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this video is brought to you by Cooler Master featuring the site and 240 millimeter all in one cpu water cooling system check it out at www.pay 7 so their tagline for this guy is a new legend is born and I believe that has something to do with the fact that this board is now the host of law at least when they printed the box these things change all the time but is now the host of the world sorry for that noise of the world record seven point 10 2 gigahertz overclock on a 3770k so there you go they've got a little badge on their box to tell you all about how the overclocking features of this board are not one of those all show and no go type affairs but actually delivering results in the competitive overclocking scene so we're going to go ahead and we see the board first but I'm going to make you guys sit through the accessories before we actually check it out lots of accessories there are many many accessories so accessory number one is their pci express bluetooth and Wi-Fi card go ahead and give you guys a look at this what's cool about this is you actually don't have to use it on gigabyte boards you can use it on a different board should you so desire so you can carry that with you as your system evolves and changes over potentially the years ok so there's the antennas that go with them they're just little stand alone antennas you stick them wherever you want next up we've got all of the connectivity this board does support 4-way SLI so it comes with a 4-way SLI bridge a 3-way SLI bridge a two-way flexible crossfire bridge and presumably there we go a two-way flexible SLI bridge all of these are black which means they will actually go with your computer color scheme whereas I've seen sort of brutal ones in the past that don't match the board that you actually bought it with we've also got lead outs for the voltage monitoring that is built into the board you don't have to solder anything as well as a USB cable that is I believe for the Wi-Fi Bluetooth card it comes with a three and a half inch front USB 3 Bay so if your case doesn't have USB 3 natively you can add it no problem it also comes with one of their I want two gigabytes awesome esata brackets so that goes in a pci bracket and includes a molex power connector and then they also include a molex to duel SATA internal SATA adapter so you can just plug in to external drives easily just to the back of your system without any extra adapters or enclosures or anything like that you just plug them in and go finally we've got six 8036 gigabit per second cables three right angle and three straight and i/o shield there you go color coded for your convenience and all the manuals and whatnot that you will need poor now let's get into the board itself so gigabyte really is throwing everything at this board in terms of technology whether it's performance related cooling related or even looks related it looks really really sharp just like many of their other OC boards and give me a moment to get this adjusted so I can actually show you guys what it looks like this is not an XL ATX board which I personally like to see I want to see that functionality put into a form factor that most cases can actually accept but they've still managed to make it 4-way SLI and four-way cross fire compatible now the problem with z77 boards that are able to run for way configurations is that usually they use bridge chips that while they increase the bandwidth available to the slots I can have a negative impact on latency so if you're going to run a single graphics card configuration what you would want to do is use this black port right here very innovative very cool approach from gigabyte this black port goes natively directly to the CPU pcie 16x and will have no additional latency involved so you only have to use these orange ports if you're running dual graphics awesome love to see it cooling wise they've changed up the approach a little bit we've seen a lot of cooling solutions implemented on motherboards that are more for show rather than for the actual thermal dissipation remember it's all about surface area so the cooler on here uses a very thin dent heatsink arrangement in order to dissipate more heat to the server pounding air and not necessarily just be four looks so there's one for the Southbridge area one for the Northbridge area and then one around the 32 phase power design so that is part of what allows the CPU to get such stable power however just throwing more power phases at a board is not necessarily going to improve the performance in any meaningful way you actually have to build good phases so gigabyte is using the same IO are truly all digital PWM so there's nothing analog left in the power delivery system that is actually on the board that i'm using the x79 su p 5 which is an x 79 board whereas this is a z77 to a different socket otherwise I'd probably consider using something like this and that is how you're able to push the clocks up on those CPUs even under extreme conditions such as extremely low temperature which is required for boosting things up to that level anyway so in terms of the actual connectors on the board we've got two 8-pin CPU connectors up here at the top left in their ideal locations one 24-pin connector over here on the far right in its ideal location front USB 3 is on the right-hand edge of the board as well as the bottom so depending which approach you prefer you can definitely go ahead and leverage either of those it includes an msata port so slot by our port 5 over here will be disabled if you use it personally for a desktop system I'd usually just add a an SSD or a drive rather than using msata but there you go you have the option auxiliary power is provided by a SATA connector here I do recommend using this if you're going to install three graphics cards or more we've got six say 236 gigabit per second ports these two are powered by Intel these two are powered by marvel chipset and then for say two to three gigabit per second ports there's the debug LED as well as controls for the main BIOS as well as the secondary bile so it does have a dual BIOS system with hardware switches allowing you to decide which one you want to boot from your front panel connectors are here this red USB port supports on/off which is cool because your devices will charge whether it's a phone or a tablet even if your computer is powered off and your front panel audio is right over here the board suppler includes support for the latest core i3 i5 and i7 processors on the LGA 1155 platform so our seven on board fan headers 12 PWM up here at the top a third PWM here on the right-hand side a fourth fifth and fifth PWM down here on the bottom and then two three pin connectors down here on the bottom so that means you can control all these fans through the bios rather than using a third-party controller or whatever else I mean this is the stuff that I glazed over because it seems basic now but lga1155 does support up to four dims of dual-channel ddr3 memory with up to eight gig dims so you can put in a total of 32 gigs of ram should you so desire this board does feature the latest ultra durable technology meaning the 2x copper PCB as well as their new fiberglass hourglass fabric rather not fiberglass glass fabric PCD which is humidity resistant so it's going to be great for damp environments where there's lots of humidity in the air as well as sort of other regular environments little nice touches like this I like to see so they got more cooling on the back of the board for the MOSFETs and that will help particularly with chassis such as the enttec 1,100 where it there's actually sort of space on the back where some airflow can come through as well as using screws for all the built-in heat sinks it means they're not likely to come loose and travel or if there's any if the board undergoes any kind of a flex they'll stay on and the board will actually function as intended so I think that pretty much wraps it up I mean there's okay there's other weird stuff that I okay so you guys can tune out if you're not interested in the crazy stuff so here's where all the voltage checkpoints are so if you're doing any kind of crazy over voltage that's where you can measure them directly with a multimeter rather than relying on software here's where you can switch to liquid nitrogen mode clear CMOS switches up here power as well as overclocking buttons so these are for directly overclocking the board they have a hardware interface with the board so you don't have to worry about any software and then these this gear button actually changes the increments that these buttons use to overclock the board itself those reset switch is away from all the other switches for whatever reason is down here in the bottom right corner I guess that's for ease of access when it's on a bench since reset is the one that you're typically using a lot in that scenario and of course the rear i/o which I completely forgot to actually been a long time since I've done a motherboard unboxing we haven't had a new play form in quite a while I am three plus and LGA 1155 have been with us forever six USB 3.0 ports ps2 vga DVI displayport hdmi optical audio out two gigabit ethernet and 7.1 audio out thank you for watching this linus tech tips unboxing and don't forget to subscribe for more videos like this from me