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up7 so their tagline for this guy is a
new Legend is born and I believe that has something to do with the fact that
this board is now the host of well at
least when they printed the Box these things change all the time but is now the host of the
world sorry for that noise of the world record
7102 GHz overclock on a
3770k so there you go they've got a little badge on their box to tell you
all about how the overclocking features of this board are not one of those all
show and noo type Affairs but actually
delivering results in the competitive overclocking scene so we're going to go
ahead and we see the board first but I'm going to make you guys sit through the
accessories before we actually check it out lots of accessories there are many
many accessories so accessory number one is their PCI Express Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
card go ahead and give you guys a look at this what's cool about this is you
actually don't have to use it on Gigabyte boards you can use it on a different board should you so desire so
you can carry that with you as your system evolves and changes over
potentially the years okay so there's the antennas that go with them they're
just little Standalone antennas you stick them wherever you want next up
we've got all of the connectivity this board does support four-way SLI so it
comes with a four-way SLI Bridge a three-way SLI Bridge a two-way flexible
Crossfire bridge and presumably there we go a two-way flexible SLI Bridge all of
these are black which means they will actually go with your computer color
scheme whereas I've seen sort of brutal ones in the past that don't match the
board that you actually bought it with we've also got lead outs for the voltage
monitoring that is built into the board you don't have to solder anything as
well as a USB cable that is I believe for the Wi-Fi Bluetooth card it comes
with a 3 and 1/2 in front USB 3 Bay so
if your case doesn't have USB 3 natively you can add it no problem it also comes
with one of their one of Gigabyte's awesome eat bracket so that goes in a
PCI bracket and includes a Molex power connector and then they also include a
Molex to dual SATA
Internal SATA adapter so you can just plug in two external drives easily just
to the back of your system without any extra adapters or enclosures or anything
like that you just plug them in and go finally we've got six SATA 3 6 gbit per
second cables three right angle and three straight an IO
Shield there you go color coded for your convenience and all the manuals and
whatnot that you will need now let's get into the board board
itself so Gigabyte really is throwing everything at this board in terms of
Technology whether it's performance related cooling related or even looks
related it looks really really sharp just like many of their other OC boards
and give me a moment to get this adjusted so I can actually show you guys what it looks like this is not an XL ATX
board which I personally like to see I want to see that functionality put into
a form factor that most cases can actually accept but they've still
managed to make it four-way SLI and four-way Crossfire compatible now the
problem with z77 boards that are able to run four-way configurations is that
usually they use Bridge chips that while they increase the bandwidth available to
the slots can have a negative impact on
latency so if you're going to run a single graphics card configuration what
you would want to do is use this black Port right here very Innovative very
cool approach from Gigabyte this Blackport goes natively directly to the
CPU PCIe 16x and will have no additional
latency involved so you only have to use these orange ports if you're running
dual Graphics awesome love to see it cooling wise they've changed up the
approach a little bit we've seen a lot of cooling solutions implemented on
motherboards that are more for show rather than for the actual thermal
dissipation remember it's all about surface area so the cooler on here uses
a very thin dense heat sink arrangement
in order to dissipate more heat to the surrounding air and not necessarily just
be for looks so there's one for the South Bridge area one for the North
Bridge area and then one around the 32 phase power design so that is part of
what allows the CPU to get such stable power however just throwing more power
phases at a board is not necessarily going to improve the performance in any
meaningful way you actually have to build good phases so Gigabyte is using
the same I truly all digital pwm so
there's nothing analog left in the power delivery system that is actually on act
the board that I'm using the x79 S up5 which is an x79 board whereas this
is a z77 so a different socket otherwise I'd probably consider using something
like this and that is how you're able to push the clocks up on those CPUs even
under extreme conditions such as extremely low temperature which is
required for boosting things up to that level anyway so in terms of the actual
connectors on the board we've got two 8 Pin CPU connectors up here at the top
left in their ideal locations one 24 pin connector over here on the far right in
its ideal location front USB 3 is on the right hand edge of
the board as well as the bottom so depending which approach you prefer you
can definitely go ahead and leverage either of those it includes an msata
Port so slot five or port five over here will be disabled if you use it
personally for a desktop system I'd usually just add a an SSD or a drive
rather than using msata but there you go you have the option auxiliary power is
provided by a SATA connector here I do recommend using this if you're going to
install three graphics cards or more uh we've got six SATA 3 6 GB per second
ports these two are powered by Intel these two are powered by Marvel chipset
and then four SATA 2 3 GB per second ports there's the debug LED as well as
controls for the main BIOS as well as the secondary BIOS so it does have a
dual bio system with hardware switches allowing you to decide which one you
want to boot from your front panel connectors are here this red USB port
supports on off which is cool because
your devices will charge whether it's a phone or a tablet even if your
computer's powered off and your front panel audio is right over here the board
supp concludes support for the latest core I3 i5 and i7 processors on the LGA
1155 platform so there are seven onboard fan headers one two pwm up here at the
top a third pwm here on the right hand side a fourth fifth and fifth pwm down
here on the bottom and then two three pin connectors down here on the bottom
so that means you can control all these fans through the BIOS rather than using
a third party controller or whatever else I mean this is the stuff that I
glazed over cuz it seems basic now but LGA 1155 does support up to four dims of
dual Channel DDR3 memory with up to 8 gig dims so you can put in a total of 32
gigs of RAM should you so desire this board does feature the latest Ultra
durable technology meaning the 2x copper PCB as well as their new fiberglass uh
or glass fabric rather not fiberglass glass fabric PCB which is humidity
resistant so it's going to be great for damp environments where there's lots of
humidity in the air as well as sort of other regular environments little nice
touches like this I like to see so they've got more cooling on the back of the board for the moset and that will
help particularly with chassis such as the entech uh 1100 where it there's
actually sort of space on the back where some air flow can come through as well
as using screws for all the built-in heat sinks it means they're not likely
to come loose in travel or if there's any if the board underg goes any kind of
a flex um they'll stay on and the board
will actually function as intended so I think that pretty much wraps it up I
mean there's okay there's other weird stuff that I okay so you guys can tune
out if you're not interested in the crazy stuff so here's where all the voltage checkpoints are so if you're
doing any kind of crazy overvolting that's where you can measure them directly with a multimeter rather than
relying on software here's where you can switch to liquid nitrogen mode clear
seimo switches up here power as well as
overclocking buttons so these are for directly overclocking the board they
have a hardware interface with the board so you don't have to worry about any software and then this this gear button
actually changes the increments that these buttons use to overclock the board
itself the reset switch is away from all the other switches for whatever reason
is down here in the bottom right corner I guess that's for ease of access when
it's on a bench since reset is the one that you're typically using a lot in
that scenario and of course the rear IO which I completely forgot it's actually
been a long time since I've done a motherboard unboxing we haven't had a
new platform in quite a while am3 plus and lga1155 have been with us forever 6
USB 3. ports PS2 VGA DVI DisplayPort
HDMI optical audio out 2 GB Ethernet and
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