Gigabyte P55-UD6 P55 LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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810 words · ~4 min read
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so we have with us today the p55 ud6
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from Gigabyte this is uh their top of the line p55 motherboard you can see it
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features 24 phase power along with all
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of their other technologies sli crossfire b home theater and ultra
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durable three it comes in a really high end box as you can see so you can see a
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preview of the board but don't worry we'll uh we'll unbox the whole thing
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here before the end of this now we're shooting our video today in southeast
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asia where this board was designed and manufactured as you can see from the the
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maps below us here so i'm just gonna
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take this out of the box and here we go so it comes in kind of a
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glossy outer sleeve and then we get down to the actual
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box that the motherboard comes in i hope okay there we go so let's do the
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accessories first and have a look at what comes with Gigabyte's premium p55
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product so we have our our user guide for smart
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trusted platform module then we have our smart six user manual
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we have our normal motherboard user manual along with our driver and utility
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dvd then we have the multilingual
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installation guidebook which is more of a quick start guide and then in
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terms of actual components we've got four SATA cables and an ide cable
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then we have an sli a floppy sli bridge
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then we have what appears to be an e SATA
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let me just double check SATA to
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e SATA cable it looks like oh no these are just black yeah SATA to e SATA
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cables two of them and then we have an esata bracket that gives you two esata
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ports just by plugging into internal SATA ports and then two uh molex two
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SATA power adapters so you could just plug in regular regular drives outside
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of your computer if you wanted to do that without an enclosure so there's our
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little sticker a Gigabyte powered sticker and then here is the i o shield
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okay so let's get down to the motherboard itself get this baby
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unpacked here so you can see that the
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oh it's taped it's taped shut okay well i hadn't noticed that that would have
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been kind of embarrassing there we go so you can see that compared to
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gigabytes normal p55 boards there are a
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lot of power faces on this motherboard
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and i cannot get it out of the plastic packaging here somehow it is it is
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gripping the board and not allowing me to remove it there
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we go okay so there's your 24 phase power how do
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you like that that is a lot of power phases and you can actually see a lot of
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the power circuitry is on the back of the motherboard so they've they've
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overloaded the amount of space they actually have to provide power to the
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CPU you have quite a robust cooling solution
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running from your south bridge area to the to the chipset
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up to the mosfet cooling and what you'll notice about this board is unlike other
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p55 boards it actually has six RAM slots
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now it still only works in dual channel but you can actually load up an
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additional two modules even though you won't get additional performance you can
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have a little bit of extra capacity now like all of the other p55 high-end
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boards you do have support for sli and crossfire at 8x 8x electrical
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you've got use of six of your seven expansion slots i don't know what you'll
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be able to plug in here with this northbridge in the way now you've got
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onboard let's see what is this this is an onboard cmos clear switch and then
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you have an onboard power switch up on the top right of the board your power
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connectors are up at the top left for the eight pin and then over on the right
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hand edge for the 24 pin right where they belong
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and in terms of connectivity you've got 10 SATA ports so you can see those from
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the side and then you have one ide port
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here now let's have a look at the back panel i o
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and again you can see this is a fully loaded board so you've got 10 usb ports
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two iseta ports so these are both those uh usb esata combo ports you have a ps2
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keyboard mouse combo port you've got digital audio two gigabit Ethernet ports
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and then 7.1 channel audio so thank you for checking out my blog on the Gigabyte
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