Gigabyte H67A-UD3H Core i5 LGA1155 Sandy Bridge Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the Gigabyte h67 a ud3h it
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has a three-year warranty as you may or may not have noticed it supports Intel
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Core Series processors on LGA 1155 and it uses the h67 chipset so that
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means it supports turbo boost but it
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does not support overclocking on unlocked CPUs and it does not support
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turning up turbo CPUs past their default
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turbo mode so I'm sorry if that's confusing but that's really the best I
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can do with it it is compatible with core i5s but it is also compatible with
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core i7s which the only difference is they have more cach and they feature
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hyperthreading and when we have Intel core i3s on their second generation core
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series processors it'll likely support those too up here there's a little note
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LGA 1155 CPU only that is 100% correct
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if you try and put an LGA 1156 CPU in this board bad things will happen none
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of them good okay we have Ultra durable 3 which means we have have the 2x copper
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PCB for you know better heat dissipation
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more conductivity all that good stuff we also have gigabytes 333 concept although
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the sticker appears to be missing from the box so USB 3.0 which is fast USB
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power 3x which is a cool feature because
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it allows you to use a hub on any one of the USB ports on this board and plug in
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three times as much power draw as you
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would be able to normally do with a hub so that's kind of neat okay we have SATA
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3.0 which is good and over here we have onoff charge which means that even when
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your system is powered off you can charge devices such as say for example
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your iPhone and what other relevant stuff do we have ooh dual BIOS so it's
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very very difficult to wreck your board by corrupting the BIOS it also
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apparently supports ATI Crossfire X technology although I can imagine it's
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not an ideal configuration with an h67 chipset board here is a big big warning
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yeah we had a little tiny one on the front of the box but this is more appro rate 1155 CPUs not 1156 CPUs x no okay
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we have a user manual that also includes
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a utility and Driver DVD download the latest off the Gigabyte website um
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cameraman is blocking most of our light at that angle so maybe we'll shift a
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little bit this way there we go we have a colorcoded IO Shield we have a
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multilingual installation guide book which is going to show you basic things
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like installing a CPU installing RAM we have two right angle and two straight
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SATA cables we have a Dolby Home Theater
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sticker my understanding is this is quite an expensive sticker and then we
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also have a Gigabyte powered sticker
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that one is less expensive okay here we
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go this is an interesting strategy I don't think I've ever seen this before
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and I have unboxed let me tell you guys a lot of motherboards over the last
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couple years here so hold on
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there we are I have never seen a piece of foam
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stuck in between the mosfet heat sink oh I see why well that's not on there very
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well at all is it oh okay so this is in here to prevent it from wiggling around
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durink shipping I mean here have a look okay so let's start let's start with
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that since that seems like a bit of a concern but it's probably fine so we're
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using plastic push pins here and then what appears to be like a
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softer style of interface material under
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this so you can see there's actually a very small contact point where this this
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large heat sink is making contact with the vrms so in order to make sure that
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it stays straight during shipping we got the foam but while the system's running
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that's going to melt a little bit and it's going to be on there pretty good I don't think you're going to have to
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worry about burning out your vrms so
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same goes for the one up here it looks like this uses 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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looks like it uses 8 plus2 phase power for the LGA 1155 CPU and unlike most H
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series chipset boards this is a full ATX board so we have support for our CPU
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here we have our 8 Pin power connector and its ideal location at the top left
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of the board we have full support for dual Channel DDR3 we have our 24 pin
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power connector along the right hand edge of the board here is our Intel well
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Southbridge to use an archaic term but our Intel I believe it's called an iio
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Hub now which controls things like SATA ports USB ports all of that good stuff
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and and then we also have our front panel connectors wow that's a lot of USB
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ports that's five front panel USB
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headers outstanding so you can hook up 10 front
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USB ports on your case if it actually has that many here we have seven
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expansion slots three PCI which is appropriate for an H series chipset
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board because you can't expect a value chipset board buyer to be necessarily
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running the very latest technology couple of firewire headers we've got two
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PCI e1x slots and then two PCI e6x slots
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now officially this board supports SLI although I really wouldn't recommend running SLI cuz you can see right here
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even though this is a 16x physical slot
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which has enough spaces in here for PCI e8x hopefully you can see can you see
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the actual metal contact pins in there okay well the metal contact pins only go
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up to here so that's only a 4X electrical slot now while I usually tell
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viewers 8X and 8x is fine for Crossfire
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or SLI 16x and 4x is probably not quite
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ideal especially because these four lanes are running off the io Hub over
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here rather than running off of the PCIe
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controller that's directly off the chipset because h67 is not capable of
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splitting into 8X 8X so it's a full 16x here and only 4X here here's your front
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panel audio connector this uh this location for it from Gigabyte will
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always baffle me everyone else in their dog puts it down here but uh usually I
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don't use the front panel header anyhow here on the the back of the board
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we will find some connectors which are conveniently covered so I can't see what
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they are oh wow we have every display connector under the sun I think but
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let's start over here we've got a PS2 uh keyboard mouse combo Port we've got 1 2
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3 4 USB 2.0 ports that explains why there were so many on the board itself
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we have VGA DVI DisplayPort and HDMI
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yes the whole Shang and then we also
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have optical audio out we've got fire
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wire as well as eat on the back of the board we have two USB 3.0 ports gigabit
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Ethernet and 7.1 audio out thank you for
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