Gadgetory

so I'm going to be unboxing a new motherboard from gigabyte this is an age fifty-five board you can tell from the name it is H 55 that's a chipset M which is micro ATX and normally they have ut something something something after here and this is or s something this is not that they are just calling this up what's special about this board is that it is USB 3 so you can see up here it is also USB 3.0 that is like huge it's like a quarter of the front of the block so it has a three year warranty and it includes as you may or may not have guessed USB 3.0 10 X SuperSpeed also USB power 3 X now this is a cool feature because this gives you three times the power that is SPECT for USB 3.0 through each port so if you're running a hub you can actually run three full power USB devices without using an external adapter very cool it features ultra durable 3 which is normally a huge icon Lake or logo like this and isn't today smart 6 it supports Core i5 core i3 it supports core i7 LGA 1156 chips too but I think part of the reason they're not calling that out is because the core i7 chips do not have onboard video unlike the core i3 s and the core i5 dual cores so you won't actually be able to take advantage of all of the features of this board and you'd probably be better off with a p55 for it if you are buying an i7 so here's our users manual which includes a motherboard utility and driver DVD you don't use this download the latest off the gigabyte website alright then we've got a dual D home theater it's sticker thank you alright then we've got our smart six users manual bunch of different languages cool oh whoa I dropped it it's no good okay multilingual installation guidebook so that will show you how to install your CPU how to install around how to install the front panel connectors bunch of different languages thanks so much I owe shield so you can already see compared to the other age 55 boards from gigabyte I've had a look at there are a few more extras in the Box although not much you've got two SATA cables one of them is straight and one is right angled and one IDE cable for crying out loud give us more SATA cables and don't bother giving us an IDE cable anymore that said this could be useful for a lot of people I you know I take that back because a lot of people running sort of like a micro ATX to more value solution are probably reusing their old Deidre's which is probably IDE so I totally take that back I can definitely see the justification okay fine I was wrong gigabyte was right all right let's have a look at the board itself so we'll start with the general features first of all we have two PCI Express 16x connectors this one is 16x true because you can see all the little connectors inside this one is an 8 X connector so you see all the little spots here but it's only wired electrically for 4x so even if this board does support crossfire which I'm not sure if it does I can't actually tell it doesn't even really matter you wouldn't want to use this board for optimal crossfire performance because this is a PCIe 4x slot you're not going to get the best performance out of it your tip sets down here you've got a couple of USB two-hour sorry 3 USB 2.0 headers right here and then you've got a wide variety of SATA slots so did you these are all SATA 2 and I believe these are SATA 2 as well yes they are so these are off the gigabyte SATA 2 chip which is also powering your IDE port and then these are off of the Intel chipset okay here's your front panel connectors like all p55 and age 55 boards you've got support for dual channel ddr3 here's your 24 pin power connector located in exactly its most convenient place along the right hand edge of the board here's your LGA 1156 socket now something to note about this is that it does support all LGA 1156 CPUs core i3 is Core i5 dual cores Core i5 quad cores and core i7s but you will not be able to take advantage of the onboard graphics unless you're using a core i3 or a Core i5 dual core which has onboard graphics on the CPU because this chipset does not have any onboard graphics built into it so be cognizant of that okay here's all of our power delivery circuitry up here I wouldn't mind it seeing some cooling on it but what are you gonna do it's a pretty value-oriented board and quite honestly the kinds of chips you should be putting in a board like this do not suck a lot of power you're not going to make them all that hot up here is our 8 pin power can odds excuse-me CPU power connector so that will deliver power to your CPU in its ideal location at the top left of the board and let's have a look at the conductivity we have at the back so first of all we have one of those great mouse keyboard ps2 combo ports I love these then we've got a couple USB ports we have every onboard video solution you could possibly want DVI VGA DisplayPort and HDMI we have an optical audio out we have a couple more USB 2.0 ports we've got a firewire port an eSATA port and then we have two USB 3.0 ports so only six USB ports on the back but two of them are USB 3.0 so and they're all 3x power so you could I mean you could be running a hub off each one of these without even worrying about overpowering them so I mean you've got a lot of expansion options really Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio thank you for checking out my unboxing