wow another p55 unboxing video imagine
that today we've got the Gigabyte p55m
ud2 so what you may have noticed by now if you've watched all our p-55 uh
Gigabyte unboxings is that there's a bit of a uh a pattern to the naming so m
means we've got another microatx board on our hands threeyear warranty Ultra
durable 3 but we're missing the crossfire Dolby and SLI logos so let's
get this board open this is gigabytes entrylevel Micro ATX p55 board so we've
got our manual here then we have our uh installation driver and utility DVD then
we have our Smart Stick smart STI Smart Stick smart 6 user guide we have the
multilingual installation guide book so that's your quick start guide and then
we have two SATA cables an IDE cable and
an IO Shield there that's your accessories this is an entrylevel board
in terms of the overall accessory package so here we go let's get this
baby opened up and we're going to be comp comparing it in a lot of ways to
the p55m ud4 because that is a more
featur Rich board it's more fully loaded so this one compared to that board
doesn't have the robust mosfet cooling solution it also doesn't have support
for SLI and Crossfire this port is only
capable of running in 16x mode and this one even though it physically is a 16x
Port you can see the pins here if you can see the pins here actually are only
4X so that means that this is a 4X PCIe
2.0 slot but it runs off the chipset
rather than the PCI Express Lanes built directly into the CPU that means if you
actually tried to run SLI or Crossfire on this board your performance wouldn't
be very good now like all p-55 boards you do have support for dual Channel
DDR3 memory and I'm glad to see even on an entry-level board that we've got four
slots for that that's really good and then up at the top left we've got our 8
Pin power up on the top right on the edge we've got the 2 4 pin power exactly
where they belong and then I'm really happy to see this actually we've got
seven SATA ports even on our lowest end
board here so they've actually got their optional Gigabyte SATA 2 chipset here
really good to see um we don't have some of the higher-end features like onboard
clear seos and power buttons but that's what you expect out of an entry-level
product so now let's have a look at the I/O panel on the back so you've got uh
wow it looks like almost all of gigabytes boards have about 10 USB ports
this one actually has has 11 wow so then
we've got a PS2 Mouse uh USB combo Port
digital audio um here's one of those USB
e SATA combo ports and then you've got a fire wire Port gigabit Lan and 7.1 audio
thank you for checking out my blog on the p55m
ud2