so we have with us today the p55 ud6
from Gigabyte this is uh their top of the line p55 motherboard you can see it
features 24 phase power along with all
of their other technologies sli crossfire b home theater and ultra
durable three it comes in a really high end box as you can see so you can see a
preview of the board but don't worry we'll uh we'll unbox the whole thing
here before the end of this now we're shooting our video today in southeast
asia where this board was designed and manufactured as you can see from the the
maps below us here so i'm just gonna
take this out of the box and here we go so it comes in kind of a
glossy outer sleeve and then we get down to the actual
box that the motherboard comes in i hope okay there we go so let's do the
accessories first and have a look at what comes with Gigabyte's premium p55
product so we have our our user guide for smart
trusted platform module then we have our smart six user manual
we have our normal motherboard user manual along with our driver and utility
dvd then we have the multilingual
installation guidebook which is more of a quick start guide and then in
terms of actual components we've got four SATA cables and an ide cable
then we have an sli a floppy sli bridge
then we have what appears to be an e SATA
let me just double check SATA to
e SATA cable it looks like oh no these are just black yeah SATA to e SATA
cables two of them and then we have an esata bracket that gives you two esata
ports just by plugging into internal SATA ports and then two uh molex two
SATA power adapters so you could just plug in regular regular drives outside
of your computer if you wanted to do that without an enclosure so there's our
little sticker a Gigabyte powered sticker and then here is the i o shield
okay so let's get down to the motherboard itself get this baby
unpacked here so you can see that the
oh it's taped it's taped shut okay well i hadn't noticed that that would have
been kind of embarrassing there we go so you can see that compared to
gigabytes normal p55 boards there are a
lot of power faces on this motherboard
and i cannot get it out of the plastic packaging here somehow it is it is
gripping the board and not allowing me to remove it there
we go okay so there's your 24 phase power how do
you like that that is a lot of power phases and you can actually see a lot of
the power circuitry is on the back of the motherboard so they've they've
overloaded the amount of space they actually have to provide power to the
CPU you have quite a robust cooling solution
running from your south bridge area to the to the chipset
up to the mosfet cooling and what you'll notice about this board is unlike other
p55 boards it actually has six RAM slots
now it still only works in dual channel but you can actually load up an
additional two modules even though you won't get additional performance you can
have a little bit of extra capacity now like all of the other p55 high-end
boards you do have support for sli and crossfire at 8x 8x electrical
you've got use of six of your seven expansion slots i don't know what you'll
be able to plug in here with this northbridge in the way now you've got
onboard let's see what is this this is an onboard cmos clear switch and then
you have an onboard power switch up on the top right of the board your power
connectors are up at the top left for the eight pin and then over on the right
hand edge for the 24 pin right where they belong
and in terms of connectivity you've got 10 SATA ports so you can see those from
the side and then you have one ide port
here now let's have a look at the back panel i o
and again you can see this is a fully loaded board so you've got 10 usb ports
two iseta ports so these are both those uh usb esata combo ports you have a ps2
keyboard mouse combo port you've got digital audio two gigabit Ethernet ports
and then 7.1 channel audio so thank you for checking out my blog on the Gigabyte
p55ud6