ASUS P7P55D EVO P55 LGA1156 Core i5 Motherboard Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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601 words · ~3 min read
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so today on my video blog we'll be unboxing the ASUS p7p 55d evo now the
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evo board is positioned a little bit above the pro level board i mean they've
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got a lot of p55 boards and it took me a little while to figure out what the
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difference is between this and the pro board so you've got a 12 plus two phase
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power design sli and crossfire 100 japanese made capacitors okay so that's
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all fairly standard now one thing i noticed is in addition to the
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productivity internet and games they've got a little server logo here so that's
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not on the pro board okay so let's get
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this opened up we've got a pretty similar accessory package we've got oh a
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black i o shield then we've got your usb
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and esata then we've got four SATA cables two
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straight two right angle an ide cable
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a q connector there and then we've got an sli bridge uh last
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but not least of course is your manual as well as your driver and utilities dvd
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okay so let's get this board out of the box
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here we go if i could just yeah there we go
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get this out so it looks a lot like
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most of their other p55 boards so you can see here let's start with the
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general layout we've got support for two pci express 16x slots at 8x 8x for sli
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and crossfire operation this one runs at 4x electrical so then we've got your
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chipset here it's cooled by their stylish new uh heatsink then we've got
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eight seda ports so four of them are in the right angle
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position four coming straight out of the board now i did notice that i'm gonna
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get the camera camera lady today actually to have a look from more of a
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distance so you can see we've got an extra SATA port versus the pro board
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we've got extra power and reset switches on board versus the pro board and that
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seems to be for the most part a big part of the
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difference oh yeah we've got another gigabit Ethernet on the back but we'll show that
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later okay so you've got your power connectors in their desirable places 24
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pin on the right-hand edge and then your 8-pin connector with the little cover on
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it up here at the top left and then you've got your CPU socket right in the
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middle lots of room around it with the 12 plus two phase power design here
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support for dual channel ddr3 as with all p55 boards now let's have oh this is
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something that's really cool about this board actually is that you can see that
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almost all of your onboard fan headers are
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not really all of them okay well you've got a couple pwm ready onboard fan
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headers so let's have a look at the back io so you can see here you got your ps2
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you got a clear cmos button oh actually the pro board does not have a clear cmos
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button awesome there's another difference so then you've got eight usb
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ports you've got your digital audio out two gigabit Ethernet again the pro board
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that only has one you've got firewire esata and 7.1 audio so thank you for
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checking out my blog on the p7p 55d evo