A sneak peek at a Gigabyte Micro ATX P55 motherboard

[dexlimp]

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Gigabyte's GA-P55M-UD4..


Micro ATX, but still loaded with goodies


Intel's Lynnfield-ready LGA1156 socket


The blue SATA ports hook into the chipset, while the white ones are tied to a Marvell SATA 6Gbps controller


With a slotted x1 slot, there's room for three PCI Express graphics cards


Yup, it's a port cluster—a full one, at that


A Short Review

[poldopunk]

i don't know but the mostfet heatsinks are a little too high which may probably cause problems tower-based coolers. also, gigabyte, please get rid of the damned floppy port, ultra-ata port should be sideways, too!!!

[dexlimp]

hehehe na noticed sad na nko..nganong d jud kaha nla ma tang2x ang floppy sa design da..la sad northbridge hehehe

[poldopunk]

there's no northbridge as the memory controller is now in the processor. the chipset that you see there is now called Platform Controller Host (PCH) if i'm not mistaken.

[dexlimp]

aw mao d i hehehe..mao cgro ning 32nm process na cpu? mo support mn 32nm ni nga mobo..

[poldopunk]

eeep! 32nm manufacturing process isn't available until mid to late 2010. you need to do a lot of reading, bro.

[dexlimp]

hehehe..na read mn gd nko dri sir..

hexus

i also like the new Marvell 6 Gb/s SATA controller

[dexlimp]

i think this is a better mobo hehehe

Asus P7P55D Deluxe

[poldopunk]

the 1st version of that mobo has 2 oz copper label like gigabyte's UD3R.

[centax error]

the neon green color on the board has been dropped...that's a major improvement