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today we're gonna be unboxing the gigabyte p67 a UD 4 so the UD 4 in the last couple generations of products tends to denote the best bang for the buck board in their lineup so this one features unlocked performance meaning if you pair it up with a case series processor you will be able to unlock the performance of that unlocked chip it supports Intel core inside mind you only in the LGA 1155 variation not LGA 1156 not LGA 1366 make sure if you're buying this board you check what kind of CPU you're buying it has the Intel P 67 chipset which means you've got support for SLI crossfire as well as well unlocked processors you have a three year warranty in the US and Canada and it features their two double thickness copper PCB let's go ahead and move around to the back and see what else gigabyte has to say for themselves so benefits of their 2x Popper PCB I'll let you guys read that if you want but I'll pull out a couple gems is got lower temperature overall which increases overclocking lower impedance so better flow of power all of that good stuff USB 3.0 is supported by this board including their on/off charge feature which enables you to see say for example your iPhone enables you to charge your iPhone even if your computer is powered off you've got support for their USB power 3x feature which I love I think this is a great feature it allows you to plug in three times the number of peripherals to one USB port without overloading the power so if you run a USB hub or something like that then you can plug in more power drawing devices to a single port you've also got support for state a three six gigabit per second which is twice the speed of state of to three gigabit per second all right we've got a user's manual as well as a utility DVD which you should not use you should download the latest from the gigabyte website we've got an appropriately colored bright yellow warning in every language under the Sun socket 1155 CPUs only warning please please do not try to plug in an 11 56 CPU we've got a Dolby home theater sticker we've got a multilingual installation guide as well as in color-coded IO shield and four SATA cables to right angle and to strength we have an SLI bridge no crossfire bridge you'll find that with your video card and then we have the board itself and let me say I am the biggest fan of Giga bytes new color scheme on their performance boards I love it I think this is like the best thing they've done for their boards since they made them awesome back in the 965 chipset days so let's start with don't zoom it let's take in the whole thing let's have the whole experience so we've got a nice glossy finish on our CPU socket beautiful matte black PCB I haven't seen anyone other than XFX use matte black PCBs but now gigabyte is doing it look at that there's no reflection off it whatsoever just gorgeous and then we've got a nice matte gray color to the MOSFET coolers as well as the tip set cooler and almost every single connector and slot on this board is black look at that black ape in black Ram slots not even color coded I love it forget color coding make it look nice then the only thing that is color coded is the SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports so now let's actually look at the features of the board because I guess that matters to some people this is our LGA 1155 socket so you can put your core i3 i5 or i7 CPU in there we have one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve plus two phase power design on this particular board which is pretty darn good for a like a mid-range performance board our eight pin CPU power connector is right where it belongs in the top left corner of the board and I really like I mean we showed it already but here I'm gonna you get kind of this angle here I really like the overall look of their MOSFET coolers now maybe not all that practical practical but let's face it with these high efficiency designs these days you don't have to do much cooling on them camera man's gotten away from me here he's looking at the Northbridge cooler which is also very stylized similarly okay so we've got support for up to four sticks of dual channel ddr3 memory and that is of the cpu otherwise I'm sure they'd find a way to put more sockets on there our 24 pin power connector is in its ideal location along the right-hand edge of the board and as we move down we've got their dual BIOS features so you have a main BIOS and a backup BIOS and you can actually use both of those so you really reduce the chances of correcting your motherboard completely and having to army it because of a dead BIOS or like a miss flash or anything like that here we have our SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports as well as to say 2 to 3 gigabit per second parts these are all running off of the Intel chipset we have a clear CMOS jumper down here although yep that is the only place for it clear CMOS jumper we do not have any onboard power switches although if you're running your board in a case that's usually not a concern here are your front panel connectors your USB your more USB your more USB and your serial port should you so require there is no firewire support on this board so here we have our real what I think is really an excellent slot layout we've got support for two dual slot PCI Express 16x graphics cards and it would leave us one two PCIe 1x and one PCI slot for expansion and remember on p67 just like p55 you I can either run in 16x mode on a single slot or dual 8x mode on two slots moving around to the back panel I see what is a pretty satisfactory looking layout I love these there's one of your combo keyboard/mouse ps2 ports you have one two three four five six seven eight USB 2.0 ports digital audio out is supported in both pro axial and optical flavours you have two eSATA ports two USB 3.0 ports 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio out on the back of the board there is nothing of note except that sexy matte black PCB I mean this would look good pretty much no matter what kind of system you build around it love it thanks for checking out my video blog unboxing on the p67 a UD 4 don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings tutorials guides or reviews all kinds of good stuff you