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is nc.com guys we're here in the Gigabyte
component Suite where they've got all their new Wares on display we have a
wall of motherboards here unfortunately we're not going to be able to talk about
the exact details of all of them but this is something that had my attention
drawn to it this is a computex dni award so that's a design and Innovation award
arranged by is which is basically a third party saying yes the design is
good the Innovation is good and if it's anything like the tradition we've seen
before with Gigabyte it's probably true so they're continuing with their Ultra
durable design so this is ultra durable 5 plus but we're going to focus on what
separates the different lines because right now there is differentiation
between their gaming boards so this particular gaming board this is the G1
sniper 5 has a completely upgraded
cooling design so it's air cooling for the mosfets here or liquid cooling for
the mosfet simply by plugging three 8 in hoses into this and you can use this
with something like a DIY all-in-one cooler such as The Cooler Master Iceberg
for example or you can build it into your completely custom Loop you've got
some of those onboard overclocking features things like a post LED readout
um yeah you know onboard power button so
not quite to the same extent as an overclocking Centric board you've got
full support for four-way graphics card configurations whether it's in crossfire
or SLI but this is where it really can into its own as what makes it gaming
optimized it's got a killer Nick built in and check this out they have
completely upgraded their onboard audio solution Gigabyte actually pioneered the
whole putting better onboard audio on motherboards for crying out loud thing
with their G Series that was the first time we saw it where someone actually
went yeah we're going to we're going to like actually do this in a way that's meaningful and check this out they're
upping the anti again with swappable opamps so on all of the G1 series
refresh boards check that out swappable opamps on the matx version swappable
opamps on the b85 version and then
swappable opamps even on the AMD version so there's now a G1 sniper a85 X now I
want to talk about this one for a moment because I kind of raised an eyebrow when
they told me b85 chipset gaming board I went well what do you mean gaming board
G8 b85 chipset you can't even overclock and they said you know what not all over
not not all Gamers overclock some Gamers want a better land solution built into
their board and a better audio solution built into their board and they don't want to overclock and okay fine I get
okay fair enough save some money don't overclock get better audio and better
land solution and swappable op amps very nice now let's move on to the
overclocking board so this is a very similar air SL liquid Extreme heatsink
Design it's also got an an active fan as
well as liquid cooling barbs but check this out this is where the over clocking
Heritage really comes in compared to gaming so rather than having a fancy
audio solution and onboard killer networking this one has all the onboard
buttons you could want all the onboard voltage readouts you could want post LED
readout uh oh cool you can turn the PCI Express Lanes on and off this is
extremely handy for benchmarking because you don't want to be ripping things on
and off all the time and check check this out actually okay hold on so
four-way graphics card support so that's in crossfire or SLI but let's move on to
the next one so that's the force that's a flagship board now we've got the z87x
OC check this out this is the kind of thing that someone like me who tests on
an open platform all the time would love to see built-in front USB ports that you
don't have to reach around the back of the board to get access to so this one
is more of the barebones nothing extra purest overclocking board whereas the
force is more of a generally Flagship board in general moving on we've got the
ultra durable Series so this one right here again you find features that aren't
necessarily relevant to Gamers or to overclockers things like Thunderbolt but
this is also a very high-end board in its own right you're going to to be able
to run four-way Crossfire four-way SLI you've got all of those built-in
overclocking features all that cool stuff but just to not quite the same
sort of degree of optimization for these particular uses that the other two
boards are now let's move all the way down over to the very end here where
we've got ah this guy right here Z87 and Wi-Fi
so there's a Z87 mitx board this is performance optimized you're going to be
able to overclock on it which is very very cool but right over here they've
asked me to specific draw attention to this board there's now an fm2 ITX board
from Gigabyte and what's cool about this one is it's using the same voltage
delivery components as you find on the OC class boards this board under liquid
nitrogen has actually been up to what did what did they say 5.8 GHz or
something ridiculous like that with an fm2 CPU so very very cool stuff let's
move on to graphics cards correction that was 6.7 GHz overclock on this
particular board using liquid nitrogen also it supports AMD's wire wireless
display and maybe we shouldn't move on to graphics cards just yet because
there's a couple cool things over here that they have on display in the suite
so this is related to the overclocking board as well as the gaming board so
they've got a blown up version of all the overclocking buttons and pretty much
everything you can do with them everything from uh debug display to CPU
ratio up and down to changing your multiplier up and down so you can switch
to single BIOS mode dual BIOS mode dip switch all this stuff is built right
into the board and this is kind of a cool button you can press this button
but I don't think it actually does anything but don't worry on the motherboard it will and then this one
right here they're showing off what makes the gaming boards gaming so that's
the upgradeable opamp which we talked about before already oh check that out
that's hilarious love it um as well as
the dedicated audio Zone on the PCB but we've been seeing this for a while from
Gigabyte and then here they have a pretty cool demo of the uh of the liquid
cooling hybrid Solution that's uh that you can hook up on these boards s