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Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming G1 Wi-Fi BK Motherboard Unboxing & Tour

2014-05-19
hey what's going on glad to see you guys back here in the ticket amaro channel here on YouTube I'm mark your host and we're here once again with our special guest Leon from gigabyte who's gonna be showing us some pretty cool stuff about the brand-new z97 series motherboards that they're releasing to the market so you guys see my funny mug every day so I'm gonna hand the microphone over what I really had over sera are chess today this is what I hand it over to Leon and let him tell you about this brand new awesome gaming motherboard these guys have from gigabyte and hey only one way to say it oh yeah exactly no confusion so what's going on man how you doing since last time we saw you good good you know just keep him busy we do have new motherboards for you guys and your viewers today we want to show you guys the one we have in front of us here is our z97 X gaming g1 Wi-Fi black edition now that is a mouthful yeah and no more and no more weird green colors no I mean we got a lot of feedback from viewers Kermit we're very sorry we apologize on behalf of all frogs out there definitely we got a lot of feedback from viewers from gamers when we go to events videos that we do like videos we do with you guys and everyone says they want to see red red is I guess the gaming color this year so if you guys do feel otherwise comment yeah you guys can always leave a comment down below gigabyte once through the codes you guys want to see so if you guys are like oh whoa we really don't like red hey leave a comment down below and we'll be happy to listen to you definitely so um to move on with the boards this year with our z97 motherboards our 9 Series we've actually separated into 4 different segments so last year we had 3 we had the gaming performance and overclocking and this year we've added another one which is this one right here the black edition so we do still have the three that we focused on previously and now with the black edition we're providing a 168 our server grade testing so if you guys can see on the box right here it lists that as well so basically what you're getting in the box is a server grade tested motherboard before sending it out to the different regions we actually test it in the factories that's really good so a lot of testing goes in before it even gets out a lot of testing 168 hours comes out to be about 7 days now they do this on every single board Leon that goes out every single black edition the board for the US region we're gonna be carrying three models which is the Z Z 97x ud3 h UD v H as well as the jus own Wi-Fi black edition right on and this is the top of the bad boys right right so this is the top of the bad boys and when we're looking at this board this board you do see it in red we actually it comes with the nifty box now very luxurious as you can see I know I'm not as sexy is gonna wipe it that's exactly what I was thinking with what I was an excessive animal that you were gonna vent oh I was gonna say that dong no but as you can see this board is actually using red heatsinks but with some of our black edition motherboards they actually have different heat seems different colors Oh she'll be able to option eyes out those colors it's actually dependent on if you get a black Edition it just shows that you have a performance and server grade level tested okay so that's the only difference um if you guys want we should get right into it all right let's do it so I guess folks what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and do the unboxing and we'll talk about the features as we go along and these they have nothing to do with the testing videos and everything those will all be coming out of the NDA list next week on May 11th but for now we want to show you guys the great product so real quick anyways I'm just going to show you guys the back of the box anyways just for those people who are curious as I know some people like it they'll go ahead and show us the back of the box we want to be thorough and complete so we have showed you every inch of the box you have been de box of 5 on tech of tomorrow alright so you can see it's a really luxury box we've made a very classy this time around sleeve we pull it out very high-grade cardboard high grade cardboard very clear see-through plastic usually it's kind of foggy you know very clear I think it's a high grade plastic right so right here we get straight into the motherboard let's just set this right down here buddy it sure is looking party so let's first off though let's talk about all the accessories then bounce back to the board we're just little teasers here or house aren't we so let's talk to you guys first though about all the stuff in there so so first you're gonna notice you see this certificate with every black edition motherboard you're gonna get a certificate and this is coming from our factory manager they'll sign off on it saying that hey you know this board has passed server grade testing we've certified it's a black edition motherboard and not only that black edition comes with a lot of other perks if you register your board online we actually allow for two additional years of warranty oh so what's the standard warranty standard warranty for all gigabyte motherboards are three years and if you do it online you get six years to it additionally you live in the damn five years whew that's a long time yes I don't think many of my viewers actually keep a PC for about five years well I mean it's good to have especially if you're giving it away to a friend I mean oh what's this this is just a holder for you oh so we can show all the viewers a motherboard how rock on yeah it's not something new right here for you guys okay look at how sexy alright so in addition to that you're gonna get your crossfire sli cards and cables it comes with three SOI cards and cables you rock on and you're gonna get sleeved SATA cables this is sleep not no no let's go ahead open one of these up caveman style yes definitely alright folks so check it out I'm gonna toss it over the Camerons and you can show it to you closer so those are sleeve SATA cables before you were looking at just regular plastic now we've added a little bit more premium feel to it no sleeve as much nicer users appreciate that especially the guys doing custom builds right and it's probably easier to go through when you're running it through the cases as well it won't get caught on like the plastic you know it gets caught of stuff no actually you know these feels actually pretty good these are probably some of the best SATA cable I've seen come in any box they're very very nice definitely and again you know you get your cushion padding for your back aisle your rear i/o more cushion for the pushin you get a case badge and also one for Black Edition you get your multilingual see users man habla espanol yes espanol chinese-japanese bah bah goody to you honey well there you go that's the one you're looking for all right and with the g1 Wi-Fi BK you're gonna definitely get a wireless card and the wireless card is actually a wireless AC so you're looking at 867 megabits per and megabits per second pretty much almost as fast as you can get right there the boxer folks flips you guys throw that and you guys can't really see in the packaging but two you guys ago and this card also actually doubles up as a Bluetooth wireless 4.0 up so can you run like your phone bluetooth phone through it that you you mean like if I have my bluetooth phone can I use the boots of connectivity and that to route like my music through my phone actually through that that's actually a really great question let me touch on that right after we finish this because I want to touch on some of the features that the board does come with on the software side already all right you also get a front panel so you point out this box right and then two more sleeves SATA cables lots of sleeves that okay let's get this premium box out of the way and let's circle back to the Bluetooth so I'm room bluetooth so with the bowtie I think I said that means you're like tooth is writing you see a dentist yeah you need my you know a few people have to if you have a bluetooth please see your dentist taga tomorrow wants you to be healthy we love you alright so with that it comes with bluetooth and we're looking at Bluetooth 4.0 week we include a software suite if you guys haven't used our App Center before you should definitely try it out what what I'm talking about this time around we have something called cloud station so in our software suite App Center we have different apps like app files to flash your BIOS we have systems information viewer so you can actually set fan curves to presets or manually set fan curves to how you want it and you can also see your systems information just just like CPU Z and for overclocking so if you guys do have all of your own rehabbing solution we have we have you know easy start we have fastboot all of these are all of these are different features that we've included with our software suite that it's meant to benefit users it's like having frosting on your frosting and not only that um I want to just point out a lot of people might see it as bloatware but our software suite is actually incorporated into one system so you're not installing multiple systems to get your once off different software's and it's one software one update button it'll update everything all at once there's features no more clicking going next right right and it's all in the clouds so earlier when you said when you asked about if you can actually link your Bluetooth phone up you can actually do something with cloud station cloud station there's an app on Android as well as iOS with Android Android there there you go Android and iOS and you can actually sync it with a QR code and Royden is that what's happening so you can actually sync it with a QR code you can actually link to your computer you can use your phone as an input device or you can use it to grab files or you can also use your computer as a hotspot and also remote overclocking a remote overclock it so I could be like I've mentioned I could be at the gym and get on my phone and do some overclocking right so let's say I'm somebody else is using your system they're wondering why it's so slow you can get hey I can just you know tune it a little bit well that's really cool then yeah so that's a really neat feature there's definitely a lot of features in our app center so if you haven't used it or if you do get one of these boards definitely check it out Hallam answer questions so we're on the future stuff how like you guys's remote desktop like how powerful would you say that was software does it allow you to like really just like virtually like be in front of your computer even though you're somewhere else is it that strong now at this point well I mean with remote desktop it really depends on every users preference some people are accustomed to TeamViewer some people are accustomed to Splashtop but for our remote desktop it only allows you to do remote control because we're not harnessing the whole network bandwidth we want to keep it so you still have your bandwidth intact okay but basically to look like you're still moving the mouse and everything though right so definitely check out our remote OC software cloud station it allows you to use your phone as an input and you can do some remote now since it's also a cloud station do you guys have any options for people to like have their like own on board type of gigabyte storage solution you know kind of like Google maybe people do to you guys at this point have like the your own gigabyte like cloud place where like people store like information on their own gigabyte system right now that's probably still under discussion if you guys want to see it let us know we can we're always able to develop new and exciting technologies all right well now folks let's move on we've got the board it's looking pretty badass but let's find out what's underneath the beauty and see the beast alright so on this board guys you guys can start out the first thing you guys must notice is this amazing it's heavy it is definitely heavy what we've done this time around again through feedback we've had people say hey you know we wanted to use our own water Barb's our water Barb's are now threaded and interchangeable oh that's pretty awesome so you can take that out right there oh yeah that is pretty cool almost indubitably like that so we have the heat sink which we've actually redesigned it has the heat pipe over to right here the PCH and not only that you can also see that you know we have a lot some colors going for us right now we have the red from the heat sink we have the green from our capacitors and these are actually high in audio capacitors their niche icon Japanese capacitors electrolytic and we've actually done the separation for our digital side and our analog side so this is similar to what you've seen in our eight series board but we've carried it over to a lot more boards this time around now some people out there will cover this again I've said it before but separating all of your audio and everything away from the Board makes the electronic noise virtually go away now some of you guys just use like older chipsets and stuff that don't have this you'll hear sometimes you're clicking your mouse or stuff you'll hear that actually near headphones segregating the audio and does this makes not only your signal and noise ratio much better but it's also completely clean right that's definitely the case and not only that we actually have an awesome sound chip you can see right here it says sound cor 3d this is actually using creatives quad core audio chip so it's a quad core it's a quad core chip and this is actually the first time that any motherboard manufacturer has actually implemented it onto the board for is more for is more ask the fantastic four yeah definitely not only that's fantastic it's fantastic we also have op amps as well as game switches now is this op amp also removable like previous series boards op amp is definitely removable if you do find any other op amps online or if you actually have a high end receiver that dies on you but you can take that op amp out you can try it out there yeah I'm not touching this tubular although so the op amp is basically allows you to change your sound from hard to soft to more bass to more treble and by changing out the op amp you can actually change the dynamics of your sound it's something really incredible now I know a lot of people out there aren't gonna have a golden ear we're not gonna hear this but the people who do will appreciate this more than you could imagine alright yeah definitely and not only that for those like you said if they can't hear there's one thing that they can hear if you do have any rusted rusted jacks or anything when you stick in that microphone you hear that that's screeching that's annoying if you hear that that's because you have some rusts or it's tarnished inside with gold we've actually gold-plated all of our back io signa so maybe even more of it you won't hear that noise so that's why all of these are actually gold-plated same as the DVI and HDMI and as well as our CPU Samba removes ass and sell the gold yeah you can definitely do that if you want to burn down one of these not only that we also have some cool features like the USB DAC so if you're actually of the USB DAC yeah we have a DAC for it so this DAC actually allows you to enable or disable the power coming from it and it also has its own separate power source Oh excellent so if you're into audio if you're into gaming this is definitely a great board for you to get it has a killer killer network as well as an Intel NIC and then it also has USB DAC and the audio separation here and complete USB 3.0 on the i/o notice that as well no more of the old ones no one no two just strictly USB a three across the board now I know this might matter to some people but I have a couple older keyboards especially like my Coolermaster trigger when you try plugging that into an older USB port it doesn't even provide enough power for and the keyboard just kind of tweaks around with something like this no matter what periphery you're using you're not gonna have a problem okay next thing everyone's probably wondering what's new with 9 series so with let's do with 9 series well what's new with 9 series on this 9 series board we have SATA Express so SATA Express you're able to hit 10 gigabits per second and that roughly accounts to about a thousand makes it's fast it's fast it's not quite on the market yet but it's coming very soon you won't have to wait like I don't if you notice Lee I'm you're pretty young guy but when the first time when they had USB ports and a board they weren't even used for honestly like the first 5 years on her motherboard that's right the port was there and there wasn't even a product for it I think everyone was still using ps2 at the time yeah and I mean it's just really weird they put this stuff on the board but this you're not gonna see that there's one thing I've noticed about the newer in boards that are coming out the technology is not taking so long to catch up like even though this isn't available now by the time the next series boards come out this will all be all over the place you don't be waiting years right and it's fast it's super fast so definitely when you do check out check out this board it's the g1 Wi-Fi BK from gigabyte the Burger King Edition and it's an awesome board it looks really nice have any other questions for us I don't know when was this called the board you guys can see right here your PCI expansion is all the way across town to support quad quad graphics okay so oh my god SLI quad crossfire whatever your choice is you've got ample room around the ZIF socket this is still 1150 by the way no change there which is kind of cool now there's one thing I do want touch upon there you're gonna get this little tricky thing here right now all the CPUs that are on the market will fit on this motherboard and the previous eight series but when the new serious chips come out from Intel only these motherboards will support those new chips and that's one of the key features about the nine Series is that it's only going to support these latest Reif rich in Intel CPUs that's right pretty interesting now as far as the memory I still take it it's still 32 gigabytes max yeah these are three gigabytes now um what is it up to three thousand certified 2800 3000 pretty good you got your first USB 3.0 breaker right there so that's gonna be for that front hair that we saw there earlier you got a little port right here now this particular part right here is this for the external now this is actually what we call OC peg this is actually an auxilary power for to make stabilize your PCI power so basically when you actually put on multiple cards you might find some what is that it the wave might be off from it's not as stable as a separate power source because you have so many cards plugged in it's supplying power to those different PCI lanes your power is gonna wave more so this is for using multiple lane configuration right for SLI facilitating more power it'll stabilize the power overall it's it's basically like giving the board of grounding oh wow and like how much does external part cost it's just a SATA connector it's a SATA connector so if you do have it up an additional SATA plug you can just power that SATA power right there right on and then what are the controllers that are on board right here so right now we have a SATA here and I believe these are the native Intel's and then we have marvels bar goes okay you guys can see down at the bottom all the wiring very easily I believe there are seven fan headers on this board altogether right there are quite a few we can actually count them down there's one here one two these are both for the CPU here there's one two three four so that's a total of six right now six seven seven yes I believe there's seven total in sports so that's quite a bit of span sport now on your guys's fan support are you able to go in on each one of your fans and individually tune it and time and make it work exactly I thought to be just like our App Center just like I said earlier on our App Center we do have systems information viewer which will allow you to actually control your fans and as you can notice all these fan headers are four pins so they support both PWM and three pins oh okay excellent and then these two little switches that we see down here in the bottom of the board this is actually for our bio switch so you can actually switch between your two biases as well as enable or disable your BIOS oh so you can actually disable the BIOS altogether tool okay now you switch and keep only one BIOS alive at that time now this is for folks some people do a lot of overclocking and stuff and they'll try to take a BIOS and do some weird stuff with it that BIOS actually happens to go bad you can switch and the other one still be up and running and then reflash the other one back to where it's actually workable correct and and the reason for that single bow switch is actually because some people mess with that primary BIOS and they don't want the secondary BIOS overriding it so they want to disable that secondary BIOS so just keep it straight up and straight out and so will real quick to show you folks the very back of the motherboard you guys can see the PCB is all black matte black on both sides of the board and if you actually look right here you can actually see the cutout through the board where yeah that's pretty interesting you can see the audio cutout that's kind of hard to see we'll try to get that in thing which you can see that here and you can see it also on the back of the board here with these clear lines totally separating the audio from the motherboard so that's pretty much it folks this is pretty much showing you guys the unboxing talking about the features and what the motherboard is when all the NDA's lift next week we'll be able to bring you guys the full review and show you the performance about this thing and how it does work another thing that is the one of the big features about this though is the new MDOT 2 standard what this is basically doing is replacing em SATA you're not gonna have em sated anymore unfortunately those people out there invest in it like I did invested a bunch of them you're kind of Sol but they've moved it forward and this is gonna be a much faster technology so I'm our protector tomorrow this is Leon from gigabyte we thank you very much for being here and we've got more for you so stay tuned detective tomorrow
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