so here for a quick look today we have the EVGA a55 FTW for the win now you can
see I've actually removed the shrink wrap because we did try to shoot this
once before I am at home shooting this video today so someone was talking or
something and the shot was totally ruined but I've got everything still in
here we didn't get very far basically we've got the flexible black SLI Bridge
inside for the uh for the accessories then we have the ECP V2 uh breakout
board so to speak you've got your little pins on the back so you use a ribbon
cable to connect this to your motherboard and then it gives you
onboard power reset clear seos voltage
adjustment buttons and then you've got an um a debug post code readout and then
you've got jumpers to turn on and off different PCI E Lanes which is great for
troubleshooting any sort of uh SLI uh
graphics card difficulties you've got Molex TOA adapters then you've got four
SATA cables here we've got uh two USB
and one fire wire uh PC eye bracket then
let's get down to the board oh not quite yet okay well there's our IO plate it's
just like that and then here's the cable I was talking about this is your
breakout cable for the uh for the ecpv2
okay then we've got our driver disc then
we've got a quick start user guide so this is a oh this thing is huge so this
is the visual guide for the board so labels all the different parts and gives
you some Basics about the board then we have the users's manual normal thing
okay now let's get down to the board itself so I'm just having my very first
look at this it looks like evga's changed their color scheme quite a bit
with their p-55 series motherboards I'm more used to seeing like a a green and
black or a red and black color scheme out of EVGA and yeah we've got something
totally different here today so let's just uh put this box like this okay
there we go so we've got a little uh thing of desicant stuff then we've got a
little plastic thing oh that's kind of nice so we've got a very shiny EVGA logo
on uh what you can see is a very very weak looking sort of heat sink sort of
looking thing that's very very cool looking then we have uh a warning oh a
step-by-step instruction guide this is kind of cute on how to install your CPU
there you go so that's actually taped right down to the CPU socket so that you
can't in you can't get at the CPU socket without seeing it so let's have a look
at the board itself now you've got three PCIe con uh 16 16x connectors you have
two PCI connectors and one PCIe 1X connector you can see here we've got
support for the usual thing with any p-55 motherboard we've got support for
dual Channel DDR3 RAM our power connectors are in the usual places along
the right hand edge of the board and on the top left corner of the board then
for our chipset cooling you've got a little EVGA logo heat snc down here now
in terms of connectivity we've got six SATA two ports on the on the edge of the
board here then we've got on the back on
the io Shield we've got looks like only six USB ports that's
a little bit less than I was expecting PS2 onboard SOS clear we've got digital
audio eat then we've got fire wire 2 GB
Ethernet and 7.1 audio and uh thank you
for oh wow no this is interesting okay up here on the top left which I actually
didn't even notice before I'm just peeling the sticker off here you've
actually got two 8 Pin uh EPS connectors
so it seems that one of them yeah if
your power supply has an extra eight pin connector plug both in for extreme
overclocking so it's optional to plug that in but it looks like you can
deliver a lot of juice to your CPU with this board anyway thank you for checking
out the p-55 for the win