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so today on my video blog we'll be unboxing the ASUS p7p 55d evo now the

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evo board is positioned a little bit above the pro level board i mean they've

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got a lot of p55 boards and it took me a little while to figure out what the

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difference is between this and the pro board so you've got a 12 plus two phase

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power design sli and crossfire 100 japanese made capacitors okay so that's

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all fairly standard now one thing i noticed is in addition to the

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productivity internet and games they've got a little server logo here so that's

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not on the pro board okay so let's get

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this opened up we've got a pretty similar accessory package we've got oh a

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black i o shield then we've got your usb

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and esata then we've got four SATA cables two

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straight two right angle an ide cable

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a q connector there and then we've got an sli bridge uh last

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but not least of course is your manual as well as your driver and utilities dvd

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okay so let's get this board out of the box

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here we go if i could just yeah there we go

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get this out so it looks a lot like

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most of their other p55 boards so you can see here let's start with the

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general layout we've got support for two pci express 16x slots at 8x 8x for sli

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and crossfire operation this one runs at 4x electrical so then we've got your

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chipset here it's cooled by their stylish new uh heatsink then we've got

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eight seda ports so four of them are in the right angle

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position four coming straight out of the board now i did notice that i'm gonna

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get the camera camera lady today actually to have a look from more of a

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distance so you can see we've got an extra SATA port versus the pro board

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we've got extra power and reset switches on board versus the pro board and that

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seems to be for the most part a big part of the

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difference oh yeah we've got another gigabit Ethernet on the back but we'll show that

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later okay so you've got your power connectors in their desirable places 24

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pin on the right-hand edge and then your 8-pin connector with the little cover on

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it up here at the top left and then you've got your CPU socket right in the

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middle lots of room around it with the 12 plus two phase power design here

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support for dual channel ddr3 as with all p55 boards now let's have oh this is

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something that's really cool about this board actually is that you can see that

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almost all of your onboard fan headers are

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not really all of them okay well you've got a couple pwm ready onboard fan

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headers so let's have a look at the back io so you can see here you got your ps2

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you got a clear cmos button oh actually the pro board does not have a clear cmos

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button awesome there's another difference so then you've got eight usb

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ports you've got your digital audio out two gigabit Ethernet again the pro board

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that only has one you've got firewire esata and 7.1 audio so thank you for

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checking out my blog on the p7p 55d evo