eVGA P55 FTW LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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781 words · ~3 min read
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so here for a quick look today we have the EVGA a55 FTW for the win now you can
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see I've actually removed the shrink wrap because we did try to shoot this
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once before I am at home shooting this video today so someone was talking or
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something and the shot was totally ruined but I've got everything still in
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here we didn't get very far basically we've got the flexible black SLI Bridge
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inside for the uh for the accessories then we have the ECP V2 uh breakout
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board so to speak you've got your little pins on the back so you use a ribbon
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cable to connect this to your motherboard and then it gives you
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onboard power reset clear seos voltage
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adjustment buttons and then you've got an um a debug post code readout and then
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you've got jumpers to turn on and off different PCI E Lanes which is great for
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troubleshooting any sort of uh SLI uh
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graphics card difficulties you've got Molex TOA adapters then you've got four
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SATA cables here we've got uh two USB
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and one fire wire uh PC eye bracket then
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let's get down to the board oh not quite yet okay well there's our IO plate it's
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just like that and then here's the cable I was talking about this is your
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breakout cable for the uh for the ecpv2
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okay then we've got our driver disc then
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we've got a quick start user guide so this is a oh this thing is huge so this
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is the visual guide for the board so labels all the different parts and gives
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you some Basics about the board then we have the users's manual normal thing
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okay now let's get down to the board itself so I'm just having my very first
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look at this it looks like evga's changed their color scheme quite a bit
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with their p-55 series motherboards I'm more used to seeing like a a green and
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black or a red and black color scheme out of EVGA and yeah we've got something
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totally different here today so let's just uh put this box like this okay
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there we go so we've got a little uh thing of desicant stuff then we've got a
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little plastic thing oh that's kind of nice so we've got a very shiny EVGA logo
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on uh what you can see is a very very weak looking sort of heat sink sort of
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looking thing that's very very cool looking then we have uh a warning oh a
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step-by-step instruction guide this is kind of cute on how to install your CPU
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there you go so that's actually taped right down to the CPU socket so that you
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can't in you can't get at the CPU socket without seeing it so let's have a look
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at the board itself now you've got three PCIe con uh 16 16x connectors you have
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two PCI connectors and one PCIe 1X connector you can see here we've got
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support for the usual thing with any p-55 motherboard we've got support for
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dual Channel DDR3 RAM our power connectors are in the usual places along
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the right hand edge of the board and on the top left corner of the board then
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for our chipset cooling you've got a little EVGA logo heat snc down here now
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in terms of connectivity we've got six SATA two ports on the on the edge of the
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board here then we've got on the back on
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the io Shield we've got looks like only six USB ports that's
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a little bit less than I was expecting PS2 onboard SOS clear we've got digital
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audio eat then we've got fire wire 2 GB
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Ethernet and 7.1 audio and uh thank you
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for oh wow no this is interesting okay up here on the top left which I actually
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didn't even notice before I'm just peeling the sticker off here you've
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actually got two 8 Pin uh EPS connectors
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so it seems that one of them yeah if
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your power supply has an extra eight pin connector plug both in for extreme
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overclocking so it's optional to plug that in but it looks like you can
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deliver a lot of juice to your CPU with this board anyway thank you for checking
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out the p-55 for the win