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so what's up guys I'm to meet you I reckon ox welcome to another video so this guy travelled me all the way from Taipei the core i7 Broadwell e 6800 k courtesy of gigabyte now I'm hoping this six core 12 thread CPU will be a fantastic upgrade over my current 6700 K so make sure to subscribe to see our results in my daily workflow between these two CPUs that video is coming shortly the Kraken X 61 by NZXT offers fantastic cooling with the 280 memory radiator when the long slim tubing for easier installation and high pressure copper cold plate you can also customize led through the cam software so get crackin and so with the new broad well eight processors come a few new x99 motherboards and while the x99 chipset hasn't changed at all between haswell-e and Broadwell ii and indeed trying to find differences between most first and second generation LGA 2011 v3 motherboards is extremely challenging however the new x99 designee reacts by gigabyte does things a little bit differently by introducing a whole new concept in two gigabytes lineup so it's part of their ultra durable series and it's loaded with features and a price to reflect that at four hundred and nineteen dollars you can think of it as direct competition to Asus deluxe series which is priced similarly now the blue and white color scheme is very particular not neutral in any way but you can add an accent color with RGB ambient LEDs on the motherboard and there's also a 4 pin RGB header for standard LED strips that are all controlled through the desktop app the motherboard supports up to 128 gigabytes of ddr4 Ram and up to 256 gigabytes of registered memory with overclock speed of up to 36 hundred megahertz something that not many lower and priced x99 boards can claim we have 5 PCI Express slots and one of x99s claims to fame is support for dual crossfire or SLI at full PCI Express x16 speed so we have three slots that operate at x16 mode and notice the top two slots are spaced out for extra breathing room for dual GP configurations plus it will come four gigabytes own - in half slot extreme gaming video cards all the dims and PCI slots are covered in stainless-steel shielding it's a popular trend among today's high-end motherboards and it's supposed to prevent any PCB bending or damage of the slot due to heavy GPUs it also adds a cool unique a steel accent to your setup that would burn beautifully with some particular components in your system like I've done here with this be quiet cooler between those two top PCI Express slots is a hidden m2 slot that requires some work to access which I don't like but furthermore there are a couple of YouTube connectors for nvme storage and a total of ten SATA connections at six cubits per second and one SATA Express the Riario has many cool features like dual Gigabit LAN plus Wi-Fi antennas for dual band 11 AC wireless one USB type-c with 36 walk pass-through and one USB 3.1 type-a we have five USB ports four which are USB 3 and the rest is audio with an optical connector and 7.1 surround sound audio without color indication so you just have to read the i/o shield now one really cool connector here is the DisplayPort in port for future Thunderbolt firmware update this is to reroute the DisplayPort from your graphics card into the motherboard and use the Thunderbolt 3 Type C out to connect a Thunderbolt 3 display and this is a very cool future-proofing feature as you can use your you know Thunderbolt 3 displays some time in the future plus the Alpine Ridge controller is built into the motherboard and the gigabytes just waiting on their certification from Intel after which they will roll out with a BIOS update the PCB on the bottom is bare there's no armor here and just reflecting on our visit to the gigabyte factor tour in Taiwan the amount of parts that goes into motherboard production of this caliber must easily exceed 15,000 components and just little parts and it gives us a whole new interesting appreciation for the designee r-tx before we move on to the bill that we also have a couple of internal USB 3 and USB 2 connectors a total of 5 4 pin fan headers there are no fan headers on the entire right side of motherboard so you'll just need to route your cables either to the very top or to the very bottom and once everything is assembled we can jump into the BIOS if you've worked with you'ii fiy BIOS before this will feel very familiar Mouse navigation here is very laggy I dislike it we also have this hidden menu at the bottom to access easy mode or fan control which displays things you know more generalistic way but you can access the classic menu for all your advanced frequency voltage controls and etc and if you prefer control from the desktop you can with App Center it's like hub for all types of things like system information lighting control you even have monitor color temperature adjustment to perhaps eliminate blue light for evenings then there's fan control and an overclocked tune utility for the CPU and memory I still prefer to work inside the BIOS to avoid unnecessary crashes but you know having all this control to the desktop app is still quite convenient I was surprised not to find any issues with loading you know full 64 gigabytes of memory on the first boot with Windows installation everything loaded just fine and so the x99 the secondary X is a fine board with future proofing and mind thanks to that Thunderbolt 3 connector and 5 PCIe slots and a load of storage options for that premium price but unfortunately there are some things that I don't find completely satisfactory like we only have 5 USB ports in the rear i/o so that's my keyboard mouse webcam card reader and speakers I don't have no more space for my microphone interface external hard drives and like anything else that I want to plug in via USB we only have 5 fan headers on the motherboard which i think is again lackluster for an enthusiast caliber like that and no physical buttons on the board itself to clear CMOS to reboot to start the motherboard we have a load clear a clear CMOS jumper but I don't think that's acceptable on a 400 plus mother port so stay tuned to see if the two additional course make a huge difference in my daily work for versus the 6700 K I hope you guys enjoyed this video and we'll see you in the next one