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welcome to another Linus tech tips unboxing this is going to be four gigabytes highest-end P 67 series board this is the P 67 AUD seven we have full support for Intel's latest core i3 i5 and i7 processors on the LGA 1155 platform although if you're putting an i3 on this thing shame on you so the first thing we're gonna find out about this board is that it has a three year warranty okay and it delivers maximum CPU power so why don't we go ahead and open up the front of the box and find out what exactly gigabyte means by that well they have equipped this motherboard with a 24 phase power design because on the p67 platform most of the overclocking intrigue has been removed from the motherboard side because we're pretty much just overclocking using the CPU multiplier the most important thing the motherboard manufacturers can do for you these days is provide a stable platform with lots of features and great power delivery because that's how you're gonna get the most out of your chip they've also designed their chipset cooling design to be cooled well by a downdraft CPU cooler so something like a Noctua NH C 14 would be a great choice for a board like this let's go ahead over here and have a look at what else gigabyte has to say for themselves on this board here's the 24 phase power ya delivers maximum CPU power we get it you've got overclocking performance which they're saying is more higher is better okay and then they're saying they've also got a longer lifetime because they have their ultra durable three technology + and dual power switching okay thanks guys next we have their three three three onboard acceleration which means you have support for SATA three six gigabit per second you've got USB power 3x which means that you can run up to three times the number of peripherals off one USB 3.0 port using a hub and then you've also got 3x a USB 3.0 which is up to 10 times the speed of USB 2.0 support for 3-way SLI and I'm sorry and 3-way crossfire which is a bit unique for our p67 board because most of them are only going to have support for two-way SLI and two-way crossfire and that's pretty much it oh yeah also their on/off charge features so you can charge your iPhone or iPad or whatever other device even when this PC is powered off so they've got nice black internals are in internals interior here on all of the packaging let's see what gigabyte has included with this board ok first we have a warning socket 1155 is not socket 1156 so please please make sure if you're buying a piece IXY 7 board like this one you are not trying to install a socket 1156 processor in it here we've got our user's manual as well as a six series drivers and utilities DVD which you should throw away and download the latest from the gigabyte website multilingual installation guide books showing you how to install your CPU Ram all that good stuff next we have a couple of stickers a gigabyte one and a Dolby home theater one finally we have an i/o shield so that'll go on the back of the board handily color-coded for your convenience next we have two no four SATA cables two right angle and two straight we have a 3-way SLI bridge a two-way SLI bridge remember that if you need crossfire bridges those will be included with your graphics card we have one of their awesome back panel eSATA PCI guides so you plug that into two of your internal ports you get more eSATA then you can use that adapter to plug in a couple standalone Drive and you've got some eSATA cable this is a great little kit big fan gigabytes been including that with their boards for a little while so this is appropriately bright yellow okay so let's go ahead and close that up we're done with that let's have a look at the board itself this is it the p67 8u d7 now unlike some of their last generation ud7 boards gigabyte has not opted for a non-standard size to this board this is a stash ATX board although other than that there's nothing really very standard about it this is an exceptional looking board and out of all of the p67 boards I've seen so far I think it features the best color scheme which yes I'm shallow whatever guys deal with it I love the color scheme I was pretty tired of seeing the traditional hair I happen to have one handy the traditional gigabyte baby blue and you know white and blue and yeah I mean it looks alright but show me something it matches that's the challenge right so let's start with the the overall layout of the board here we've got our LGA 1155 socket right here in the middle surrounded by 24 phases of CPU power delivery we have our 8 pin connector up here in the top left of the board exactly where it belongs we've got a pretty innovative looking cooling design going on here on the MOSFETs as well as on the chipsets so you can see there's heat pipes connecting these two heat pipes connecting this guy and this guy and then I can't tell if it's one heat pipe going all the way through but there's also a heat pipe running between the Northbridge and the MOSFETs up here in terms of RAM support we have up to four dims in dual channel mode so that is two banks of dual channel memory supported by this particular board this is ddr3 memory just like the last generation p55 so if you are upgrading you can reuse your old p55 compatible memory moving down this right hand edge of the board we've got a couple useful things first we have an onboard power switch love these and I love the location of this I'm actually pretty tired of seeing them down here on the down on the bottom edge of the board because when you have a bunch of graphics cards installed you can't reach that anymore so this is great next we have a clear CMOS switch also conveniently located right here and last but not least we have a reset switch right here the reset switch you don't use as much so I can definitely forgive them for using a cheaper switch than the power one there we have our 24 pin connector and it's ideal location along the right-hand edge of the board and then next we have our let's see what are these okay here we go so these ports are sort of color-coded these two are SATA to three gigabit per second these ones are SATA 3 6 gigabit per second and these ones are running off of the third-party chipset say 2 3 6 gigabit per second so SATA 2 SATA 3 this one's running off the intel chipset this one is not we have an LED post reader and apparently there's a clear seamless somewhere around here although I don't actually see it so maybe you guys can sort of point out where that is for me here's all of your front panel connectors here's your USB there is your front USB 3.0 apparently wow you've got look at that you've got 2 front USB 3.0 many chipsets did they put on this thing okay well that's outstanding so you have two front panel headers for USB 3.0 that's great right now there aren't really any cases that support that standard yet but hopefully by the time you watch this video there will be if you're watching it a lot later here is firewire which if you're honestly still using then good for you I guess someone has to and then let's have a look at our slot layout we've got a single PCIe 1x slot we've got three PCIe 16x slots which are all actually only wired up to PCIe 8 X and then we have an open bread sorry okay these two are wired for full 16x operational though I don't know what they actually run at and then this one is wired only for 8 X and this one is wired only for 8 X so if you are running 3-way crossfire or 3-way SLI don't kid yourself you're not going to be running at 16 X 16 X 16 X but it hasn't really been demonstrated that it impacts performance negatively anyhow alright we have 2 legacy PCI slots in what I'd say is pretty much an ideal location because it looks like the way it's set up these are going to be your 16 X 1 and 16 X 2 slot so you would cover these these ones if you're running to dual slot graphics cards it doesn't leave as much spacing as I normally like to see but it does leave you a pretty good expansion options you have one 8 X slot left as well as one PCI slot and one 1 X PCIe slot for any expand cards that you require let's move around to the back of the board and have a look at is one of the more impressive IO shields that I've ever seen so we've got our ps2 combo port which I'm still a big fan of love these things they're great we have six yes count them six USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports we have digital audio in both optical and coaxial flavors we have dual eSATA two USB 2.0 ports and two firewire ports dual Gigabit LAN as well as 7.1 audio out so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the p67 a UD seven don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from we're unboxing the reviews and other videos about computers and stuff so I just want to give you guys a brief explanation of how the PCIe slots work on this board there is an NF 200 chip which is basically splitting the to 8 X slots into either okay there so bear with me here it's either taking the 16x bandwidth and splitting it into 16 X 16 X or it's taking that 16 X bandwidth and splitting it into 8 X 8 X 8 X + 8 X so you still do have good bandwidth to all four slots even if they're all populated