today we're checking out the EVGA p55 SLI so this is not their highest end
p-55 board but it's no slouch either so you do get support for pretty much the
full p55 feature set so you got Crossfire SLI um pretty good VM solution
all of that stuff now this is positioned just under there for the wind board so
there are some things that are missing I'm just going to get this out here it's
actually a very similar looking board though so here we go let's let's get
into the accessory pack package so we got our driver CD okay then we've got
what seems to be uh the same guide that they had with the for the wind board
maybe a couple slight differences so that's your your getting started guide
and oh no it is different it is different it has just this board on it
so there you go there's your quick start visual guide uh this is totally going to
get blown away here so just just a sec ah the wind's coming okay so then we've
got a Molex teda adapter and two SATA
cables so quite a lot less in terms of accessory package here then we've got
two USB and one fire wire port on a little PCI bracket okay so let's take
out this uh divider here okay more accessories so there's our black
flexible SLI Bridge there's our IO
Shield got that padding on the back of it that's a kind of a new thing uh then
we've got our motherboard manual uh yep not really anything
particularly interesting about that all right let's get the board out here cuz
that's the uh that's what you folks are paying to see not that anyone really
pays to watch videos on YouTube but whatever okay so there we've got our
desicant package in there that keeps your board nice and dry
and safe during Transportation okay let's get into the board so some major
differences between this and the classified right off the top we don't
have support for that little uh that little breakout with all the power reset
clear seos all that stuff so you'll actually find all the buttons on board
here there's your reset power clear seos there's your uh your post screen your
debug screen all that kind of stuff um
let me have a look you've got that same little uh lit designer sort of thing
there that's really cool and then I really liked this on the for the wind
board you've got your little step-by-step guide on how to install the
CPU right on top of the CPU socket very
neat 3 2 1 done okay then we've got
support for the usual dual Channel DDR3 memory so you can see that here the
color scheme of this board is kind of all black and gray so it's a very high
performance sort of looking color scheme another big difference here when we look
at the power connectors is this board has only one8 pin connector the for the
wind board actually has two so you can deliver ridiculous amounts of current to
your CPU the 24 pin you'll find on the
right hand edge of the board just exactly where it's supposed to be and
then let's see what else we've got here can peel off this sticker ah there's a
nice uh brushed aluminum finish on that chipset heat sink I really like to see
that then we've got six SATA port all on the edge of the board exactly
where they need to be and let's have a look at the uh at the io here so we've
got 1 2 3 4 only six USB ports on the
back but they did give you that IO panel thing we've got our digital audio clar
seos button a PS2 keyboard Port then we
have a couple of EA ports one firewire port 2 GB Ethernet ports and 7.1 audio
anyway thank you for checking out my blog on evga's p55 motherboard