Today's candidate is a high-end board for the mainstream market from the good people at GIGABYTE. The P55-UD6 is one of the latest boards to run on the P55 single chip solution from Intel.

Aimed for a more high-end market in the mainstream, this board comes in at just under $250USD over at Newegg which isn’t a great deal more than the ASUS offering. Will it match up in performance and features? We shall endeavour to answer this question.