so we've got another p-55 board here today that we're going to be checking
out it's the assus p7 p55 dle now le can
mean any number of things in this case I'm pretty sure it means late edition
you've got a lot of the basic features that you're going to want so you've got
your 8 phase power you've got support for what is it their uh memo K turbo V
overclocking software memo K is actually one of the more unique features we'll
talk about that in a bit so inside we've got our IO Shield got like the padding
on the back that's kind of neat you've got these little uh ports that you can
use to plug your individual pins into then plug the whole thing into the board
the easy connector or something like that you've got an ID cable two SATA
cables and a manual with the uh DVD
inside so you can see it's actually a very very basic accessory package with
this board so let's take out the divider here and get that out of the way and
let's take out the actual board itself so this is one of the lower-end boards
in ASUS's p55 lineup so let's go ahead and put that down there you can see it's
actually a little bit on the narrow side so normally you'd see that a board will
have one two three screw holes and it
would actually be a little bit wider so this is a narrow board it helps them save on cost and it helps them keep a
cleaner layout gives you a little bit more space to work in so let's do the
general layout we've got our 24 pin connector over on the right Edge exactly
where we want it support for dual Channel DDR3 memory like all p-55 boards
here's our LGA 1156 socket and here's our eight-phase power design up at the
top of the board you can see you've got an 8 Pin power connector for the CPU
right there and then let's have a look so you've got a couple of PCI Express
ports but we don't have support for Crossfire or SLI on this particular
board this is kind of a neat looking heat sink here it's uh very unique I
actually kind of like the look of this board to be honest uh we've got six SATA
connectors so if I can just get the cameraman to have a look so two right angle ones and then four of the more
classic style that comes right out of the board and let's have a look at our
rear panel I don't really like the color of this PCB I prefer to see it like a
jet black but it's not too bad looking actually okay we got two PS2 ports we've
got eight USB ports so one two and then we've got uh digital audio eeta and 7.1
audio so actually a pretty good uh a pretty good IO Port thing here oh yeah
let's talk about memo K yeah before you zoom out so that's the memo K button
basically memo K you press this button and the board will default to super
loose super non-aggressive timings for the RAM so you can make sure that you
can boot with any RAM no matter what the profile is on the memory itself so thank
you for checking out my blog on the p7p 55d L