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today I will be unboxing the 990 FX AUD 7 this is a truly high-end 990 FX board from gigabyte features a bucket load of features including unlock performance that is to say it is compatible with the upcoming unlocked FX chips from AMD and features full support for AMD CrossFireX nvidia sli then brock it give it a rest so i guess he just needed attention isn't that right rocket are you done bothering us now ok here you go sweetheart off he goes alright so yes ambi crossfire x nvidia sli 333 onboard acceleration that is USB 3 SE the 3 and 3 x USB power for additional power through USB hubs or charging higher powered devices ultra durable three three-year warranty and a plus two phase power ok moving along to the inside we see a window through to the motherboard we see some glamour shots of the motherboard itself when we see it features driver mosfet fan what else we got over here so we've got support for four-way SLI and 4-way proxifier now there's a cool feature dual BIOS which means if you corrupt your BIOS during flashing you can restore it using another physical BIOS chip and hybrid EFI technology giving you support for 3 terabyte plus hard drives we have a debug led for diagnosing boot problems as well as a couple of other things here including on/off charging for your USB devices we have one of the front USB headers on the back we see pretty much the same stuff that we were looking at on the inside so let's go ahead all right now we see the window is funny the windows small here but it's full size here someone who was designing the inner part carton of the packaging was not talking to the guy who was designing the outer carton of the packaging new things I could be wrong though it's happened before alright let's have a look at what we've got in terms of accessories we have a gigabyte 3-way SLI bridge which is black very nice I hate seeing a black PCB gorgeous looking motherboard coming with like a blue 3-way SLI bridge alright we have two right angle and two straight SATA 3 cables we have a crossfire bridge a 4-way Oh a black very nice black four-way SLI bridge and another crossfire bridge okay so we have oh yeah there it is there's a two-way SLI bridge all of these are black all of them are very very nice-looking that's very good to see I hate mismatched mismatched three-way and four-way SLI bridges because you go and build a high end system and then you put a eyesore on it not doesn't happen very often color coded rear i/o shield we have a user's manual with driver DVD throw that away download the latest from the gigabyte website multilingual installation guide book a gigabyte sticker and a Dolby Digital home theater sticker and have a look at the motherboard itself so the last ud7 board from gigabyte was an XL ATX form factor and it looks like they have actually gotten away from that with this iteration which i think is probably a move for in the right direction so let's have a look at the you know what I'll do my usual thing and then I'll go back and look at some of the things that are special about this board so here's our socket am3+ which supports all of your standard a.m. 2 a.m. 3 + 3 + CPU heat sinks as long as it supports the wattage being output by the CPU then you should be fine and this is interesting these are labeled coupon coupon 1 2 3 & 4 those look like voltage readouts but fascinating so if anyone knows what the coupon those 4 coupon things are let me I think maybe they mean CPU five got nothing okay guys the eight pin power connectors and its top is in its ideal location in the top left of the board we've got our very nice heat pipe connected chipset and mosfet cooling solution going on here so top chipsets ear bottom chipsets here we used to call them North bridge south bridge now they're not and then the MOSFETs are here moving along to the right-hand edge of the board we find our 24-pin connector in its ideal location we find power reset and clear CMOS buttons in a way better than usual location for onboard connectors down here is all fine and good until you install a PCI Express graphics card near the bottom of the board and then you can't reach it any more so this is very smart gigabyte has said oh we're gonna design a board that's gonna have up to 4 graphics cards in it let's make it so you can actually put 4 graphics cards in it and still access the features good on you a gigabyte all right we've got auxilary power for our graphics cards here so you can plug an additional SATA connector love seeing this as a SATA connector rather than a PCIe or a molex connector because you're bound to have more extra SATA connectors than PCIe connectors if you go and install for graphics cards am i right okay we've got gigabits gig gigabyte say two three six gigabit per second ports here so those are running off a third-party controller then we have SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports here oh oh ok right so we've got eight total SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports these six are running off the AMD chipset these two are running off a gigabyte third-party chipset here is our debug LED here are our front panel connectors here is our front USB 3.0 front USB 2 that's the extra power one you can tell from the red background 2 front USB 2.0 front firewire and front panel audio headers are available in terms of our PCIe layout we've got a very advanced looking PCIe layout here so here is a 16 X slot here's another 16 X slot so if you're installing 2 cards those are your guys right there those are the ones you want to use we've got a 4x slot this is pretty much not intended to be used because it's right next to your primary piece sixteen X slot we have another four X slot here and we have a PCI slot okay so if you're installing two 16 X cards they will run at full 16 X 16 X and you will be left with an 8 X a 4x and an 8 X for our expansion okay if you're installing 3 PCI Express graphics cards you will use this one this one and this one and you will be left with a single PCIe 8 X slot for expansion and these will run at 8 X 8 X 8 X in all likelihood although it might be 16 8 & 8 if you are running for graphics cards you'll use this one this one this one and this one they will run at 8 X 8 X 8 X 8 X so you will still get pretty much full performance out of all 4 graphics cards and you better watch out because you're going to want to make sure your case has additional room to hang over that second slot on the bottom graphics card such as if you have a coarser 800 D then you're in good shape because even though it's a 7 PCI slot case it does have an overhang and it does have a ventilation slot under that last expansion card okay the overall layout of the board looks very very nice let's show you guys where the fan headers are so we've got our 4 pin CPU fan header here we've got a 3 pin here we've got a 4 pin here and we have a 3 pin here and not the boat it actually not too many fan headers on this guy alright having a look at the back we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 USB 2.0 ports this one is one of those combo USB 2 eSATA ports we have another USB wow what is this thing no that must be eSATA okay so we've got another eSATA port ps2 keyboard mouse combo port optical and coaxial digital audio out firewire 2 USB 3.0 ports Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio so this is pretty much the cream of the cream for AMD boards you can install anything from 4-way is 69 70 graphics card from configuration with 16 gigs of ram and a high-end 6 core or even 8 core once they're released CPU you can install a bunch of SATA six gigabit per second SSDs this will accept pretty much anything you throw at it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 990 FX au d7 from gigabyte and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys one thing I neglected to mention is this is slightly wider than ATX it's not EA TX which would be about here but you can see that past these three mounting holes there is a little bit of extra PCB on the edge here so you should make sure that your case does support slightly wider than ATX specification