Gigabyte P67A-UD4 Sandy Bridge P67 LGA1155 SLI Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,246 words · ~6 min read
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today we're going to be unboxing the Gigabyte p67a ud4 so the ud4 in the last
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couple generations of products tends to denote the best bang for the buck board
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in their lineup so this one features unlocked performance meaning if you pair
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it up with a K series processor you will be able to unlock the performance of
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that unlocked chip it supports Intel core inside mind you only in the LGA
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1155 variation not LGA 1156 not LG
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1366 make sure if you're buying this board you check what kind of CPU you're
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buying it has the Intel p67 chipset which means you've got support for SLI
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Crossfire as well as well uh unlocked
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processors you have a three-year warranty in the US and Canada and it
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features their two double thickness copper PCB let's go ahead and move
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around to the back and see what else Gigabyte has to say for themselves so
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benefits of their 2x copper PCB I'll let you guys read that if you want but I'll
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pull out a couple gems it's got lower temperature overall which uh increases
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overclocking lower impedance so better flow of power all of that good stuff USB
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3.0 is supported by this board including their onoff charge feature which enables
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you to see say for example your iPhone
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enables you to charge your iPhone even if your computer is powered off you've
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got support for their USB power 3x feature which I love I think this is a
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great feature it allows you to plug in three times the number of peripherals to
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One USB port without overloading the power so if you if you run a USB hub or
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something like that then you can plug in more power drawing devices to a single
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port you've also caught support for SATA 3 6 gbit per
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second which is twice the speed of SATA 2 3 gbit per second all right we've got
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a user's manual as well as a utility DVD which you should not use you should
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download the latest from the Gigabyte website we've got an appropriately
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colored bright yellow warning in every
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language Under the Sun socket 1155 CPU
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only warning please please do not try to plug
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in an 1156 CPU we've got a duby home theater sticker we've got a multilingual
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installation guide book as well as a colorcoded IO shield and four SATA
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cables two right angle and two straight
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we have an SLI Bridge no Crossfire Bridge you'll find that with your video
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card and then we have the board itself
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and let me say I
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am the biggest fan of gigabytes new color scheme on their performance boards
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I love it I think this is like the best thing they've done for their boards
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since they made them awesome back in the 965 chipset days so let's start with
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take no no hold on don't Zoom it let's take in the whole thing let's have the whole experience so we've got a nice
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glossy finish on our CPU socket beautiful matte black PCB I haven't seen
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anyone other than XFX use matte matte black pcbs but now Gigabyte is doing it
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look at that there's no reflection off it whatsoever just gorgeous and then
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we've got a nice matte gray color to the
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mosfet coolers as well as the chipset cooler and almost every single connector
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and slot on this board is black look at that black eight pin Black RAM slots not
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even colorcoded I love it forget color coding make it look nice then the only
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thing that is colorcoded is the SATA 3 6
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GB per second Port so now let's actually look at the features of the board cuz I
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guess that matters to some people this is our LGA 1155 socket so you can put
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your core I3 I5 or i7 CPU in there we
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have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 plus two
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phase power design on this particular board which is pretty darn good for a
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like a a mid-range performance board our eight pin CPU power connector is right
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where it belongs in the top left corner of the board and I really like I mean we
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showed it already but here I get kind of this angle here I really like the
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overall look of their mosfet cooler it's maybe not all that practic practical but
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let's face it with these high efficiency designs these days you don't have to do
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much cooling on them and cameraman's gotten away from me here he's looking at
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the North Bridge cooler which is also very stylized similarly Okay so we've
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got support for up to four sticks of dual Channel DDR3 memory and that is a
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limitation of the CPU otherwise I'm sure they'd find a way to put more sockets on
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there our 24 pin power connector is in its ideal location along the right hand
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edge of the board and as we move down we've got their dual BIOS features so
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you have a main BIOS and a backup BIOS and you can actually uh use both of
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those so you really reduce the chances of corrupting your motherboard
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completely and having to RMA it because of a dead BIOS or like a Mis flash or
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anything like that here we have our SATA 3 6 gbit per second ports as well as two
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SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports these are all running off of the Intel chipset we
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have a clear seos jumper down here although um yep that is the only place
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for it clear seos jumper we do not have any onboard power switches although if
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you're running your board in a case that's usually not a concern here are
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your front panel connectors your USB your more USB your more USB and your
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serial Port should you so require there is no fire wire support on this board so
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here we have our what I think is really an excellent slot layout we've got
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support for two dual slot PCI Express 16x graphics cards
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and it would leave us one two PCI e1x and one PCI slot for expansion and
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remember on p67 just like p55 you can
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either run in 16x mode on a single slot or dual 8X mode on two slots moving
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around to the back panel I see what is a pretty satisfactory looking layout I
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love these there's one of your uh combo keyboard mouse PS2 ports you have 1 2 3
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4 5 6 78 USB 2.0 ports digital audio out
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is supported in both coax seal and Optical flavors you have two ESAT ports
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two USB 3.0 ports 1 GB Ethernet and 7.1
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audio out on the back of the board there is nothing of note except that sexy
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matte black PCB I mean this would look good pretty much no matter what kind of
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system you build around it love it thanks for checking out my video blog my
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