Layout

The Gigabyte P55-UD5 presents itself on a blue PCB. All the components are clearly arranged and they are easily accessible. Regarding graphic card slots you'll find three PCIe slots supporting CrossFireX and SLI (x8 / x8 / x4).

To deliver an as stable as possible current supply Gigabyte delivers a twelve plus two phase power design. The CPU therfore gets twelve phases and the two other phases are for VTT and memory. Looking at the capacitors Gigabyte uses All-Solid-Cap's which have a MTBF of 50'000 hours.

Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the Gigabyte P55-UD5. Officially supported are DDR3-2200/1333/1066/800 with up to 16 GByte capacity.

North- and Southbridge as well as current voltage converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive cooling solution. There is also plenty of space around the CPU socket to install even todays biggest aircooler without encountering any problems.