okay so today I'm unboxing another part of gigabytes updated p-55 lineup so
they've kind of renamed some of their older boards they 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 GB
pers second and also power 3x so what
that means is they've up 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 uh 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 io Shield
nicely cut coded for you there well looks like we got a couple eat 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 there are smart 6 user guide smart TPM user guide and
multilingual installation guide book in black and white awesome okay 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 Loz hold
down here and those have become more popular because there was a there's a a
bit of a thing going on with the foxcon 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 anti from the
old ud4p which was an 8-phase power design here's our little cover on their
kind of Aztec looking sort of North Bridge heat sink and then we've got
another cooler on a couple of chips down here we've also got our are 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 Le 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 eight 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 H 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 5 gigabit 500
megabit per second wow I'm not I'm having a bit of an off 5 megabit per
second I'm having it 5 gigabit per second off night folks anyway we got a
couple gigabit land ports and then a couple ESAT ports a couple firewire
ports a couple digital audio ports and then 7.1 audio ports and it is late and
I'm going to go to bed and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the p55a
ud4p that was painful