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The Gigabyte P55 UD6 presents itself on a blue PCB with light blue expansion slots as well as passive heatpipe covering northbridge, southbridge and current converters. The design in blue, light blue and which looks good and harmonic.

Gigabyte provided the UD6 with a 24 phase power design. Gigabyte, like most of the well known motherboard manufacturers, uses All-Solid-Capacitors which have an MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) of 50'000 hours. ASUS itself describes the current supply as "24 Phase power - World's Best Phase Power Desing" which is everything else but not conservative.

Totally you'll find six DIMM-slots on the P55 UD6. Officially supported are DDR3-2600+/2200/1600/1333/1066 with up to 24 GByte capacity. At the moment Gigabyte is the only manufacturer who provides a P55 motherboard with six DIMM-slots.

North-and Southbridge as well as current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe. Because of the relatively big cooling elements you might encounter difficulties whilst installing a big CPU cooler.