Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6
Published by Michel90 on 13.01.10Page:
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| General | + | - | |
| The P55 UD6 is Gigabytes flagship regarding the P55 chipset series and it was designed for gamers and PC-enthusiasts. Therefore it is also provided with a lot of features. Very special about the UD6 is the possibility to use up to six memory modules which at the moment is unique for a P55 series motherboard. |
- Delivery - 6 DIMM-Slots |
- Price | |
| Layout | + | - | |
| The Gigabyte P55 UD6 leaves a well structured and very clean impression. The colours are well chosen and the optics are convincing if you like different blue tones. Using SATA connectors which were angled by 90 degrees there will be no problem when installing huge graphics cards as for example a Radeon HD 5970. The only issue we spotted is the fact that when you use three graphics cards you wont be able to access the connectors at the bottom edge of the mainboard. We'd also wish that there was a second SLI/CrossFire Bridge. |
- Colour concept - angled connectors - onboard Power / Reset / CMOS-Clear |
- Connectors at bottom
edge - Only one SLI/CF Bridge |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| This motherboards weak point definitely is the performance which just isn't sufficient for a high-end product. Looking at the 2D and 3D benchmarks it is around the center span. In benchmarks that need a lot of memory bandwidth it even falls back to the last place. We hope that Gigabyte will release BIOS updates which bring the UD6 closer to the top products regarding performance. |
- Performance - Memory bandwidth |
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| Overclocking | + | - | |
| Overclocking the Gigabyte P55 UD6 is absolutely no problem and easy. The motherboard is well tempered if we look at the different settings and it always starts even if you - on purpose - chose settings which are massively too high. Also the BLCK of 235 MHz we reached is a very good value. |
- BCLK 235 MHz - BIOS |
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| Recommendation | + | - | |
| Gigabytes P55 flagship wasn't able to convice us and this is especially because of its performance. It just isn't enough for a high-end motherboard. On the other hand, if we look a the delivery the board acts as a role model. Onboard you'll find really everything you could possibly need. We'd recommend Gigabytes P55 UD6 to anyone who just wants to have the top end board out of a specific series or people who need a lot of SATA ports also a lot of features. |
- PC-Enthusiasts - Overclockers |
- - Price / Performance-PC | |
| The Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 can be bought at Digitec to a price of CHF 306.- (est. EUR 204.-). | |||
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Author: m.salathe@ocaholic.ch Copy edited and translated: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch
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