Monday, April 27th 2009

Gigabyte High-End P55 Motherboard Pictured

With the industry inching closer to the launch of Intel's Core i5 series processors, motherboard vendors are busy readying waves of motherboards to go with the processors' launch. Earlier in March, a picture of Gigabyte's first P55 chipset motherboard, the GA-IBP surfaced. The pictured then revealed a motherboard based on the Ultra Durable 2 component package. At an overclocking event in Los Angeles, Gigabyte unveiled a second motherboard. This one, yet to be named, is up to date with the Ultra Durable 3 package, a seemingly powerful CPU VRM design, support for dual-channel DDR3 memory, dual-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, an additional storage controller for four SATA ports over the six P55 offers, among standard features. The expansion slots on this board include three full-length PCI-Express slots, the first (blue) one being of full x16 bandwidth that shares 8 lanes with the first orange slot if populated, while the second orange slot is electrically x4, and probably connected to the P55 PCH. No other details have emerged about this board, though we're keeping track of things.
Source: PC Perspective
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43 Comments on Gigabyte High-End P55 Motherboard Pictured

#26
VIPER
Well, sorry, I cannot take put the cards from the servers... The proof is out there, as in the RAID card above...
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#27
farlex85
VIPERWell, sorry, I cannot take put the cards from the servers... The proof is out there, as in the RAID card above...
:laugh: Wasn't expecting that just a couple of links. I'll just take your word for it though and admit I'm wrong, and those slots would come in useful after all.
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#28
Apocolypse007
I'm 99% sure you can put smaller PCI-e cards into a PCI-e X16 slot. I haven't tried it, but have heard many times of it being done.
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#29
Zehnsucht
A PCIe card will fit into a connector which has equal or bigger size, but not the other way around.
I.e. a 1x card can fit into 1x, 4x, 8x and 16x slot
An 8x card can fit 8x and 16x slot.
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#30
farlex85
ZehnsuchtA PCIe card will fit into a connector which has equal or bigger size, but not the other way around.
I.e. a 1x card can fit into 1x, 4x, 8x and 16x.
A 8x card can fit 8x and 16x.
Yeah I just read that in wiki, seems odd but hey that's nice. Now I'm not sure why they have x1 slots on there. :laugh: Still can't find any non video cards at more than 1x though......
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#31
VIPER
We have other servers with a lot of PCI-Express 1x inside. No matter the slot is 16x, 8x or 4x. Of course they work, they are pin-by-pin compatible.
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#32
JATownes
The Lurker
What is the deal with the NAND Flash slots on these new boards?? (The black slot next to the floppy). I have seen a few preview shots of boards with this, but no explanation as to its use/interface. Any ideas? :confused:
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#33
madrooster
z1tuWhite one is floppy
Near the ram slots, that's an IDE port. The black thing next to it, is a SSD slot. This is for the (I think it's called Braidwood) technology.

The floppy is down near where the firewire/USB headers are.
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#35
h3llb3nd4
we're all waiting intel:)
come on now! Even the mobo companies can't wait:D
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#36
OnBoard
ZehnsuchtA PCIe card will fit into a connector which has equal or bigger size, but not the other way around.
I.e. a 1x card can fit into 1x, 4x, 8x and 16x slot
An 8x card can fit 8x and 16x slot.
Even other way around, if the PCIe-slot is open ended (or you make it like one). Obviously the card can't work faster than the slot it is in.
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#37
Assimilator
AssimilatorDon't forget that PCIe is downwards compatible - so if you have a 16x slot, you can plug in a 1x, 4x, 8x or 16x card.
How come there were 10+ replies after I wrote that that said the exact same thing? :p

And to prove it, I have a PCIe 4x 8-port SATA RAID controller card that has been running perfectly happily in the 16x slot of an Intel Guardfish mobo for over a year.
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#38
farlex85
AssimilatorHow come there were 10+ replies after I wrote that that said the exact same thing? :p
B/c I didn't believe you. :D And didn't know what I was talking about.
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#39
Binge
Overclocking Surrealism
That board looks absolutely nasty! I wish they could make a higher quality X58 :p
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#40
Hayder_Master
it is same old UD3 coolers with disable the old SB cooler
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#41
Unregistered
ImsochoboWhats the real diffrence between core i5 and core i7 except dualchannel/trichannel memory and socket ?

Core i5 runs P55
None. Well, there is DMI instead of QPI, and.. maybe different clocks for uncore and stuff like that, but the architecture is identical, and i bet the performance [most of the time] will be the same too.
#42
REVHEAD
Apocolypse007I'm 99% sure you can put smaller PCI-e cards into a PCI-e X16 slot. I haven't tried it, but have heard many times of it being done.
Yep, I do it all the time, my Asus Xonar 1.3 is in a 16x slot running@ 1x.
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