The beginning of the week has been very full in terms of news from Gigabyte. The Taiwanese company announced yesterday it had solved the problem of synchronization of the Apple iPhone on its P55 motherboards. Twenty new Beta BIOS available for download on the Gigabyte website and once the motherboard upgrade, the problem should have disappeared.

Speaking of this range of motherboards LGA 1156 adopting the Intel P55 Express, we now have a little more detail on the model more up market. The GA-P55A-UD7 should replace this puts the current GA-P55-UD6. The newcomer takes several new features. We already knew as USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gb / s are present, thanks to NEC and Marvell controllers. The initial assembly of Gigabyte was especially needed because off the second PCI Express x16 to use these new ports.

If it is acceptable for entry and mid-range solution that prevented the use of a configuration ATI CrossFireX or NVIDIA SLI. The P55A-UD7 therefore adopts NVIDIA's NF200 chip and a PLX chip. From what to add and reorganize enough PCI Express links for both controllers. Better (well, this is relative) this motherboard now officially supports 3-way SLI. As to its tariff, it will logically be higher than the P55-UD6, which begins around 200 € in our comparator.

Finally, the refresh of upscale LGA 1366 was known far as the GA-EX58-EXTREME 2 also adopts the new suffix 7. It is now the GA-X58A-UD7.