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.
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43 Comments on Gigabyte High-End P55 Motherboard Pictured
I.e. a 1x card can fit into 1x, 4x, 8x and 16x slot
An 8x card can fit 8x and 16x slot.
The floppy is down near where the firewire/USB headers are.
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115050
there you go. x4 and x8 raid cards.
come on now! Even the mobo companies can't wait:D
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.
www.techpowerup.com/img/09-04-24/zdrive_side_b.jpg
www.techpowerup.com/img/09-04-24/zdrive_edge_b.jpg
www.techpowerup.com/img/09-04-24/zdrive_backangle_b.jpg
you had proof of 4x cards here on tpu.......