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okay so today I'm going to be having a look at the Grand Papa of all of the

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Gigabyte x58 motherboards this is the brand new x58a ud7 now it was originally

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going to be called The x58 U Extreme 2

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sorry not UD anything Extreme 2 when they were first talking about this

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product but since then they've actually changed the naming scheme a little bit

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they've done away with the extreme boards and they've gone with an a now a

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denotes their new updated x50 and p55

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boards and the biggest features that you're going to see on these boards are

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their 333 onboard accelerator so that stands for USB 3.0 so that's a brand new

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USB standard that runs at 5 megabit

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gigabit per second sorry excuse me megabit okay there's USB power time 3

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now what that means is that your USB ports on this board are all running at

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three times the power spec that USB

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actually calls for so that means that if you're running a hub like an unpowered

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Hub you can actually run three full powered devices off that hub using just

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one of these ports because of the way Gigabyte has overbuilt those ports very

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cool and we've also got SATA 3.0 which technically isn't SATA 3.0 it's SATA 6

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gbit per second rather than SATA 3 gbit per second so there's a little bit of

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confusion there but you get the point also a three-year warranty it's SLI

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ready Crossfire ready it's ready for pretty much everything so this board

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comes with everything except the kitchen sink in fact you could even argue the

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water cooling integrated on it could be sort of like a kitchen sink so it comes

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with 38 in barbs for water cooling there's a whole bunch of marketing Spiel

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in there 24 phase power that's another Improvement they've made over the x58

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extreme which was definitely an awesome

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x58 board I actually had one I used for quite a while before I replaced it for

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aesthetic reasons because although Gigabyte makes awesome board sometimes

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the look is not always what you're going for in a particular build Okay so let's

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get this board open here it comes in like a nice white box and then you can

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see that our okay first we have a

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plastic shell so plastic shell comes

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off okay plastic shell off and then we

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have you know what let's do the accessories first okay accessory box so

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inside the accessory box I have an eeta

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back panel I have a Molex to EA adapter

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and I have an SATA a couple e SATA cables okay that's kind of neat okay and

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then next I have four SATA cables and an IDE cable okay next I have a Dolby

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Digital home theater sticker awesome next I have a three-way SLI Bridge just

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in case you want to run three-way SLI on this board IO

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Shield this I don't know what it is but

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it has holes for ventilation and it seems to be some kind of

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brace so yeah then we have a regular SLI

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bridge now remember this is a crossfire ready board and it doesn't come with a

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crossfire Bridge because Crossfire ready video cards should come with the

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crossfire Bridge Okay then we've got a little Gigabyte

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sticker Gigabyte manual including the driver CD don't use the driver CD

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download the latest drivers off the manufacturer website multilingual

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installation guide book awesome and then you have their smart 6 users manual okay

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next thing we've got is the heat sink that goes at the what I'm not even going

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to take this thing out you basically shouldn't be using this thing it's like

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totally Overkill but I guess if you're buying the extreme board you might as

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well so it's a heat pipe cooler that actually straps onto the board right

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here and then mounts into a PCI slot so you can use all of this huge fin array

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for cooling the the chipset and the mosfets and the chips down here so now

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let's get to the board itself so wow

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that's a heavy board as with all x58 boards you have support for triple

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Channel memory so this particular board supports up to 24 gigs of triple Channel

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memory you can see all around here is all of our 24 phases of power for your

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LGA 1366 socket now this is a Lo's

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socket which seems to matter these days because there was an issue with some of

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the foxcon sockets a little while back all right so we've got our power

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connectors in their usual places 8 pin up here 24 pin down here now this is

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where it starts to get interesting here on the side we have

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have six SATA 2 ports so SATA 3 gbit per

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second and four SATA 6 gbit per second

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or SATA three ports now the original extreme board was supposed to include

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these but they ended up having to sub it for something else cuz the standard

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wasn't quite ready but now here they are in all of their glory and H here we go

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where's more stuff okay yeah we've got our three PCI Express 16x slots you know

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these are the right ones because these are the ones that are spaced for tri SLI

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okay so that means you still got access to a couple PCI Express 1X slots up here

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at the top now over here is the back

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panel now the blue ones those are your

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USB 3.0 ports as far as I know the

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yellow ones are just colorcoded for no particular reason you got 7.1 audio 2 GB

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Ethernet so 6 USB 2.0 2 USB 3.0 a couple

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fire wire ports clear seos button that is so handy then you've got a couple of

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digital audio and couple PS2 ports

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there's the back of the board nothing exceptional there I love to see metal

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braces for anything from the front of the board because it means that they're

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not cheaping out using plastic thank you for checking out my unboxing of the x58a

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