Friday, April 24th 2009

DFI LANPARTY UT P55 Motherboard Pictured

Surprisingly, VR-Zone today posted pictures of the LANPARTY UT P55 board, a twin of the recently spotted DFI LANParty Dark P55 T3eH6, that packs several interesting features. Quick introduction, the board uses Intel's P55 chipset for the upcoming LGA-1156 socket processors. The board has a total of four DDR3 DIMM slots, three PCI-E x16 slots, digital power circuit and DFI's usual color theme. Also note, that there's a slot on the motherboard for NAND flash installation. Additionally, a mini USB port is located on the I/O backpanel. For now the presence of this NAND flash slot remains mystery. DFI will showcase the motherboard at Computex Taipei 2009 where we hope they will say what is it for.
Source: VR-Zone
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23 Comments on DFI LANPARTY UT P55 Motherboard Pictured

#1
1Kurgan1
The Knife in your Back
Looks like a nice board, but no VRM cooling?
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#2
DrPepper
The Doctor is in the house
Isn't the NAND flash for that intel memory boost thingy.

Also 3 PCI-E ports on something that looks almost budget ?
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#3
jagass
It looks good for me..Sweet board...lol
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#4
rampage
1Kurgan1Looks like a nice board, but no VRM cooling?
there is no cooling on any of the pics, it will come later
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#5
OBR
That flash slot is for GFX memory in Clarksdale processors ...
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#6
sapetto
No NB in LGA 1156 only SB?
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#7
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
sapettoNo NB in LGA 1156 only SB?
Yes, the northbridge is on the processor (and is complete with memory controller, PCI-E root complex, and a QPI link to the CPU core).
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#8
h3llb3nd4
that means we need a superb cooler!
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#9
btarunr
Editor & Senior Moderator
h3llb3nd4that means we need a superb cooler!
Yes, and water-cooling the chipset (southbridge) would be purely cosmetic.
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#10
caleb
vista speed booster?
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#11
ShadowFold
I was probably gonna get a DFI when I got my i5 folding rig but the PCIE placement sucks. If I'm gonna have two cards crunching 24/7 they're gonna need some space.
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#12
xenos
OBRThat flash slot is for GFX memory in Clarksdale processors ...
Is it me or does it look like a mobile PCI-X slot? Like you would put a wifi card in a laptop or a SSD in the case of an EEE PC?

Starting to get ideas :-)
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#13
JrRacinFan
Served 5k and counting ...
OOh Ahhh .... Can't wait!!! So when's the release of the LGA1156 cpus? :D
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#14
crtecha
0_o its nakie :roll:

I've been feeling a intel sli build just dont know if I wanna spend the dolla's
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#15
kid41212003
ShadowFoldI was probably gonna get a DFI when I got my i5 folding rig but the PCIE placement sucks. If I'm gonna have two cards crunching 24/7 they're gonna need some space.
You will need to find boards with 2 pci-e only if you want more spaces between them. This board has 3 pci-e...
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#16
MRCL
Urge to try out a dfi board rising.
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#17
JrRacinFan
Served 5k and counting ...
MRCLUrge to try out a dfi board rising.
Don't let that urge build too badly. I will stand by their boards ALOT. Not a fanboy, just very loyal.
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#18
ShadowFold
I'm an Intel DFI fanboy, don't like their AMD bios that much, but their Intel stuff.. Man, they sure know how to make a board :laugh:
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#20
Pickles Von Brine
There is VRM cooling, it is just not on there yet since they removed it. Look closely at the pics and you can see that they are shiny :D Also, the removed the heat sinks because of the fact it removes some appeal and wants more people to see what it looks like full dressed!
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#21
azzonie
Why does it have 4 mem slots when it uses DDR3? I thought the point of DDR3 was triple channel operation and most boards would have either 3 or 6 slots to make that happen. I know someone here can school me.
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#22
h3llb3nd4
tripple channel doesn't exist in P55 mobos
it only comes with the current i7s:)
Intel went back to dual channel on this one.
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#23
azzonie
Then why would they not use DDR2 in this MB? I suppose maybe because of the FSB speed but seriously if I was making a new purchase and intended on using DDR3 it makes no sense to then buy a MD that does not fully support all the features DDR3 has to offer.
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