today we're going to be unboxing the p67a ud5 this is a core i7 core i5
compatible but this motherboard is only compatible with
generation 2 chips on socket 1155 so it features the
Intel p67 chipset and it also features some Gigabyte innovations such as
delivering maximum CPU power so what maximum CPU power means is that if you
can provide the cooling for it you can provide the power to get the maximum
overclock out of your CPU so this board even though it's not their top tier
board they do have a ud7 board as well
it features 20 phase power
which is far more than i've seen on ud5 level boards in the past it also
features other Gigabyte innovations such as their ultra durable 3 which is their
thicker copper pcb as well as their 333
acceleration which means it's got usb 3 SATA 36 gigabit per second as well as
their usb power 3x this is one that i'm personally very fond of because it
allows you to use a hub plug in as many as three fully powered usb devices and
still not run out of power last but not least they've got their on off charge
which allows you to charge devices even while the system is powered off you've
got their dual BIOS technology which makes it pretty much impossible to
corrupt your BIOS and not be able to recover it so let's go ahead and get
this board opened up it has a three year warranty
in the us and canada and i'm actually not sure what the warranty is elsewhere
in the world so you'll have to kind of research that one on your own we have a
dolby home theater sticker inside first of all and next we have the i o shield
which is conveniently color coded so here's a hint right now we already know
that we're gonna have uh four usb 3.0
ports on the back panel we have some Gigabyte
colored the traditional blue um SATA cables so we have two straight
and two right angle this this is really important warning socket 1155 is not the
same as 1156 you cannot plug an 1156
chip into an 1155 board you will damage either the board or the chip or both
here's your utility dvd don't use this download the latest off the Gigabyte
website as well as a user's manual which i think you can also download off the
Gigabyte website but not necessary here's a multilingual installation
guidebook where they give you some basics on how to install components in
your board really though if you want to know how to
build a system i probably wouldn't stick to just that little guide i would
actually look up my system building guide on my ncixcom channel
and i actually walk you through every step i know it's a half hour long video
but it's still very helpful here's an sli bridge
which tells us that this board even though it wasn't anywhere on the outside
of the box actually supports not only sli but also crossfire x so this is a
fully
dual pci express compatible board
and while it does have three PCIe 16x
slots and it probably will work in a three-way configuration bear in mind
that there's only so many pci-e lanes on
the p-67a chipset so you know what i'll get into that a little bit more once
we're looking at the PCIe lanes why don't we look at the overall layout of the board first of all matte black pcb
love it this is a great move from Gigabyte it looks phenomenal it's great
whether you have don't have a system window because then what do you care or
if you do have a system window it looks really good especially if you're using
like lights because a matte black pcb won't reflect and glare off of it it'll
just look really dark and you'll be able to light up the things that you want to
see which is usually not your motherboard mind you with a board like
this i might want to see it so the cameraman's having a look at the 20 phase power right now as well as the
cooling on the vrm as well as the chipset so we have heat pipes connecting
all those different coolers we have our socket right here in the middle as i
said before this is an lga 1155 socket so you got support for the ever popular
core i5 2500k as well as the i7 2600k
anything on an 1155 socket will work in here but bear in mind this is a p67
board so that means there are no display
outputs on the back so you will not have support for onboard video you will have
to add a dedicated graphics card in terms of power we've got our 8 pin
connector up here in the top left exactly where it belongs as well as our
24 pin connector over here on the right also exactly where it belongs p67 all
these boards are going to have full support for dual channel ddr3 memory and
there's those logos we were missing on the front of the board crossfire x as well as sli so yes they are fully
supported i'm not making things up down here on the side of the board we have
some fluff and then we also have four SATA two three gigabit per second ports
as well as two SATA three six gigabit
per second ports so these are actually running off of the Intel chipset now
which is uh a pretty big improvement and that makes me pretty happy next we have
our front panel plugs we have two front panel usb ports we
have wow two front panel usb 3.0 headers
so that means this board supports a total of eight usb 3.0 ports very very
cool then we have a firewire port as
well as our front panel audio in its traditional Gigabyte location over here
right behind the audio jacks so let's have a look at the slot layout we have
two PCIe oh yeah it has onboard power thank you
cameraman it also has an onboard reset switch as well as a clear cmos switch i
love this location for these buttons because unlike the ones down at the very
bottom edge of the board if you plug a graphics card in
okay so let's say you have a graphics card here well these aren't covered you can
actually you can actually access these so that's uh pretty cool the power uh
power word is upside down i wonder if somebody uh wonder if somebody put that
on wrong but i guess it doesn't really matter um you know what hey if you guys
have a ud5 board please post a comment and let me know if
your power switch is right side up or if yours is upside down like this one it
won't affect the functionality since it's just shorting it out and it's not uh it doesn't matter the polarity but
yeah it's pretty pretty interesting okay so we have two PCIe 1x slots two pci
slots and three PCIe 16x slots but i
want to tell you guys this one you can see right here you can actually
see the wires is wired for full PCIe 16x
this will run at 16x if you have one card installed this one right here you
can clearly see is wired only for 8x this one is active as soon as you plug a
card into it and that will reduce the available bandwidth to this guy to 8x so
if you're running two cards you're going to be in 8x 8x mode this last one is
actually only wired for PCIe 4x and so
really a three-way graphics card configuration is not really optimal for
this board i would probably use this for some other kind of expansion card like a
raid card or yeah like an ocz revo drive
would be a perfect example of what i would use this guy for so if you are
running dual graphics available you will have one PCIe 1x slot one pci slot for
any legacy devices as well as one PCIe 4x slot so let's move around to the back
and have a look at the i o shield we have one of these legacy ps2 ports big
fan of that actually i still like to see it we have one two three four five six usb
2.0 ports and actually hold on hold on let me double check i can't tell yeah
yeah okay so these are esata usb combo
ports okay so that means we have two SATA ports two firewire optical as well
as coaxial audio out and we have four
usb 3.0 ports remember that's a total of eight gigabit Ethernet as well as 7.1
audio out thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Gigabyte p67a ud5 lga
1155 motherboard oh hey here's one more cool thing about this board look at that
they used actual proper spring-loaded screws
with with plastic washers to ensure that there's no issues with the uh with the
hardware that they're using to fix all of these chipset coolers and whatnot i'm
not a big fan of push pins love to see the little extra effort put in by
Gigabyte on those kinds of fine finishing touches