WEBVTT 00:00:00.799 --> 00:00:08.440 okay so today we're going to be unboxing and having a quick look at the ASUS p7p 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:10.040 55d e Deluxe I mean motherboard names 00:00:08.440 --> 00:00:13.599 it's like yes these all mean something but man are they ever like confusing 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:17.119 when you're trying to shop and you don't actually know a lot about computers okay 00:00:15.559 --> 00:00:21.920 so this is part of their new Extreme Design platform number one performance 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:26.240 reliability and safety I'm not quite sure exactly what that means but anyway 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:31.080 it's Windows 7 ready physics ready whatever that means it's LGA 1156 it's 00:00:29.279 --> 00:00:37.160 p55 so you're going to see the usual p-55 features except that this is one of 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:43.120 their new updated boards and it includes USB 3.0 SATA 6 gbit per second as well 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:50.879 as a 24 hybrid phase design which according to this means that it 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:52.559 has 16 plus three phases and T probe 00:00:50.879 --> 00:00:58.840 which I believe is some kind of like a dynamic adjuster of detects and balances 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:01.480 power phase loads and temperatures Real Time with optimal power power phase 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:05.880 functions components run cooler and extend system lifespan very cool okay so 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:10.200 also on this board let's start at the top you have you have the express gate 00:01:07.880 --> 00:01:15.000 hybrid OS whatever you have system level Energy Efficiency so that um controls 00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:19.159 everything about your system to try and get better power savings or something 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:23.280 you have an onboard switch um which is a fairly common feature at this point you 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:28.560 have the Q design for DIY quickly and easily okay you've got quad GPU SLI and 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:32.360 quad GPU Crossfire X support that's pretty cool Auto so they've got a 00:01:30.759 --> 00:01:37.360 software overclocking utility and they have memo K which allows you to take 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:42.520 even memory that has sort of non-standardized um non-standardized 00:01:40.119 --> 00:01:46.759 settings it allows you to at least get the board to boot with that memory in so 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:50.280 that you can adjust all of the settings and get it to run properly at the rated 00:01:48.360 --> 00:01:53.280 speed so let's get this box open and have a look at what we have for 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:57.640 accessories okay the first thing I like about this board is that it has black 00:01:54.840 --> 00:02:01.880 SATA cables I am so sick of seeing like yellow and red SATA cables show me a 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:05.600 system with a color scheme that yellow looks good in I challenge you to do that 00:02:03.960 --> 00:02:10.560 okay so you got three right angle and three straight SATA cables then you've 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:14.560 got an SLI Bridge okay you've got the Q connectors part of their Q design and 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:18.319 those allow you to plug in the front panel connectors fairly easily I love 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:22.760 this this is awesome I talked about this on one of the recent assus boards I had 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:26.879 a look at instead of including two USB and one fire wire Port I'm now seeing 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:32.080 combo back plates that are 2 USB and an ESAT Port way more useful I mean who 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:37.040 uses fire wire anyway okay then we've got what is 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:41.440 this turbo key bus speed oh okay so this is their little overclocking remote 00:02:38.760 --> 00:02:46.080 control that looks to plug into uh must be USB because it's colorcoded red white 00:02:43.760 --> 00:02:49.800 green black black like USB but it's a converted USB port on the board 00:02:47.480 --> 00:02:55.319 somewhere okay then you've got an IDE cable then you've got an IO Shield which 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:58.959 isn't colorcoded but they have done one special call out you can see these two 00:02:56.920 --> 00:03:03.840 USB ports are highlighted white those are the USB 3.0 ports then we've got the 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:08.159 piece the user guide as well as the driver disc and a case badge okay don't 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:14.000 don't use this driver disc download the latest ones as I usually say now let's 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:16.200 get the board itself out of here now I 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:20.959 realized that the uh p-55 boards launched not all that long ago but we're 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:25.560 seeing so many updated product designs just because of the launch of SATA 3 and 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:30.000 USB 3.0 so that's going to be kind of the focus of my unboxing but let's do a 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:35.120 quick overview of the overall design of this board okay so we have two PCI 00:03:33.040 --> 00:03:40.439 Express 60x slot so those are going to be for your Crossfire or SLI they are 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:45.439 functional in adex adex mode if you are using Crossfire SLI like all p55 boards 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:49.799 because the PCI Express Lanes are actually powered by the CPU and not by 00:03:47.720 --> 00:03:54.840 the chipset okay down at the bottom here we've got our onboard power and reset 00:03:52.280 --> 00:04:00.519 switches and oh there's a plx chip for some reason although I couldn't tell you 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:02.760 what that is for w wish I knew why that 00:04:00.519 --> 00:04:08.159 was there cuz normally a plx chip is like a PCI Express Bridge chip and it's 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:12.040 usually there to like split PCI Express Lanes or something no no they both run 00:04:09.920 --> 00:04:16.519 at adex okay so I wasn't wrong there all right so let's keep moving right along 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:19.560 then we've got three USB 2.0 headers 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:23.040 then we have okay so these two white 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:27.520 ones here are the SATA 6 gabit per 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:29.440 second ports okay this one is satore E1 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:32.960 and I don't know what the relevance of that that is maybe it's running off the 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:36.360 same chipset as the other eSATA back here I'm kind of guessing there and 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:41.160 since all of the chips are covered under this kind of neat looking um heat sink I 00:04:39.400 --> 00:04:45.840 can't really tell what they are then on the side of the board we've got six SATA 00:04:43.919 --> 00:04:50.280 2 ports so these are all running off the Intel chipset we've got an IDE port you 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:55.600 will notice the conspicuous absence of a floppy Port I'm sure most people won't 00:04:52.680 --> 00:05:00.360 miss that like all p-55 boards we've got support for dual Channel DDR3 memory and 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:04.639 you can see that they're using their um trademark design here on the memory 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:08.639 slots only one end of the memory slots actually has a clip so what you're 00:05:06.320 --> 00:05:12.639 supposed to do is peel these back slide the memory slot in from the top into 00:05:11.039 --> 00:05:16.840 this side and then just clip it in from the one side so it makes memory 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:20.960 installation in theory much easier okay we've also got our memo K button over 00:05:19.039 --> 00:05:24.680 here so that is to make sure that the board can post with whatever memory you 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:29.880 happen to be using and then up here we've got little uh switches to overvolt 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:33.000 the CPU the integrated memory controller or the RAM it's kind of nice to have 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:37.600 those hardware switches for the really hardcore guys who are using this on an 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:41.120 open test bench anyway okay so moving right along we've got our power 00:05:38.960 --> 00:05:43.759 connector at its ideal place along the right hand edge of the board and then 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:47.680 we've got an eight pin power connector up at the top sort of left of the board 00:05:45.960 --> 00:05:51.240 a lot of a lot of cases these days have a hole for it right over here so it's a 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:56.880 little bit of a reach but overall I like this position uh here is our 2 24 phase 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:59.639 hybrid design which apparently means 16 phases for the CPU itself and then I 00:05:58.520 --> 00:06:02.880 believe three phases for for the integrated memory controller something 00:06:01.520 --> 00:06:06.800 that I really like about this board right off the bat is it has so many four 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:11.360 pin fan connectors we've got a couple here and most boards usually just give 00:06:09.599 --> 00:06:16.479 you one for the CPU and no other ones but it's kind of nice to see that ASUS 00:06:14.080 --> 00:06:20.319 is using their now trademark because so many of their recent boards are using it 00:06:18.039 --> 00:06:25.360 this kind of like ice castle looking Moss fet cooler design I really like 00:06:22.280 --> 00:06:27.160 that I think it looks really stylish um 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:31.919 what am I missing here okay well here's the oh here here's the plug for that um 00:06:29.919 --> 00:06:35.319 for that overclocking remote control thing so I can't imagine the 00:06:34.039 --> 00:06:40.160 practicality of that but I guess you plug it in here if you're on an open test bench and then you can kind of run 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:45.639 it off the top of the board that way uh here's the CPU socket it's an LGA 1156 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:51.520 socket supports Core i5 core i7 blah blah blah okay thaty oh I like this 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:57.440 actually it's so rare you see the board manufacturers not cheap out and uh use 00:06:55.240 --> 00:07:01.800 like proper back plates on their mosfet coolers because this really gives a lot 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:06.120 more rigidity to the board I mean a PCB has a lot of flex in it so when you put 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:11.199 these kind of mounting plates on the back it allows you to make much better 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:14.800 contact with the mosfet coolers on the top so you can ensure that everything 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:18.080 gets cooled adequately so I really like to see that as well okay then let's get 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:23.400 around to the back of the board here we've got two PS2 ports I don't think these are ever going to go away to be 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:29.520 honest we have a clear seimo switch here's our two USB 3.0 ports then we 00:07:26.840 --> 00:07:36.440 have two digital audio ports we've got six USB 2.0 ports a fire wire an eat 2 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:40.319 gigabit Ethernet ports as well as 7.1 audio and thank you for checking out my 00:07:37.919 --> 00:07:44.160 unboxing of the p7p 55d deluxe