today we're going to be unboxing the Gigabyte p67a ud4 so the ud4 in the last
couple generations of products tends to denote the best bang for the buck board
in their lineup so this one features unlocked performance meaning if you pair
it up with a K series processor you will be able to unlock the performance of
that unlocked chip it supports Intel core inside mind you only in the LGA
1155 variation not LGA 1156 not LG
1366 make sure if you're buying this board you check what kind of CPU you're
buying it has the Intel p67 chipset which means you've got support for SLI
Crossfire as well as well uh unlocked
processors you have a three-year warranty in the US and Canada and it
features their two double thickness copper PCB let's go ahead and move
around to the back and see what else Gigabyte has to say for themselves so
benefits of their 2x copper PCB I'll let you guys read that if you want but I'll
pull out a couple gems it's got lower temperature overall which uh increases
overclocking lower impedance so better flow of power all of that good stuff USB
3.0 is supported by this board including their onoff charge feature which enables
you to see say for example your iPhone
enables you to charge your iPhone even if your computer is powered off you've
got support for their USB power 3x feature which I love I think this is a
great feature it allows you to plug in three times the number of peripherals to
One USB port without overloading the power so if you if you run a USB hub or
something like that then you can plug in more power drawing devices to a single
port you've also caught support for SATA 3 6 gbit per
second which is twice the speed of SATA 2 3 gbit per second all right we've got
a user's manual as well as a utility DVD which you should not use you should
download the latest from the Gigabyte website we've got an appropriately
colored bright yellow warning in every
language Under the Sun socket 1155 CPU
only warning please please do not try to plug
in an 1156 CPU we've got a duby home theater sticker we've got a multilingual
installation guide book as well as a colorcoded IO shield and four SATA
cables two right angle and two straight
we have an SLI Bridge no Crossfire Bridge you'll find that with your video
card and then we have the board itself
and let me say I
am the biggest fan of gigabytes new color scheme on their performance boards
I love it I think this is like the best thing they've done for their boards
since they made them awesome back in the 965 chipset days so let's start with
take no no hold on don't Zoom it let's take in the whole thing let's have the whole experience so we've got a nice
glossy finish on our CPU socket beautiful matte black PCB I haven't seen
anyone other than XFX use matte matte black pcbs but now Gigabyte is doing it
look at that there's no reflection off it whatsoever just gorgeous and then
we've got a nice matte gray color to the
mosfet coolers as well as the chipset cooler and almost every single connector
and slot on this board is black look at that black eight pin Black RAM slots not
even colorcoded I love it forget color coding make it look nice then the only
thing that is colorcoded is the SATA 3 6
GB per second Port so now let's actually look at the features of the board cuz I
guess that matters to some people this is our LGA 1155 socket so you can put
your core I3 I5 or i7 CPU in there we
have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 plus two
phase power design on this particular board which is pretty darn good for a
like a a mid-range performance board our eight pin CPU power connector is right
where it belongs in the top left corner of the board and I really like I mean we
showed it already but here I get kind of this angle here I really like the
overall look of their mosfet cooler it's maybe not all that practic practical but
let's face it with these high efficiency designs these days you don't have to do
much cooling on them and cameraman's gotten away from me here he's looking at
the North Bridge cooler which is also very stylized similarly Okay so we've
got support for up to four sticks of dual Channel DDR3 memory and that is a
limitation of the CPU otherwise I'm sure they'd find a way to put more sockets on
there our 24 pin power connector is in its ideal location along the right hand
edge of the board and as we move down we've got their dual BIOS features so
you have a main BIOS and a backup BIOS and you can actually uh use both of
those so you really reduce the chances of corrupting your motherboard
completely and having to RMA it because of a dead BIOS or like a Mis flash or
anything like that here we have our SATA 3 6 gbit per second ports as well as two
SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports these are all running off of the Intel chipset we
have a clear seos jumper down here although um yep that is the only place
for it clear seos jumper we do not have any onboard power switches although if
you're running your board in a case that's usually not a concern here are
your front panel connectors your USB your more USB your more USB and your
serial Port should you so require there is no fire wire support on this board so
here we have our what I think is really an excellent slot layout we've got
support for two dual slot PCI Express 16x graphics cards
and it would leave us one two PCI e1x and one PCI slot for expansion and
remember on p67 just like p55 you can
either run in 16x mode on a single slot or dual 8X mode on two slots moving
around to the back panel I see what is a pretty satisfactory looking layout I
love these there's one of your uh combo keyboard mouse PS2 ports you have 1 2 3
4 5 6 78 USB 2.0 ports digital audio out
is supported in both coax seal and Optical flavors you have two ESAT ports
two USB 3.0 ports 1 GB Ethernet and 7.1
audio out on the back of the board there is nothing of note except that sexy
matte black PCB I mean this would look good pretty much no matter what kind of
system you build around it love it thanks for checking out my video blog my
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