 Welcome to another Linus Tech Tips unboxing. This is going to be for Gigabyte's highest end P67 series board. This is the P67AUD7. We have full support for Intel's latest Core i3, i5, and i7 processors on the LGA 1155 platform. Although if you're putting an i3 on this thing, shame on you. So the first thing we're going to find out about this board is that it has a three-year warranty, okay? And it delivers maximum CPU power. So why don't we go ahead and open up the front of the box and find out what exactly Gigabyte means by that? Well, they have equipped this motherboard with a 24-phase power design. Because on the P67 platform, most of the overclocking intrigue has been removed from the motherboard side, because we're pretty much just overclocking using the CPU multiplier, the most important thing the motherboard manufacturers can do for you these days is provide a stable platform with lots of features and great power delivery, because that's how you're going to get the most out of your chip. They've also designed their chipset cooling design to be cooled well by a downdraft CPU cooler, so something like Inoktua NH-C14 would be a great choice for a board like this. Let's go ahead over here and have a look at what else Gigabyte has to say for themselves on this board. Here's the 24-phase power. Yeah, it delivers maximum CPU power. We get it. You've got overclocking performance, which they're saying is more, higher is better. Okay, and then they're saying they've also got a longer lifetime, because they have their Ultra Durable 3 technology plus dual power switching. Okay, thanks guys. Next, we have their 333 onboard acceleration, which means you have support for SATA 3, 6 Gigabit per second. You've got USB power 3X, which means that you can run up to three times the number of peripherals off one USB 3.0 port using a hub. And then you've also got USB 3.0, which is up to 10 times the speed of USB 2.0. Support for three-way SLI and three-way... Oh, I'm sorry, that totally moved. And three-way Crossfire, which is a bit unique for a P67 board, because most of them are only going to have support for two-way SLI and two-way Crossfire. And that's pretty much it. Oh, yeah, also their on-off charge feature, so you can charge your iPhone or iPad or whatever other device, even when this PC is powered off. So they've got nice black internals, or internals, interior here on all of the packaging. Let's see what Gigabyte has included with this board. Okay, first we have a warning. Socket 1155 is not socket 1156, so please, please make sure if you're buying a P67 board like this one, you are not trying to install a socket 1156 processor in it. Here we've got our user's manual, as well as a 6-series drivers and utilities DVD, which you should throw away and download the latest from the Gigabyte website. Multilingual installation guidebook showing you how to install your CPU, RAM, all that good stuff. Next we have a couple of stickers, a Gigabyte one and a Dolby Home Theater one. Finally, we have an I.O. shield, so that'll go on the back of the board, handily color-coded for your convenience. Next we have two, no, four SATA cables, two right angle and two straight. We have a three-way SLI bridge, a two-way SLI bridge. Remember that if you need crossfire bridges, those will be included with your graphics card. We have one of their awesome back panel eSATA PCI guides, so you plug that into two of your internal ports, you get more eSATA, then you can use that adapter to plug in a couple standalone drives, and you got some eSATA cables. This is a great little kit. Big fan, Gigabyte's been including that with their boards for a little while. So this is appropriately bright yellow. Okay, so let's go ahead and close that up. We're done with that. Let's have a look at the board itself. This is it, the P67A UD7. Now, unlike some of their last generation UD7 boards, Gigabyte has not opted for a non-standard size to this board. This is a standard ATX board, although other than that, there's nothing really very standard about it. This is an exceptional looking board, and out of all of the P67 boards I've seen so far, I think it features the best color scheme, which, yes, I'm shallow, whatever, guys, deal with it. I love the color scheme. I was pretty tired of seeing the traditional... Here, I happen to have one handy. The traditional Gigabyte baby blue and white and blue and bleh. I mean, it looks all right, but show me something that matches. That's the challenge, right? So let's start with the overall layout of the board here. We've got our LGA1155 socket right here in the middle, surrounded by 24 phases of CPU power delivery. We have our 8-pin connector up here in the top left of the board, exactly where it belongs. We've got a pretty innovative-looking cooling design going on here on the MOSFETs, as well as on the chipsets. So you can see there's heat pipes connecting these two, heat pipes connecting this guy and this guy, and then I can't tell if it's one heat pipe going all the way through, but there's also a heat pipe running between the north bridge and the MOSFETs up here. In terms of RAM support, we have up to four DIMMs in dual-channel mode, so that is two banks of dual-channel memory supported by this particular board. This is DDR3 memory, just like the last generation P55, so if you are upgrading, you can reuse your old P55-compatible memory. Moving down this right-hand edge of the board, we've got a couple useful things. First, we have an onboard power switch. Love these. And I love the location of this. I'm actually pretty tired of seeing them down here on the bottom edge of the board, because when you have a bunch of graphics cards installed, you can't reach that anymore, so this is great. Next, we have a clear CMOS switch, also conveniently located right here. And last but not least, we have a reset switch right here. The reset switch you don't use as much, so I can definitely forgive them for using a cheaper switch than the power one there. We have our 24-pin connector in its ideal location along the right-hand edge of the board. And then next, we have our... let's see, what are these? Okay, here we go. So these ports are sort of color-coded. These two are SATA2 3Gbps. These ones are SATA3 6Gbps. And these ones are running off of the third-party chipset, SATA3 6Gbps. So SATA2, SATA3. This one's running off the Intel chipset. This one is not. We have an LED post reader, and apparently there's a clear CMOS somewhere around here, although I don't actually see it. So maybe you guys can sort of point out where that is for me. Here's all of your front panel connectors. Here's your USB. There is your front USB 3.0. Apparently... wow, you've got... look at that. You've got two front USB 3.0. How many chipsets did they put on this thing? Okay, well that's outstanding. You have two front panel headers for USB 3.0. That's great. Right now, there aren't really any cases that support that standard yet, but hopefully by the time you watch this video, there will be, if you're watching it a lot later. Here is Firewire, which if you're honestly still using, then good for you, I guess. Someone has to. And then let's have a look at our slot layout. We've got a single PCIe 1x slot. We've got three PCIe 16x slots, which are all actually only wired up to PCIe 8x. And then we have an... oh, sorry. Okay, these two are wired for full 16x operation, although I don't know what they actually run at. And then this one is wired only for 8x, and this one is wired only for 8x. So if you are running three-way Crossfire or three-way SLI, don't kid yourself. You're not going to be running at 16x, 16x, 16x. But it hasn't really been demonstrated that it impacts performance negatively anyhow. Alright, we have two legacy PCI slots in what I'd say is pretty much an ideal location, because it looks like the way it's set up. These are going to be your 16x1 and 16x2 slots, so you would cover these ones if you're running two dual-slot graphics cards. It doesn't leave as much spacing as I normally like to see, but it does leave you pretty good expansion options. You have one 8x slot left, as well as one PCIe slot and one 1x PCIe slot for any expansion cards that you require. Let's move around to the back of the board and have a look at one of the more impressive I.O. shields that I've ever seen. So we've got our PS2 combo port, which I'm still a big fan of. Love these things, they're great. We have six, yes, count them, six USB 3.0 Super Speed ports. We have digital audio in both optical and coaxial flavors. We have dual eSATA, two USB 2.0 ports and two Firewire ports, dual gigabit LAN, as well as 7.1 audio out. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the P67A UD7. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other videos about computers and stuff. So I just want to give you guys a brief explanation of how the PCIe slots work on this board. There is an NF200 chip, which is basically splitting the two 8x slots into either... Okay, so bear with me here. It's either taking the 16x bandwidth and splitting it into 16x, 16x, or it's taking that 16x bandwidth and splitting it into 8x, 8x, 8x, and 8x. So you still do have good bandwidth to all four slots, even if they're all populated.