Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4 Review

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Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4 Review

Jayesh Limaye, Jan 31, 2011 1359 hrs IST

Gigabyte's P67 offering for Intel Sandy Bridge with SLI and CrossFireX support

Good performance, supports all LGA 1155 Intel processors, 3-way and 3- SLI way CrossFireX, excellent overclocking support, power saving features, good choice of components, powered eSATA, excellent software bundle

Very expensive, no additional brackets for additional ports, possibly wasted PCIe x1 slot

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Intel's spanking new Sandy Bridge microprocessors sport a newer socket LGA 1155 and therefore require new chipsets - P67 Express (without integrated graphics) and H67 Express (with integrated graphics). Gigabyte had recently sent us a couple of yet-to-be-released motherboards based on the Codename Cougar Point or P67 chipset for a sneak peek - P67A-UD4 and the more expensive P67-UD7.

As has been the case with Gigabyte motherboards of late, both the motherboards come with 2-Ounce Copper PCB, which has been a Gigabyte initiative since the X58 series of motherboards to reduce power consumption. The board has a 3-way multi-GPU support for ATI CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI. This motherboard has got power saving DES Advanced feature, which makes it even better at saving power. Now that the NDA has been lifted, we are ready with the review of the GA-P67A-UD4.

The Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4 comes packed in a nice looking box with all the major features advertised on it.

Bundle

4 SATA cables with right-angled SATA connectors
SLI bridge
I/O Plate
User's Manual
Multilingual Installation Guidebook
Driver and Utilities Disc
Two case badges

There are so many ports already on the rear panel that there is really no need for any extra brackets, and Gigabyte has not provided any.

Layout and Features

You can read more about the layout, features and software here.