WEBVTT 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:15.360 this is a couple of things first it is an 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:18.320 exciting new Gigabyte motherboard second 00:00:15.360 --> 00:00:25.279 it is an exciting new Intel chipset so this is the same Intel lga 1155 platform 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:30.880 that supports the latest Intel core i7 core i5 core i3 processors it is made by 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:35.280 Gigabyte who we know and love okay it has 16 phases of power three year 00:00:32.800 --> 00:00:38.879 warranty ultra durable three all those good Gigabyte technologies we like 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:44.559 NVIDIA sli dual CPU power interesting power engine 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:46.399 a and power engine b cool but it has a 00:00:44.559 --> 00:00:51.559 really cool new feature this uses the z68 chipset so this is the z68xud4b3 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:58.000 what that means is that even if you install 00:00:55.760 --> 00:01:02.320 okay get this a pci express graphics card or even two in sli or crossfire x 00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:07.520 which is compatible with both you can still use the onboard video on 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:11.280 your Intel CPU because they've all got it on the lga 1155 platform to 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:17.200 accelerate things like video rendering 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:19.520 cool right so that is the pretty much 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:23.920 the killer app that makes the z68 different from the p67 chipset so let's 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:28.320 take just a brief moment here talk about some of the other Gigabyte technologies 00:01:25.759 --> 00:01:31.759 that make this board special so usb power 3x is a pretty cool one actually 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:37.200 here i'm just going to cheat and i'm going to look at the chromebox usb power 3x so what that means is you can deliver 00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:43.439 more power through the usb ports than their competitors usb 3.0 is awesome 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:45.600 love it sata3 also awesome love it okay 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:50.399 all ferrite core chokes all lower rds mosfets and all 50 000 japanese solid 00:01:48.320 --> 00:01:55.520 caps as i mentioned before 16 phase power and 00:01:53.360 --> 00:02:01.360 let me see three plus terabyte hard drives oh and this touch BIOS so 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:05.040 Gigabyte has implemented ue um 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:06.399 efi BIOS technology now with this line 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:10.479 of board so i don't think there's much here on the back that we really need to 00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:13.840 talk about there is one more killer feature of the z68 but i'm going to talk 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:17.840 about it in a little while i'm just gonna that's a hook so you guys can't go 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.760 away just yet okay multilingual installation guidebook user manual 00:02:20.160 --> 00:02:27.040 driver dvd download the latest off the Gigabyte website don't install lga 1156 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:30.720 cpus they are not compatible here is an io shield 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:35.200 oh and the ones with three times usb power are marked neat 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:40.000 we have ooh black flexible sli bridge i love little 00:02:37.440 --> 00:02:43.599 touches like this where they include uh you know because the last thing you want 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:47.360 is you know you got like a shmexi you know great color scheme board and then 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.239 they go and include like a brown sli bridge it's like that's great i went and 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:54.239 built a high performance system in this and now it has to look stupid so we've 00:02:52.400 --> 00:03:01.360 got two right angle SATA cables two straight SATA cables also black to match 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:02.879 the entirely black appearance of this 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:10.800 high performance z68 motherboard so let's go ahead and 00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:10.800 get this baby out of the packaging here 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:18.560 and there it is now if you guys ever watch my Linus tech 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:23.280 tips show and you ever pay attention you might 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:29.680 remember one thing that i always talk about first whenever i see it 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:32.159 and that is matte black pcb love it love 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:36.879 everything about it it looks great it makes you feel like you just bought a 00:03:34.480 --> 00:03:41.519 really premium quality product when it has that stealth black look to it you 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:46.560 know it's not overly shiny although there are accented shiny bits like the 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:51.680 CPU socket the battery but other than that it's just got like a dark 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:57.120 stealthy look to it love it okay so let's start with the CPU socket 00:03:54.319 --> 00:04:01.360 as i mentioned before lj 1155 socket fully capable of using the full 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:06.080 capabilities of the CPU you put in including the CPU 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:10.879 cores as well as the GPU core even when you install another graphics card so all 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:14.640 the p67 all the h67 boards as soon as you install a graphics card boom turns 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:20.000 off the onboard video you can't use Intel's accelerated video 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:25.280 encoding software so that is a great feature to have for this chipset there 00:04:21.919 --> 00:04:27.199 is that 20 rather 16 phase power design 00:04:25.280 --> 00:04:32.160 so you can see all the phases here you can see the mosfet coolers are very 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:35.360 bulky very heat piped very capable looking okay you can see they're going 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:41.280 to get some incidental airflow from your CPU fan no matter how you situate it up 00:04:38.880 --> 00:04:46.400 here in the top right top left corner this ideal location is the eight pin CPU 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:52.400 power connector here's our CPU fan connector over here we find 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:54.639 four ddr3 dimm slots all right so those 00:04:52.400 --> 00:05:00.000 are dual channel this is the same basic technology we find on the p67 with that 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:04.080 onboard video inclusion to the technology list here we 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:10.639 have our 24 pin connector in its ideal location here we find two Gigabyte 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:12.800 chipset powered SATA 3 ports 2 Intel 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:17.520 chipset powered SATA 3 ports as well as 4 Intel chipset powered SATA 2 3 gigabit 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:22.800 per second ports so these are going to be the best ones i'd use these ones next 00:05:20.479 --> 00:05:26.400 and then probably i'd fall back onto those ones unless you have a bunch of 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:30.240 sata3 six gigabit per second drives in which case i guess you'll need to use 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:36.840 these second here we have our front panel connectors here we have front usb 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:40.000 3. here we have one two three front usb 00:05:36.840 --> 00:05:42.240 twos here we have front firewire front 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:46.240 audio in its ideal location along the bottom edge of the board not over here 00:05:44.320 --> 00:05:50.800 like previous generation Gigabyte boards in terms of expansion ports we have two 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:55.680 PCIe 16x slots although you can clearly see this one is only wired for 8x so if 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:59.280 you do run crossfire or sli you're going to be running an 8x8x mode which doesn't 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:04.800 make very much difference in terms of performance two PCIe 1x two pci so if 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:09.280 you do install sli or crossfire with two dual slot cards you will be left with 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:11.840 one PCIe 1x and one pci slot for 00:06:09.280 --> 00:06:15.680 expansion here on the back of the board you will find a whole lot of expansion 00:06:13.919 --> 00:06:19.600 possibilities so first things first we've got one of those ps2 keyboard 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:24.960 mouse combo ports which i'm a big fan of we have one two 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:28.560 three four five six seven eight usb 2.0 00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:32.639 ports uh coaxial and optical audio out 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:35.280 firewire that is power d SATA hold on i 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:40.639 think that's power d SATA let's find out nope that is esata3 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:44.319 oh esata3 really oh cool well that's a neat feature hold on in 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:49.600 just a minute here well you know what someone leave a comment on the video let me know if that 00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:52.000 is actually a SATA 3 port because that's pretty neat for external storage if it 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:56.880 is so that is an esata3 slash usb 00:06:55.039 --> 00:07:03.039 combo port and then this one is just straight esata3 here's usb 3.0 gigabit 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:08.000 Ethernet as well as 7.1 audio out and i actually you know what it's kind of 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:10.560 funny but i like the 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:15.360 this is almost like harkening back to the old Gigabyte days where their boards 00:07:12.400 --> 00:07:18.720 had like the explosion of color on them here the board looks awesome which is 00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:22.000 great so it means your system is going to look great and then at the back 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:27.599 they've gone back to the old Gigabyte ways which i actually kind of like it's kind of a nice little touch like you 00:07:25.039 --> 00:07:32.160 know old school style we've got just a little bit of that Gigabyte flare on the 00:07:29.919 --> 00:07:35.280 back of the system where it's i don't have to look at it unless i'm trying to 00:07:33.919 --> 00:07:39.520 plug in a port in which case color coding everything helps a lot it's great 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:44.479 now i haven't talked about that other feature yet i've been saving it and 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:48.080 let's see what Intel smart response technologies what we're calling it so 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:53.199 basically what Intel smart response technology allows us to do 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:55.840 is it allows us to plug in an SSD into 00:07:53.199 --> 00:08:00.400 one of the Intel ports and a hard drive and then use the SSD as a cache so we've 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:04.080 had products that have used this kind of technology in the past such as the 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:09.919 seagate momentous xt which had a built-in very small SSD 00:08:06.479 --> 00:08:11.919 such as the HDD boost from silverstone 00:08:09.919 --> 00:08:15.680 which allowed you to mount an SSD and then use a pass-through to run to a hard 00:08:13.599 --> 00:08:21.039 drive but this is the first time we've seen it natively included on a chipset 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.639 so the z68 chipset has the graphics 00:08:21.039 --> 00:08:27.039 feature which is very very important and then it also has the ability to use an 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:31.120 SSD as a cache for your hard drive so what that means is if you buy a small 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:35.440 SSD rather than installing your os installing one game on it and then going 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:40.479 oh where'd all my space go now i can't put anything else on my SSD instead you 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:43.279 put on the SSD it hides itself from you completely you plug in your hard drive 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:48.240 you bind them together i haven't actually tried it yet so i don't know how it works but you do that you have 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:52.720 the full capacity of your hard drive and then the system will intelligently store 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:57.200 your most frequently accessed files and programs onto the SSD so you can more 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:00.959 quickly access those Gigabyte claims up to a four time system performance 00:08:59.040 --> 00:09:05.200 increase than with a hard drive only so that's 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