Gigabyte P55-UD6 & P55M-UD4 Review - PAGE 1

The Core i5 and i7 have launched just over a month ago now, but you might still be looking for the perfect motherboard fit to match those new processors. Targeted at the mainstream market, the P55 motherboards were intended to be are affordable -- and currently, that is more or less the case. The stripped down, entry-level boards are available just shy of $100, although it quickly gets better as you climb up the ladder. With Lynnfield processors, even the cheapest motherboards perform very similarly to the most expensive ones we have found, so that opens up the battlefield for manufacturers to come up with unique features as selling points.

Gigabyte offers a broad range of P55 motherboards, including the P55M-UD4 and P55-UD6. The former is a performance oriented microATX board, which packs a bunch of interesting features in a smaller form factor. The latter is their current high-end offering with an impressive 24-phase power delivery system and six DDR3 slots, just like you would find on a X58 motherboard. Both boards support Gigabyte's proprietary Smart6 feature, CrossFire and SLI technologies as well as DDR3 memory at over 2 GHz.

Move on to the next page for more details on Gigabyte's latest motherboards!