Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 Preview

INTRODUCTION

At Computex 2009 Gigabyte revealed their GA-EP55-UD6 flagship Lynnfield/Core i5 motherboard and we managed to get a behind closed doors look at the board. We have to tell you with the P55-UD6 and it's 24 phase power and 2oz copper PCB design and a host of advanced features GiGabyte pulled out all the stops on this board.

While these boards weren't ready for a full production run it's nice to get a look at the planed design and drool over some of the advanced features that promise to take a Core i5 CPU and make it scream for mercy.

Since Core i5 boards are slated to use Dual Channel DDR3 we were suprised to see 6 ram banks on the P55-UD6 and having six means you could use up to 24 massive gigabytes of DDR3 dual channel on this beauty.

Before we get to far into the drool portion of this board lets move onto the Layout section where we can get a better look at the Flagship P55 Lynnfield board.