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welcome to another motherboard unboxing this is the heat 77 X which as you guys might imagine uses the z77 chipset from Intel ud5 HUD implies that there is ultra durable technology but wait it's not ultra durable five because that's not out yet the highest ultra durable we have is ultra durable four and this one has it so moving along we've got their 3d bios logo here which includes the dual UEFI bios with their unique graphical interface that allows you to actually click on the various parts of your board in order to access them so you want to access things about to say the parts you just click on the SATA ports a bit more intuitive then you know shoot where do they usually keep that see I can't even remember where they usually keep the same options because all over the place it can be in like integrated peripherals sometimes what does that even mean integrated peripheral SATA port anyway so gigabyte wants to make that simpler it also includes 3d power which is they're all digital engine meaning they are using all digital PWM for this particular motherboard this supports the latest Intel Core i7 third generation processors on the 1155 socket z77 chips that we covered PCI Express gen3 is supported by this board so you want to run your latest gtx 680 i guess by the time you watch this video might not be the latest plus 680 or radeon HD 7970 and get the absolute most out of it yes the extra 1% or so PCI Express gen3 is the way to go it's more important for SLI or crossfire though and I'll cover that more later the M SATA connector is on board which I'll cover more once we've opened it up and ultra-durable 4 so this is a bunch of stuff high temperature protection humidity protection using their new woven glass fiber or sorry woven glass fabric PCB which can be relevant if you are in a high humidity environment such as say for example Taiwan or I mean you know I've had situations where I've accidentally spilled water on a board I hope it would help with that although you know no promises there guys electrostatic protection so they've integrated circuitry that actually protects the board from being damaged in the event of an electrostatic accident and power failure protection once again design choices that they've made to help to get the risk of that permanently damaging your motherboard so we'll leave that there so that we don't miss anything okay and let's open this bad boy up so the motherboard comes first but I'm gonna make you guys wait for it and we'll go through the exit no no no calm down slick will do the motherboard later I'm gonna go through the accessories first so we have two right angles data cables one right angle catered SATA cable and a straight SATA cable so three right angles and one straight then we have a USB 3.0 front panel three and a half inch Bay user manual as well as driver and utility DVD don't use this download the latest from D gigabyte website there's also huh look at that they they opened it up to the page with the box contents and the motherboard layout see those are the little touches that you gotta appreciate gigabyte sticker multilingual installation guide book with more languages than I can speak we have a flexible black SLI bridge it's the very best kind we also have an i/o plate that is handily color-coded love color coding love things that are black and love small finishing touches so far gigabyte a plus as far as the included accessories are going next let's get the board opened up here this is a reseal board it's a sample board so yeah yours won't look like that unless you buy this one haha no just kidding you won't get this one here we go so you know what let's shift our angle a little bit here I meant turn the camera off and we're ready all right so at the very center of the board the very focal point for me is the new well not new LGA 1155 socket supporting the new Ivy Bridge codenamed intel core i7 and i-5 and i3 generation 3 processors the thing we also find right next to it is another cool Intel technology that is Intel Smart Response technology you can throw a little PCIe SSD in here not going to take up any of your PCI slots or any of your SATA ports and you can use that to run Intel srt caching off of a drive that you have connected to the system very very cool alright we've got our power delivery delivery circuitry here along with beefy heat sinks that are connected by a heat pipe to the beacon you'd think that is also installed on the chipset itself we have our 8 pin connector in its ideal location at the top left of the board and we'll go around and count the PWM fan headers at the end of the video this right here is dual channel ddr3 memory supporting up to 4 dims that so that is a chipset thing guys this is not a replacement for x79 this is a replacement for z68 so we still see dual channel ddr3 we have a c MOS switch as well as a reset switch and a power button built into the most sensible possible location up here at the top right of the board now this is axel if this excellent this is only AUD 5 level board so this isn't even a top end board but look at this it's got all of your voltage check points that's that's like outstanding I cannot stress enough how outstanding that is you can check all your voltages with a multimeter even on this like sort of high-end but not quite like AUD 7 or or a g1 series board very cool the 24 pin connectors and it's ideal location along the far right of the board and check this out if you want additional power for your graphics cards you can use a SATA connector instead of a molex and I think this is a great design choice and I yea appreciate that as you all right here we go SATA to port will be disabled when mSATA slot is in use so there you go it is running off of the okay so you do use up a port but I guess you get the benefit of it like it looking badass and you don't have to use up an actual day in your case so there there's the benefit all right these guys right here are SATA 3 6 gigabit per second these ones right here are stated to three gigabit per second and these ones are also oh sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry these four are SATA 2 6 3 gigabit per second and then these four are SATA 3 6 gigabit per second this one is also say 2 3 6 gigabit per second and check this out 2 front panel USB 3.0 ports so this is interesting because according to the Intel 3 front panel USB 3.0 ports this is interesting because according to the Intel spec the front panel USB 3 port like the Intel the Intel USB 3 ports have to be integrated with two in the front two in the back so on this particular board you're gonna be allowed to choose whether you want to run off of the Intel USB 3 chip or off of the third-party USB 3 chip we have another SATA 3 port I think I mentioned that and here are all of our front panel switches front USB with extra power for faster charging front panel USB 2 with not extra power for charging we have our TPM slot as well as front firewire and front audio gigabyte has started putting front audio at the bottom of the board kudos gigabyte it used to be here and this is better alright having a look at the back of the board so the z77 chipset supports onboard video on supported Intel Core I whatever you know processors that do have onboard video all the Ivy Bridge ones do so we've got VGA DVI HDMI and DisplayPort so the full gamut of options and what's cool is that with lucid virtu MVP we actually get a lot more options in terms of a how to connect your monitor because you can connect it either to the discrete graphics card or the onboard graphics card and you can choose V mode or AI mode whether you whichever one is connected to it doesn't matter also you can use okay assuming the game supports it it comes down to software support again assuming that the game supports it you can use virtue MVP to actually dramatically improve the performance of the discrete graphics card by having the onboard GPU handle basic tasks and leaving the more complicated things such as tessellation to your DirectX 11 graphics card interesting paint all right moving on we've got optical audio out two USB 2.0 ports an additional USB 2.0 port okay firewire four USB 3.0 ports the two of these are off the Intel chipset two of them are off a third party chipset two Gigabit Ethernet ports and 7.1 audio so right I said I was going to go back and count all the PWM fan headers so here we go one two don't come in too close so that they can see where they are I think one two three four five uh five PWM fan headers so don't forget oh oh right right right right right sorry I almost forgot so it's also got integrated creative soundblaster x-fi mb2 audio which has a built-in headphone amplifier so this is not quite as advanced to the scientists they've used on the past on their g1 motherboards but it's going to be a heck of a lot better than your standard onboard audio and then what else are we missing here hold on let me just make sure I didn't miss anything guys Intel Gigabit Ethernet right yes one of these two built-in lens is Intel so as opposed to a third-party chipset which a lot of users do prefer and finally you know what let's go back to the back of the box where they do have some of their other stuff sorry guys this is in lieu of notes so that outline actually yeah you guys can just look at that if you really want to that outlines the benefits of ultra-durable for which has continued to bring you know the same standard things like two ounce copper BCD which is for better heat dissipation as well as less interference along with a whole bunch of other cool stuff so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the g77 execute e5h and don't forget to subscribe to Linus Texas for unboxings reviews and other computer videos and don't forget you can always benefit from all digital power that is the CPU the VTT the memory and the Intel HD graphics which are all digitally powered yes the slot layout sorry guys I forgot three PCIe 1x slots - PCIe 16x lala okay three PCIe 16x slots but more on that in a minute and one PCI slots so I mentioned that PCIe three support was going to be important for an SLI or crossfire users on this platform that is because these are not both full 16x it's 16 X or 8 X 8 X if you have two cards in them as per the same limitations as the z68 platform its z68 right yeah Wow dirt moment there guys uh-huh right so remember pcie 3.0 8 X is the same bandwidth as PCIe 16x 2.0 so that means that if you're running PCIe 3 on your cpu remember you need a PCIe III CPU as well as your graphics parts that 8 X bandwidth is going to be the same as last generation 16 X so there should be no performance bottleneck there at all finally this PCIe 4x lock requires an Ivy Bridge third gen CPU for more information please refer to the user manual so there you go 16 X 60 r88 or + 4 X assuming you're using an Ivy Bridge CPU