ASUS P7P55D-E Pro P55 Core i5 LGA1156 Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,353 words · ~6 min read
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okay so today I'm going to be having a quick look at the ASUS p7p 55 de Pro so
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this is an updated version of The Old p7p 55d Pro and by old I mean new but
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not quite old enough to include or too old to include Okay blah blah blah true
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USB 3.0 and true SATA 6 gbit per second
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bam that is your big selling point for this and a lot of the other new p-55
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boards that have been coming out I mean I know the P5 5 launch wasn't that long
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ago but because these two new technologies are so important many of
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the motherboard manufacturers are releasing new boards so they can get on
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board with those Technologies right away so let's go through what is special
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about this board hybrid technology includes their easy tune overclocking
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Express gate uh Linux operating system blippy bloopy whatever okay hybrid
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processor turbo V Evo okay OC blah blah okay okay here we go thermal probe so
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they have temperature probes in all of the regulator modules that will adjust
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for the power load as well as the temperature to ensure that you're always
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getting the best performance possible out of them okay next one is the true
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USB 3.0 and true SATA 6 gbit per second performance that is very cool obviously
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and then next is any memories AOK so it's their memo technology that allows
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you to post even with overclocked sort of memory modules now I'm going to use
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this chair as a substitute for a real cameraman here and adjust it so we can
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have a look at the motherboard while we box okay so there is the board box
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itself let's get this open okay so the first thing we have here is the io
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Shield it's say one of those new stylish black aisle Shields and you can see
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they've clearly marked the two USB 3.0
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ports with a white box around them that's kind of handy because if you're looking for those it's nice to have them
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well marked okay then we have a USB and esap there that is awesome I am so tired
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of seeing like USB fire wire combo ports I mean who uses fire wire anyway USB
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eada ASUS has it figured out all right there is an IDE cable so they've got it
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less figured out there's still IDE but what can you do and we have an SLI
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Bridge so you can assume that this is an SLI supporting board okay we've got
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their Q connector technology and then we have four SATA cables they are black and
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they are straight and right angled there's two of each okay then we have
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the users guide as well as a driver DVD
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do not use this download the latest drivers and
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well sorry about that my memory card actually filled up while I was in the
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middle of my unboxing so here is the user guide as well as the driver DVD
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don't use that etc etc and then we have the ASUS Q design and DIY features where
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they're basically giving you a quick rundown of all of the cool features that
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it has so it has a CPU socket wow okay
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it has memo K we already talked about that so there's no need to go into that
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any further qm is an outof boox idea for
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easy installation basically that means that when you're installing memory
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modules in this board there's only a connector on one side very cool I'll
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show you more about that in a moment Q slot is the new retaining mechanism that
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ASUS has designed to make removing board um
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removing video cards very very easy you can use the pencil eraser okay qled H
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that's not really very cool okay overvolt switches this is neat so there's a Hardware switch to actually
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enable overvolting features and vertical SATA ports have been around for a
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million year so we're not too concerned about that and easy RAM overclocking
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modes okay well those have been around for a while too so you're like two for
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six anyway good job ASUS okay so let's get the board itself
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out here so here is the p7p
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55d Das e Pro there we go so why don't
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we do a quick rundown of the overall feature set of this particular
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motherboard I'm going to move my camera back a little bit and adjust it so that
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you can have a look here so first of all here's your LGA 1156 socket that you'll
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find on all p55 boards here is your dual Channel DDR3 memory and this is the Q
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dim thing they were talking about you can see that on this side these aren't
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actually Clips like here have a look from the side uh if I can get that in
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there yeah these are not Clips so you basically just slide the module in from
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this side and then open up the clip put it in and then clip it in very cool
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feature actually okay so here is their uh 16 phase Hybrid Power which is
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actually 12 plus 2 phases okay and then you've got your 24 pin power connector
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as well as your eight pin power connector in their optimal locations at
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the edge and top of the board respectively let's have a look at the
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PCI Express layout so if you were going to use Crossfire or SLI on this
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motherboard which you could you would be left with an additional PCIe a PCI and
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another PCIe 1X so that's a pretty ideal
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layout given that most of the expansion cards these days are moving towards PCI
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Express this isn't a premium premium board so you're not going to find any on
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board power buttons or uh four pin CPU
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or sorry not CPU four pin fan headers or any of that kind of fancy stuff but it
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is still fairly featur Rich As far as the overclocking features go so actually
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you know what let's have a look okay let's have a quick look these are our
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SATA 6 gabit per second ports so all of
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the blue ones are SATA 2 or SATA 3.0 gbit per second and then these gray ones
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down here are SATA 3 gbit per second I think we've covered most of the featur
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on the front of the board oh yeah here's the memo K button in case you were
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wondering and here's your little dip switch to overvolt the RAM that's also
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pretty cool wow that's really hard to press they don't want you pressing that by accident that's for sure here's a
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quick look at the vrm cooling solution I kind of like these it kind of like
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they're kind of ice Fortress for lack of a better word anyway here is the back of
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the board the moment you've all been waiting for you got PS2 ports and
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they're back to two PS2 ports on this board then we have six SATA or six SATA
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six USB ports 2.0 and then we have two
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digital audio ports we've got a fire wire and an eat and then we have gigabit
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Ethernet and 7.1 Audio Oh wait there's more USB 3.0 there they are so USB 3.0
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is up to 5 gabit per second so you're looking at maxing out any hard drive
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with a USB 3.0 connection which makes it actually faster than e SAT 2 which is
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very very cool so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS p7p 55 5d- e
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Deluxe or something like that 55d e pro thank you