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Hey check it out. Here is the P55 UD4P from Gigabyte.
Very, very nice motherboard 4 series from Gigabyte,
so it's their pretty much enthusiast class, higher-end motherboard.
Some really high end features, right off the bat.
I mean, this thing is heavy, very stiff board.
That's probably thanks to the Ultra Durable 3,
basically stick an extra two ounces of copper
in between the layers of the PCB, makes it a little stiffer.
Gives you cleaner power, less impedance
and then as a side benefit it actually decreases the temperatures
of the socket and of all the chips on the board.
Just drops your overall case temperature a little bit
so very, very nice board. Lots of high-end features,
lots of enthusiast level stuff and we'll jump right into it.
Starting off with the CPU socket. Now, obviously, this an 1156,
it's your Lynnfield Intel processors, i5s and i7s, your 750s and your 860s.
Basically if you're going to get an i5, it's going to fit no problem.
An i7 will work in here, just make sure it's the socket 1156.
Now from x58 we did lose the QPI and the triple channel memory
but to be honest with you, that doesn't really do much
as far as performance goes. Now they're getting,
the PCI Express bandwidth is going directly into the chip
through something that they call a DMI, Direct Media Interface.
You no longer have to have the QPI to bring in your PCI Express now.
It does have less PCI Express bandwidth through here,
there's only 16 lanes in total but on this board,
if you come down here a little bit, you will see
that you do have two PCI Express x16 2.0 slots right there.
And if you do SLI or Crossfire, which you can do both,
they will split x8, x8. So your x16 will be split into x8, x8,
it will bifurcate and then that will give you the ability to do SLI
with just as much speed. Now on top of that,
since we're already down here, might as well talk to you
a little bit about the rest of it. You have 3 PCI Express x1 2.0 right there
and you have an additional two PCIs down here,
so you can throw some relics on these, maybe some TV tuner cards or whatnot.
But most likely, I know you guys, you're going to have
two nasty video cards on here. Now besides that,
this is your P55 chipset, just so you guys know.
It's PCH, Platform Controller Hub, this is what does everything.
This is what sends everything to the CPU except for the PCI Express.
So all the Gigabit Ethernets, the SATAs, the USBs all go through this chip
before they go up to the processor.
Coming up to here, let's talk a little bit about memory.
We do have 4 DIMMs in total, so you can have up to 16GB of DDR3 memory
on this motherboard if you use 4GB DIMMs.
Most of you are going to have a maximum of eight,
because you're not going to spend ridiculous money to get 4GB DIMMs.
Up to 2200MHz, you can actually go even higher than that if you want.
I believe it will support up to 1333 natively,
but if you're buying 1600, 1800 or 2000MHz memory
you're going to know how to overclock it to get it there anyway.
You have a lot, a lot of SATA ports over here.
You have six that are blue, those are your main ones
that are going directly to the Intel chipset
and these two are going to the same chip that controls the eSATAs
on the back panel and the additional eSATA
that you can do to your front panel connector.
So these over here are the ones that are going to let you do
your RAID functionality, that's going to give you 0, 1, 5 and 1+0
so you can do just about anything you want.
Moving to the other side of the board,
you're going to see right over here, starting from this side
we have ten USB 2.0 ports in total, so here are the first two.
Here's your PS2 which is both, your S/PDIF in both coaxial analog
and optical digital. You have four more USB 2.0 ports,
two firewires, both the small ilink one and the full size 400.
And then you have dual eSATAs which is also very nice.
You have dual gigabit LANs which is very nice
and you have an additional 4 USB 2.0 ports over here
making the total ten, which is just ridiculous.
Eight channel audio at 7.1 HD audio, it does do Dolby Home Theater.
It is that really nice controller, the Realtek ALC889A,
so that will do all the very nice, high-end features.
And in case there's not enough USB 2.0s in the back
you do have two additional headers right over here,
that's going to give you an additional four USB 2.0 ports
to your front panel and you have an additional firewire
which is just pretty silly. Lots of high-end stuff here.
You just don't see firewires, sometimes you do, you see one,
but to see three, two in the back and one via header,
is absolutely incredible. Besides that, you will notice
you have incredible hardware on all here.
You do have solid-state caps, ferrite core chokes throughout the board.
You also have lower RDS on MOSFETs for your voltage regulation.
A really, really nice setup as far as all of that goes.
It also has the energy saver, dynamic energy saver
which is basically a hardware chip, it's also a software program
that goes into your computer. It's going to help you save energy,
be a little bit more efficient. You also have a Smart TPM,
or a Trusted Platform Module. Basically, it has 2048 bit encryption,
you're not cracking that for anything in the world.
Basically, it can work via Bluetooth or USB, you can carry it on a USB key
or you can set it up to pair with a phone
so that when it comes within Bluetooth range,
automatically unlocks the TPM.
A lot of people are not going to use that functionality,
but some people actually will use that in certain applications for workstations,
and they just want you guys to know that it is on here.
It even advertises, "Smart TPM" right there.
So that's very cool, and then finally, my favorite part about this board,
it's got an outstanding warranty, three years if anything goes wrong.
You might have to register it, but three year warranty
is nothing to sneer at. Really, really good board,
I like it a lot. It's the P55 UD4P from Gigabyte
and if you have questions on it feel free to email me,
and I'll see you guys next time.
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For Computertv, I'm Albert.