okay so today i'm unboxing another part of Gigabyte's updated p55 lineup so
they've kind of renamed some of their older boards they've put an a in the
title and what that stands for is their new 333 onboard acceleration blah blah
blah basically usb 3.0 SATA 3 or SATA 6 gigabit per second and
also power 3x so what that means is they've upped the power in their usb
ports to three times the specification
laid out by the governing bodies that specify
that sort of thing and what that means is that even if you plug in three
devices to one port you won't run out of power like if you're using a hub like a
non-powered hub okay so let's have a look at the accessories included with
this board we've got an ide cable four SATA cables then we have an sli
bridge it's a flexible sli bridge we have a Gigabyte k sticker okay then we
have a dolby home theater sticker then we have the i o shield nicely color
coded for you there well it looks like we got a couple e SATA ports on this
board and there we go it even labels the usb 3.0 ports but i'll show you those in
a minute driver cd don't use this download the latest drivers the usual
deal then you've got the manual this is for the p55a ud4 as well as the ud4p
although i couldn't tell you the difference between those boards off the top of my head their smart6 user guide
smart tpm user guide and multilingual
installation guidebook in black and white awesome okay so then we take out
the mid plate and let's get to the board itself i mean the big features of this
board versus the older p55 ud4p are obviously the SATA 3 as
well as usb 3.0 but those aren't the only features present so it's quite
similar looking to the older board but let's start with the basics so here's
your CPU socket now this is a lotes
hold down here and those have become more popular
because there was a there's a bit of a thing going on with the foxconn ones
that people were complaining that under very high overclocking conditions it
might burn out your pins and so there they are adapting to that kind of a
change in the market conditions here you can see we've got our 12 phase power
design they've upped the ante from the old ud4p which was an eight phase power
design here's our little cover on their kind of aztec looking sort of
northbridge heatsink and then we've got another cooler on a couple of chips down
here we've also got our SATA 3.0 those
are the white ports the other six are just SATA 2.0 ports and those are
powered by the Intel chipset okay so
last but not least oh no we're not even close to the end of this i'm just
kidding okay so here we've got our pci and pci express expansion ports these
two are sli ready you can run them at 8x 8x
pci express 2.0 and then let's see what
else do we have here we've got our usual support for up to
excuse me 16 gigs of ddr3 then we have our power
here this is our 24 pin and then our 8 pin power over on the top left of the
board now let's get around to the back side of the board the io shield so
there we have one of those i love these these are fantastic it is a combo usb
sorry combo usb combo ps2 mouse or
keyboard port few people are using both ps2 keyboard and mouse but it's nice to
have one port then we have a boatload of usb ports usb 2.0 2.0 2.8 2.0 2.0 3.0 so
these are the fast ones these are the ones that are running at five
uh gigabit per second five gigabit five
hundred megabit per second wow i'm not i'm having a bit of an off five megabit
per second i'm having it five gigabit per second off night folks
anyway we got a couple gigabit lan ports and then a couple esata ports a couple
firewire ports a couple digital audio ports and then 7.1 audio ports and it is
late and i'm gonna go to bed and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
p55a ud4p that was painful