WEBVTT 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.640 Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:11.000 trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:14.679 is nc.com guys we're here in the Gigabyte 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:19.080 component Suite where they've got all their new Wares on display we have a 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:23.039 wall of motherboards here unfortunately we're not going to be able to talk about 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:27.279 the exact details of all of them but this is something that had my attention 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:31.560 drawn to it this is a computex dni award so that's a design and Innovation award 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:35.520 arranged by is which is basically a third party saying yes the design is 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:39.840 good the Innovation is good and if it's anything like the tradition we've seen 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:43.719 before with Gigabyte it's probably true so they're continuing with their Ultra 00:00:41.879 --> 00:00:47.760 durable design so this is ultra durable 5 plus but we're going to focus on what 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:50.960 separates the different lines because right now there is differentiation 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:55.640 between their gaming boards so this particular gaming board this is the G1 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.480 sniper 5 has a completely upgraded 00:00:55.640 --> 00:01:02.399 cooling design so it's air cooling for the mosfets here or liquid cooling for 00:01:00.199 --> 00:01:06.400 the mosfet simply by plugging three 8 in hoses into this and you can use this 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:10.200 with something like a DIY all-in-one cooler such as The Cooler Master Iceberg 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:13.680 for example or you can build it into your completely custom Loop you've got 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:20.200 some of those onboard overclocking features things like a post LED readout 00:01:16.520 --> 00:01:21.560 um yeah you know onboard power button so 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:25.640 not quite to the same extent as an overclocking Centric board you've got 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:30.079 full support for four-way graphics card configurations whether it's in crossfire 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:33.640 or SLI but this is where it really can into its own as what makes it gaming 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:37.320 optimized it's got a killer Nick built in and check this out they have 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:42.000 completely upgraded their onboard audio solution Gigabyte actually pioneered the 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:45.960 whole putting better onboard audio on motherboards for crying out loud thing 00:01:43.720 --> 00:01:48.560 with their G Series that was the first time we saw it where someone actually 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:53.920 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 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:59.479 upping the anti again with swappable opamps so on all of the G1 series 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:06.280 refresh boards check that out swappable opamps on the matx version swappable 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:08.879 opamps on the b85 version and then 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:13.360 swappable opamps even on the AMD version so there's now a G1 sniper a85 X now I 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:17.519 want to talk about this one for a moment because I kind of raised an eyebrow when 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:20.920 they told me b85 chipset gaming board I went well what do you mean gaming board 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:25.800 G8 b85 chipset you can't even overclock and they said you know what not all over 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:29.319 not not all Gamers overclock some Gamers want a better land solution built into 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:35.480 their board and a better audio solution built into their board and they don't want to overclock and okay fine I get 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:39.239 okay fair enough save some money don't overclock get better audio and better 00:02:37.239 --> 00:02:42.760 land solution and swappable op amps very nice now let's move on to the 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:49.680 overclocking board so this is a very similar air SL liquid Extreme heatsink 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:51.959 Design it's also got an an active fan as 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:56.280 well as liquid cooling barbs but check this out this is where the over clocking 00:02:54.360 --> 00:03:00.519 Heritage really comes in compared to gaming so rather than having a fancy 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:05.560 audio solution and onboard killer networking this one has all the onboard 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:10.360 buttons you could want all the onboard voltage readouts you could want post LED 00:03:07.920 --> 00:03:13.519 readout uh oh cool you can turn the PCI Express Lanes on and off this is 00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:16.640 extremely handy for benchmarking because you don't want to be ripping things on 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:20.080 and off all the time and check check this out actually okay hold on so 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:24.000 four-way graphics card support so that's in crossfire or SLI but let's move on to 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:29.040 the next one so that's the force that's a flagship board now we've got the z87x 00:03:26.760 --> 00:03:32.920 OC check this out this is the kind of thing that someone like me who tests on 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:36.519 an open platform all the time would love to see built-in front USB ports that you 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:41.360 don't have to reach around the back of the board to get access to so this one 00:03:38.920 --> 00:03:46.120 is more of the barebones nothing extra purest overclocking board whereas the 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:50.920 force is more of a generally Flagship board in general moving on we've got the 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:55.079 ultra durable Series so this one right here again you find features that aren't 00:03:52.519 --> 00:03:58.599 necessarily relevant to Gamers or to overclockers things like Thunderbolt but 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:02.400 this is also a very high-end board in its own right you're going to to be able 00:04:00.040 --> 00:04:05.760 to run four-way Crossfire four-way SLI you've got all of those built-in 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:10.720 overclocking features all that cool stuff but just to not quite the same 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:14.560 sort of degree of optimization for these particular uses that the other two 00:04:12.480 --> 00:04:17.919 boards are now let's move all the way down over to the very end here where 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:23.639 we've got ah this guy right here Z87 and Wi-Fi 00:04:21.400 --> 00:04:26.520 so there's a Z87 mitx board this is performance optimized you're going to be 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:30.440 able to overclock on it which is very very cool but right over here they've 00:04:28.520 --> 00:04:34.600 asked me to specific draw attention to this board there's now an fm2 ITX board 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:38.840 from Gigabyte and what's cool about this one is it's using the same voltage 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:43.960 delivery components as you find on the OC class boards this board under liquid 00:04:41.479 --> 00:04:48.080 nitrogen has actually been up to what did what did they say 5.8 GHz or 00:04:46.280 --> 00:04:53.199 something ridiculous like that with an fm2 CPU so very very cool stuff let's 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:58.400 move on to graphics cards correction that was 6.7 GHz overclock on this 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:01.919 particular board using liquid nitrogen also it supports AMD's wire wireless 00:04:59.919 --> 00:05:05.560 display and maybe we shouldn't move on to graphics cards just yet because 00:05:03.400 --> 00:05:08.400 there's a couple cool things over here that they have on display in the suite 00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:13.759 so this is related to the overclocking board as well as the gaming board so 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:17.120 they've got a blown up version of all the overclocking buttons and pretty much 00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:22.720 everything you can do with them everything from uh debug display to CPU 00:05:19.960 --> 00:05:26.520 ratio up and down to changing your multiplier up and down so you can switch 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:29.840 to single BIOS mode dual BIOS mode dip switch all this stuff is built right 00:05:28.280 --> 00:05:32.440 into the board and this is kind of a cool button you can press this button 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:37.440 but I don't think it actually does anything but don't worry on the motherboard it will and then this one 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:41.880 right here they're showing off what makes the gaming boards gaming so that's 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:48.000 the upgradeable opamp which we talked about before already oh check that out 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:50.479 that's hilarious love it um as well as 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:53.319 the dedicated audio Zone on the PCB but we've been seeing this for a while from 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:58.440 Gigabyte and then here they have a pretty cool demo of the uh of the liquid 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:02.720 cooling hybrid Solution that's uh that you can hook up on these boards s