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what's up guys you're watching Jays two cents and hold on to your butts because today we're going to take a look at the z87 X u t 3h motherboard from gigabyte now the u d stands for altra durable and that's exactly what you get here on this motherboard from gigabyte with its very heavy and robust heat sinks it's all digital CPU power design and a dual BIOS keeping things nice and safe and that's what they mean by ultra durable five plus has all the use ultra cool ultra performance ultra safe and ultra USB 3 plus with 10 USB 3.0 ports that's a lot of ports for all your 3.0 devices now this motherboard is so feature packed let's go ahead and talk about some of the best features on this motherboard it has durable black solid capacitors as gold plated pins for you CPU it has an Intel land with a high ESD protection it's got digital IR power design for your CPU UEFI BIOS it's got DVI hdmi displayport output for all your AP use tons of USB 4k support it's got six fan connectors and the list just goes on and on but before we talk about the rest of those features let's go ahead and just see what you get inside the box when you open the box you have the motherboard sitting here in this anti-static bag right on top look at the size of those heat sinks you could just see that they're built with quality right off the bat underneath the motherboard tray you will find a host of accessories that come with this motherboard you've got your driver and software disc you have your users manual for everything you need to know about the motherboard and if you don't speak English you do have a multilingual installation guidebook here included with this motherboard of course you have your i/o shield for the back of your case and you have four SATA connectors here too that have 90-degree plugs and two that have straight plugs and of course you have your sli bridge and your traditional gigabyte case badge now we all know that this is the real reason why you're watching this video is you want to take a look at some up-close glamour shots look at it in all of its glory and the size of the heat sinks are just massive this motherboard has a really awesome looking matte black finish to it which is gonna look good in any case color that you may choose the blue PCBs used to kind of clash with some color combinations and now with this black PCB it fits in just about any design now when it unbox this motherboard I was a bit surprised at just how heavy it turned out to be but that has to do with how heavy the heat sinks are every single heat generating portion of this motherboard the VRMs the chipset and everything on this motherboard that generates heat has its own heatsink and it's very high quality and very durable this motherboard takes all of the guesswork out on where all of those pesky plugs go because everything is clearly labeled right on the motherboard you don't even have to look it up in the manual to try and figure out where the various plugs go because it's all right there labeled for you even the back of the motherboard shows the level of quality and detail that has gone into the design of this motherboard all the solder 's are perfect and the matte black PCB is just really kick-ass lookin as far as interface and goes you have a 4 8 and 16 X PCI Express Lanes giving you sli and crossfire support in two way you have 3 x 1x PCI Express slots and even an old-school PCI slot in case you have an old peripheral that you're not ready to get rid of you can still use it with this motherboard when it comes to your rear i/o you have a lot going on a channel HD audio your land 8 USB 3.0 ports 2 of which also are eSATA and your ps2 ports but if you're using onboard graphics you're also hooked up with DVI VGA DisplayPort and HDMI and of course you have your digital optical output for your sound now there's an awful lot of features on this motherboard to try and cover in one video but I've told you about the main features on this motherboard so let's go ahead and hook it up stress test it and let's just see exactly what we're getting here is results with this gigabyte z87 xu d3h motherboard well I think it's a really solid board and gigabyte is definitely known for having very durable boards of all the motherboards I've tested on the market and over the years I've been buying motherboards for client builds for myself gigabyte has always gone above and beyond when it comes to give you the robustness that you would robustness I'm not sure that's a word but it is today the robustness that you would expect from a mid-range motherboard I mean this is a mid-range motherboard but it gives you a lot of high range high-end features the PCB just looks amazing but the stability of the board is what I cared about most in this video from the time I started shooting it till now is actually a week in the making the system is running right over there being fully stressed tested right now in eighth sixty-four I've tested it in OC CT I've tested it in prime95 and it is just beyond solid in fact I was able to get 4.6 gigahertz out of my 46 70k with this board where with the some of the other boards that I was using was getting about 4.4 stable so I was able to increase the overclock by 200 megahertz stable now when you do overclocking there's a lot of things you have to worry about when it comes to stress on the board you've got to worry about the the VRMs being overheated you got to worry about the chips that being overheated because there's a lot going on when you overclock rather than just pushing the socket and the CPU well while fully testing this thing at full load for two hours prior to starting this video right now the motherboard loaded at 33 degrees Celsius that's load now it's sitting idle at if I'd won it would my notes say it sits idle at about 30 degrees Celsius so you're talking only three degrees jump and that's definitely got to have something to do with the ultra-durable heatsink design on this when it comes to the V RMS and the chipset now the V RM is one of the really important components when it comes to motherboard stability when it comes to overclocking and getting nice clean power delivered to your CPU and the digi BRM the digital vrm built into this is outstanding now when it comes to gaming performance the motherboard isn't directly responsible for frames per second however it is indirectly responsible for frames per second now what do I mean by that the motherboard controls the CPU or it backbones the CPU so if you're able to get a stronger overclock out of it which in this case I got an extra 200 megahertz it did help in games like Battlefield for Skyrim and let's see Metro 33 games that were able to really push the envelope to the processors limits we're seeing an improvement by about 4 frames per second on average because of the fact that we got a higher stable overclock out of this now overclocking on this was a cinch I mean it really is easy to overclock nowadays when you have UEFI BIOS such but the u.s. UEFI BIOS on this board it's a little bit different than some of the other boards that I've used I've used a lot of UEFI BIOS so it takes some getting used to but you know there's a little bit of a learning curve in there the way the menus are laid out but once you get used to it it's no different than any other UEFI BIOS so you just have a nice visual display of all of the settings and it's easy to tweak in fact whenever I did have a BIOS failure or should say an overclock failure because of my BIOS settings the motherboard automatically detected that and reverted its settings and brought me back to the settings of Lunny fix it based on a predetermined number of failed attempted boots so it does make it very overclocker friendly which leads me back to what I said in the beginning though where if it had a clear CMOS button on the back it would be a lot easier to reset those settings if you had to go that route because of a failed overclock I do really like the overall feature set on this motherboard and at the time of filming this board is coming in at about 150 9 bucks which makes this thing and absolute contender if you're looking at building a gaming rig that is either for a forty seven 70 or forty six 70 K and you want something that's beefy and you know it's gonna last a long time and you know that it's going to give you the durability that you're looking for I mean they call it ultra durable for a reason and I have to just say that for the last week I had been stressing the hell out of the system I mean it has been any time I've been working over here I've had a 264 running or prime95 in fact this motherboard has spent pretty much from the moment I installed it either gaming or being stressed tested just trying to make it break because the last thing I want to do is say it's a great product if it was out there failing and for me this thing just absolutely lives up to my standards so if you're looking for a motherboard that has just got all of the features that you want to have expandability sli or crossfire and you're running a new Ivy Bridge and or excuse me a new Haswell system and you want something that is just in the last two years and years just like my gigabyte ds3 hanging on the wall over there that's that motherboard that I've had hanging on the wall some people have wondered what that is that is a gigabyte ds3 and it was an LGA 775 board and it's hanging on the wall because of sentimental value it was the best overclocking motherboard I've ever experienced getting an 80 percent overclock out of my old East 6300 1.86 Peter Hertz Core 2 Duo that spent its entire life overclocked to three point four - and it still works if I had some ddr2 RAM I would hook it up to show you when it comes to durability gigabyte is a brand that you can trust and so this is a motherboard that I am using day to day now and I'm confident in saying that if you're building a computer and you're looking for a nice mid-range board that would fit all of your needs of overclocking and gaming and expandability definitely check out the z87 ex-beauty 3h it's definitely a good buy guys I hope you've enjoyed this video I hope it's giving you some information on guarding motherboards and some of the features on this particular motherboard if there's something you want to know and maybe I didn't cover it in this video ask down in the in the comments and I'll do the best I can to answer your comments and as always if you've enjoyed this video you know what to do with it follow me on the social media stuff I love interacting with you guys and talking with you guys because it keeps my channel fun and entertaining and as always I will see you in my next video go and check it out