Gigabyte P55-UD4P
I have had the pleasure of working with this motherboard for a few weeks now and found it to be a very easy to use motherboard as usual for Gigabyte products. Special thanks to Gigabyte for the Motherboard !
As we move into the release of Win 7 and it states right on the front of the package that this kit is Windows 7 ready I decided to see how it performed on a Win 7 setup.
Gigabyte has added the usual power saving features and a few other nice additions. I find myself using these power saving features more and more on my main rig for less power use and reduced heat so these are welcome features.
With a new socket LGA1156 and no Air Coolers that I could mount to this for Air testing I decided to jump right on the Cascade but that was a no go, it would not even post or boot. After working on this for awhile it was clear that the Core I5 750 ES chip that I was using was cold bugging. I ended up using my Blue Aqua Chilly1 SS Phase unit for testing and it worked extremely well with the low power, low heat output of the CPU I was testing.
Massive 24 Phase Power is included on the P55-UD4P
And prepped up for Phase action, nice and easy CPU area for eraser work & insulation.
The Cascade connected up here which turned out to be too cold for the 750
And the final setup with the Blue Aqua Chilly1 SS Phase. This unit makes almost no noise making this setup very quiet.
The first tests run here
Max OC I could get
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=698217
Then I moved on with some 3D testing
Single Gigabyte 260gtx runs
And moving on with SLI and 2x Gigabyte 260gtx’s
At this point I decided to see how the rig performed with Crysis, yes, yes we all want to know that… Can It Play Crysis
I am not a huge FPS fan and do not play Crysis often but I did find playing the game with this setup and SLI was very playable, smooth and
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I do throw on the Phantom to see what the cold bug temps were, I was seeing -50c to -60c with most of the times just a tad warmer that -60c. So this fits well with SS Phase units like Chilly1’s, Vapo’s, CRYO-Z’s and units like those, no need for a heavy hitting bench unit here as the low heat output on this I5 750 just doesn’t need the cold power, at least the ES chip I had for testing.
I still have more work to do with this setup to tune it better.
Setting this up and simply adjusting the OC to 4.3ghz was extremely simple without fussing over voltages and what not, just increasing the buss speed to 226 and slight increase in vcore and away it went. This 4.3ghz turned out to be a very nice stable OC and would be good for a nice 24/7 clock. With a little more effort in tuning you could go a bit higher but 4.3ghz is a very nice speed for 24/7 use and gaming.
This was a very enjoyable setup to run with almost no noise, good OC and good performance. I am sure that retail 750’s well be better than the ES chip I used and perhaps you will get better over clocks.
The P55-UD4P is a very stable platform with plenty of power for over clocks, the BIOS is the usual Gigabyte BIOS and pretty simple to use. I look forward to see how this setup does with a nice air cooler when mounting kits come out for this socket.
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Gigabyte P55-UD4P Review
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