 Today I'll be unboxing the Gigabyte Z68X UD3H-B3. So this has most of the features you have come to expect from Gigabyte, including TouchBio's hybrid EFI technology, which allows you to use 3TB plus hard drives, a 3 year warranty in the US and Canada, Ultra Durable 3, it's got Nvidia SLI, AMD Crossfire, and it supports all the latest Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors on LGA 1155. Let's look around on the back of the board and have a look if they have anything else to say for themselves. Yes, we've got dual BIOS, which allows you to restore it to the other physical BIOS chip, even if you corrupt the BIOS during a flash. We have 3x USB power, which allows you to charge more powerful devices and run more powered devices off a hub than you can on competing motherboards. We have USB 3, SATA 3, 6 gigabit per second, and driver MOSFETs, which reduces mounting area by 50%, apparently. Interesting. The onboard audio includes a 108 decibels sound to noise ratio, and that is definitely a good thing. More sound, less noise, always a plus. We have four SATA cables included, two straight, two right angle. We have an IO shield, which has convenient color coding on it. We have a little warning telling you not to put a socket 1156 CPU in this board, and we have an SLI cable. Next we have a user's manual with a useless utility DVD. Download the latest off the Gigabyte website to make sure you have the latest versions. Finally, a dual-B home theater sticker and a multilingual installation guidebook. Next we have the board itself, which has foam. Look at that. I've never seen foam on a motherboard like that before. And I'm not even being facetious. I have never seen foam mounted on a motherboard like that. So let's go ahead and find out why it has foam on it. Take that out. Oh, beautiful motherboard, especially for like a value price point board. So there you go. That is to, I'm going to go ahead and guess, prevent the MOSFET heat sink from moving around during shipping. There you go. Because it does use plastic push pins. So while those are not a risk, while the board is stationary, while it's being moved around, yeah, it could loosen the bond between the thermal compound and the MOSFETs themselves. So let's have a look at the overall layout of this guy right here. We're going to start with our 1155 socket in the middle of the board. So that's where you put your CPU. Then we're going to move on to our, looks like one, two, three, four, five, six plus one phase power design. We've got our eight pin connector in the top left of the board and it's ideal location. We've got our dual channel DDR3 RAM over here on the side and our 24 pin connector also in its ideal location. We've got seven SATA ports. So this is SATA three, six gigabit per second. Right here is SATA three, six gigabit per second. And we've got three SATA two, three gigabit per second. So this one's running off the Intel chipset. This one's running off a third party chipset. These ones are going to be your higher performing ones and these are your fallbacks. The last SATA port is going to be on the back panel of the motherboard and I'm a big fan of that running off the Intel chipset because it can be more convenient for RAID configurations. Here are our front panel connectors as well as our front USB 3.0 firewire, powered front USB. Remember you can charge a tablet off the one with the red background. And then one, two, three more front USB headers. In terms of the PCI slot layout, we've got one, two, three PCI 1X, two PCI 16X, although this one is only wired electrically to 8X and two PCI slots. This is a very, very solid layout because it's going to give you two PCI 1X and one PCI left if you install two dual slot cards. On the back here we've got a variety of good features. Remember this is a Z68 motherboard so we have video out including VGA, DVI, HDMI and display port. Yes, everything is supported. We've got one, two, three, four USB 2.0 ports, one of those PS2 keyboard mouse combo ports, optical audio out, firewire, eSATA off the Intel chipset, two USB 3.0 ports, gigabit ethernet and 7.1 audio out. So I would say an ideal type configuration for a motherboard like this is making sure that you've got a nice, decent quad core CPU. I mean if you're going to get the Z68 chipset you might as well go for a quad core. This is a high end chipset. Also you're going to want to put, most people aren't going to be running SLI or Crossfire on a board like this, although you will have the option to maybe go with a value board, like our value card, like a good bang for the, I shouldn't say value because they're still expensive, but a bang for the buck card like a GTX 560 or a Radeon 6870, something along those lines. RAM is so cheap these days so I'd probably throw eight gigs of RAM. And throw an SSD in here, remember this board supports Lucid Virtue so you can use the onboard video here, out the onboard video here and still use your dedicated graphics for games but you can use this one to do video transcoding and it also supports Intel SRT technology so you can take a 60 gig SSD, even a SATA 3 one, throw it on the SATA 3 port and then throw a big hard drive like a WD Black on one of the other ports in order to use the SSD as a cache for awesome performance without blowing a bunch of money on a 120 or 240 gig SSD. Thank you for checking out my unboxing, don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos.