Gigabyte P55A-UD6 is an excellent top-shelf motherboard for computers based on the socket 1156 platform. Its highlights are the new USB 3.0 and SATA-600 ports, six memory sockets, support for SLI and CrossFireX modes, 24-phase voltage regulator circuit and a professional-quality audio codec.

As you can read in our Seagate Barracuda XT 2 TB review (the first SATA-600 hard drive to be available on the market), at this moment the new SATA-600 interface does not improve performance, at least with hard disk drives. It is possible that in a near future manufacturers release SSD units capable to use this interface's higher bandwidth. Same thing happens with the new USB 3.0 ports: at this moment we do now know of any device that uses the full potential provided by this new standard, but it should not take much time until USB 3.0 devices arrive on the market, especially external storage solutions.

Anyway, Gigabyte P55A-UD6 is one of the most complete motherboards on market today, with all the bells and whistles a computer enthusiast can desire.