Gigabyte's P55A-UD7 - The Most Packed P55 Board?

Rob Williams · 02-24-2010, 03:10 AM

Are you looking for the most feature-rich P55-based motherboard possible? With its P55A-UD7, Gigabyte looks like its up to the challenge. In addition to the usual slew of features we've come to expect, the UD7 includes a built-in waterblock, a Silent-Pipe add-on, 24 power phases, SATA and USB 3.0, four PCI-E 16x slots, and more.

You can read our full review here and discuss it here!

09-17-2010, 01:42 PM

"As you would hope to see on such a pricey motherboard, both ATI's CrossFireX and NVIDIA's SLI are supported in full here, although due to the limitations of the P55 chipset, two GPUs in a multi-GPU configuration will be downgraded to 8x PCI-E bandwidth. "

I believe that this board has support for 16x / 16x in sli and crossfire as it uses a controller to get around the p55 chipset limitations.

As per the gigabyte website it supports 16x / 16x. As far as I know it's one of the few p55 boards that do not have the 8x / 8x limitation for dual gpu solution.

Rob Williams · 09-17-2010, 01:55 PM

Thanks for pointing that out! I'm not quite sure I should settle on just the specs page since it can be wrong on occasion, so I'll shoot Gigabyte an e-mail and get to the bottom of it. Good eye

02-24-2010, 03:10 AM	#1
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	Gigabyte's P55A-UD7 - The Most Packed P55 Board? Are you looking for the most feature-rich P55-based motherboard possible? With its P55A-UD7, Gigabyte looks like its up to the challenge. In addition to the usual slew of features we've come to expect, the UD7 includes a built-in waterblock, a Silent-Pipe add-on, 24 power phases, SATA and USB 3.0, four PCI-E 16x slots, and more. You can read our full review here and discuss it here! __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

09-17-2010, 01:42 PM	#2
Unregistered Guest Poster Posts: n/a	error on the conclusion page of this review "As you would hope to see on such a pricey motherboard, both ATI's CrossFireX and NVIDIA's SLI are supported in full here, although due to the limitations of the P55 chipset, two GPUs in a multi-GPU configuration will be downgraded to 8x PCI-E bandwidth. " I believe that this board has support for 16x / 16x in sli and crossfire as it uses a controller to get around the p55 chipset limitations. As per the gigabyte website it supports 16x / 16x. As far as I know it's one of the few p55 boards that do not have the 8x / 8x limitation for dual gpu solution.

09-17-2010, 01:55 PM	#3
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	Thanks for pointing that out! I'm not quite sure I should settle on just the specs page since it can be wrong on occasion, so I'll shoot Gigabyte an e-mail and get to the bottom of it. Good eye __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

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