GA-EP45-UD3P Ultra Durable 3 Motherboard From Gigabyte

Intel recently home PC, hand-in-the X58 Express chip set and motherboards on this hand is made with i7 core processors with the release of the much heralded has reached a new plateau. However, core CPUs before i7 borrow from the technology does, there's even one on all four core die, including putting some major changes, the forerunner of North bridge, and die memory controller to support triple channel said in entitle the memory Controller are directly linking DDR3. We as a piece in its release just a few short weeks ago, signs in the early days of adopters with their performance, is, but will be happy as all the major update to go, it's not only a good deal of money in front, but Some patience as well, as new technologies are needed with the kinks get ironed out.




Today, we back a gigabyte i7 core of the new 3 line is ultra durable, EP45-UD3P from motherboards to see a step to take. As its name suggests, this board from the current mainstream Intel chipset offering is based on the P45 Express. Though we already, the most recent MSI from two recent offerings from the look on our land is covered, that is, P45 Express X48 closely to support for Core 2 processors with a pair of tractors and DDR2 or DDR3 only concerned with is helpful to remember RAM. For most people that what this means is that the EP45-UD3P, as well as other P45 boards, a great to upgrade without breaking the bank makes. We UD3P part of the name, and its effect a little later, but for now here's a look at features and bundle will get it.


Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P
Specifications and Features

CPU
• Support for Intel Core™ 2 Extreme / Quad / Duo CPUs
• Also supports Intel® Pentium® Extreme Edition / Intel® Pentium® D / Intel® Pentium® 4 Extreme Edition / Intel® Pentium® 4 and Intel® Celeron® processors in the LGA 775 package
• L2 cache varies with CPU


Chipset
• North Bridge: Intel® P45 Chipset
• South Bridge: Intel® ICH10R Chipset

Front Side Bus
1600/1333/1066/800 MHz

Main Memory
• 4 x 1.8V DDR2 DIMM sockets supporting up to 16 GB of system memory
• Dual channel memory architecture
• Support for DDR2 1366+*/1066/800/667 MHz memory modules

Storage
South Bridge:
• 6x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATA2_0, SATA2_1, SATA2_2, SATA2_3, SATA2_4, SATA2_5) supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices
• Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
GIGABYTE SATA2 chip:
• 1x IDE connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices
• 2x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (GSATA2_0, GSATA2_1) supporting up to 2 SATA 3Gb/s devices
• Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD

iTE IT8718 chip:

• 1x floppy disk drive connector supporting up to 1 floppy disk drive

Expansion Slots

• 1x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16
• 1x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x8
• (The PCIEx16 and PCIEx8 slots support ATI CrossFireX technology and conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
• 3x PCI Express x1 slot

PCI slots

Audio

• • Realtek ALC889A codec
• • High Definition Audio
  
• • 2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
• • Support for Dolby Home Theater
• • Support for S/PDIF In/Out
• • Support for CD-In

IEEE1394
• T.I. TSB43AB23 chip
• Up to 3 IEEE 1394a ports
(2 on the back panel, 1 via the IEEE 1394a bracket connected to the internal IEEE 1394a header)

LAN
• 2x Realtek 8111C chips (10/100/1000 Mbit)
• Support for Teaming

ATI CrossFire
Supports ATI CrossFire graphics cards (x8, x8)

On-Board Peripherals
• 1x 24-pin ATX main power connector
• 1x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
• 1x floppy disk drive connector
• 1x IDE connector
• 8x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
• 1x CPU fan header
• 2x system fan headers
• 1x power fan header
• 1x front panel header
• 1x front panel audio header
• 1x CD In connector
• 1x S/PDIF In header
• 1x S/PDIF Out header
• 2x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
• 1x IEEE 1394a header
• 1x parallel port header
• 1x serial port header
• 1x power LED header
• 1x chassis intrusion header

Back Panel I/O Ports
• 1x PS/2 mouse port
• 1x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
• 1x optical S/PDIF Out connector
• 1x coaxial S/PDIF Out connector
• 8x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
• 2x IEEE 1394a ports
• 2x RJ-45 ports
• 6x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Rear Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out/Line

BIOS
• 2x 8 Mbit flash
• Use of licensed AWARD BIOS
• Support for Dual BIOS
• PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI 1.0b

Hardware Monitoring
• System voltage detection
• CPU/System temperature detection
• CPU/System/Power fan speed detection
• CPU overheating warning
• CPU/System/Power fan fail warning
• CPU/System fan speed control
Dimensions
• 30.5cm(L) x 24.4cm(W) ATX Form Factor
Mounting
9 mounting holes