WEBVTT 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:07.000 apparently in this video we're going to be comparing the cameraman's car to my 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:10.559 car I think the cameraman wins but that's neither here nor there actually 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:16.560 what we're going to be talking about is the Gigabyte x58a ud9 this is a very 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:21.680 exciting board which I've received endless requests to unbox and have a 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:27.160 look at it so let's start with the front of the Box unlocked power with 00:00:25.119 --> 00:00:32.079 electricity and lightning bolts all over the place and uh for some reason the 00:00:29.599 --> 00:00:35.840 camera wants me to hold this oh maybe he wants me to hold it next to the iPhone 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:39.800 that's here onoff charge that's another really cool feature that we've seen on 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:44.039 some of gigabytes newest boards onoff charge allows you to charge things via 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:49.600 the USB ports whether your computer is on or off hence the name onoff charge so 00:00:47.160 --> 00:00:54.399 including iPhones iPods uh whatever else charges by USB let's have a look what 00:00:51.960 --> 00:01:00.320 else do we got here delivers maximum CPU power with 24 phase CPU power built into 00:00:57.879 --> 00:01:05.479 this board we have support for four-way Crossfire X four-way SLI it has a 00:01:03.160 --> 00:01:10.640 three-year warranty in the US and Canada supports Intel's extreme edition six 00:01:07.600 --> 00:01:14.159 core CPUs as well as having their 333 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:16.000 onboard acceleration USB 3.0 three times 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:19.439 USB power so that means if you're using a hub you can power three times as many 00:01:18.119 --> 00:01:25.000 devices without plugging in an additional power adapter as well as 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:27.159 Ultra durable 3 SATA 3 and any any other 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:32.240 number of three three-year warranty uh I don't know there's got to be three of 00:01:28.479 --> 00:01:34.600 something else uh supports i7 i7 extreme 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:39.720 and it's x58 that's three more things okay I don't know where I was 00:01:36.320 --> 00:01:41.840 going with that let's take this piece of 00:01:39.720 --> 00:01:48.479 cardboard off and have a look at the board so this is all basically the same 00:01:44.360 --> 00:01:50.920 stuff um that we saw on the front it has 00:01:48.479 --> 00:01:54.479 smart dual landan so you've got land port automatic switching between the two 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:59.119 physical gigabit land chips offering hassle free zero downtime high-speed 00:01:56.399 --> 00:02:03.479 network connectivity hybrid silent Pipe 2 so that means you can either hook up 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:07.560 water cooling or you can hook up this huge air cooling heat sink to your board 00:02:05.479 --> 00:02:11.879 depending on which route you want to go more unlocked power okay and then let's 00:02:10.720 --> 00:02:16.959 go around and have a look at the back of the box which is exactly the same stuff 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:21.000 again okay why don't we just open it up and have a look at this sweet board then 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:25.319 and we'll stop looking at the Box although it is a fairly nice box I'll 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:29.879 definitely give Gigabyte that it's a very snazzy looking box it's very shiny 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:34.560 see I don't know if you can see this in the Sun but you see how like shiny it is 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:38.440 can you can you see those reflective little dots in the oh that's not what I 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:44.040 want you to look at okay let's open up the board further Ado oh I hit the camera 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:50.000 all right so the first thing we're going to find inside here 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:54.480 is oh that was just a teaser the first thing we're going to look at is the 00:02:51.760 --> 00:02:59.480 accessories so in terms of accessories we should find a fairly fully loaded 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:04.000 package here uh we have a three-way SLI Bridge we have a four-way SLI Bridge 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:08.400 because both of those configurations are supported we have the users manual as 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:13.319 well as the driver DVD don't use this download the latest off the Gigabyte 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:16.319 website we have oh hold on hold on uh 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:19.080 congratulations on your oh neat okay we 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:24.840 have a Gigabyte uh VIP card okay uh what do you get register 00:03:21.760 --> 00:03:30.000 today for a chance to win an Apple 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:32.480 iPad cool okay uh we have a gigaby 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:36.640 sticker some extra motherboard standoffs and I'll explain why we need those in a 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:40.439 minute we have a smart 6 users manual as well as a multilingual installation 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:46.040 guide book then on the other side we have some SATA 6 gbit per second 00:03:43.760 --> 00:03:52.840 cables uh four of them to be precise oh wow yeah four okay and then 00:03:49.799 --> 00:03:57.159 we have an i cable we have two long 00:03:52.840 --> 00:04:00.079 Crossfire Bridges we have an EA bracket 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:05.079 so this includes power 2 EA ports and that all plugs in internally and then a 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:08.799 couple of Molex or one Molex to two SATA power adapter so that means you can just 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:15.640 plug in be drives it's very convenient for storage as well as two e SATA to 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:17.840 SATA cables we have an IO shield and a 00:04:15.640 --> 00:04:21.600 third Crossfire Bridge no that's an SL oh okay that's a straight SLI Bridge 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:25.680 these are two Crossfire Bridges and then we have three-way and four-way SLI 00:04:23.080 --> 00:04:31.000 Bridges so that pretty much takes care of the entire accessory package for this 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:36.520 particular board go ahead and put all that back in there do that and now we 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:42.280 will have a look finally at the board itself no I'm lying again okay we're 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:44.400 going to have a look at the extreme 00:04:42.280 --> 00:04:47.840 cooler that you can actually put on top of the the hybrid silent pipe that you 00:04:46.440 --> 00:04:54.080 can put on top of it this is the same one that we've seen included ever since 00:04:49.960 --> 00:04:56.560 the x58 extreme oh there's a a sticker 00:04:54.080 --> 00:05:01.280 that fell off here okay supports an extra 8 Pin CPU connector so the first 00:04:59.320 --> 00:05:07.800 thing that you should notice about this board if you're a very observant viewer 00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:12.600 is that it is not a standard ATX board 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:15.360 so right here you can see a gap between 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:18.400 where normally you'd have the first slot and where the first slot actually is on 00:05:17.320 --> 00:05:25.560 this board so here I'm just going to grab a board my ghetto ancient motherboard that 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:30.720 I use to compare size every once in a while so we're going to just put that 00:05:27.440 --> 00:05:32.840 over top of the Gigabyte 9 and you can 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:39.720 see it's quite a bit longer on the bottom and also quite a bit wider so 00:05:35.440 --> 00:05:41.840 this is sort of an XL ATX eatx sort of 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:46.000 hybrid form factor board and uh yeah so that's the first 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:50.560 thing that you'll notice you'll also notice it has seven PCI Express 16x 00:05:49.280 --> 00:05:56.120 slots although they're not all electrical 16x so this one this one this 00:05:53.639 --> 00:06:02.520 one and this one are all actually wired for 16x while this one this one and this 00:05:58.960 --> 00:06:06.680 one are only wired for 00:06:02.520 --> 00:06:08.720 8X next we have uh yeah that's pretty 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:14.479 cool so that's the cooler that is going to be cooling the uh the self Bridge as 00:06:11.919 --> 00:06:20.000 well as the nf200 chips that power this particular board uh that's the way that 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:22.160 Gigabyte was able to achieve so many PCI 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:26.720 Express slots you can actually populate every single slot I believe they'll all 00:06:24.039 --> 00:06:32.800 run at 8X and I don't recall whether it's using one nf200 chip or or two 00:06:29.840 --> 00:06:36.759 nf200 chips uh so if you know the answer to that please post it in the comments 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:41.000 under the video and I would be eternally grateful so why don't we start at the 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:45.639 CPU socket I'll start over again uh this is an LGA 1366 socket it's fairly bog 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:49.199 standard as far as that goes it is a loat socket so you don't have to worry 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:53.000 about any problems with the CPU contacting the pins correctly if you are 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:57.879 concerned about that sort of thing to the left of the socket we have two 8 Pin 00:06:55.840 --> 00:07:01.879 EPS connectors so that means you can deliver a whole lot of power to that CPU 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:06.000 through this motherboard although you only need to plug in one of them you can 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:10.680 see this little sticker here supports an extra CPU 8 Pin power connector next we 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:15.039 have six DDR3 module slots they are running in 00:07:13.520 --> 00:07:20.319 triple channel so the first ones you're going to populate are going to be the white ones and then you'd populate the 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:24.599 blue ones it supports up to 24 gigs of memory our 24 pin connectors in its 00:07:22.840 --> 00:07:28.160 ideal location along the right hand edge of the board and also along the right 00:07:26.479 --> 00:07:33.080 hand edge of the board and I love this you've got your power and reset switches 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:36.120 this is where they belong not at the bottom of the board because whether 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:41.280 you're on a test bench or whether you're in a case it's hard to get at switches 00:07:39.520 --> 00:07:45.039 that are down at the very bottom right of the board this is always easy to 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:49.000 access cuz it's next to your RAM where there won't be a video card or a CPU 00:07:46.919 --> 00:07:57.520 heat sink overhanging it perfect thank you Gigabyte good work next we have yes 00:07:53.520 --> 00:08:00.400 four SATA 3 6 gbit per second Port so 00:07:57.520 --> 00:08:05.560 the white ones are colorcoded for SATA 6 GB per second we have an IDE port in 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:11.680 between them and then we have six SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports running off of 00:08:08.039 --> 00:08:14.159 the Intel Southbridge we have an LED uh 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:20.080 diagnostic the display right here we have our front panel connectors front 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:22.639 USB front USB front USB front fire wire 00:08:20.080 --> 00:08:28.159 a floppy connector just in case you are still have a floppy drive and then we 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:30.280 have two additional Molex connectors so 00:08:28.159 --> 00:08:34.360 one here at the very Bott bottom left and then one up above the PCI Express 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:39.680 slots and those are going to be to provide auxiliary power to a super beefy 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:43.360 graphics card configuration that you might want to plug into a board like 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:47.000 this so let's have a bit of a closer look at the cooling solution I know we 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:50.800 looked at the self Bridge cooling before I'm not talking about that chip 00:08:48.560 --> 00:08:55.320 cameraman okay we had a closer look at the self Bridge solution before so 00:08:52.920 --> 00:08:59.680 that's here that's just a big block of metal basically and then we're going to 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:02.600 be relying on because there isn't actually a whole lot of cooling 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:07.240 potential here so if you're water cooling this board only the CPU I'd be a 00:09:05.800 --> 00:09:12.399 little bit concerned because there's a whole lot of stuff here to cool you've 00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:13.720 got your uh SATA 6 um SATA 6 chipset 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:17.240 down here you got your South Bridge you got your North Bridge you got an nf200 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:21.279 or two don't forget to write a comment if you know you've got your mosfets and 00:09:20.079 --> 00:09:25.120 that's a whole lot of stuff and you've only got these heat sinks right here and 00:09:23.760 --> 00:09:29.760 that's pretty much it I mean this doesn't really have any air cooling potential to it it's got like a little 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:33.720 tiny heat sink in there but that's not getting any air flow and then this is 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:38.760 just a big block of metal so you either need to connect the hybrid silent pipe 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:41.720 or you need to connect water cooling to the North Bridge block right here and 00:09:40.560 --> 00:09:45.959 that's what's going to take care of cooling all of this stuff because it is 00:09:43.640 --> 00:09:49.959 all connected via heat pipes so as long as you cool this spot right here you 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:54.320 make sure you take care of your mosfets as well as all of your chipsets on a 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:59.279 board like this front audio connector is here and let's have a look at the back 00:09:56.959 --> 00:10:04.079 connectivity on this motherboard so so first of all we've got two PS2 ports 00:10:01.680 --> 00:10:08.959 personally I think that's necessary I like PS2 ports they're useful uh yeah 00:10:06.839 --> 00:10:14.079 it's Legacy but I don't think it's that big of a deal next we've got cameraman 00:10:12.560 --> 00:10:17.920 wants it at this angle for some reason all right next we've got digital audio 00:10:15.920 --> 00:10:22.920 out so we have Optical as well as coaxial we have a clear Simo switch and 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:26.880 it's absolutely idealist possible location on the back panel you can 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:33.120 always reach that no matter what is installed on the board we have two 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:37.800 firewire ports we have two USB 2.0 ports 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:39.360 two USB 2.0 eat combo ports let me just 00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:45.959 double check that that is indeed what those are yes it is we have two more USB 00:10:42.040 --> 00:10:49.399 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports 2 gbit 00:10:45.959 --> 00:10:51.440 landan as well as 7.1 audio out so thank 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:58.320 you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Gigabyte x58a ud9 and 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:03.920 just for scale I'm going to take the cameraman's iPhone again and show you 00:11:00.560 --> 00:11:06.320 just how huge this board is yeah that's 00:11:03.920 --> 00:11:11.200 right the South Bridge heat SN is like the size of an 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:11.200 iPhone