Today for the P55 establish we have 2 of Gigabyte's 11 P55 CPU board up for review. The GA-P55-UD6 is their high-finish P55 CPU board with every characteristic experienced to man crammed onto an ATX CPU board. Ok, maybe not a every characteristic but close. The GA-P55M-UD4 is their high-end P55 mATX CPU board having the vast majority of the selections on the GA-P55-UD6 albeit laid out on a compact mATX canvas.

The just matter neglecting on the GA-P55M-UD4 is the TPM security module, the onboard LED debug reader, half(twelve) of the ability phases, and a few expansion slots which may audio like a distribute but in world isn't nearly that much. Intel's LGA1156 is a new socket with new CPUs and a new chipset.

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Codenamed Ibex Peak, Intel's P55 platform comprises of the LGA1156 CPU and a platform controller hub(PCH) which holds the SATA and USB controllers. afterwards the PCI Express controller has been got rid of from the chipset and placed on the central processing unit, the CPU now communicates to the PCH via a directly a conduct media interface in a like fashion that the X58 north-bridge communicates with the ICH10R south-bridge on LGA1366 boards.

This too intends that the chipset now comprises of just the PCH chip, building board pattern all that easier. Below are the spec lists for the two CPU board we will be reviewing today. defend for DDR3 2200/1333/1066/800 MHz storage modules .defend for non-ECC storage modules . defend for Extreme storage Profile (XMP) storage modules Audio