Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal i955X Mainboard Intro 1/4
Bluetooth 16 June 2005

Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal

It has been sometime since we last saw Gigabyte P4 board. Today we take a look at the GA8I955X Royal mainboard from Gigabyte. GA-8I955X Royal is based on the Intel 955X chipset and it supports the new Intel Extreme Edition supporting Hyper Threading technology, or two threads when used with an Intel® Pentium® D processor; providing multi-core server functionality from the desktop. Support for the latest Serial-ATA II interface, the GA-8I955X Royal boasts blinding 3Gb/s hard disk drive data transfer speeds that are 100% compatible with the latest software utilities and operating systems. Highly advanced Intel® Matrix Storage technology allows RAID 0 (Striping), RAID 1 (Mirroring), RAID 0+1 (Striping and Mirroring), and RAID 5 (Parity RAID) multi-disk designs to be created by the user depending on their preference for protection or performance. The RAID 5 function supports drive roaming capability that enables drives from one controller to be removed to another without losing data and sports a familiar Windows®-based utility for ease of use.

The GA-8I955X Royal also features the latest in high-speed connectivity with Dual Gigabit Ethernet for simultaneous WAN and LAN connection speeds of up to 1,000 Mb/s as well as onboard Firewire (IEEE1394b) and USB 2.0 capabilities. To round off the extensive networking capabilities of this board, GIGABYTE bundles the GN-BTD02 Bluetooth wireless USB adapter that enables compatibility with Bluetooth consumer products such as mobile phones, printers, PDAs, cameras and headsets for the ultimate versatility around the home or office.

If you are those who loves to tweak the board to maximum performance, the GA-8I955X has one of the most extensive BIOS options which you can adjust. Voltage, FSB, ASync memory settings are all available. For those who just wants plain performance, the BIOS allows you to set it to auto overclock based on applications run. This functions comes handy with the CPU Intelligent Accelerator 2 (CIA 2) and Memory Intelligent Booster 2 (MIB 2)

The Universal Plus Dual Power System (U-Plus D.P.S.) that not only helps to extend the lifespan of power modules by keeping them cooler, but also increases overall system reliability by being able to continue to operate even when one transistor has blown. This allows you to continue working on your PC without fail.


GA-8I955X Royal Main Specification
Supports Intel® Pentium® D processor / Intel® Pentium® processor Extreme Edition (LGA 775)

Intel® 955X Express Chipset / ICH7R chipset

1* PCI-ExpressX16 slot

2* PCI-ExpressX1 slot, 3* PCI slot

4* Dual channel DDRII 888 with ECC, support up to 8GB memory.

Universal-plus Dual Power System (U-Plus DPS)

Dual Gigabit LAN

4 * Serial ATA II (ICH7R Southbridge)

2 * Serial ATA II (Silicon Image SiL3132 )

3 * Parallel ATA (ICH7R + GigaRAID controller)

3 * IEEE1394b ports (T.I. solution)

8 * USB 2.0/1.1 ports

Intel® High Definition Audio designed for Dolby Master Studio

DualBIOS™

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