1 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:15,160 now this is one of the cooler and more Innovative z68 Boards out there this is 2 00:00:11,519 --> 00:00:16,680 the z68 XP ud3 from Gigabyte Gigabyte's 3 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:19,760 usually pretty good at calling out their key features on the packaging so here 4 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:23,720 you can see it's the biggest feature there there's an onboard M SATA 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:29,320 connector well so what that means is you can use Intel's SRT caching feature 6 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:32,200 using a little onboard MSA Drive rather 7 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:37,120 than install an SSD in the actual system Drive Bay so it's very very compact very 8 00:00:35,239 --> 00:00:41,520 very cool feature okay so it has a three-year warranty in the USA and 9 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:47,199 Canada has Ultra durable 3 supports NVIDIA SLI as well as AMD Crossfire X it 10 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:51,640 uses touch BIOS to support 3 TB plus drives it also has dual BIOS which 11 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:56,000 enables you to restore the BIOS even if you corrupt it during a flash driver 12 00:00:53,719 --> 00:01:00,399 mosfets all ferite core chokes all lower RDS mosfets and all 50,000 hour Japanese 13 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:06,200 caps mean that even though the this is a ud3 value board it has very high build 14 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:12,720 quality finally up to four times faster performance using Intel SRT technology 15 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:15,280 means that you can install that MSA SSD 16 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:21,000 get way better performance and you don't actually have to buy a 17 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:22,360 high-capacity SSD for your system let's 18 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,680 see if there's anything on the back they have to say for themselves 3x USB power 19 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:30,880 is a great feature it allows you to run a hub or run higher powered devices off 20 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:36,560 of your USB ports it does support USB 3 as well as SATA 3 6 gbit per second so 21 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:41,040 let's get this baby opened up here's our little guide telling you not to install 22 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:47,719 an 1156 CPU that's good advice we have a user manual an IO shield with colored 23 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,000 coding as well as a driver DVD which you 24 00:01:47,719 --> 00:01:52,920 should throw away and download the latest off the Gigabyte website Intel 25 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:56,399 smart response technology so up to four times faster performance these are this 26 00:01:54,600 --> 00:02:01,560 is actually has a basis in reality unlike some manufacturer claims on 27 00:01:58,399 --> 00:02:05,039 products yes it does perform way faster 28 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:06,840 using an SSD as a cache than with only a 29 00:02:05,039 --> 00:02:10,239 hard drive you've got a multilingual installation guide book dual be home 30 00:02:08,679 --> 00:02:15,000 theater sticker as well as a powered by Gigabyte 31 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:17,360 sticker an SLI connector black flexible 32 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:22,720 my favorite kind as well as two straight and two right angle SATA 3 6 gbit per 33 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:28,239 second cables here on the motherboard itself we 34 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:31,720 find a motherboard actually give me a your 35 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,760 guys I'm having a little bit of trouble getting this out why don't we try from 36 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:40,760 the other side yeah there we go okay so let's take 37 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:45,920 it out of the package now this is a value oriented board but high qual high 38 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:49,640 build quality and good features mean that you can actually build a very very 39 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:56,480 decent system around something like this throw a 2500k in there oh give me a sec 40 00:02:54,319 --> 00:03:01,200 throw 8 gigs of RAM in there throw a GTX 560 or an HT 6870 something along those 41 00:02:59,599 --> 00:03:05,720 lines you've got a very potent little gaming system so here you can see the 42 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:10,159 power design is a 6 plus one phase power we've also got a nice little mosfet 43 00:03:07,959 --> 00:03:14,080 cooling heat sink up here in terms of the overall layout it's pretty standard 44 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:18,480 you got your LGA 1155 socket supporting core I3 i5 and i7 processors you got 45 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:23,120 your eight pin power in its ideal location up at the top left Edge you've 46 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:26,480 got support for dual Channel DDR3 memory these are clearly color coded so you 47 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:30,920 won't install them in the wrong slots your 24 pin power is along the right 48 00:03:28,519 --> 00:03:35,080 hand Edge and it's also ideal location we have eight SATA ports okay so these 49 00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:39,200 guys are running off a third party chipset those are SATA 36 gbit per 50 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:43,480 second ports these are running off the Intel chipset all six of these the white 51 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:48,040 ones are SATA 3 6 gbit per second and the blue ones are SATA 2 3 gbits per 52 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:52,920 second and apparently SATA port 5 will be disabled when the M SATA slot is in 53 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:57,400 use so those are wired up to the same port on the chipset itself in all 54 00:03:56,079 --> 00:04:01,959 likelihood here's your front panel connectors here's your front USB 3 55 00:03:59,879 --> 00:04:07,000 there's the front powered USB 2 so that can be used to charge tablets even high 56 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:13,000 powered devices we have two more front USB headers front fire wire as well as a 57 00:04:10,239 --> 00:04:17,079 front audio header in terms of the PCI slot layout we've got a pretty good 58 00:04:14,239 --> 00:04:21,120 layout here we've got two PCI e6x slots although this one is wired only for 8X 59 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:26,360 so if you're running SLI or Crossfire you're going to be running at 8X 8X 60 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:28,680 speeds we've got two 1 two 3 PCI e1x and 61 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:34,639 two PCI now if you install two dual Slot Cards you're going to be left with 1 PCI 62 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:37,840 and two PCIe 1X slots and here is the 63 00:04:34,639 --> 00:04:39,680 MSA Intel smart response technology Port 64 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:45,840 here so you just use the little retention Clips you plug in an SSD there 65 00:04:42,759 --> 00:04:48,720 and you can use that SSD in order to act 66 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:52,440 as a cache for a hard drive that you're using as your system boot drive so 67 00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:55,680 that's in some ways a little bit more convenient and a little bit lower 68 00:04:54,120 --> 00:05:00,479 profile than actually installing a separate Drive running a separate cable 69 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:06,240 and that's kind of more of hassle than this okay moving along to the back we've 70 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:08,560 got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 USB 2.0 ports a PS2 71 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:15,039 keyboard mouse combo Port optical audio out fire wire HDMI two USB 3.0 ports 72 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:20,400 gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio now this HDMI port is very useful because you can 73 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:21,800 use it in order to run Lucid virtue 74 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:27,319 which means you can use the Onboard video on your CPU for things like transcoding and use the dedicated 75 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:32,080 graphics installed down here for your gaming needs now the fan head on this 76 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:37,680 particular motherboard we've got our CPU 4 pin pwm up here we've got a three pin 77 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:42,080 right here we've got a three pin here a 4 pin pwm down here and that's pretty 78 00:05:40,479 --> 00:05:45,720 much it this is a value board so you tend to see a little bit less in terms 79 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:49,039 of things 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