Thread: Gigabyte P55 Extreme motherboard

The Gigabyte P55 Extreme impressed us with its neat PCB layout. It also offered one of the few motherboards in the test three PCI slots. The rest of the assembly was against it rather bad. Of the three PCIe 16x slots, the as rock P55 Extreme only works with a 16X bandwidth effectively. The other two slots deliver 8 - or 4 times speed. And two graphics cards in the 16x and 8 x slots together to form a composite, both work only with 8 x speeds. For this can be both Nvidia's Quad SLI and ATI Crossfire X Quad realize.

As one of few boards in the test of the Gigabyte P55 Extreme offers a floppy drive connector. With its six SATA and seven USBports but the motherboard is mounted somewhat stingy. After all, there's an eSATA port. Although the resource of the Gigabyte P55 Extreme is located in the midfield rather, board pulled the base 1156 with the most current load of the entire test field. When switched off, and in idle mode power consumption was okay. For the fan controller comes with the tool As rock P55 Extreme OC Tuner is used.

The over clocking options in the BIOS for the Gigabyte P55 Extreme were limited. In particular, the options for memory voltage and the DRAM timings were compared to the other boards in the test measured a little tighter. The strengths of the Gigabyte P55 Extreme lie mainly in its pace. As far as equipment and over clocking options, cut the board from mediocre. This is the Gigabyte P55 Extreme but cheap.