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the broad well II CPUs are here and of course the motherboard lineup for the x99 platform has to receive an upgrade so here at gigabyte booth here's all the little upgrades for their x 99 and z 170 lineup of motherboards huge thanks to our computech sponsors for sending us out here shoutout to nvidia phanteks and cix and msi one of the board says i'm most excited about is the x 99 designee r designer this is the the new line of their which is going to be sort of following the ultra durable space so the x 99 will feature a full display port in so that means that you can rear out the GPU from your GPU discrete graphics card into back into the motherboard and out after the Thunderbolt three-point no port so for content creators if you have a thunderbolt three compatible monitor you can route that directly through the motherboard which is fantastic they've also increase the spacing between the first and the second pci slots so very compatible with their new extreme GTX 1080s graphics cards which is two and a half slots so you can run to a sli without restricting compatibility between the two PCI slots and on topic of SLI there is now a plx chip that's built in so it will allow the first and second slot to run at full x16 three-point no speed without needing the most high-end processor so even with the lower end with basically any chip that is supported by the motherboard you'll still run both PCI slots at full speed there are dual YouTube ports which is awesome for nvme SSDs and lastly for physical upgrades they've added full RGB lighting so it has this underglow underneath the dims underneath the pci brackets underneath the heat sinks and it was going to be full RGB supports so you can customize not only the look of let's say the logo and the audio little strip but pretty much everything on the motherboard which I actually really appreciate so you don't need to get like LED RAM and all these things the motherboard can be like the cohesive hub for all the lighting inside your components or for your components inside your PC the z1 70 lineup has received similar physical upgrades so there are now metal shielding on the PCI the dims the M de two slots and also added the ambient lighting throughout the board very cool stuff and unlike on the x 99 motherboard this one the Z 170 has received a mini DisplayPort in so you can re-route again the graphics output back into the motherboard and back into the Thunderbolt three-point know so you can read route that signal into a thunderbolt monitor and now let's talk about the gtx 1080 extreme gaming here my favorite bits so first they shorten the card the boards in the past have been too long people are complaining the shroud size was just way too large so now they've have this patented stack fan design where the fans overlap have smaller blades and one smaller fan in the middle fan which is pretty cool and this will allow us basically more airflow without increasing on this shroud size because of this the fans are slightly thicker and the card is two-and-a-half slots therefore we talked about the x99 having that extra spacing between the first and the second slot there you go gigabytes thinking about their GPU on their motherboards compatibility it's not an issue so design wise it will have full RGB there's this giant X along the shroud in my opinion the logo there is a little bit too large but it's gigabyte you got to show it off and there's this new backlight with a new logo and we have dual hdmi in the back so you can pass through for VR applications and also for Thunderbolt pass through and lastly here gigabyte we're gonna check out the arrow 14 which is a 14 inch size notebook it has quite a bit of power into it great battery life and quite of customizability customers a customer okay so design wise i really like what they would gigabyte has done there it's slim it's light at one point nine kilos and we have this new nano print technology on the lid with the orange black and green color accents with the carbon fiber little texture they're pretty cool while for this 14-inch form factor the specifications are pretty impressive so we have a 970 m or a 965 em the gtx graphics em the two pcie SSD it is 1.9 kilos up to 32 gigabytes of memory and after 10 hours battery life in productivity mode the display here is pretty cool it's 3k and IPS you know these specifications really definitely lead into that productivity and payment creative field so I'm really happy to see this being available and the keyboard now is also improved the travel time is one point seven millimeters instead of the average of 1.1 millimeters so that's nice it tried it very tactile travel distance is quite far and you have no idea how much stuff matters on a very thin body like this to make sure that your typing experience is enjoyable and the inclusion we've seen some pretty amazing stuff here gigabyte especially the mods the red and white mod here was absolutely incredible water cooled and all the things in the back there were all the cable management and all the water cooling stuff was built into one acrylic piece which was so fantastic to see and fits in with that red and white color scheme of that x99 motherboard but let us know what you think about all the things that we covered here today I'm going to meet you how are Canucks thanks much for watching we'll see you in the next video