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Linus tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is corsair vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCIX calm guys were here in the gigabyte component suite where they've got all their new wears on display we have a wall of motherboards here unfortunately we're not going to be able to talk about the exact details of all of them but this is something that had my attention drawn to it this is a computex DNI award so that's a design and innovation award arranged by I F which is basically a third party saying yes the design is good the innovation is good and if it's anything like the tradition we've seen before with gigabyte it's probably true so they're continuing with their ultra durable design so this is ultra durable 5 plus but we're going to focus on what separates the different lines because right now there is differentiation between their gaming boards so this particular gaming board this is the g1 sniper 5 has a completely upgraded cooling design so it's air cooling for the MOSFETs here or liquid cooling for the MOSFET simply by plugging three-eighths inch hoses into this and you can use this with something like a DIY all-in-one cooler such as the cooler master iceberg for example or you can build it into your completely custom loop you've got some of those onboard overclocking features things like a post LED readout yeah you know onboard power button so not quite to the same extent as an overclocking centric board you've got full support for four-way graphics card configurations whether it's in crossfire or sli but this is where it really comes into its own as what makes it gaming optimized it's got a killer Nick Bilton and check this out they have completely upgraded their onboard audio solution gigabyte actually pioneered the whole putting better onboard audio on motherboards for crying out loud thing with their g series that was the first time we saw it where someone actually went yeah we're gonna we're going to like actually do this in a way that's meaningful and check this out there a ping the ante again with swappable op amps so on all of the g1 series refresh boards check that out swappable op amps on the matx version swappable op amps on the be 85 version and then swappable op amps even on the AMD version so there's now a g1.sniper a 85 X now I want to talk about this one for a moment I kind of raised an eyebrow when they told me be 85 chipset gaming board I went well what do you mean gaming board gb 85 chips that you can't even overclock and they said you know what not all over not not all gamers overclock some gamers want a better land solution built into their board and a better audio solution built into their board and they don't want to overclock it okay fine I get okay fair enough save some money don't overclock get better audio and better land solution and swappable op-amps very nice now let's move on to the overclocking board so this is a very similar air / liquid extreme heat sink design it's also got an active fan as well as liquid cooling Barb's but check this out this is where the overclocking heritage really comes in compared to gaming so rather than having a fancy audio solution and onboard killer networking this one has all the onboard buttons you could want all the onboard voltage readouts you could want post LED readout oh cool you can turn the PCI Express lanes on and off this is extremely handy for benchmarking because you don't want to be ripping things on and off all the time and check check this out actually okay hold on so for way graphics card support so that's in crossfire or sli but let's move on to the next one so that's the force that's a flagship board now we've got the z87 x OC check this out this is the kind of thing that someone like me who tests on an open platform all the time would love to see built in front USB ports that you don't have to reach around the back of the board to get access to so this one is more of the bare-bones nothing extra purist overclocking board whereas the force is more of a generally flagship board in general moving on we've got the ultra durable series so this one right here again you find features that aren't necessarily relevant to gamers or to overclockers things like Thunderbolt but this is also a very high-end board in its own right you're going to be able to run for way crossfire 4-way SLI you've got all of those built-in overclocking features all that cool stuff but just to not quite the same sort of degree of optimization for these particular uses that the other two boards are now let's move all the way down over to the very end here where we've got em this guy right here z87 and Wi-Fi so there's a z87 MITx board this is performance optimized you're going to be able to overclock on it which is very very cool but right over here they've asked me to draw attention to this board there's now an FM to IT export from gigabyte and what's cool about this one is it's using the same voltage delivery components as you find on the OC class boards this board under liquid nitrogen has actually been up to what did what did they say 5.8 gigahertz or something ridiculous like that with an FM to CPU so very very cool stuff let's move on to graphics cards correction that was 6.7 gigahertz overclock on this particular board using liquid nitrogen also it supports AMD's wireless display and maybe we shouldn't move on to graphics cards just yet because there's a couple cool things over here that they have on display in the suite so this is related to the overclocking board as well as the gaming board so they've got a blown-up version of all the overclocking buttons and pretty much everything you can do with them everything from debug display to CP ratio up and down to changing your multiplier up and down so you can switch to single BIOS mode dual BIOS mode dip switch all this stuff is built right into the board and this is kind of a cool button you can press this button but I don't think it actually does anything but don't worry on the motherboard it will and then this one right here they're showing off what makes the gaming boards gaming so that's the upgradable op amp which we talked about before all right I'll check that out hehe that's hilarious I love it uh-huh as well as the dedicated audio zone on the PCB but we've been seeing this for a while from gigabyte and then here they have a pretty cool demo of the of the liquid cooling hybrid solution that's uh that you can hook up on these boards