Hi fellow readers at tonymacX86! Below is an update for you!
I've just spent all afternoon reading G5 unlocked and now this, I have to say you're a natural born modded, kudos to you sir.
I can't help thinking that this latest project may not be far off from what we all hope Apple will produce for the new Mac Pro. Have you ever considered building a fully immersed in mineral oil machine? Utterly silent!
Thanks a bunch man! Appreciate it
Let's see what Apple does to the Mac Pro, but the Mac Pro case is beautiful! haha.
I've thought about the mineral oil but I'm not sure! It must be cooled in some way or it will heat up.
Maybe next project!
Anyways! Here's an update for all of you!
First of all I'd like to say
I'm terribly sorry that it has taken this time. No one is to blame (besides myself) but I did have some really bad luck regarding some stuff that prolonged the making of this update a lot. What has taken a lot of time because of some stuff not working as they should is the video.
Thanks for understanding,
Here it is!
UPDAAAAAAATE! : D
Unboxing of GIGABYTE z77x-UP7 and test-mounting in the case - 12/03 -2013
UPDATE 12/3 to 2013
Hello dear readers!
I've finally managed to fix material for a new update. A lot of crap got in the way. First my SD card would die, then the microphone wouldn't want to work, then had my computer formatted etc.etc. Everything that could happen did happen
Here's the update thou!
This update will be mostly about unboxing of the motherboard GA-Z77X-UP7.
The unboxing will be in the form of a
Video and
photographs of the box, the products supplied within and the way
motherboard looks inside the chassis!
Hope you'll like it!
If you're wondering when more modifications will be made on the case I can tell you that next update will for sure be about some sort of work around the case.
This update, like I said will be an unboxing of the motherboard.
I'm also using my new macro lens in this update, so do not forget to look at the pictures! >
Let's go! Yiihooo!
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That said, there will be an unboxing video complemented with pictures and text.
Here is the video anyway
(My first unboxing video ever ^_^)
Video
LINK TO THE VIDEO
[video=youtube;HpMu_Oi06PM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HpMu_Oi06PM[/video]
Complements with pictures and text:
Front:
Here we see the box itself. It is quite big and deep, of course, to make room for all accessories and extra stuff.
Symbols/Labels
Here are the labels that I said I would explain in this log:
- GIGABYTE OC Motherboard - GIGABYTE's official Overclocking motherboards.
- 32 +3 +2 Phase Power - This motherboard has 32 power phases for the CPU, 3 for the Intel HD Graphics and 2 for the of VTT (voltage to the RAM).
- Ultra Durable ™ 5 - Name of the durable components that are used on the motherboard.
- World Record 7.102GHz - This motherboard has kept the world record for Overclocking with an Intel Core i7 3770k. The clock speed was 7.102Ghz.
- Best of Computex 2012 - Tom's Hardware has appointed this motherboard's components ( Ultra Durable ™ 5 ) to "Best of Computex 2012".
- BlueTooth 4.0 + 300 Mbps Dual Band Wi-Fi - Features on the wireless networking card.
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The back :
Here is some information on the motherboard and its properties. The ones I feel are important, I will take up here but also go through when it comes to the review of the motherboard (another update):
- Support for up to 4x Graphics , at the same time.
- OC BIOS - backup BIOS in case such the primary would become corrupt or fail.
- OC-Touch - Buttons for live adjust of the CPU ratio, BCLK, etc. (live overclocking)
- " True All Digital PWM Design "
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Cover/Lid:
- IR3550 PowIRStage - Highest rated and most awarded Power Stage in the industry.
- 2x Copper PCB - double copper layer on the PCB.
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The Motherboard
Here we have the motherboard, the monster
Z77X-UP7 ! (Attached to a motherboard plate).
As we can see pretty quickly it's a highend motherboard with
many PCI-E lanes many SATA ports (
10 to be exact ) and some other features such as
Debug LED and
many types of connections . It also has some other surprising properties (which are not visible in the picture but I will go through in the review), eg
2x 8PIN connector to the CPU (EPS12V) for
additional power supplyment , for example
Extreme Overclocking . It has also, as I mentioned above,
32 +3 +2 power phases overclocking buttons 2x Ethernet ports etc.
I will as I said go through all of that when it comes to doing a review on the motherboard. Here's however a couple of pictures on the z77x-UP7!
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I continue with pictures of the contents and some explanatory text
All content is placed on a table so we can see them all!
CF & SLI Bridges -
So we can run multiple graphics cards simultaneously.
- Crossfire bridge for dual AMD graphics cards.
- SLI bridge for dual Nvidia graphics cards.
- 3x SLI bridge for triple Nvidia graphics card.
- 4x SLI bridge for four Nvidia graphics card.
3.5" USB 3.0 Bracket -
A solution so we get 2 USB 3.0 ports.
WiFi & BlueTooth Expansion card -
So we can run WiFi and BlueTooth on a desktop computer, wireless!
I am looking extra forward to this as I have an ethernet cable through the whole apartment which is just in the way all the time. Wireless internet will solve this nice!
eSATA Bracket -
Solution to example run internal hard drives as externals.
Looking forward to this solution as I have an internal hard drive that I move around with sometimes.
Measure-voltage cables -
Cables for reading genuine hardware voltages in the motherboard.
Should be fun to read hardware voltages and compare with those softwares are reporting.
GIGABYTE sticker! -
Mount it wherever you want! ^ _ ^
In addition to the above, I have shown you that we get
6x SATA cables ,
motherboard manuals,
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The motherboard in the case:
Now we have seen the motherboard a bit, but how does it look in the case?
I took a picture with the motherboard in the case to see how the final product will look like, and to be honest, I was very impressed!
This will be badass, looking forward to it a lot!
The case without feet and handles.
The complete case, however without the side plate.
The colors just goes so extremely well togheter, I'm impressed! Imagine this color scheme, gah! Loving it!
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Finally:
That's what I had to show you this time!
Sorry this update has taken its time. I shouldn't blame anything but myself but I've messed up and in addition this video has actually taken a long time to do
Took a lot of time to do the voice-overs (I had to record the voice after the video). But now it's ready and hope you liked it!
The next update will be with some modification, of course! I'm sick psyched to continue modifying and hope you are trhilled for it aswell
However, I can say as a warning that next update might take a while.
The reason is that I have been appointed "
Test Pilot " for the
Asus PadFone 2 . I will be using the product for a specific time and then do some kind of work (atm I have a diary, a thread at a forum and so on). Since this "test pilot thing" has a deadline, I will prioritize that for the moment
Since I also have an exam coming and two courses to be completed, some time will be spent there.
But an update will come eventually!
Comment or question if you'd like please, I get happy when people write!
Thank you for reading and following!
Have a nice day,
Thanks in advance
Best Regards
Nikkop