Gigabyte P55-UD6 is an excellent top shelf motherboard for the socket 1156 platform. Its strong points include the presence of twelve SATA-300 ports (with two eSATA ports), six memory sockets, support to SLI and CrossFireX modes, 24-phase voltage regulator circuit, heatpipe cooling for the regulator transistors and a high quality audio codec. And there is also the nice box, which surely will draw the attention on any shelf.

An amazing detail is the presence of two "combo" ports on rear panel: those ports can be used either as eSATA or as USB ports, feature that we had not seen in other boards yet.

It is a little less expensive than ASUS P7P55D Premium, but its price is away from the regular user budget reality anyway. But to be honest like P7P55D Premium this motherboard is not a board targeted to the average user.