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so we finally got our last Gigabyte p55

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unboxing this is the p55 ud5 so this is

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their step down from the ultra premium ud6 so we're gonna have support for a

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lot of the high-end features of the ud6 but it'll be cut down in a couple small

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ways so it features 12 phase power compared to the 24 phase power on the

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ud6 but we still got a lot of high-end stuff like sli crossfire x and obviously

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support for gigabytes ultra durable 3 technology and smart 6 which is a

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variety of different ways of smartly managing your system

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which i finally looked up most of the time i don't run those sort of

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bundled motherboard utilities anyway though so anyway okay let's get this board open so

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here we go accessory package we have again quite a complete accessory package

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so we've got four SATA ports one eye cables one ide cable then we've got a

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flexible sli bridge we've got your smart 6 user guide your smart trusted platform

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module guide we've got the regular motherboard user manual along with a

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drivers and utilities dvd then we've got the multilingual

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installation guide book so that's your quick start guide then here we've got

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two e SATA ports and one molex port

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i o bracket adapter thingy then we've got two molex to SATA power adapters and

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then two SATA to esata cable so that

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allows you to take a couple of just regular joe hard drives with no special

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enclosures and plug them directly off the back of your computer to use any

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SATA mode so then we've got our i o shield

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dolby home theater sticker a Gigabyte system sticker

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and let's get down to the board there's actually like a foam padding thing here

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that's kind of neat i guess it protects the uh protects the northbridge heatsink

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okay so let's get this baby open and have a look so like i mentioned before

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we've got a 12 phase power design on this board 12 phases for the CPU itself

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and then two phases for the uncore so they're really really serious about

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providing a lot of power phases to every component of your system here all right

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so let's have a look at the general layout of this board it's actually quite

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similar to the ud6 so we've got our socket 1156 right where it belongs your

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12 phase power is right here all around the CPU socket then you've got quite a

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robust cooling solution for the whole board so from the

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south bridge northbridge and mosfet areas are all adequately cooled with

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kind of a funky funky uh design going on on the sides of all of

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them that's kind of neat so your power connectors are right where they belong

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with the 8 pin up at the top left and the 24 pin over on the right

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and you've got dual channel ddr3 memory like all p55 boards now that's one

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feature again that is missing from the ud6 when you step down to the ud5 is you

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don't have those extra two memory slots okay so let's have a look

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at the PCIe layout so this is a PCIe 16x

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slot and this is a PCIe 16x physical but

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8x electrical now both of these can be run in 8x 8x mode for sli or crossfire

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this one down at the bottom is only a 4x slot and it runs off the chipset so you

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can't use it for sli or crossfire functionality so we've got onboard clear

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cmos on board power and reset switches

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here and then we've got our 10 10

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SATA ii ports on the back and now let's just have a look at the back io so here

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we go we've got a ps2 mouse keyboard combo port then we've got one two three

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four five six ten usb ports two of which

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are usb esata combo ports i really like to see those those are cool then we've

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got digital audio out firewire we have

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two gigabit ethernets and then we have 7.1 audio and oh yeah we've got power

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circuitry on the back but not quite as much as on the ud6 so thank you for

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checking out the p55 ud5 from Gigabyte