Gigabyte 880GM-UD2H 880G Phenom II X6 Ready Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,295 words · ~6 min read
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okay uh zoom in zoom in zoom in N I'm
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just playing around with the camera in okay so today we'll be unboxing the Gigabyte 880gm ud2h so this is this is a
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sticker that's okay though it's six core CPU ready out of the box it's part of
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AMD's uh brand new 800 series chipsets
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so the 880g is the replacement for the 785g that means it has Onboard video as
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well as excellent performance support for all the latest CPUs all that good
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stuff but you're going to be missing little things like say for example
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Crossfire support because it's not designed to be an extreme gaming
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platform that said you do have a lot of the other Gigabyte benefits with this
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board you've got Ultra durable 3 classic whatever that means so that means you
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got a 2 O copper PCB 50,000 hour Japanese solid caps as well as dual BIOS
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it has a three-year warranty in US and Canada and it features their easy energy
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saving let's move around to the back did I already mention it has support for the
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fenom 2x6 I think I did but either way it's all good this is just more details
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on the back about the motherboard itself you got support for up to DDR3 1800 plus
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so that's through overclocking then you have a 4 plus one phase power design and
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that pretty much covers the specifics
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okay oh oh yeah we have lower Emi so
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lower electromagnetic uh interference I believe it stands for that means just
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sort of less General electromagnetic junk going on out of
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this board did you know that that's what IO Shields are for it's to stop
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electromagnetic like radiation from coming out the back of the PC where you
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have a completely open Gap that's why all the PCI slots and the io Shield is
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is covered with metal there you go you learned something today unless you
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already knew so it has an IO Shield it has a Dolby Home Theater
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sticker it has two SATA cables one of which is right angle and one of which is
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straight as well as an IDE cable person I'd probably rather see four SATA cables
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included but a lot of people are still using IDE DVD drives so that's what this
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is great for you got a couple hard drives you got a DVD drive you're covered next we have the users
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manual and inside we will find the 8
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series utility DVD don't use this download the latest off the Gigabyte
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website and then you've got a full English users manual covering a lot of
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Bio settings how to install drivers how to plug in all of your front panel
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connectors all that good stuff then we have a multilingual installation guide
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book that covers the physical installation in 300 million different
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languages all right then we have the motherboard itself so it's a pretty bare
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accessory package although it is a fairly lowish end board so you that's
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sort of the expectation that you got to have with a motherboard like this so
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let's take this out now the one thing that I do see is
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missing so this is not using the latest
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Southbridge from AMD it is using the
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latest 800 series Northbridge but it does not have support for SATA 3 so
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you're still running SATA 2 but honestly if you're buying a value motherboard
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you're probably not buying a a an S SATA
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3 SSD anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about it cameraman's having a look
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at gigabytes pretty sweet looking Northbridge heat sink I really you know
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what now that North Bridges and South bridges for example this one run so cool
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I I think it's great that some of the manufacturers are taking an opportunity
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to make it more of a design element rather than just focused on you know oh
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here's a heat sink here's some fins it cools it really good because the reality
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of it is AMD's chipsets run so cool you could probably put this heat sink on
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that chipset and no heat sink on this chipset and the board would probably run
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just fine with a little bit of air flow but instead Gigabyte spends a couple
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bucks they put a nice heat sink on it it looks cool they put like a turbo 3
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thing on it that's pretty cool too why don't we have a look at the layout of
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the board before I just start rambling here so up at the top left we have an
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8pin um EPS connector so that is going
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to be providing the power for your CPU I'm surprised to see an8 pin on a value
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board like this but since you can install six pin CPUs and presumably you
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can overclock at least a little bit on a board like this it's great to see that
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guess the CPU is going to be pulling some real power next you've got your uh
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two sets of dual Channel DDR three support so that's up to I believe 16
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gigs if I recall correctly and 4 gig dims are finally getting reasonably
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priced so you could actually load this up with six cores and 16 dims in a
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microatx form factor I mean wow even a
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couple years ago that was like impossible to Fathom next we've got a
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floppy connector as well as an IDE connector your 24 pin PO is along the
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right hand edge of the board exactly where it belongs and then down at the
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bottom right it seems like an odd number we've got five SATA two ports it's not
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that odd because the sixth SATA 2 Port running off this chipset is actually at
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the back of the board you got three USB 2.0 headers your front panel headers and
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then as far as the layout of the slots goes you got one PCIe 1X slot a 16x slot
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and then two PCIe slots so if you're running a dual slot graphics card it'll
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sit right here in the middle and then you'll have access to one PCI slot and
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one PCIe 1X slot now one thing I do want
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to comment on in this board is that if you are running a dual slot graphics
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card it's going to take up this whole chunk of the board it's going to cover
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up three of your SATA slots I would have liked to see that a little bit better
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thought out but you can get around this when you're ordering this board just
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make sure you order um at least one
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right angle SATA cable so that you can just kind of put it in under the video
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card and you can get access to it that way all right let's move on to the back
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of the motherboard where we've got all of our IO connection so first of all
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we've got a PS2 uh keyboard mouse combo
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Port then we have one 1 2 3 4 5 6 USB
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2.0 ports then we have DVI HDMI and VGA
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out very handy we have optical audio out fire wire eat so that's that sixth
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connector I was talking about then we've got gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio thank
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you for checking out my unboxing of the Phenom X6 ready 880gm ud2h