Gigabyte P55A-UD4P Core i5 P55 SLI Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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okay so today i'm unboxing another part of Gigabyte's updated p55 lineup so
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they've kind of renamed some of their older boards they've put an a in the
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title and what that stands for is their new 333 onboard acceleration blah blah
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blah basically usb 3.0 SATA 3 or SATA 6 gigabit per second and
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also power 3x so what that means is they've upped the power in their usb
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ports to three times the specification
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laid out by the governing bodies that specify
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that sort of thing and what that means is that even if you plug in three
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devices to one port you won't run out of power like if you're using a hub like a
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non-powered hub okay so let's have a look at the accessories included with
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this board we've got an ide cable four SATA cables then we have an sli
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bridge it's a flexible sli bridge we have a Gigabyte k sticker okay then we
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have a dolby home theater sticker then we have the i o shield nicely color
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coded for you there well it looks like we got a couple e SATA ports on this
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board and there we go it even labels the usb 3.0 ports but i'll show you those in
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a minute driver cd don't use this download the latest drivers the usual
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deal then you've got the manual this is for the p55a ud4 as well as the ud4p
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although i couldn't tell you the difference between those boards off the top of my head their smart6 user guide
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smart tpm user guide and multilingual
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installation guidebook in black and white awesome okay so then we take out
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the mid plate and let's get to the board itself i mean the big features of this
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board versus the older p55 ud4p are obviously the SATA 3 as
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well as usb 3.0 but those aren't the only features present so it's quite
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similar looking to the older board but let's start with the basics so here's
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your CPU socket now this is a lotes
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hold down here and those have become more popular
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because there was a there's a bit of a thing going on with the foxconn ones
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that people were complaining that under very high overclocking conditions it
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might burn out your pins and so there they are adapting to that kind of a
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change in the market conditions here you can see we've got our 12 phase power
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design they've upped the ante from the old ud4p which was an eight phase power
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design here's our little cover on their kind of aztec looking sort of
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northbridge heatsink and then we've got another cooler on a couple of chips down
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here we've also got our SATA 3.0 those
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are the white ports the other six are just SATA 2.0 ports and those are
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powered by the Intel chipset okay so
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last but not least oh no we're not even close to the end of this i'm just
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kidding okay so here we've got our pci and pci express expansion ports these
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two are sli ready you can run them at 8x 8x
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pci express 2.0 and then let's see what
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else do we have here we've got our usual support for up to
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excuse me 16 gigs of ddr3 then we have our power
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here this is our 24 pin and then our 8 pin power over on the top left of the
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board now let's get around to the back side of the board the io shield so
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there we have one of those i love these these are fantastic it is a combo usb
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sorry combo usb combo ps2 mouse or
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keyboard port few people are using both ps2 keyboard and mouse but it's nice to
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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
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these are the fast ones these are the ones that are running at five
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uh gigabit per second five gigabit five
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hundred megabit per second wow i'm not i'm having a bit of an off five megabit
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per second i'm having it five gigabit per second off night folks
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anyway we got a couple gigabit lan ports and then a couple esata ports a couple
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firewire ports a couple digital audio ports and then 7.1 audio ports and it is
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late and i'm gonna go to bed and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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p55a ud4p that was painful