Gigabyte P67A-UD4 Motherboard

On-Board Peripherals

The Intel P67 chipset is a single-chip solution, and is also known as PCH (Platform Controller Hub). This chip supports two SATA-600 ports and four SATA-300 ports, supporting RAID (0, 1, 5 and 10). All SATA ports are located on the motherboard edge, rotated 90°, so video cards won’t block them.

Figure 4: SATA-300 (black) and SATA-600 (white) ports

Additionally, the manufacturer added two eSATA-600 ports, controlled by a Marvel 88SE9128 chip and supporting RAID 0 and 1.

This motherboard doesn’t come with ATA-133 or floppy disk ports.

This motherboard has 14 USB 2.0 ports, eight soldered on the rear panel and six available though three headers located on the motherboard. It also has four USB 3.0 ports controlled by two NEC μPD720200 chips, two soldered on the rear panel of the motherboard and two available thru a header on the motherboard (the product doesn’t come with an I/O bracket for you to use these ports).

There are no FireWire (IEEE1394) ports.

The P67A-UD4 comes with eight-channel audio, generated by the chipset using a Realtek ALC892 codec. Unfortunately Realtek doesn’t publish technical specifications for this codec at their website. The portrayed motherboard comes with on-board optical and coaxial SPDIF connectors, and you can route digital audio to your video card to have digital audio in the HDMI connector using the available “SPDIF_O” header.

The analog audio jacks are completely independent, so you won’t “kill” the mic in or the line in jack when installing a set of 7.1 analog speakers.

The portrayed motherboard has one Gigabit Ethernet port, controlled by a Realtek RTL8111E chip.

In Figure 5, you can see the motherboard rear panel, with shared PS/2 keyboard and mouse connector, eight USB 2.0 ports, coaxial and optical SPDIF outputs, two eSATA-600 ports, two USB 3.0 ports (blue ones), Gigabit Ethernet port, and independent analog 7.1 audio outputs.

Figure 5: Motherboard rear panel