Thread: Gigabyte GA-H55-UD3H

Last week and published the first contact with the H55 platform with this article then publish a news summary of the architecture and differences between the chip sets H55 and H57 and we published a brief summary of updates to Intel announced for 2010.Finally to get an Intel Core i5-661 we set himself to test the platform in full, this time with a H55 solution from Gigabyte.

What we received from Gigabyte is the GA-H55-UD3H which is already in stores however we have only received the motherboard to hair and therefore can not comment anything about his case extras or documentation. And we find it difficult to fully evaluate the product.

As we observe for the first pictures we have a board in ATX format, so if we seek an alternative Gigabyte H55 as economically as possible may be better to go for a microATX since they are cheaper to manufacture. Our model now looks the most expensive of all the Gigabyte offering this chipset. Gigabyte has 4 models chip set boards with H55 and H57 model with the chipset. Of these, the model received and discussed today is the only full ATX form factor the rest are microATX.

According to the specifications of the 5 models listed, you can ride a two card Cross Fire ATI Radeon which we understood that was not supported by the chip set H55/57 but found that the PCI Express is in the hands of Intel processors and not the chip set we have to believe us what Gigabyte says in its manual and specifications of the web. this system runs on a 16 +4 configuration ie the second VGA has a data transfer rate rather limited to the PCIe bus.