Gigabyte P55-UD4P P55 LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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517 words · ~2 min read
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So, an exciting new thing came in the mail today. We have our second P-55
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board, the P-55 UD4P. This is an ATX
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sort of uh mainstream gaming platform board from Gigabyte. You can see it
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features ultra durable 3, which basically ensures that you're going to
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have good power delivery when you're overclocking or gaming or doing whatever
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it is you do with a reasonably high-end board. Now, speaking of reasonably
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high-end board, this is an 1156 board. So, that means it's got support for the
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upcoming Core i5 and the new socket 1156
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Core i7. So, let's get into the accessories. We've got an IDE cable,
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four SATA cables, comes in a little package like that. Then, we have a uh
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Dolby home theater sticker. So, there's some kind of Dolby certification going
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along with this board. Uh flexible SLI bridge, so it has SLI support. Then,
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we've got an installation guide book for installing your motherboard, the regular
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users manual, and we've got a driver CD
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included in the front cover of that. Then, you've got your IO shield. Then
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you've got a manual for smart 6 gigabytes monitoring software. Then
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you've got a manual for smart TPM, some kind of
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um okay, some Bluetooth cell phone.
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Okay, we'll get to that later. Uh then let's get down to the uh the more
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interesting parts. We've got the Gigabyte P45 UD4P. So let's pull this
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board out of the packaging here and have a closer look at it. So, like most P-55
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boards, we've got support for up to 16
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gigs of dual channel DDR3 memory. You've got an 1156 LG 1156 socket. And then
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you've got an 8phase power distribution
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system for the CPU itself surrounded by these uh pretty cool looking coolers.
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Now, this is a bit of a departure from Gigabyte normal color scheme in that
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there's only like three colors. So, we've got the dark blue PCB, very
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characteristic. Then we've got white ports, blue ports, and that's about it.
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We've got SATA 2. You've got your power connectors in the usual spots. We've got
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an IDE connector. We've got a floppy connector. And here's some of the more
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interesting stuff. We've got support for two 16x cards in SLI, but each of them
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gets 8x bandwidth. So SLI or Crossfire
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can both plug into those things. And let's have a look at the IO ports here.
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So, if I can get you to have a look. Okay, so we've got 10 USB ports. Total
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of 10 USB ports, but two of them are these cool
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USB/ESATA ports. That's really neat. So, you can plug in either an ESATA hard
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drive or a USB device. You've got FireWire, digital audio, a couple
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Ethernet ports, and seven channel audio.
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So, there it is. The EP 55, oh, sorry,
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EP, the P-55 UD4P.