This series is named P7P55D (we examined several CPU board from the previous popular series P5Q grounded on the P45 chipset), and it surely admits valuable top models (Deluxe and Premium) as well as cheap regular models (LE and LX). Today we are becoming to examine 2 CPU board -- a "regular" top CPU board P7P55D Deluxe and an strange P7P55D EVO.


The EVO production should have defended the new generation of Serial ATA -- SATA-III with 600-MB/s ports. still, when the P7P55D proclamation date grew near, there were discovered some troubles with the Marvell 88SE9123 controller, and P7P55D EVO (like lots other models, admitting Deluxe) abandoned Serial ATA 3.0, which makes it a mediocre CPU board slightly more beneficial than Mid-End. We are going to examine P7P55D Deluxe here.

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Now what pertains the 2nd CPU board. As our sample was not of the final plan, and had no substantial differences from the Deluxe model, we determined to publish just brief points out on P7P55D EVO. This PCB has the standard plan without radical exchanges. The 1st thing you comment is a more complex central processing unit power circuit, bit the cooling organization is quite simple.

With a great effort of will the marketing section gave up the idea of utilizing a floppy controller on this top CPU board, but the IDE slot is demonstrate, of course, as well as COM. Besides, the adjust of expansion slots is not that scary: for graphics cards, admitting SLI or CrossFire defend, there are two pattern PCIEx16 slots (PCI-E 2.0) operating as x16 or x8+x8 owing to the controller in a CPU.