Now that the benchmarking is underway, we get our first close up look at Gigabyte's full range of P45 motherboards.

We have shown you the early samples in the previous months but the boards everyone are using today are final mass production models.

We went straight to the top shelf and took a close up look at the high-end DQ6 model. It certainly comes with all the bells and whistles and much more. We'll cover more throughout the day but first up we wanted to draw close attention to the fact that it has four networking LAN one gigabit ports on its I/O panel. You read correctly - that's a total of four gigabits of network bandwidth which can be teamed up for various home server and other networking orientated tasks that require extreme amounts of bandwidth.

Take a quick look for yourself...