eVGA P55 SLI LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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today we're checking out the EVGA p55 SLI so this is not their highest end
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p-55 board but it's no slouch either so you do get support for pretty much the
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full p55 feature set so you got Crossfire SLI um pretty good VM solution
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all of that stuff now this is positioned just under there for the wind board so
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there are some things that are missing I'm just going to get this out here it's
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actually a very similar looking board though so here we go let's let's get
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into the accessory pack package so we got our driver CD okay then we've got
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what seems to be uh the same guide that they had with the for the wind board
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maybe a couple slight differences so that's your your getting started guide
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and oh no it is different it is different it has just this board on it
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so there you go there's your quick start visual guide uh this is totally going to
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get blown away here so just just a sec ah the wind's coming okay so then we've
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got a Molex teda adapter and two SATA
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cables so quite a lot less in terms of accessory package here then we've got
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two USB and one fire wire port on a little PCI bracket okay so let's take
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out this uh divider here okay more accessories so there's our black
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flexible SLI Bridge there's our IO
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Shield got that padding on the back of it that's a kind of a new thing uh then
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we've got our motherboard manual uh yep not really anything
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particularly interesting about that all right let's get the board out here cuz
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that's the uh that's what you folks are paying to see not that anyone really
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pays to watch videos on YouTube but whatever okay so there we've got our
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desicant package in there that keeps your board nice and dry
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and safe during Transportation okay let's get into the board so some major
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differences between this and the classified right off the top we don't
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have support for that little uh that little breakout with all the power reset
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clear seos all that stuff so you'll actually find all the buttons on board
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here there's your reset power clear seos there's your uh your post screen your
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debug screen all that kind of stuff um
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let me have a look you've got that same little uh lit designer sort of thing
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there that's really cool and then I really liked this on the for the wind
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board you've got your little step-by-step guide on how to install the
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CPU right on top of the CPU socket very
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neat 3 2 1 done okay then we've got
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support for the usual dual Channel DDR3 memory so you can see that here the
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color scheme of this board is kind of all black and gray so it's a very high
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performance sort of looking color scheme another big difference here when we look
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at the power connectors is this board has only one8 pin connector the for the
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wind board actually has two so you can deliver ridiculous amounts of current to
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your CPU the 24 pin you'll find on the
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right hand edge of the board just exactly where it's supposed to be and
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then let's see what else we've got here can peel off this sticker ah there's a
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nice uh brushed aluminum finish on that chipset heat sink I really like to see
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that then we've got six SATA port all on the edge of the board exactly
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where they need to be and let's have a look at the uh at the io here so we've
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got 1 2 3 4 only six USB ports on the
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back but they did give you that IO panel thing we've got our digital audio clar
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seos button a PS2 keyboard Port then we
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have a couple of EA ports one firewire port 2 GB Ethernet ports and 7.1 audio
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anyway thank you for checking out my blog on evga's p55 motherboard