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Gigabyte 8I955X Royal Intel 955X Motherboard Review

GA-8I955X Royal Desktop Motherboard - Intel - Socket T LGA-775 (ATX - 1 x Processor Support - 8 GB DDR2 SDRAM Maximum RAM - Floppy Controller, Serial ATA/300, Ultra ATA/133 ATA-7 RAID Support Controller - 1 x PCIe x16 Slot)
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Author: Ryan Shrout

Date: June 9, 2005

Subject: Motherboards

Manufacturer: Gigabyte

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Introduction and Specificaions

Introduction

Along with the new Intel Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition processors there came a requirement for a new chipset to go along with them. From Intel, this came in the form of the 955X core logic. We have initially previewed the 955X chipset and compared it to other Intel and AMD-based chipsets in terms of performance and features.

The 955X chipset doesn't have much more to offer from a technical point of view over the features of the 925X or 925XE chipsets previous to it. The 955X simply brings support for dual core processors to the Intel chipset line up and was obviously a requirement from Intel if they were to start selling Pentium D CPUs.

In this review we are going to compare the performance features of the reference board from Intel to this first retail sample we received from Gigabyte based on the same chipset.

Specifications (from Gigabyte website)

Processor

LGA775 Intel^Â® Pentium^Â® D processor
Supports 1066/800/533MHz FSB

Chipset

Northbridge: Intel^Â® 955X Chipset
Southbridge: Intel^Â® ICH7R
Silicon Image Sil3132 SATA II controller
T.I IEEE1394b controller
GigaRAID ITE8712 IDE RAID controller
2 x Broadcom 5751 Gigabit Ethernet controller
Realtek ALC882M audio codec

Memory

4 DDR II DIMM memory slots (supports up to 8GB memory)
Supports dual channel DDR II 677/533/400 unbuffered DIMM
Supports 1.8V DDR II DIMM
Supports 64bit ECC type DRAM integrity mode

Internal I/O Connectors

1 x U-Plus D.P.S connector
6 x Serial ATA II 3.0Gb/s connectors
1 x UDMA ATA 100/66/33 connectors
2 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 connectors
1 x FDD connector
2 x IEEE1394b connectors (supports 3 ports)
2 x USB 2.0/1.1 connector (supports 4 ports)
3 x Cooling fan pin headers
1 x Game/Midi connector

Expansion Slots

1 PCI Express x 16 slot
2 PCI Express x 1 slots
3 PCI slots

Rear Panel I/O

4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
2 x RJ45 ports
6 x Audio ports (4 x Line-out/ 1 x Line-in/ 1 x MIC)
1 x Coaxial S/P-DIF out
1 x Optical S/P-DIF out
PS/2 Keyboard/ Mouse
1 x COM port connector
1 x LPT port

Form Factor

ATX form factor; 30.5cm x 24.4cm

Other Features

U-Plus D.P.S
DualBIOS
C.I.A. 2
M.I.B. 2
R.G.B.

PC Perspective

Gigabyte 8I955X Royal Intel 955X Motherboard Review

Introduction and Specificaions

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