Gigabyte GA-EP55-UD5 Intel P55 Express MotherboardGigabyte's GA-EP55-UD5 motherboard is just one of five socket 1156 Core i5 boards set for the initial launch, it represents the makers' flagship model. Along with the obvious support of Intel Lynnfield socket 1156 processors, the GA-EP55-UD5 motherboard features one PCI Express 2.0 x16 videocard slot and two PCI Express x8 slots (which look like PCIe x16), two PCI Express x1 and two PCI slots for additional expansion options. The board has four dual channel DDR3-1333/1066/800 memory slots which can accommodate up to 6GB of DDR3 RAM. Memory can be overclocked to run at DDR3-2000+ speeds with compatible modules.
In terms of data storage the GA-EP55-UD5 motherboard is well equipped - there are no less than four 6Gb/s SATA II and six 3Gb/s SATA connectors! Pair that up with two eSATA jacks on the back and RAID 0,1,5,10, and the board can host some seriously large hard drive or solid state drive arrays.
Rounding out the features on the GA-EP55-UD5 board are (14) USB2.0 ports, (3) Firewire and a pair of Gigabit network jacks. High Definition 8-channel audio comes standard as does support for multi-videocard gaming options like ATI CrossfireX and nVidia SLI. NVidia is basically finished in the chipset business whether it likes it or not, so without broad support by other chipset makers for its multi-videocard technology, SLI
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