've also got a nice little mosfet cooling heat sink up here in terms of the overall layout it's pretty standard you got your LGA 1155 socket supporting core I3 i5 and i7 processors you got your eight pin power in its ideal location up at the top left Edge you've got support for dual Channel DDR3 memory these are clearly color coded so you won't install them in the wrong slots your 24 pin power is along the right hand Edge and it's also ideal location we have eight SATA ports okay so these guys are running off a third party chipset those are SATA 36 gbit per second ports these are running off the Intel chipset all six of these the white ones are SATA 3 6 gbit per second and the blue ones are SATA 2 3 gbits per second and apparently SATA port 5 will be disabled when the M SATA slot is in use so those are wired up to the same port on the chipset itself in all likelihood here's your front panel connectors here's your front USB 3 there's the front powered USB 2 so that can be used to charge tablets even high powered devices we have two more front USB headers front fire wire as well as a front audio header in terms of the PCI slot layout we've got a pretty good layout here we've got two PCI e6x slots although this one is wired only for 8X so if you're running SLI or Crossfire you're going to be running at 8X 8X speeds we've got two 1 two 3 PCI e1x and two PCI now if you install two dual Slot Cards you're going to be left with 1 PCI and two PCIe 1X slots and here is the MSA Intel smart response technology Port here so you just use the little retention Clips you plug in an SSD there and you can use that SSD in order to act as a cache for a hard drive that you're using as your system boot drive so that's in some ways a little bit more convenient and a little bit lower profile than actually installing a separate Drive running a separate cable and that's kind of more of hassle than this okay moving along to the back we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 USB 2.0 ports a PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port optical audio out fire wire HDMI two USB 3.0 ports gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio now this HDMI port is very useful because you can use it in order to run Lucid virtue which means you can use the Onboard video on your CPU for things like transcoding and use the dedicated graphics installed down here for your gaming needs now the fan head on this particular motherboard we've got our CPU 4 pin pwm up here we've got a three pin right here we've got a three pin here a 4 pin pwm down here and that's pretty much it this is a value board so you tend to see a little bit less in terms of things like fan headers don't forget to check out my or to subscribe to my channel for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos thanks for watching Linus Tech tips"}