Gigabyte P55A-UD4P P55 Core i5 SLI motherboard Unboxing & First Look 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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okay so today I'm unboxing another part of gigabytes updated p-55 lineup so
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they've kind of renamed some of their older boards they put an A in the title
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and what that stands for is their new 333 onboard acceleration blah blah blah
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basically USB 3.0 SATA 3 or SATA 6 GB
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pers second and also power 3x so what
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that means is they've up the power in their USB ports to three times the
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specification laid out by the governing
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bodies that specify that sort of thing and what that means is that even if you
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plug in three devices to one port you won't run out of power like if you're
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using a hub like a non-powered hub okay so let's have a look at the accessories
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included with this board we've got an IDE cable uh four SATA cables then we
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have an SLI Bridge it's a flexible SLI Bridge we have a Gigabyte K sticker okay
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then we have a Dolby Home Theater sticker then we have the io Shield
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nicely cut coded for you there well looks like we got a couple eat ports on
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this board and there we go it even labels the USB 3.0 ports but I'll show
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you those in a minute driver CD don't use this download the latest drivers the
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usual deal then you've got the manual this is for the p55a ud4 as well as the
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ud4p although I couldn't tell you the difference between those boards off the
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top of my head there are smart 6 user guide smart TPM user guide and
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multilingual installation guide book in black and white awesome okay okay so
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then we take out the mid plate and let's get to the board itself I mean the big
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features of this 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 Loz hold
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down here and those have become more popular because there was a there's a a
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bit of a thing going on with the foxcon ones that people were complaining that
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under very high overclocking conditions it might burn out your pins and so there
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they are adapting to that kind of a change in the market conditions here you
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can see we've got our 12 phase power design they've upped the anti from the
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old ud4p which was an 8-phase power design here's our little cover on their
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kind of Aztec looking sort of North Bridge heat sink and then we've got
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another cooler on a couple of chips down here we've also got our are SATA 3.0
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those 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 Le 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
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8X PCI Express 2.0 and then let's see
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what else do we have here we've got our usual support for up to excuse
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me eight 16 gigs of DDR3 then we have
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our power here this is our 24 pin and then our 8 Pin power over on the top
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left of the board now let's get around to the back side of the board the io
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Shield so there we have one of those I love these These are fantastic it is a
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combo USB H sorry combo USB combo PS2
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mouse or keyboard Port few people are using both PS2 keyboard and mouse but
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it's nice to have one port then we have a boatload of USB ports USB 2.0 2.0 2.8
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2.0 2.0 3.0 so these are the fast ones
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these are the ones that are running at five uh gigabit per second 5 gigabit 500
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megabit per second wow I'm not I'm having a bit of an off 5 megabit per
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second I'm having it 5 gigabit per second off night folks anyway we got a
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couple gigabit land ports and then a couple ESAT ports a couple firewire
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ports a couple digital audio ports and then 7.1 audio ports and it is late and
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I'm going to go to bed and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the p55a
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ud4p that was painful