Gigabyte P55-UD5 Lynnfield Motherboard Preview - PC Perspective

[anytingtv]

this very useful...keep up the good work...

[Spamazoid]

Anybody with old SATA Optilca Drives, forget about it on this board, while it will read from DVD in windows, Booting from them b4 windows is problematic and CD's won't read at all.

Another issue is if you put a large CPU cooler on the memory channels are too close to the CPU housing and as such the CPU cooler may well sit over the first memory channel

Overall i guve this product a thumbs down

[Spamazoid]

Got one the other day and regretting it

the 4 SATA ports at the bottom were replaced with GSATA and ESATA controllers both are useless for anything but HD's or new SATA optical drives

in Rev 1.0 the BIOS needs to be updated to F5 to even allow u to do any sort of odifying of the meory speeds and even that is limited to just changing the multiplier, no way to change the timings and any adjusting of the VOltage cores off standard just makes the system reboot to recovery mode

[YHN2150]

that Gigabyte board is fookin ugly man, Ima grab the MSI board at 50% discount in the UK. 8th Sept.

[YHN2150]

the i5 platform has no Northbridge (IOH), it's built in to the CPU.

[ajantred]

hang on, isnt the northbridge on i5 mobos pratcially a southbridge? coz lynnfield has DMI (like the high end i7's QPI) so theres no need for a northbridge? rite? correct me if im wrong.

[RickArter]

yes its like a SB.

[consumev]

holy balls how have i not seen this channel before

[AdmiralCecil]

Core i7 with the 9xx mdifier will remain as 1366 socket and triple ddr3. The only new cpu will be the 6 core/ 12 thread 32nm Westmere.

Core i7 and i5 Lynnfield will be the new LGA 1156, 95 watt, and dual channel ddr3. The i7 Lynn will be 4 core / 8 thread --while-- i5 will be 4 core/ 4 thread.

[Hekynn]

Anyone find out the price of the P55 motherboards yet? I just hope that the performance is just as good as the I7.

[antec12gtx260]

they are ment to be priced the same as high end 775 ddr2 boards

[AdmiralCecil]

Anandtech has a quick preview on the Lynnfield vs. Core 2 Quad vs. i7 Bloomfield.

[Hotrod768]

the

ud3 - 150 CAN

ud4- 170 CAn

ud5- 250

ud6- 280

Price will most definatley drop as well

[spytester]

Thank you Ryan for this motherboard review !

[ffsallnamestaken]

Marvell is working on a new chip for Sata 3 due to performance and stability issues, but it wont be ready in time for P55 release.

Unless a 3rd party has a huge secret unknown stash of Sata 3 chips there will be no Sata 6Gbit/sec for Intel P55 first round.

Only AMD and Nvidia will have Sata 6Gbit/s as their chipsets will have native support for it.

Im praying for a motherboard with 12 Sata 6Gbit ports and some good benchmarks so i cn buy me some SSD's and be uber :)