Gigabyte P55M-UD2 P55 LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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555 words · ~2 min read
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wow another p55 unboxing video imagine
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that today we've got the Gigabyte p55m
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ud2 so what you may have noticed by now if you've watched all our p-55 uh
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Gigabyte unboxings is that there's a bit of a uh a pattern to the naming so m
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means we've got another microatx board on our hands threeyear warranty Ultra
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durable 3 but we're missing the crossfire Dolby and SLI logos so let's
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get this board open this is gigabytes entrylevel Micro ATX p55 board so we've
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got our manual here then we have our uh installation driver and utility DVD then
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we have our Smart Stick smart STI Smart Stick smart 6 user guide we have the
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multilingual installation guide book so that's your quick start guide and then
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we have two SATA cables an IDE cable and
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an IO Shield there that's your accessories this is an entrylevel board
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in terms of the overall accessory package so here we go let's get this
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baby opened up and we're going to be comp comparing it in a lot of ways to
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the p55m ud4 because that is a more
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featur Rich board it's more fully loaded so this one compared to that board
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doesn't have the robust mosfet cooling solution it also doesn't have support
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for SLI and Crossfire this port is only
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capable of running in 16x mode and this one even though it physically is a 16x
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Port you can see the pins here if you can see the pins here actually are only
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4X so that means that this is a 4X PCIe
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2.0 slot but it runs off the chipset
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rather than the PCI Express Lanes built directly into the CPU that means if you
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actually tried to run SLI or Crossfire on this board your performance wouldn't
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be very good now like all p-55 boards you do have support for dual Channel
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DDR3 memory and I'm glad to see even on an entry-level board that we've got four
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slots for that that's really good and then up at the top left we've got our 8
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Pin power up on the top right on the edge we've got the 2 4 pin power exactly
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where they belong and then I'm really happy to see this actually we've got
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seven SATA ports even on our lowest end
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board here so they've actually got their optional Gigabyte SATA 2 chipset here
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really good to see um we don't have some of the higher-end features like onboard
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clear seos and power buttons but that's what you expect out of an entry-level
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product so now let's have a look at the I/O panel on the back so you've got uh
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wow it looks like almost all of gigabytes boards have about 10 USB ports
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this one actually has has 11 wow so then
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we've got a PS2 Mouse uh USB combo Port
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digital audio um here's one of those USB
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e SATA combo ports and then you've got a fire wire Port gigabit Lan and 7.1 audio
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thank you for checking out my blog on the p55m
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ud2