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cockers trekkers and for those who just absolutely love hardware shizmik you're a tech of tomorrow we're always bringing it to you all the time I've got my special guest Leon from gigabyte and we're bringing you more in our series of z97 motherboards now this one is a different segment than the one that we looked at previously which was a higher segment this one's a little bit more affordable and we're gonna let Leon discuss the different segments and what this new motherboard is gonna bring to you the end user so what's up bro it's that man welcome back once again I see we got another motherboard here their ultra durable definitely and just like you talked about the segments with our z97 series we do carry four segments now from our z87 we had three which would be our performance our gaming our overclocking and with our z97 we introduced black edition what we have in front of us here is our performance Edition and this is our Z 97x UD 5h wait so you guys are literally back in black so we are back in black we have black and gold though right on so this one is actually in black and gold you can see this is actually one of our performance models we have a very clean box you guys can get a shot of the back and see what's inside also some side shots right here front the other side and lastly the back and the bars being a Wang Chao China by my name Chen Lee I'll number three section five eight of nine all right so basically guys with our ultra durable motherboards you're gonna get one thing ultra durable quality and so let's get into it let's just open it up let everyone see what we're gonna get all right joining gets bored oh yeah so like usual folks always we have the board on top we'll take that out we're gonna move that aside to our beautiful stamp but I'll go ahead and break the seal here for you folks let you guys just see that it's gonna have that beautiful nice new electronic smell oh yeah it does I love that smell me too I just love a group of that smell so here's the board we're gonna set the board off side real quick and we're gonna look at all the accessories then we'll bounce back and see this beastly bad boy so Leon's got the contents out here and it's nice and compact not a whole lot but enough to get you going so let's talk about it yeah what we got what we have here we actually have a user's manual we have the multilingual installation guide books so different languages just in case English is not your primary language or strong suit we have a driver disk for you and with the driver disks we also have a lot of software inside including our App Center our cloud station and a lot of different neat features that you can actually use we have a program called gigabytes smart switch so if you're actually not familiar with windows 8 or 8.1 and you want to have Windows 7 feet like convenience but features of Windows 8 you can definitely use the Smart Switch it'll actually give you a toolbar and a start button you know as that what a for I thought that was just for like you know for dumb people I think that they'd automatically just be sport and I wouldn't have a better conversation with them well it's about that slide to that what Sarge says so smart switch will give you that performance of the eight Windows 8 as well as the convenience of Windows Center so what does it like change it like so that it looks like Windows 7 like the interface that what's doing it adds an interface a Windows 8 like look but it gives you the start button with your programs and how Windows 7 is later so it's kind of gooey inside of a GUI correct oh it's pretty and you can also select which which you boot into so you can actually avoid your metro tiles if you want oh ok cool now all the other stuffs honors well the like all your overclocking software everything everything would be coming into app center so all you have to do is install app Center once click live update it'll update all your applications all at once you don't have to go through click next next next finish or anything and you can like dues your BIOS and everything through live update as well as live update actually will update your programs but to get the BIOS you would still need to download the boughs from the gigabyte us site and then actually use at BIOS which is actually in the application suite and you can actually update your file I guess my question is can you still flash this BIOS from the Windows environment yes you can ok that's like an important of a lot of people they don't want to go full asses want to be able to click a button and go right very important to people out there alright so that's these three we also include four SATA cables to write 90-degree angles and one straight to straight for each total and then we also have the back IO shield which is padded right here for you we also have an SLI cable for you and also a case batch all right so that pretty much covers just the package this would be like if you guys were reading a written review this would be what's called the bundle section we'll go ahead and just set this stuff gently off to the side though and then we're gonna get Leon to talk about this motherboard now you guys can all see the color scheme is totally black and gold which is really cool a lot of people like that this this kind of look Anthony Reynolds our tech he has to be a black and gold freak he's gonna really love it so with that said let's alia take us on a little guided tour though of this brand-new motherboard alright and I'll work just like you said what we're talking about we have different color schemes this time around if your viewers or anyone else if you guys are seeing this video you guys don't like the colors leave a comment let us know we love to hear back from you guys we always make changes to our products depending on what the viewers say what consumers say and we want to know what you like I don't really think they'll Leon there they would actually dislike this type of a color scheme and even though like we talked about I mean I don't think is even a dislike any color scheme I think that all the users are probably gonna want you guys didn't comment down below is I think they just want to see more color options so I think what I think really and you guys can confirm or deny this I think what our users would really like to be able to do is to be able to buy this particular board and just to be able to get these parts in whatever color they wanted to be I think that would be the ultimate way to go for you guys everybody else because then you could offer this motherboard and say hey you custom guys are doing a gold build hey we've got the gold one we've got the red one we have the blue one I don't think they dislike any color I just think they want more color options all right well definitely if that's the case let us know yeah alright so moving on with the board overall the first thing you notice is the heat sinks these are very durable heat sinks you can actually tell by the feeling of the board it's actually a pretty heavy board lots of weight there lots of weight the regular four dimm slots across the way we have the three PCI ease right here lots of room lots of room for liquid cooling closed loop open a and air cooling all of that even custom cooling so just to start off with we can start off with the back IO so with the back IO you actually see that it has the D sub it has the DVI and it also has an HDMI for if you're using the integrated graphics we also have the rear USB 3.0 so that's six of them total all on the rear and we have two 2.0 right here and we also have to nix and with the tunics one is an Intel NIC one is a killer NIC so depending on what you do with your board if you'd like to do some gaming you want to have better gaming performance on your internet bandwidth so you're now often so you have the Intel and the killer on here on this one yes okay folks I don't know a lot people say meant a lot of people go I don't mean insult to the people at real tech but a real Tech is a pretty cheap solution it really is and most boards come with a real tech solution along with it having the Intel and the killer on one board is actually it just really is because the Intel one for me is like my favorite other people out there who know about are gonna like it and a lot of people like the killer one you're gonna get those features so to me you're getting actually the best of both worlds and the difference between the two are small but very subjective and that's definitely something we want to point out because this is definitely something that's been brought up to us a lot of gamers saying hey you know we don't we're not a big fan of killer but we want to have it until Nick and we also see people saying hey we don't want an intimate we want a gaming Nick exactly and so this is definitely a good choice we try to balance between the two but this is definitely from feedback so any feedback we receive it's something that will let our HQ know we'll let the R&D team know and these are things that you can see changes in in our future products right so if you want to change squeaky wheel gets the grease alright not only that you can actually see right here we also have the noise guard this is an audio path separation this separates our digital side from our analog side and all of these are using solid black capacitors rated at 100 um 110 thousand hours at 105 degrees so those are on the realtek ALC 11:50 correct this is okay so that's a pretty standard sound chip for most people you know so so this is the 1150 yeah right 1150 is pretty much the highest sent they have right now and is a lot better than pre generations it's not like jumping into the creative or just some of those things but it's actually a very solid chip that's used in actually most boards alright so next thing we can notice is right but not interrupt you but now most Bordeaux don't so great the audio though right that's a big thing that's a big thing so you usually only see that in the very very high end boards my competitors and by these guys now you can see it technology trickling down into the lower end boards which is awesome right and all in that speaking of technology the new technologies of 90s we see are m2 and SATA Express so we can start with m2 right here this is actually just this little connector right here which allows you to put on an add-on card for storage this is next-generation storage and there are different form factors so when you guys are actually looking to buy something like that make sure you get the right form factor and the right size there's actually two different ones isn't there there there's actually multiple ones depending on the key that you have your it's measured by with your length and then the key so our width is actually 22 I know a lot of girls to do that our width is 22 our length can go 40 to 60 or 80 and our key is a B and M compatible key all right all right so that's definitely the thing with nitrogen so you guys should be careful when you guys do purchase your m got to storage okay just make sure you guys do the research cuz you hate to order that thing on Amazon have it coming to your prime the next day you're like oh I heard the wrong ones this is a hassle so just make sure you do your research before you place that order alright and the speed of that is a theoretical speed of 10 gigabits per second that gives you about a thousand Meg's which is really fast rock and speed alright and the next one is our SATA Express so you can actually see SATA Express right there it's the one on the bottom with that weird-looking piece that does not look like a SATA connector the weird-looking one yes so that is actually a SATA Express connector which you're able to do and that's also a next-generation storage for looks like a display board yeah almost looks like the exact same thing as a display port and then once again what's this one right here that's an OC peg that actually allows you to stabilize the power when you actually use multiple PCIe cards so why don't you guys get that or not but basically if using a lot of cards on the board you want the board to be more stable you can use this that it actually is like adding more power to the board creating a more stable working environment pretty cool stuff alright and we have our standard debug light our USB 3.0 some quick switches power button reset clear CMOS and some triggers right here that actually allow you to switch between the BIOS and disable your dual BIOS function let's see so how many factors do we have in this motherboard right here we have one two three four five six so six six fan head so there's six fan hairs in this board now all these fan headers offer the new they do at both feed p.m. PWM and therefore and three pin but there's one thing I want to note these two fan headers right here they're meant for the CPU so users who actually have an open-air set up who actually have two fans on top of their heatsink you can do connect both of them to it ah okay so that'll be perfect so that's good and it's also good for a water pump you can actually connect a water pump to it and it'll push out a hundred percent power a hundred percent of the time OCP oh that's awesome so you guys can see Matt back finished though on the PCB board front and back always a favor River buddy um like I said a lot of people out there do all their builds specifically by color for those who actually like this this is gonna match it very very well I like how the goal is it really super bright in your face it's not like super duper bling I like how it's kind of a burnished it's kind of a board the probably fits kind of a burnished gold and I really like that I think it looks very very well if you use that there I know a lot of people are like not they're going home what should we buy if you guys are getting ready to go out and you're getting ready to buy a new system do not buy any of the previous generation motherboards because they will not support the new CPUs that are coming out from Intel that's gonna be a big change between the 97 and the 87 so if you're going out there and you're buying something new stick with one of the newer boards like this one from gigabyte definitely and even then we do have different models like we said earlier we have different series this is our performance series if you're an overclocker we have an overclocking series if you're a gamer we have a gaming series and if you're looking for something that's very reliable what about if you will play a player we have a black edition okay alright then so everybody's cover so that's it folks now all these motherboards have hit the market they're for sale there are still some NDA limitations on what we can bring the table for you guys but as of Sunday May 11th we'll be able to bring all the stuff for you so we'll have full reviews of these or you guys can see what the performance differences between the old chipset and the new is so I'm a protector tomorrow once again thank my special guest Leon from gigabyte hope you guys liked this video down below that like button which I know you guys are going to go martial art style on you guys will see all the information where you want to buy it more information on all that stuff if you guys have anything you want to say to leon directly leave it in a comment down below and he'll be sure to answer you guys directly back so thank you guys for watching if you like this type of video hate subscribe at Tecna tomorrow we'll be in your inbox every day