Gadgetory

okay so today I'm unboxing another part of gigabytes updated p55 lineup so they've kind of renamed some of their older boards they put an A in the title and what that stands for is their new three three three on board acceleration blah blah blah basically USB 3.0 SATA 3 or SATA 6 gigabits per second and also power 3x so what that means is they've upped the power and their USB ports to three times the specification laid out by the governing bodies that specify that sort of thing and what that means is that even if you plug in three devices to one port you won't run out of power like if you're using a hub like a non powered hub okay so let's have a look at the accessories included with this board we've got an IDE cable for SATA cables then we have an SLI bridge it's a flexible SLI bridge we have a gigabyte case sticker okay then we have a Dolby home theater sticker then we have the i/o shield nicely color-coded for you there no it looks like we've got a couple eSATA ports on this board and there we go it even labels the USB 3.0 ports but I'll show you those in a minute driver CD don't use this download the latest drivers the usual deal then you've got the manual this is for the p55 80 UD 4 as well as the UT 4 P although I couldn't tell you the difference between those words off the top of my head they're smart 6 user guide smart TPM user guide and multilingual installation guide book in black and white awesome ok so then we take out the mid plate and let's get to the board itself I mean the big features of this board versus the older p55 you d4p are obviously v SATA 3 as well as USB 3.0 but those aren't the only features present so it's quite similar looking to the older board but let's start with the basics so here's your CPU socket now this is a loads hold down here and those have become more popular because there was a there's a bit of a thing going on with the Foxconn ones that people were complaining that wonder very high overclocking conditions it might burn out your pins and so there they are adapting to that kind of a change in the market additions here you can see we've got our 12 phase power design they've upped the ante from the old UT 4 P which was an 8 phase power design here's our little cover on their kind of Aztec looking sort of Northbridge heatsink and then we've got another cooler on a couple of chips down here we've also got our SATA 3.0 those are the white ports the other six are just SATA 2.0 ports and those are powered by the Intel chipset ok so last but not leavin close to the end of this I'm just kidding ok so here we've got our PCI and PCI Express expansion ports these two are sli ready you can run them at 8 X 8 X PCI Express 2.0 and then let's see what else do we have here we've got our usual support for up to excuse me the 16 gigs of ddr3 then we have our power here this is our 24 pin and then our 8 pin power over on the top left of the board now let's get around to the backside of the board the i/o shield so there we have one of those I love these these are fantastic it is a combo USB sorry combo USB combo ps2 mouse or keyboard port few people are using both ps2 keyboard and mouse but it's nice to have one port then we have a boatload of USB ports USB 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 so these are the fast ones these are the ones that are running at 5 gigabit per second 5 Giga there 500 megabit per second wow I'm not having a bit of an off 5 megabit per second I'm having a 5 gigabit per second off night folks anyway we've got a couple of Gigabit LAN ports and then a couple eSATA ports a couple firewire ports a couple digital audio ports and then 7.1 audio ports and it is late and I'm gonna go to bed and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the p55 8u d4p that was painful