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Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Gigabyte

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F2A85X UP4. This uses their new ultra

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durable 5 technology which means you got

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ultra cool, ultra fision, ultra performance and high current capability. Yes, they have completely redesigned

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their power delivery systems including their best of competex award etc etc

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with an industryleading 60 amps rated power stage with lower losses higher

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efficiency and lower temperatures than

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compatible compatible comparable products from their competitors

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compatible products okay digital power 3D BIOS so that's their dual UFI BIOS

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dual BIOS means that even if something totally bad happens and your BIOS gets

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bricked you can boot from the other one new glass fabric PCB. I believe that was

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a UD4 feature. Maybe it's UD5. I don't

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know. But basically is better for humid environments such as like, you know,

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Southeast Asia or whatever else like that. Cool power inside and out. So,

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single package design. Basically, these these Yeah, these are like the beast and

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they run cooler and they deliver more current and they're just absolutely

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better than other power delivery systems. And based on my experience with

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their X79 something, UP5, X79S, UP5 I think is

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the one. It's completely silent. No coil line, no nonsense. It's just awesome.

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Okay. 2X copper PCB, power failure protection, uh, surge protection. So, if

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bad things happen again, it'll blow out, you know, maybe like, you know, if you

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have like your power supply goes and there's a surge that goes through your board, it might blow out like one USB

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port instead of like a bank of four of them, that kind of stuff. Uh, okay.

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Digital power for the CPU and the GPU on your APU. There's two power zones. And

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what else we got here? Basically, the

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gist of it is cooler is better for overclocking and better for efficiency,

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which it is. We've got four SATA 360 Gbit per second cables. We've got an

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empty thing. Slick. I don't know what was in there. SATA. SATA. Oh, more SATA

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cables. Okay. So, apparently there's six. We've got a utility DVD, users

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manual, multilingual installation guide book. And he claims, see, we've already

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benchmarked this board, actually. And uh

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yeah, he claims there was no IO shield in our sample board, but I suspect there

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was and we lost it. Um, so there would normally be an IO

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shield in the box. Looks amazing. Like

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pretty much every Gigabyte board that they've released in the last little while. I mean, Diesel, what do you

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think? Is that amazing? Yeah, he's giving me he's giving me the thumbs up. It looks amazing. Matte black PCB, dark

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accents. That heat sink looks outstanding with its like curved shape

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towards the spire in the center. Just looks fantastic. Um, okay. I can stop

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gushing about the looks of the board and we can get into the juicy features. So,

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there's your FM2 socket. FM2 is a new socket for AMD's Trinity APUs. These are

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higher performance APUs, particularly on the video side. So, these are these are

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much higher performance than uh FM1, right? Right, Slick? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

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Yes. Much higher performance in FM1. All of our benchmarks are done already and

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they're just awesome and they just destroy the Ivy Bridge CPUs from Intel

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in terms of running with the dead or with with the onboard graphics. Okay,

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you've got an 8 pin power connector up here. You've got four DDR3 dual channel

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memory slots here, which is pretty standard. Simos clear power switch,

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reset switch, all here. 24 pin connector in its ideal location along the right

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hand edge. USB 3 connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge, but

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not in its ideal orientation. I like to see these at a right angle these days.

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I've seen that on a couple boards and it's like awesome. Six SATA 3 6 GB per second

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ports. This is an AMD chipset, so everything's SATA 3 unlike Intel

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chipsets. There's your uh post LED readout. There's your two physical BIOS

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chips, your main BIOS and your backup BIOS. There's another SATA 3 port, your

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front IO connectors, more fan headers. We're going to have to show where all

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those fan headers are. There's lots on this board. Uh extra power front USB 2,

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three non-extra power front USB 2. This one's perfect for charging tablets,

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trusted platform module, front panel audio, and three PCIe 1X slots. Two PCIe

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16X physical slots, although this one's only wired for 8X. Uh oh, well, okay.

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three PCIe 16x slots, but this one's only wired for 4x. Really, you only want

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to run uh Crossfire on this board with

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uh with two two cards. You don't really want to go any higher than that. And one

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PCI slot in case you got some legacy stuff you want to bring with you with

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your new build. In terms of fan headers, we've got one, two, three, four,

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five, five four pin PWM fan headers. Ah.

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Uh and on the back, we've got four USB 3.0 0 ports, one PS2 port, a DVI port,

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DisplayPort, HDMI, and VGA. So, pretty much every display out you could

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possibly care about. And what's cool about this is that it's dual link DVI.

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So, you can power up to a 2560 x600 monitor at 60 Hz. No big deal. Optical

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audio out, two USB 2.0 ports, EA gigabit

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Ethernet, and 7.1 audio out. On the back

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of the board, you find more matte black

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awesomeness. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the

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F2885XUP4 from Gigabyte. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more

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unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. A couple more things to call out

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about Andy's platform is that this board does support triple monitors out using

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the onboard graphics. Okay, so yeah, you've got high resolution support. You've also got triple monitor out

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support and it does support dual graphics. So you can take that built-in

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GPU and your APU, which is next to the

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CPU, whatever. There's a graphics core in there and you can add a low-end

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adding graphics card and then you can combine them for like more power which is like more