welcome to my unboxing of gigabytes at this time highest end motherboard for
the x79 platform this is the ud7 this is
part of sort of part of their oc series so in terms of color scheme in terms of
robustness this is more of a continuation of the x58 oc than the x58
ud7 series boards it uses their new 3d
BIOS which shows you an image of the board and you click on the various parts
of the board in order to configure things that are to do with those it has
3d power which is not three-dimensional but rather three-way digital power so
that is separate power delivery systems for the CPU as well as the two different
memory zones it supports the latest Intel core i7 and core i7 extreme
processors on the x79 socket 20 lga 2011
platform it supports pci express gen 3 asterix asterix depends on the blah blah
expansion and CPU basically it will in the future 4
channel ddr3 is supported and it comes with a little bluetooth 4.0 and wi-fi
module included which also happens to work on other motherboards if you buy
this board and you happen to have another system that needs wi-fi you can throw it in there they haven't locked
you out the way that some of their competitors do with those little add-on
cards so thumbs up Gigabyte thank you for that adding more value all right go
see dual BIOS you can use the bioselector button on the back panel in
order to pick which BIOS you want to use at any given time oc keg allows provides
two additional onboard SATA power connectors that provide more stable PCIe
power in three-way and four-way configurations and also prevent
connector burn on the 24 pin i'm a big fan of using SATA power connectors for
those because most modern power supplies have a ton of those and not uh too many
molex connectors especially in you know a modular setup where you basically be
plugging in like a four four connector molex power plug just to plug into that
one thing so that's awesome okay we have as many on board buttons as i've pretty
much seen so far so you can onboard adjust the base clock which i generally
wouldn't recommend doing onboard adjust the CPU multiplier as
well as change gears so you can either adjust in 0.1 megahertz frequen uh steps
or one megahertz steps depending on the gear you're in you've also got your
onboard power and your onboard reset switch let's go ahead and get this baby
opened up you guys are going to discover
that contrary to what i thought and what i
thought was that the Gigabyte g1 assassin 2
was going to be the highest end Gigabyte motherboard on the x79 platform you are
going to find out that it is rather the ud7 that is the highest end Gigabyte
motherboard on the x79 platform so
there's the board itself looks baus if i may say so and here are all the
included accessories which are many so we have a front panel usb 3
three and a half inch okay we have oh nice we've got one of those
handy dandy they used to include these with a lot of their boards now it looks like only on the very high end so this
is awesome you got two e-status you got one molex power and then it comes with
an adapter from one molex to two SATA power so you can just throw bear drives
on there and these are like the most handy cables in the world these are
esata to SATA so this is a way to easily
plug a couple bear drives into the back of your system and transfer data or do
whatever else you need to do very very handy it doesn't sound that useful but
it really really is okay we've got a usb cable to power up
and transfer data to this guy right here so this is our PCIe 1x uh
bluetooth and wireless n adapter which
also includes a couple of antennas right about there we've got a Gigabyte
three-way sli bridge a Gigabyte four-way
sli bridge oh which is finally black check that out black Gigabyte sli
bridges love it love it we have a Gigabyte two-way sli bridge
nice flexible connector there and then finally we have a Gigabyte long
crossfire bridge as well as an io shield lots of accessories look at this color
coded for your satisfaction and happiness as well as a Gigabyte sticker a Gigabyte
manual and oh another Gigabyte oh dolby sticker and
finally a utility dvd and
wireless card driver cd or dvd dvd
which you don't need because you can download the latest off the Gigabyte
website so i'm gonna go ahead and put these back in here i'm gonna put that
back in there i'm gonna put this back in here i'm gonna take this out of here
i'm gonna unbox this here i'm uh
see ya look at that hot glue trail fascinating i wonder what they glued to
the motherboard maybe it was slick
no he says no i think he's probably just trolling me
i'm gonna put random stuff on whatever Linus is gonna unbox just to throw him
off the scent okay here we go what do we got
let's start with the overall layout of this board so this is an xl that is to
say extra large atx motherboard it has
seven expansion slots which is something that is very very difficult to do on a
regular atx 79 board for a couple of reasons one is the extremely large CPU
socket the other is the extremely large and robust power delivery systems that
typically exist on these boards due to the power hungry cpus that go in them
and the other is the fact that the memory now goes on either side of the
socket as per the Intel recommended design which gives you less room for
slots up here and more room for needing
to put slots down here so let's start with this socket right here we've got
a pretty beefy looking power delivery system with a pretty
decent looking cooler although the same feedback that i gave with all my other
x79 board unboxings remains for this one you are going to want to make sure you
get some decent cooling on the pwm heatsink right here so if you have a
case that for example has a top fan you're going to have it blow directly
down onto this heatsink so that it's bringing in nice fresh air to keep that
cool keep it from running into any trouble the same thing goes for the back
of the board so your your standoffs are going to go
right here and you'll have a little bit of a gap so if you do have a top fan in your case and you get a little bit of
airflow over these guys it could not hurt matters okay we've got dual 8-pin
CPU power connectors right here in their ideal location at the top left we've got
all of our onboard switches in their ideal locations up here at the top right
i say ideal location because rather than having them down here where they're
inaccessible with a graphics card plugged in here i prefer to have them up
in this corner where i can actually reach them no matter what the situation
we also have a rece okay so reset so you know what i covered all this when we did
the box but we've also got all the v check points that we could possibly want
along this edge of the board right here so i'll let you guys have a look if you care you can pause the video and you can
see them all i'm not going to read them all out on the right hand edge we've got
the 24 pin power connector in its ideal location we have a post led readout
we've also got our auxiliary power connector so there's the one SATA power
connector there there's the other state of power connector right down there and
in terms of SATA data connectors we have SATA three six gigabit per second right
here two ports four zeta two three gigabit per second and then four
additional Gigabyte SATA three six gigabit per second so those are running
off of a third-party chipset the cooler right here is pretty sporty looking i'd
say it so it has a heat pipe that runs up to that pwm cooler the whole thing
looks pretty slick personally i'm a big fan of green and orange and yellow and
like brightly colored but tastefully brightly colored motherboard so not like
the old Gigabyte of old we're talking the new Gigabyte with the matte black
pcb the bright orange and then everything else pretty much black or
matte black or gray looks great front panel connectors powered usb so like
uber powered usb for charging your tablet with your system we've also got
two more usb 2.0 front panel headers our front panel audio connector header
delay then what else we got here so one two three four five six seven right i
already covered that these support sli or crossfire in a two-way configuration
right about here okay 16x16x if you want to run four-way
cards you're looking at one two three four times 8x so this is 8x pcie2 or
PCIe 3.0 CPU support dependent okay we've got
three PCIe 1x connectors so if you plug
in two dual slot graphics cards you're going to be left with an 8x an 8x and a
1x bearing in mind if you populate these it'll reduce the bandwidth available in
these okay moving on you know what let's cover the locations of all of our fan
fan headers because it looks like we got a lot on this board we got one four pin
pwm here one four pin pwm here
one here that's three so far we have
two more here that's five so far six seven
ah uh uh seven pwm connectors all right
on the back of the board we have a variety of different things we have the
ps2 keyboard mouse combo port that i'm a big fan of still seeing on boards one
two three four five six seven eight usb 2.0 ports the cmos
selector or the rather the BIOS chip selector button so you can
choose which BIOS chip you want to boot from clear cmos button oc button that is
one touch overclocking so we've tried this with the uh
3630 is that what it's called 39 30
something hold on i'll be back in a moment sorry 39 30 and we hit 4 gigahertz just
by pressing the button and it was stable usb 3.0 x 2 gigabit Ethernet and 7.1
audio out including an optical audio out
and i think that pretty much covers it i have sort of changed my mind actually i
wanted to hold it up to it and sort of visualize a little bit but i was going
to use the assassin 2 to update our extreme buyer's guide system with the
x79 platform but based on that i think that looks pretty
good the green and the orange based on that i like this i think we're
actually going to go with the x79 ud7
instead now one thing that's been kind of bugging me is i think this excel atx
motherboard is actually not quite as long as the assassin 2. this looks like
only eight pci slots rather than nine remember guys xlatx is
kind of a flexible standard in that
some xlatx boards are eight slots long like this one and some of
them are nine so what that means is that you can install this in a much wider
variety of cases than the assassin 2 was capable of being installed in so many
lien lee cases yeah that's awesome actually good job
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