okay so today I'm going to be having a quick look at the ASUS p7p 55 de Pro so
this is an updated version of The Old p7p 55d Pro and by old I mean new but
not quite old enough to include or too old to include Okay blah blah blah true
USB 3.0 and true SATA 6 gbit per second
bam that is your big selling point for this and a lot of the other new p-55
boards that have been coming out I mean I know the P5 5 launch wasn't that long
ago but because these two new technologies are so important many of
the motherboard manufacturers are releasing new boards so they can get on
board with those Technologies right away so let's go through what is special
about this board hybrid technology includes their easy tune overclocking
Express gate uh Linux operating system blippy bloopy whatever okay hybrid
processor turbo V Evo okay OC blah blah okay okay here we go thermal probe so
they have temperature probes in all of the regulator modules that will adjust
for the power load as well as the temperature to ensure that you're always
getting the best performance possible out of them okay next one is the true
USB 3.0 and true SATA 6 gbit per second performance that is very cool obviously
and then next is any memories AOK so it's their memo technology that allows
you to post even with overclocked sort of memory modules now I'm going to use
this chair as a substitute for a real cameraman here and adjust it so we can
have a look at the motherboard while we box okay so there is the board box
itself let's get this open okay so the first thing we have here is the io
Shield it's say one of those new stylish black aisle Shields and you can see
they've clearly marked the two USB 3.0
ports with a white box around them that's kind of handy because if you're looking for those it's nice to have them
well marked okay then we have a USB and esap there that is awesome I am so tired
of seeing like USB fire wire combo ports I mean who uses fire wire anyway USB
eada ASUS has it figured out all right there is an IDE cable so they've got it
less figured out there's still IDE but what can you do and we have an SLI
Bridge so you can assume that this is an SLI supporting board okay we've got
their Q connector technology and then we have four SATA cables they are black and
they are straight and right angled there's two of each okay then we have
the users guide as well as a driver DVD
do not use this download the latest drivers and
well sorry about that my memory card actually filled up while I was in the
middle of my unboxing so here is the user guide as well as the driver DVD
don't use that etc etc and then we have the ASUS Q design and DIY features where
they're basically giving you a quick rundown of all of the cool features that
it has so it has a CPU socket wow okay
it has memo K we already talked about that so there's no need to go into that
any further qm is an outof boox idea for
easy installation basically that means that when you're installing memory
modules in this board there's only a connector on one side very cool I'll
show you more about that in a moment Q slot is the new retaining mechanism that
ASUS has designed to make removing board um
removing video cards very very easy you can use the pencil eraser okay qled H
that's not really very cool okay overvolt switches this is neat so there's a Hardware switch to actually
enable overvolting features and vertical SATA ports have been around for a
million year so we're not too concerned about that and easy RAM overclocking
modes okay well those have been around for a while too so you're like two for
six anyway good job ASUS okay so let's get the board itself
out here so here is the p7p
55d Das e Pro there we go so why don't
we do a quick rundown of the overall feature set of this particular
motherboard I'm going to move my camera back a little bit and adjust it so that
you can have a look here so first of all here's your LGA 1156 socket that you'll
find on all p55 boards here is your dual Channel DDR3 memory and this is the Q
dim thing they were talking about you can see that on this side these aren't
actually Clips like here have a look from the side uh if I can get that in
there yeah these are not Clips so you basically just slide the module in from
this side and then open up the clip put it in and then clip it in very cool
feature actually okay so here is their uh 16 phase Hybrid Power which is
actually 12 plus 2 phases okay and then you've got your 24 pin power connector
as well as your eight pin power connector in their optimal locations at
the edge and top of the board respectively let's have a look at the
PCI Express layout so if you were going to use Crossfire or SLI on this
motherboard which you could you would be left with an additional PCIe a PCI and
another PCIe 1X so that's a pretty ideal
layout given that most of the expansion cards these days are moving towards PCI
Express this isn't a premium premium board so you're not going to find any on
board power buttons or uh four pin CPU
or sorry not CPU four pin fan headers or any of that kind of fancy stuff but it
is still fairly featur Rich As far as the overclocking features go so actually
you know what let's have a look okay let's have a quick look these are our
SATA 6 gabit per second ports so all of
the blue ones are SATA 2 or SATA 3.0 gbit per second and then these gray ones
down here are SATA 3 gbit per second I think we've covered most of the featur
on the front of the board oh yeah here's the memo K button in case you were
wondering and here's your little dip switch to overvolt the RAM that's also
pretty cool wow that's really hard to press they don't want you pressing that by accident that's for sure here's a
quick look at the vrm cooling solution I kind of like these it kind of like
they're kind of ice Fortress for lack of a better word anyway here is the back of
the board the moment you've all been waiting for you got PS2 ports and
they're back to two PS2 ports on this board then we have six SATA or six SATA
six USB ports 2.0 and then we have two
digital audio ports we've got a fire wire and an eat and then we have gigabit
Ethernet and 7.1 Audio Oh wait there's more USB 3.0 there they are so USB 3.0
is up to 5 gabit per second so you're looking at maxing out any hard drive
with a USB 3.0 connection which makes it actually faster than e SAT 2 which is
very very cool so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS p7p 55 5d- e
Deluxe or something like that 55d e pro thank you