1 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:15,480 now these days you'd be hard pressed to find a Gigabyte motherboard that is not 2 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:20,359 advertised as overclockable and uh with 3 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:23,039 overclocking features however the x58 4 00:00:20,359 --> 00:00:27,400 A- is the first board they've released that is pretty much strictly for 5 00:00:25,439 --> 00:00:32,439 overclocking so they have their gamer series which is the G1 Series so we got 6 00:00:30,199 --> 00:00:36,640 the Assassin the sniper and the gorilla and then this is the OC Series so it 7 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:42,399 might not have some of the features that Gamers might like such as you know the 8 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:46,039 third party chips for uh Lan as well as 9 00:00:42,399 --> 00:00:49,399 audio but what it does have is a ground 10 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:52,000 up design not like ground up like like 11 00:00:49,399 --> 00:00:56,960 this but from the ground level up to the top design for overclocking so this is 12 00:00:55,039 --> 00:01:04,559 an x58 board which means it supports Intel Core i7 processors on LGA 13 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:06,520 1366 here we will find okay little OC 14 00:01:04,559 --> 00:01:10,520 Shield not much on that side not much over here uh don't forget that does 15 00:01:08,479 --> 00:01:16,720 include core i7 Extreme 6 core processors on the back we will find a 16 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:19,080 ton of different features and whatnot 17 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:25,439 that Gigabyte has to say now when they before this board was released actually 18 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:28,079 the longstanding x58 tradition of 19 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:32,680 overclocking had been turned on its ear because they were able to achieve a 20 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:36,920 previously unheard of that is a world record overclock on this board in spite 21 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:42,399 of the fact that this platform has been around since pretty much forever it's 22 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:46,280 been like a couple years now so there's been a lot of time for overclockers and 23 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:49,680 the engineers at the mother board companies to get familiar with the 24 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:54,479 platform and even so Gigabyte has managed to release a board that 25 00:01:52,439 --> 00:01:59,079 outperformed everything else when we're talking strictly overclocking so here we 26 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:02,759 have a crossfire Bridge here we have an SLI Bridge here we have a three-way SLI 27 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:10,840 Bridge because if you're an extreme overclocker who's going to be using a board like this you probably will need 28 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:12,879 one okay we've got uh two SATA 6 GB 29 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:16,920 rather they'll run on SATA 6 GB per second but this is not their SATA 6 part 30 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:23,000 number so two right angle SATA cables two straight SATA cables we have a rear 31 00:02:20,959 --> 00:02:27,680 IO shield now check that out there's almost no stuff coming out of the back 32 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:33,080 of the board because this is a in some ways a Bare Bones board that is designed 33 00:02:30,599 --> 00:02:38,360 as I said for one purpose only you've got uh voltage check readouts here so 34 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:41,800 you can use these to uh use a Multimeter to manually check the voltages to 35 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:47,000 various parts of the system very important especially if you're doing any Ving Gigabyte sticker for the front of 36 00:02:45,159 --> 00:02:52,120 your test bench in all likelihood because this won't go in a case uh we've 37 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,400 got a Gigabyte uh utility DVD as well as 38 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:59,000 a user manual although if you're buying this board you probably don't need a 39 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:03,080 user's manual all right let's close this up and have a look look at the board 40 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:13,120 itself now it's been quite a while since I've seen a board with as 41 00:03:06,519 --> 00:03:17,280 appealing an aesthetic scheme as the x58 42 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:20,879 AOC outstanding this is by far the best 43 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:23,640 looking board I've seen probably since 44 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:31,480 um I'd say since DFI uh socket 478 stuff cuz I love the 45 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:36,120 orange and black Hall color scheme it's it's really easy to find UV orange stuff 46 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:40,000 to go with it whether it's fans or water cooling or whatever the case may be so 47 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:44,840 if you were going to use this in a in like a real daily driver Machine versus 48 00:03:42,959 --> 00:03:50,120 just strictly for overclocking competition it would look so cool okay 49 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:52,720 so anyway I'm done gushing now so let's go ahead and have a look at the overall 50 00:03:51,519 --> 00:03:58,079 layout of the board and then we'll talk about some of the special featur so let's start with the CPU socket this is 51 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:01,439 a Loz socket so you're not going to have any of those burn problems that we're 52 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:05,280 exper with some of the foxcon sockets that's uh just it's a little thing you 53 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:11,519 know due care and attention being paid to the target market for this board we 54 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:16,919 have here actually I'm going to cheat I'm going to look at the backboard so 55 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:19,400 Gigabyte claims output from the CPU 56 00:04:16,919 --> 00:04:24,919 socket is up to 1 1200 watts now if you managed to make a CPU consume 1 12200 57 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:30,120 Watts then you're some kind of wizard but the point is that this board is 58 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:35,479 completely overbuilt so they're using driver mosfets um their their chokes are 59 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:41,880 rated single chokes are rated up to 50 amps okay it's 60 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:44,880 um let me see okay the pwm frequency 61 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:48,880 goes up to 1,000 htz excellent you've 62 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:50,479 got two 8 Pin EPS power connectors okay 63 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:55,360 so these are up here and their ideal location along the top left edge of the 64 00:04:52,440 --> 00:05:00,440 board and actually give me one moment here also of note is the fact that the 65 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:05,720 CPU socket area is extremely clutter-free so this makes insulating 66 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:10,440 around the CPU much easier when you're using liquid nitrogen or dry ice cooling 67 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:15,080 or any other exotic cooling methods to cool the CPU itself because you don't 68 00:05:12,639 --> 00:05:20,080 want that condensation uh ending up on the board any more than is absolutely 69 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:24,160 necessary Okay so we've got uh support for dual uh triple Channel DDR3 memory 70 00:05:22,919 --> 00:05:30,919 you can see all those slots here I'm actually going to get into what all of this area is for a little bit later but 71 00:05:28,319 --> 00:05:36,199 we've got our 24 pin ATX power connector exactly where it belongs along the right 72 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:39,520 hand Edge we have here we go uh six SATA 73 00:05:36,199 --> 00:05:41,199 2 3 GB per second ports and two SATA 3 6 74 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:44,560 GB per second ports and I'll get into what these are for in a little bit as 75 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:49,520 well we have all of our front panel connectors here we have our front USB 76 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:53,520 including onoff charge so that means you can charge your devices even when the 77 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:59,000 system is powered off they're claiming up to 40% faster as well which is very 78 00:05:55,759 --> 00:06:00,759 nice there's your front audio okay um we 79 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,720 don't see any anything special in terms of the audio chips being used or the Lan 80 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,520 uh the Lan chips being used it looks like just real Tech chips so nothing 81 00:06:07,599 --> 00:06:16,599 special there as I mentioned before this is not for that this is for overclocking 82 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:20,479 serious business so we have uh dual uh 83 00:06:16,599 --> 00:06:24,560 Graphics support in 16x 16x mode or quad 84 00:06:20,479 --> 00:06:26,960 graphics support in 8X 8X 8X 8X mode so 85 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:32,599 there are no additional chips that means no uh nf200 chips no Lucid Hydro Logics 86 00:06:30,039 --> 00:06:36,080 chips nothing like that this is in order to make sure that there's as little 87 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:40,759 latency as possible it's yet to be proven in any meaningful way that those 88 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:45,639 additional chips and the bandwidth they provide are able to improve Benchmark 89 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:51,160 score so that's why they have opted to not include those on this board we have 90 00:06:48,039 --> 00:06:54,120 one PCI slot so if you need one you have 91 00:06:51,160 --> 00:07:00,720 one and then moving right along we have an extremely beefy cooling solution for 92 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:06,120 the North Bridge as well well as for the power delivery system it's also LED lit 93 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:10,440 so uh you can see the power cables here and here so these strips right here are 94 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,720 actually going to light up and this one right here actually lights up so the 95 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:18,000 board should look really cool when it's powered on but that's just an aesthetic 96 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:21,199 thing so what I'm talking about here is just the fact that these have very very 97 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:25,759 beefy Alum aluminum heat sinks it's going to give you a lot of room for heat dissipation although some of the more 98 00:07:24,199 --> 00:07:32,160 extreme overclockers may even just remove the whole whack and uh put a pot 99 00:07:29,599 --> 00:07:35,360 on the North Bridge itself so they've thoughtfully made the South Bridge and 100 00:07:34,039 --> 00:07:41,680 North Bridge heat sinks completely separate they haven't connected them via a heat pipe in order to make that 101 00:07:39,199 --> 00:07:46,199 possible all right so let's talk about this neighborhood up actually no let's 102 00:07:43,479 --> 00:07:53,240 talk about this first so here we've got um SOS clear switch as well as a BIOS 103 00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:57,240 selector switch actually hold on is that the bio selector switch I might be a 104 00:07:54,759 --> 00:08:02,000 little bit confused okay give me a sec sorry guys this is the pwm frequency 105 00:07:59,199 --> 00:08:07,879 switch so you can go from 600 to 800 to 1,000 Herz very easily up here all right 106 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:13,479 all these buttons over here all have different functionality so this is the 107 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:15,879 OC gear so what that means is that the 108 00:08:13,479 --> 00:08:23,919 frequency up and frequency down buttons are either going to go up and down by 1 109 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:26,680 mahz or 3 MHz so if you change the gear 110 00:08:23,919 --> 00:08:31,159 it changes how fine the control you have over the base clock is this button right 111 00:08:29,199 --> 00:08:36,159 here is just a one button overclock so it just sets the CPU to 4 GHz on the 112 00:08:33,959 --> 00:08:40,839 next boot this is pretty self-explanatory that's the CPO ratio up 113 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:46,600 or down with the Press of a button so there is no delay this is just a plain 114 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:49,519 and simple Hardware adjusting button 115 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:54,560 awesome we've got a power switch as well as a reset switch and here are all our 116 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:58,200 voltage measurements so you can use the little plugs that came with it here I'll 117 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:02,720 show you guys that again so you can see how they go in yep here you go 118 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:06,560 and then the other ends of these are compatible with your multimeter so you 119 00:09:04,279 --> 00:09:12,640 can use the leads on there to check the voltages to a variety of things so you 120 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:17,760 can check the qpi PLL vmch core CPU PLL 121 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:19,720 DDR VT the vdm V qpi VT as well as the 122 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:24,440 vcore so that's all of your critical ones right there we've also got an LED 123 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,480 post indicator so that'll help with any troubleshooting that you may have to do 124 00:09:25,959 --> 00:09:32,320 with this board while it's uh being benchmarked we've also got a couple 125 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:36,360 things here so this is smart right here two SATA power connectors now what are 126 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:41,640 those for I am so sick of seeing auxiliary power connectors on 127 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:43,279 motherboards that are Molex because I 128 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:47,399 don't know about you guys but I actually don't have anything that plugs in in my 129 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:51,839 system anymore via Molex except my water cooling pump my water cooling pump is 130 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:55,959 nowhere near my motherboard so what that means is that I have to run a completely 131 00:09:53,680 --> 00:10:00,560 separate mod modular cable up to my motherboard if I want to plug that 132 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:07,480 auxiliary power in stupid this is smart this is SATA power 133 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,920 connectors near SATA data connectors so 134 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:12,880 what that means is wherever you're running these is probably reasonably 135 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:16,800 close probably near the front of your case which is where most cases Mount the 136 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:20,680 hard drives to where you're already running SATA power so you run an 137 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:24,079 additional cable or you run a cable to a drive and then the other two harnesses 138 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:28,440 over to here great now you've got your auxiliary power being provided by SATA 139 00:10:26,279 --> 00:10:33,959 so that's uh that's awesome love that okay let me just see if there there's 140 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,959 anything that I am missing 141 00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:43,079 here actually give me a sec uh two more things actually yeah so 142 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:46,519 uh Gigabyte actually says that you can and by that I guess they mean they 143 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:49,800 recommend you use two different rails on your power supply for these so that way 144 00:10:47,959 --> 00:10:54,360 you're not going to run into any limitations in terms of how much power 145 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:57,160 you can provide to the PCI Express slots the other thing is that they have 146 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:02,560 specifically designed the PCI Express slots with all low profile components in 147 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:07,440 between them also the spacing where they don't have slots here and here allows 148 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:12,639 you to very easily insulate in between the PCI Express Graphics slots for the 149 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:17,120 best Subzero performance and the most safety because you don't want to ruin 150 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:21,720 those expensive and sometimes heavily modified graphics cards it's a real pain 151 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:27,600 to redo all of that work last but not least here is the bio switch so you can 152 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:32,000 switch between uh BIOS one and two this allows you to save up to 16 bi profiles 153 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:35,240 it also allows you to control and there's a little LED indicator to show 154 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:39,959 you which one you're using on there but it allows you to control which BIOS you 155 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:42,959 are using and you can even okay you can switch and you can Flash to a new beta 156 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,920 BIOS find out if that works better for you turns out it doesn't great switch 157 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:50,639 back to your old BIOS you got your stable settings no problem very cool 158 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:53,839 feature don't forget to subscribe to lus techtips for more unboxings reviews and 159 00:11:52,279 --> 00:11:58,560 other computer videos and thanks for checking out this video of the x58a OC 160 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:06,120 and one thing I didn't mention yet that I love matte black PCB so the product is 161 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:06,120 therefore automatically made of win