Gigabyte P55-UD3R P55 LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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470 words · ~2 min read
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so with me here today I have the Gigabyte p55 ud3r so this is their
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second from the bottom as far as launch p55 boards go it does still include
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Ultra durable 3 and smart 6 technology so uh let's have a look at the accessory
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package that comes with it here we've got the users's manual uh oh which has
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the io shield in it here so there we go then we've got the driver and utility
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DVD then we've got a little Gigabyte sticker then we've got the smart 6
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manual the regular users manual four
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SATA cables and one IDE cable so it's a fairly standard uh accessory package
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we've got here so there's our little divider let's get the board pulled out
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here it actually looks uh looks not too shabby for a for a lower is end board
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now what you may have noticed about the front of the box and I'm going to close
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it up here for just a second is that there is no support on this board for
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Crossfire or SLI so even though we've got two 16x PCI Express slots actually
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we do have Crossfire support sorry sorry no SLI that's the difference okay so
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we're also missing some other higher end features like for example all the SATA 2
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ports are not the right angle ports they're the old older style sticking out
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of the board ports like all P p55 boards
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we've got an LGA 1156 socket here we've CAU two four Banks of DDR3 dual Channel
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RAM slots you can see we've actually got a fairly beefy sort of um vrm solution
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as well as vrm cooling solution so that's an 8-phase power setup and then
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let's have a look at the uh oh right uh connector placement so you've got your
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eight pin up at the top left of the board and you got your 24 pin in the
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desirable spot along the very top right of the board so let's have a look at the
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I/O panel you've got a pretty standard IO panel here you've got 10 USB ports
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that's really nice to see you've got one of those cool keyboard mouse PS2 combo
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ports you've got digital audio and then a couple ESAT ports 1 GB Ethernet and a
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7.1 audio so you can tell that it is a bit of a a younger brother to the ud4p
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but it is quite feature complete especially if you want to run Crossfire
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you can actually load quite a high-end system on this board so thank you for
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checking out the p-55 ud3r