so today on my video blog we'll be unboxing the p7p55d
so this is the vanilla board they've got a lot of different suffixes but this one
has a 12 plus two phase power design crossfire but no sli support and it uses
100 japanese capacitors it's Windows 7 ready like every p55 board and let's get
this thing opened up and have a look at the accessory package so we've got a
pretty bare bones accessory package you can see we've got an i o shield
we've got the motherboard manual along with the drivers and
applications dvd we've got an id cable
then we've got their their little connector thingamajiggies we have four
SATA cables two right angle and two straight and then let's get to the board
itself so pull out their green 100
non-styrofoam packaging here let's get this
board out here we go so give me two seconds here let's have a look so like
all p55 boards well it's the usual thing
we've got support for dual channel ddr3 memory right here
we've got ASUS memo k technology which sets your memory to the bone stock
default so you can post the board with pretty much any RAM in it we've got
seven SATA ports down at the bottom here there's your usb now let's have a look
at the slots here so we've got a 16x pci express slot and then another one these
will run in 8x 8x mode if you're using crossfire we've got a couple PCIe 1x
slots three pci now they're using these cool uh i really like these they remind
me of like you know superman's fortress of solitude or whatever you got like
your icicle looking coolers on the mosfets as i mentioned before we've got
a 12 plus two phase power design here's your 1156 socket let's have a look at
the back of the board here and what we've got for io so here's your ps2
keyboard and mouse then we've got eight usb ports
right there there and there we've got digital audio but only optical not
coaxial we've got firewire esata a
gigabit Ethernet and then 7.1 audio so thank you for checking out my video blog
on the p7p 55d