Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Gigabyte
F2A85X UP4. This uses their new ultra
durable 5 technology which means you got
ultra cool, ultra fision, ultra performance and high current capability. Yes, they have completely redesigned
their power delivery systems including their best of competex award etc etc
with an industryleading 60 amps rated power stage with lower losses higher
efficiency and lower temperatures than
compatible compatible comparable products from their competitors
compatible products okay digital power 3D BIOS so that's their dual UFI BIOS
dual BIOS means that even if something totally bad happens and your BIOS gets
bricked you can boot from the other one new glass fabric PCB. I believe that was
a UD4 feature. Maybe it's UD5. I don't
know. But basically is better for humid environments such as like, you know,
Southeast Asia or whatever else like that. Cool power inside and out. So,
single package design. Basically, these these Yeah, these are like the beast and
they run cooler and they deliver more current and they're just absolutely
better than other power delivery systems. And based on my experience with
their X79 something, UP5, X79S, UP5 I think is
the one. It's completely silent. No coil line, no nonsense. It's just awesome.
Okay. 2X copper PCB, power failure protection, uh, surge protection. So, if
bad things happen again, it'll blow out, you know, maybe like, you know, if you
have like your power supply goes and there's a surge that goes through your board, it might blow out like one USB
port instead of like a bank of four of them, that kind of stuff. Uh, okay.
Digital power for the CPU and the GPU on your APU. There's two power zones. And
what else we got here? Basically, the
gist of it is cooler is better for overclocking and better for efficiency,
which it is. We've got four SATA 360 Gbit per second cables. We've got an
empty thing. Slick. I don't know what was in there. SATA. SATA. Oh, more SATA
cables. Okay. So, apparently there's six. We've got a utility DVD, users
manual, multilingual installation guide book. And he claims, see, we've already
benchmarked this board, actually. And uh
yeah, he claims there was no IO shield in our sample board, but I suspect there
was and we lost it. Um, so there would normally be an IO
shield in the box. Looks amazing. Like
pretty much every Gigabyte board that they've released in the last little while. I mean, Diesel, what do you
think? Is that amazing? Yeah, he's giving me he's giving me the thumbs up. It looks amazing. Matte black PCB, dark
accents. That heat sink looks outstanding with its like curved shape
towards the spire in the center. Just looks fantastic. Um, okay. I can stop
gushing about the looks of the board and we can get into the juicy features. So,
there's your FM2 socket. FM2 is a new socket for AMD's Trinity APUs. These are
higher performance APUs, particularly on the video side. So, these are these are
much higher performance than uh FM1, right? Right, Slick? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Yes. Much higher performance in FM1. All of our benchmarks are done already and
they're just awesome and they just destroy the Ivy Bridge CPUs from Intel
in terms of running with the dead or with with the onboard graphics. Okay,
you've got an 8 pin power connector up here. You've got four DDR3 dual channel
memory slots here, which is pretty standard. Simos clear power switch,
reset switch, all here. 24 pin connector in its ideal location along the right
hand edge. USB 3 connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge, but
not in its ideal orientation. I like to see these at a right angle these days.
I've seen that on a couple boards and it's like awesome. Six SATA 3 6 GB per second
ports. This is an AMD chipset, so everything's SATA 3 unlike Intel
chipsets. There's your uh post LED readout. There's your two physical BIOS
chips, your main BIOS and your backup BIOS. There's another SATA 3 port, your
front IO connectors, more fan headers. We're going to have to show where all
those fan headers are. There's lots on this board. Uh extra power front USB 2,
three non-extra power front USB 2. This one's perfect for charging tablets,
trusted platform module, front panel audio, and three PCIe 1X slots. Two PCIe
16X physical slots, although this one's only wired for 8X. Uh oh, well, okay.
three PCIe 16x slots, but this one's only wired for 4x. Really, you only want
to run uh Crossfire on this board with
uh with two two cards. You don't really want to go any higher than that. And one
PCI slot in case you got some legacy stuff you want to bring with you with
your new build. In terms of fan headers, we've got one, two, three, four,
five, five four pin PWM fan headers. Ah.
Uh and on the back, we've got four USB 3.0 0 ports, one PS2 port, a DVI port,
DisplayPort, HDMI, and VGA. So, pretty much every display out you could
possibly care about. And what's cool about this is that it's dual link DVI.
So, you can power up to a 2560 x600 monitor at 60 Hz. No big deal. Optical
audio out, two USB 2.0 ports, EA gigabit
Ethernet, and 7.1 audio out. On the back
of the board, you find more matte black
awesomeness. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the
F2885XUP4 from Gigabyte. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more
unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. A couple more things to call out
about Andy's platform is that this board does support triple monitors out using
the onboard graphics. Okay, so yeah, you've got high resolution support. You've also got triple monitor out
support and it does support dual graphics. So you can take that built-in
GPU and your APU, which is next to the
CPU, whatever. There's a graphics core in there and you can add a low-end
adding graphics card and then you can combine them for like more power which is like more