ASUS P7P55D LE P55 LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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626 words · ~3 min read
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so we've got another p-55 board here today that we're going to be checking
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out it's the assus p7 p55 dle now le can
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mean any number of things in this case I'm pretty sure it means late edition
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you've got a lot of the basic features that you're going to want so you've got
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your 8 phase power you've got support for what is it their uh memo K turbo V
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overclocking software memo K is actually one of the more unique features we'll
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talk about that in a bit so inside we've got our IO Shield got like the padding
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on the back that's kind of neat you've got these little uh ports that you can
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use to plug your individual pins into then plug the whole thing into the board
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the easy connector or something like that you've got an ID cable two SATA
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cables and a manual with the uh DVD
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inside so you can see it's actually a very very basic accessory package with
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this board so let's take out the divider here and get that out of the way and
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let's take out the actual board itself so this is one of the lower-end boards
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in ASUS's p55 lineup so let's go ahead and put that down there you can see it's
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actually a little bit on the narrow side so normally you'd see that a board will
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have one two three screw holes and it
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would actually be a little bit wider so this is a narrow board it helps them save on cost and it helps them keep a
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cleaner layout gives you a little bit more space to work in so let's do the
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general layout we've got our 24 pin connector over on the right Edge exactly
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where we want it support for dual Channel DDR3 memory like all p-55 boards
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here's our LGA 1156 socket and here's our eight-phase power design up at the
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top of the board you can see you've got an 8 Pin power connector for the CPU
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right there and then let's have a look so you've got a couple of PCI Express
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ports but we don't have support for Crossfire or SLI on this particular
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board this is kind of a neat looking heat sink here it's uh very unique I
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actually kind of like the look of this board to be honest uh we've got six SATA
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connectors so if I can just get the cameraman to have a look so two right angle ones and then four of the more
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classic style that comes right out of the board and let's have a look at our
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rear panel I don't really like the color of this PCB I prefer to see it like a
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jet black but it's not too bad looking actually okay we got two PS2 ports we've
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got eight USB ports so one two and then we've got uh digital audio eeta and 7.1
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audio so actually a pretty good uh a pretty good IO Port thing here oh yeah
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let's talk about memo K yeah before you zoom out so that's the memo K button
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basically memo K you press this button and the board will default to super
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loose super non-aggressive timings for the RAM so you can make sure that you
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can boot with any RAM no matter what the profile is on the memory itself so thank
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you for checking out my blog on the p7p 55d L