Anschlüsse und I/O

Totally Gigabyte provided the P55 UD6 with ten angled SATA ports which are located below the memory slots. Therefore every office-PC or gaming-system can be equipped with plenty of drives. Even a home file-server could be equipped with a sufficient number of drives. Furthermore the angled SATA connectors allow you to install even todays biggest graphics cards without encountering incompatibilities. Looking at the ports below the memory slots it is possible to use them with a graphics card installed. If you think about setting up a triple SLI or CrossFire system and you want to use the connectors at the bottom edge you'd need to plug a short card into the third PCI Express slot. Another issues is that Gigabyte doesn't deliver a second SLI bridge to drive three graphics cards. Almost standard with Gigabyte motherboards these days are the Start, Reset, CLR-CMOS and MemOK! buttons which can be very useful, especially if you do overclocking and also the debug display can save you a lot of time if you should for example have dead memory modules.

  

Totally you'll find six fan connectors on the Gigabyte P55 UD6 which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped midrange or high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located around the CPU socket as well as at the bottom edge of the mainboard.

  

Looking at the external connectors Gigabyte provided the P55 UD6 with eight USB 2.0, 2x RJ-45, one PS/2 keyboard or mouse, one Optical S/PDIF Out, one Coaxial S/PDIF Out, two eSATA, two Firewire, two Realtek RTL8111D Gigabit LAN as well as one Realtek ALC889A 7.1 High Definition Audio connector panel with six ports.