Video : How to make a Motherboard - Details and pictures inside

Hey guys,

It's been a while I haven't posted new stuff here in the Xtreme news section, but here are my 2 cents.

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his year OverClocking-TV visited the GIGABYTE Factory in Nan-Ping for the third time and we had a special access to shoot some very nice footage directly on the production line, at a time no other press were joining us. We had the factory totally for us and we managed to shoot a huge footage and in the end we have more than 3hours or raw videos.


We selected the best parts and mixed everything in a great video with explanation and details you need to know when you make a motherboard.

You will know every details and step that are used to make a motherboards with the off voice from Trouffman (please forgive my French accent, I’m trying to change it ! ).

http://www.overclocking-tv.com/wordp...actory-128.jpg

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Source : OverClocking-TV

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Originally Posted by Trouffman

Hey guys,

It's been a while I haven't posted new stuff here in the Xtreme news section, but here are my 2 cents.




Source : OverClocking-TV

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Pretty cool stuff Trouffman, thanks for doing that video ! :up:

thanks for sharing, pretty amazing stuff

Honestly didn't believe that much was still done by hand.

awsome TYVM! :up:

p.s. I think thats my board in that picture lol :rofl::ROTF:

edit: I just noticed that electrostatic wrist wrapper thing in the picture... I didnt know a motherboard manufacturer would use those dinky $10 ones lol

what are you guys doing without ESD coats! (Surprised they let you in there without tbh :o )

nice pics, thanks

nice, all done by a machine, must of costed a fortune getting all that equipment, i just wanna steal all of those UD9's haha

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Originally Posted by fiskov

Honestly didn't believe that much was still done by hand.

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Why use machines when you have cheap labor and a need to employ millions of people. The best substitute for an AI machine is HI (the human kind). Those people are apparently happier than Foxconn employees too.

cool video :) love watching stuff like this

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Originally Posted by Mechromancer

Why use machines when you have cheap labor and a need to employ millions of people. The best substitute for an AI machine is HI (the human kind). Those people are apparently happier than Foxconn employees too.

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The components they're placing by hand are all through-hole. (Ram sockets, Pci-e, i/o connectors.

until they make these SMD they'll be loading by hand, and using wave.

You can see how ridiculously fast the Pick n Place is. Imagine if the rest fo the components were still through-hole :P

* Looks over at 286 *

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Originally Posted by mAJORD

The components they're placing by hand are all through-hole. (Ram sockets, Pci-e, i/o connectors.

until they make these SMD they'll be loading by hand, and using wave.

You can see how ridiculously fast the Pick n Place is. Imagine if the rest fo the components were still through-hole :P

* Looks over at 286 *

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Yeh the first 40 seconds i was like wtf, the machine had like 5 different pins.. the speed is was processing everything was crazy, Faster then any human X100...

Yay! Gigabyte has good, clean work areas! I will never buy a foxconn board again!

/facepalm

very cool. thanks for sharing guys.

Videos such as these are always fun to watch.

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Originally Posted by BeepBeep2

Yay! Gigabyte has good, clean work areas! I will never buy a foxconn board again!

/facepalm

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Too bad their sockets are everywheres..

Haha I just got my first foxconn. A 790FX that once was their top of the line AMD for $65, and thanks to the damn bios I think I will steer clear of them....unless its another bargain bin special. :ROTF: got what i paid for.

Ah! No wonder the second memory bank on my UD3 went kaput.. Its all put together by frenchmen!

J/K :D

I want one of this "brown" boxes :D

yyyyyEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!! :D

Amazing article Trouffman :up:

Great video! But is there an option for english subtitles :rofl:

Very cool. Gigabyte is #1 for motherboards in my book. I can't stand my last and current Asus boards.

All this sophisticated equipment but all is done by hand of unqualified underpayed personnel. Welcome to progress

eh... those final tests look rushed, like testing stability in 1 second

Link not working for me :(.

Cool vid the dude's accent is annoying as hell.

Thanks for the tour! :)

Excellent video. Thank you for the effort. Complaints about accent on an international forum are silly; if I had to complain it would be about the background music...

Guys; If it was FOXCONN we couldnt have Trouffman doing the talking, a darth vader voice would be required, since its the evil force :D

Nah; Cute video, and I didnt receive that package you ran with in the end yet Trouffy!!! Did you remember my details correctly?

lol evil voice "jump!"

nice coverage troufman....

gigabutt users..if you find a long hair with your motherboard...rma it...it went thru troufman's hands :D

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Originally Posted by ghost_recon88

Great video! But is there an option for english subtitles :rofl:

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LMAO

Seriously, cool stuff....I had no idea. And another "I had no idea they did so much by hand, still".

Nice video, the accent is fine.

Very nice, great video and photos:up:
I want a wave soldering machine:yepp:

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Originally Posted by slaveondope

Very nice, great video and photos:up:
I want a wave soldering machine:yepp:

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lol yeah, did u see how fast it was :rolleyes:

Nice! These kind of factory visits are always welcome and appreciated :up:

i wanna see a pcb factory tour next pls! :D
i always wanted to see how they create the pcbs :)

Gigabyte huh? Every time there is a tour of a mobo factory it seems it is always Gigabyte:up:

so thats how they glue a heatsink

hey guys !

thanks for the good words, we are working on the subtitling of the video, and also if you guys want to help with translation, checke the end of the news there is a link to a topic with the details.

I know about my accent, but people that know me cna hardly agree that... is was WORSE few years ago xD

About the factory tour always being GIGABYTE... becasue they are the only one to open it to press ^^

@Saaya : Yep this is our next tour if we can make it : PCB Factory !

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Originally Posted by Trouffman

About the factory tour always being GIGABYTE... becasue they are the only one to open it to press ^^

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Great of Gigabyte to open up their factory for the tour.:clap:

Comments of overworked and underpaid employees in this factory just shows how some westerners still look at the east with stereotypical views. Taiwan has one of the highest GDP per Capita in the world, so Factories there definitely do not share the same etiquette as factories in China.

It's time to move on guys. :up:

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Originally Posted by saaya

i wanna see a pcb factory tour next pls! :D
i always wanted to see how they create the pcbs :)

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i second that request. :up:

trouffman, you look like alot of fun to hangout with man! keep it crazy!

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Originally Posted by Splave

trouffman, you look like alot of fun to hangout with man! keep it crazy!

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Thanks mate ^^ lot of people can confirm that !

Very nice video! Thx man!

Sweet video! It was like a more in-depth version of the 4 minute section How It's Made did on the motherboard manufacturing process.

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Originally Posted by Trouffman

Thanks mate ^^ lot of people can confirm that !

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Did you really take the box ?

so many ud9's :O

And filmed with the Panasonic GH1 (or 2?)..damn fine piece of kit.

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Originally Posted by berk

And filmed with the Panasonic GH1 (or 2?)..damn fine piece of kit.

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indeed ;) 2 panasonic GH1 and honestly.. it's a bomb !!!

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Originally Posted by Trouffman

I know about my accent, but people that know me cna hardly agree that... is was WORSE few years ago xD

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Thanks man, very interesting :up:

It might be just me but I had no problems understanding you through your accent.

Thanks for posting this, really enjoyed the video. :)

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Originally Posted by Red Maw

Thanks man, very interesting :up:

It might be just me but I had no problems understanding you through your accent.

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+1 your accent was fine, I could understand everything as well.