so today on my video blog we'll be unboxing the ASUS p7p 55d evo now the
evo board is positioned a little bit above the pro level board i mean they've
got a lot of p55 boards and it took me a little while to figure out what the
difference is between this and the pro board so you've got a 12 plus two phase
power design sli and crossfire 100 japanese made capacitors okay so that's
all fairly standard now one thing i noticed is in addition to the
productivity internet and games they've got a little server logo here so that's
not on the pro board okay so let's get
this opened up we've got a pretty similar accessory package we've got oh a
black i o shield then we've got your usb
and esata then we've got four SATA cables two
straight two right angle an ide cable
a q connector there and then we've got an sli bridge uh last
but not least of course is your manual as well as your driver and utilities dvd
okay so let's get this board out of the box
here we go if i could just yeah there we go
get this out so it looks a lot like
most of their other p55 boards so you can see here let's start with the
general layout we've got support for two pci express 16x slots at 8x 8x for sli
and crossfire operation this one runs at 4x electrical so then we've got your
chipset here it's cooled by their stylish new uh heatsink then we've got
eight seda ports so four of them are in the right angle
position four coming straight out of the board now i did notice that i'm gonna
get the camera camera lady today actually to have a look from more of a
distance so you can see we've got an extra SATA port versus the pro board
we've got extra power and reset switches on board versus the pro board and that
seems to be for the most part a big part of the
difference oh yeah we've got another gigabit Ethernet on the back but we'll show that
later okay so you've got your power connectors in their desirable places 24
pin on the right-hand edge and then your 8-pin connector with the little cover on
it up here at the top left and then you've got your CPU socket right in the
middle lots of room around it with the 12 plus two phase power design here
support for dual channel ddr3 as with all p55 boards now let's have oh this is
something that's really cool about this board actually is that you can see that
almost all of your onboard fan headers are
not really all of them okay well you've got a couple pwm ready onboard fan
headers so let's have a look at the back io so you can see here you got your ps2
you got a clear cmos button oh actually the pro board does not have a clear cmos
button awesome there's another difference so then you've got eight usb
ports you've got your digital audio out two gigabit Ethernet again the pro board
that only has one you've got firewire esata and 7.1 audio so thank you for
checking out my blog on the p7p 55d evo