A Closer Look GIGABYTE GA-8I945P Pro Motherboard

GIGABYTE GA-8I945P Pro motherboard is using a very nice blue colored PCB board which is almost same as other GIGABYTE motherboard. It is socket LGA775 motherboard, which uses the latest Intel 945P chipset.

The GA-8I945P Pro is design with the top innovation of showing GIGABYTE advanced technology leadership that only support the DDR2 memory. It supports 4GB of DDR2 memory.

On the lower part, there is a Southbridge heatsink. Beside it was the 4 SATA port, the IDE 2 and IDE 3 connector and the Floppy connector. There is total of four Serial ATA 2 port on this motherboard. The Serial ATA 2 provides scalable performance for today and tomorrow. With up to 300MB/s data transfer rate, Serial ATA 2 is faster than current SATA and even the Parallel ATA, while providing 100% software compatibility.