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so today I'm going to be unboxing a new product from Gigabyte now I've done a

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lot of Intel motherboards over the past few months uh lot of p55 boards a lot of

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x58 boards but now I'm starting to look at a few more am3 boards so this is a

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790 fxa ud5 so this is their premium am3

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motherboard it comes with all of their highest end features including the

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three-year warranty etc etc as well as their 333 onboard acceleration so that's

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usb3 3.0 what is this I think it's like power

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* 3 so it means that all of the USB ports have three times the available

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power so if you're using a hub or something like that it takes a lot more

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High draw devices in order to overpower the port and then it also has SATA 3.0

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oh yeah here it is they have it listed not once but twice on the front Okay so

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this also has a bunch of other high-end features it has Ultra durable 3

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including the 2 oz copper PCB it has support for three-way Crossfire graphics

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DDR3 1866 Plus 8 plus2 phase power

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design duby home theater okay it doesn't come in a

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high-end box so I can't like show you the window but since we're going to open

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the box anyway I guess it's kind of a moot point there's a pink Square here

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which is very interesting maybe not

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interesting camera person has a bit of a beused look on on yeah okay I'll just

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move along moving right along okay here's our Dolby Home Theater sticker

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let's get down to what is all included we have one IDE cable and four SATA

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cables two of which are straight and two of which are right angle cables then we

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have an IO Shield which is colorcoded including I'll show you what the color

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coding means after then we have a Gigabyte sticker it is powered by

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Gigabyte then we have the users manual

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as well as the driver and utility DVD don't use the stuff on that DVD download

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the latest from the Gigabyte website then you have a multilingual

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installation guide book showing you how to install a motherboard although odds

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are pretty good if you don't have someone to teach you and you've never done it before you're not buying a

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standalone motherboard all right let's get this board out of here and get this

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show on the road so let's just yeah

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there we go okay so it's got a little piece of tape sealing it at the back and

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you can see under there we've got a a black am3 back plate which is the same

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as an am2 or am2 plus back plate because they all use the same Four Hole mounting

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configuration okay so let's start with the three times

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uh VGA thing here okay so you've got two

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PCI Express 16x slots and this bottom one is a PCI Express 8X slot you can

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tell because I'm not sure if you're going to be able to see this on the camera but the metal contacts only go up

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to about here in the slot so even though it's a physical 16x slot it's only 8X

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but because it's PCI Express 2.0 it doesn't really matter that it's 8X

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you're not going to see an impact on performance next down here we have a

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couple of USB 2.0 headers you can see that all over this board we have oh no

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that's not really true okay I'm not going to say that okay on the

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side we have six SATA 2 ports as well as

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two SATA 3 6 gbit per second ports so

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that's pretty cool we have an IDE connector and a floppy connector for

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some reason and then in very unusual positions we have I'm sorry I'm turning

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this on you we have a power and a reset onboard switch way up here I'm not

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really sure why those are there cuz normally you'd find them down the bottom of the board but there they are we have

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a 24 pin power connector up at the top right and then the other power connector

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I'm going to shift your attention over here is up at the top left in its ideal position there's your eight pin okay

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here is the am3 socket supporting only am3 CPUs and then we've got support for

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four sticks of dual Channel DDR3 memory unlike most Intel boards most AMD boards

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actually put the uh each kit in the color-coded slots which are right next

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to each other whereas normally on an Intel board you'd find them uh in slots

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one and three for optimal dual channel

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uh configuration okay so then we have a pretty high-end looking sort of heatpipe

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cooler for the South Bridge North Bridge and uh vrms okay I think that covers

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most oh this is oh this is this is really cool actually look it's like a

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it's like a missile launch button it's got like a clear cover over it and this

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is your clear Simo switch which is conveniently located somewhere where

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you'll actually be able to reach it because like the power and reset so

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often they're located down here by the time you install two graphics cards I

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mean you can't even reach it so this is really convenient I like that then on

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the back of the motherboard and I'm going to hold up the io Shield so that you can get some context for this we

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have two PS2 ports two digital audio ports then we

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have okay we have four Plain Jane USB

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ports and those are these two yellow ones right here and these two black ones

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right here those are just USB 2.0 then we have two USB SATA 2 ESAT combo ports

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and those are these two yellow ones here and then we have two USB 3.0 ports okay

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so that's the USB configuration on the back these standards are all

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intercompatibility

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GA 790 fxt a ud5