Review Index:  Gigabyte 8I955X Royal Intel 955X Motherboard
Review  Subject: Motherboards Manufacturer: Gigabyte
Introduction and Specificaions   Along with the new Intel
Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition processors there came a
requirement for a new chipset to go along with them.  From
Intel, this came in the form of the 955X core logic.  We have
initially previewed the 955X chipset and compared it to other
Intel and AMD-based chipsets in terms of performance and
features.  The 955X chipset doesn't have much more to offer from
a technical point of view over the features of the 925X or 925XE
chipsets previous to it.  The 955X simply brings support for
dual core processors to the Intel chipset line up and was
obviously a requirement from Intel if they were to start selling
Pentium D CPUs.   In this review we are going to compare the
performance features of the reference board from Intel to this
first retail sample we received from Gigabyte based on the same
chipset.   Specifications (from Gigabyte website