Gigabyte P55A-UD3 P55 Core i5 LGA1156 Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today on my video blog I'm going to be having a look at yet another one of
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gigabytes new lineup of p55a
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motherboards now the key Improvement that they've made with the p55a series
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is that it features their 333 onboard acceleration that means they've got USB
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3.0 power 3x which means that all of the
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USB ports are able to provide three times the specified amount of power and
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it also has SATA 3.0 or SATA 3 which is
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actually SATA 6 GB per second in terms
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of speed now let's just clear some junk
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out of the way and let's get this board open as with all of their um recent
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boards recent high-end boards it does feature Ultra durable 3 which is their
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two times uh 2 oz copper PCB now let's
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just have a quick look at the accessories we've got the io Shield okay
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we've got an IDE cable and two sta cables then we have the manual as well
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as an installation CD for the drivers
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the smart 6 users manual as well as the multilingual installation guide book
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then we have a paper divider in the middle and an anti-static bag featuring
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the ud3 motherboard now the ud3 is the lowest end out of the p55a boards that
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are on the market right now but it does still have most of the key features the
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big one that's missing is SLI support so
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although you can see we've got an ATI Crossfire X logo here you do do not have
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support for SLI in these PCI Express
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ports now let's go around and do a quick rundown of the board itself so you've
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got your CPU socket in the middle you've got what appears to
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be well it looks like four or six phase
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power I can't tell but I'm just going to keep rolling with this then we've got
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our mosfet heat sinks which are up here okay we've got support for the usual
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four dims of DDR3 memory the power plugs
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are in there ideal locations with the eight pin up at the top left and the 24
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pin over on the right hand Edge okay now in terms of SATA this is where this
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board starts to get interesting because you can see here we've got six SATA 2
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ports and these are running off of the Intel chipset and then right here
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running off this Marvel chipset right here we've got two SATA 3 ports so for a
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total of eight SATA ports and these ones are running at 6 gbit per second so
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that's really going to start to make a difference with the new generation ssds
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that are going to be coming down the pipe although we do have the Barracuda
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XT already available which is a 6 gabit
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per second compatible magnetic hard drive okay so before we wrap this up I
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just wanted to have a quick look at the io panel so first of all you've got one
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of those PS2 combo ports I love these they'll accept either a USB or a
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keyboard a USB or a keyboard a mouse or a keyboard then we have 1 2 3 eight USB
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2.0 ports we've got our digital audio and then these blue ports down here are
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USB 3.0 so that runs at 5 gbit per
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second much much faster than the old USB
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2.0 standard I mean with these you'll be able to max out any current hard drive
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in terms of sustained reads and rights without worrying about any kind of
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bottlenecking very cool then we've got a gigabit landport as well as a 7.1 audio
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out so thank you for checking out my unboxing and quick overview of the
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Gigabyte p55a ud3