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 Board  MOSFET Heatsink  8-pin power  3-pin fan Starting with the color of the board, GIGABYTE has stayed true to their roots with a purple colored PCB with racing stripes. That’s right, racing stripes on a mainstream motherboard! There are racing stripes across the MOSFET heatsinks, and the P55 Express chipset heatsink. The upper right hand corner of the board has the 8-pin power connector and a 3-pin power connector.  CPU Socket  Solid Capacitors  CPU area  CPU Fan header The CPU Socket (LGA-1156) can take all CPUs on the new interface including the Core i7 860 and Core i5 750 that was released this week. Note that you cannot use LGA-1366 CPUs on this or any other P55 Express motherboard. There is plenty of room for after-market CPU coolers on this board as the CPU area is basically clear of obstacles with low-profile Solid Capacitors surrounding the CPU Socket.  SATA HS  Memory  Rear of PCB  Power Fan To the left of the CPU Socket is the P55 Express Platform Controller Hub with a heatsink and a heatpipe leading out to the first MOSFET heatsink. A second heatpipe leads out to the second MOSFET heatsink. The CPUFan header is under the MOSFET heatsink. Below the CPU Socket are four DIMM Sockets for up to 16GB of DDR3 memory. The LGA-1156 CPUs support DDR3-1333MHz natively, but this board supports up to DDR3-2600 when available.  Phase LED  IDE+24-pin  SATA 10 port  FDD Starting on the bottom edge of the board we find a Phase LED that lights up. Next to that is the 24-pin power connector. Above the power connector is the IDE port. GIGABYTE has chosen to outfit this board with ten, yes, ten SATA ports all facing sideways. This allows the user to install long video cards without interference from the SATA ports. To the left of the SATA ports is the onboard Power button, allowing users to test their board out before installing it in a case. A GIGABYTE SATA2 controller controls two SATA ports, the Intel P55 Express controls six and the JMB362 controls 2 more and the external SATA.  ITE IT8720F  FP IO  USB  Firewire The left side of the board starts off with the FP I/O which is all color coded and labeled for easy installation. Two USB 2.0 headers, a single Firewire header the FDD controller, SysFan 2, and COM Port A comprise the left side of the board. An IT8720F chip There is a CD—In and SPDIF-Out port on the top of the board. Two Realtek RTL8111D PHYs support the two Gigabit LAN ports on the Rear I/O. GIGABYTE outfits this board with three PCI Express x16 slots. Only the first two are full PCI Express x16 2nd generation slots, the other one is a PCI Express x16 slot electrically wired. You can run two video cards in SLI or CrossfireX mode, but the third card  Realtek ALC889A  Audio driver  Audio information  CD In Onboard sound is provided by the Realtek ALC889A CODEC that has been used in many motherboards on the market today. This chip fully supports the High Definition Audio standard and supports up to 7.1 surround sound and 2-channel (Multi-Streaming) output simultaneously. This chip supports Dolby Home Theater, S/PDIF In/Out and CD In.  Realtek ALC889A  Audio driver  Audio information  CD In The Rear I/O of the board has gotten rid of one of the PS/2 connections and instead has provided a combo port that can be used for either a PS/2 mouse or keyboard. A Optical and a coaxial S/PDIF Out port, 2 Firewire ports, 8 USB 2.0 ports, 2 external SATA/ Combo ports, two LAN jacks for the Gigabit LAN, and six audio jacks for the onboard audio comprise the I/O. The eSATA/USB combo ports allow you to install a SATA or a USB device in them.  Realtek ALC889A  Audio driver  Audio information  CD In Contents:
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