Gigabyte P67A-UD7 – Features

Gigabyte has been spry to mount the LGA1155 platform, having already launched 6 P67-based motherboards. The company's most extreme offering, and possibly the most aggressive looking board in our roundup, is the P67A-UD7.

GB has dropped their blue devil PCB and baby blue/white components pro of a matte hopeless design, at least for the majority of their P67 boards anyway. The P67A-UD7 is rather evilness looking and perhaps the coolest looking board we have ever seen.

Aesthetics aside, the P67A-UD7 touts plenty of great features including dual Gigabit LAN, 8-channel audio frequency, SATA 6Gb/s RAID, eSATA, USB 3.0 and a number of other modern technologies.

The GB DualBIOS technology has been approximately for years and features deuce physical BIOS ROMs allowing users to quickly find from BIOS hurt, beryllium that viruses Oregon improper BIOS updating. To boot, DualBIOS now supports booting from 3TB+ (terabytes) hard drives without the need for partitioning, and enables more data storage on a single scheming drive.

Gigabyte's On/Off Mission engineering lets you charge a USB device regardless of whether your Microcomputer is on, in secondary or even off. It also allows those devices to depict more up-to-date than standard USB ports take into account, speed up the recharging process by as much as 40%.

G has also included a feature that called Turbo USB 3.0, which is said to boost functioning away busy 10%. When enabled, the feature provides the quickest possible execution by allocating PCIe lanes to connect the Central processor and USB 3.0 controller chip. This provides approximately 10% better performance than when IT is hors de combat and USB 3.0 traffic is oriented direct the chipset.

It is worth noting that Turbo USB 3.0 utilizes eighter PCIe VGA lanes, so it is only possible to enable information technology with a single graphics card running game at PCIe x8 on P67 chipset motherboards.

The P67A-UD7 gets USB 3.0 from a pair of Renesas D720200 chips which are supported by a twain of VLI VL810 hubs. Each of the Renesas D720200 chips is on to a PCI Express 2.0 x1 (5.0Gb/s) lane and provide two USB 3.0 ports. The 2 VLI VL810 hubs, which are actually made by VIA, replicate the Renesas ports.

The VLI VL810 from VIA is the industry's first fully integrated single check root that supports USB 3.0's transfer rates, allowing maximum data transfer rates of up to 5Gbps, or ten times the throughput available to USB 2.0 devices. The P67A-UD7 features ten USB 3.0-capable ports (six on the back instrument panel, 4 via the USB brackets connected to the internal USB headers).

Also enclosed is a Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 controller which provides FireWire (IEEE1394a) support for three ports. Two of the FireWire ports are on the back venire while the third comes from connecting the supplied bracket to the intramural IEEE1394a cope.

Gigabyte has also expanded the P67A-UD7's storage options by including ii of the popular Marvell 88SE9128 controllers seen on the ECS board. Each controller supports a twain of SATA 6Gb/s ports along with NCQ (Native Overtop Queuing) and hardware RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10.

Two of these ports are settled onboard spell the other ii are located along the I/O panel where they provide eSATA connectivity. Both ports are self-hopped-up meaning users can fare away with power cords for their eSATA devices.

GB opted for the unoriginal Realtek ALC889 codec, which supports Dolby Home theatre and S/PDIF out spell also providing 2/4/5.1/7.1 channel audio. Overall, the Gigabyte P67A-UD7 looks to be one of the best-equipped P67 motherboards lendable, though it's also one of the to the highest degree expensive.