Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 Mainboard
 

We have first met Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 mainboard some time ago already, the company provided us this solution even before the official LGA1156 platform launch. If you have been reading our reviews attentively, you can notice that we used this particular mainboard to test the very first new CPUs (you can check out the review called Second Advent of Nehalem: Core i7-870 and Core i5-750 Processors in LGA1156 Platform for details). However, it could have been an even better article if it hadn’t been for some issues with Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 that took quite a bit of time to resolve especially considering that every minute counted on the last days before launch. The board worked fine only in nominal mode and as soon as we changed the operational parameters, for instance, increased the memory frequency a little, we started experiencing problems. Very early pre-production board revision didn’t even allow us to update the early BIOS version with a new one that is why at that time we gave up the idea of writing a fully-fledged review of this mainboard and decided to wait until the production version becomes available to us. Although we were a little discouraged by some mishaps with the early sample we had, the production mainboard turned out pretty good and our today’s article will help you learn more about its features and functionality. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mai...a-p55-ud6.html