so with me here today I have the Gigabyte p55 ud3r so this is their
second from the bottom as far as launch p55 boards go it does still include
Ultra durable 3 and smart 6 technology so uh let's have a look at the accessory
package that comes with it here we've got the users's manual uh oh which has
the io shield in it here so there we go then we've got the driver and utility
DVD then we've got a little Gigabyte sticker then we've got the smart 6
manual the regular users manual four
SATA cables and one IDE cable so it's a fairly standard uh accessory package
we've got here so there's our little divider let's get the board pulled out
here it actually looks uh looks not too shabby for a for a lower is end board
now what you may have noticed about the front of the box and I'm going to close
it up here for just a second is that there is no support on this board for
Crossfire or SLI so even though we've got two 16x PCI Express slots actually
we do have Crossfire support sorry sorry no SLI that's the difference okay so
we're also missing some other higher end features like for example all the SATA 2
ports are not the right angle ports they're the old older style sticking out
of the board ports like all P p55 boards
we've got an LGA 1156 socket here we've CAU two four Banks of DDR3 dual Channel
RAM slots you can see we've actually got a fairly beefy sort of um vrm solution
as well as vrm cooling solution so that's an 8-phase power setup and then
let's have a look at the uh oh right uh connector placement so you've got your
eight pin up at the top left of the board and you got your 24 pin in the
desirable spot along the very top right of the board so let's have a look at the
I/O panel you've got a pretty standard IO panel here you've got 10 USB ports
that's really nice to see you've got one of those cool keyboard mouse PS2 combo
ports you've got digital audio and then a couple ESAT ports 1 GB Ethernet and a
7.1 audio so you can tell that it is a bit of a a younger brother to the ud4p
but it is quite feature complete especially if you want to run Crossfire
you can actually load quite a high-end system on this board so thank you for
checking out the p-55 ud3r