ASUS P7P55D P55 LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today on my video blog we'll be unboxing the p7p55d
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so this is the vanilla board they've got a lot of different suffixes but this one
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has a 12 plus two phase power design crossfire but no sli support and it uses
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100 japanese capacitors it's Windows 7 ready like every p55 board and let's get
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this thing opened up and have a look at the accessory package so we've got a
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pretty bare bones accessory package you can see we've got an i o shield
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we've got the motherboard manual along with the drivers and
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applications dvd we've got an id cable
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then we've got their their little connector thingamajiggies we have four
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SATA cables two right angle and two straight and then let's get to the board
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itself so pull out their green 100
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non-styrofoam packaging here let's get this
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board out here we go so give me two seconds here let's have a look so like
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all p55 boards well it's the usual thing
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we've got support for dual channel ddr3 memory right here
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we've got ASUS memo k technology which sets your memory to the bone stock
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default so you can post the board with pretty much any RAM in it we've got
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seven SATA ports down at the bottom here there's your usb now let's have a look
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at the slots here so we've got a 16x pci express slot and then another one these
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will run in 8x 8x mode if you're using crossfire we've got a couple PCIe 1x
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slots three pci now they're using these cool uh i really like these they remind
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me of like you know superman's fortress of solitude or whatever you got like
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your icicle looking coolers on the mosfets as i mentioned before we've got
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a 12 plus two phase power design here's your 1156 socket let's have a look at
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the back of the board here and what we've got for io so here's your ps2
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keyboard and mouse then we've got eight usb ports
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right there there and there we've got digital audio but only optical not
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coaxial we've got firewire esata a
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gigabit Ethernet and then 7.1 audio so thank you for checking out my video blog
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on the p7p 55d