The ASUS P7P55D Premium is one of ASUS's most feature-rich P55 Express board's in the market place with the addition of the new SATA 6 Gb/second interface, making it the board of choice for those wanting to go the P55 route.
ASUS has again gone the extra mile with their performance, overclocking, and the inclusion of the TurboV Remote which is a great feature allowing tweaking of the board without going into the BIOS
Meet the ASUS P7P55D Premium.
Front, inside and rear cover of the packaging that houses the ASUS P7P55D Premium.
What's in the Box
User's manual
1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
1 x TurboV Remote
2 x Serial ATA 6.0Gb/s cables
4 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s cables
1 x 2-port USB and eSATA module
ASUS Q-Shield
2 in 1 Q-connector
1 x ASUS SLI bridge connector
Let's look at what ASUS P7P55D Premium has to offer.
As you can see, the board sports a dark PCB, with some aggressive looking heatsinks on the VRM and chipset, the VRM is made up of low RDS (on) MOSFETs, Ferrite core chokes, and 100% Japanese-made, high quality conductive polymer caps.
For quiet thermal solution, the board uses a fanless design with heat pipe, Fan Xpert also help to cool down by adjusting both CPU and chassis fan speed according to different ambient temperature, the board also uses Stack Cool 3+ effective heat dissipation.
There is even a heat-plate on the underside.
The four holes around the CPU socket area are spaced differently to the socket 775 and socket 1366 mounting brackets so your old heat sink won't fit.
Easy access to the power and reset buttons which are nicely illuminated.
The ASUS P7P55D Premium has two PCI Express 2.0 x16 video card slots for multi-graphic card's that supports both ATI Quad-GPU CrossfireX and nVidia Quad-GPU SLI, but if duel cards are used this will drop down to x8 Mode, further expansion comes via two PCI Express x1 and 2 x PCI slots, the first two slots are controlled directly by the CPU, which will help to removing some system latency.
There are four dual channel DDR3-1333/1066 memory slots which can accommodate up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM. Memory and can be overclocked to run at DDR3-2133/1600 speeds with compatible module, The memory slots has retention clips on the DIMM slots at one end, Previously we have seen clip's at either end but now there is just one at the top of the motherboard with a small retention clip at the bottom which makes things easy when removing memory modules when large graphics cards are installed.
The ASUS P7P55D Premium motherboard is well equipped with six 3.0Gb/s SATA connectors that can be
Paired up to make an Intel® Matrix Storage SATA RAID 0,1.5 and 10 on at least six of these SATA connectors.
The P7P55D Premium is the world’s first motherboard to support SATA 6 Gb/second drives (two white)
The SATA ports are set at 90 degrees on the side of the board so as not to interfere with larger PCI-e cards; there are 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (Blue) and 2 x 6.0Gb/s (White) ports next to the IDE Socket.
The VIA VT6308S controller supports 2 x 1394a
There are three switches at the top of the board that can provide extra power to the memory, integrated memory controller and the CPU that allow for over voltages to become available in the BIOS.
The default values are CPU 0.85 - 1.75v, IMC max 1.7v, Dram max 2.0v
Switched OV Values are CPU 1.25 - 2.1v, IMC max 1.9v, Dram max 2.5v
MemOK is a feature that is pretty neat; it is a little red button with the purpose to allow the system to boot through running a number of algorithms in order to ensure the memory is stable enough to boot the system at the set values
On the rear of the motherboard we have the I/O section which has 1 x PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Combo port , 1 x S/PDIF Out (Coaxial + Optical), 1 x IEEE 1394a, 2 x LAN(RJ45) port, 8 x USB 2.0/1.1, 10 -Channel Audio
The IEEE 1394a interface provides a high speed digital interface for audio/video appliances such as digital television, digital video camcorders, storage peripherals & other PC portable devices.
T.Probe is a leading Active Cooling Technology
The P7P55D Premium include an integrated Asus T.Probe chip which detects and balances power phase loads and temperatures in real-time
There are four sets of LED on the board that illuminate in the boot process to let you know if there are any problems as they will remain illuminated on the device with the problem.
CPU.
Dram
.
VGA.
Final boot device.
The bios is very nicely laid out with plenty of features' and is not too complicated but offer's full functionality.
Here are some overclocked Bios settings, users are reminded though that overclocking in anyway will invalidate you warranty and I sacha35 will not be responsible for any problems that may arise or happen, so please be aware of the risks involved with overclocking.
ASUS has again gone the extra mile with their performance, overclocking, and the inclusion of the TurboV Remote which is a great feature allowing tweaking of the board without going into the BIOS
Meet the ASUS P7P55D Premium.
Front, inside and rear cover of the packaging that houses the ASUS P7P55D Premium.
What's in the Box
User's manual
1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
1 x TurboV Remote
2 x Serial ATA 6.0Gb/s cables
4 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s cables
1 x 2-port USB and eSATA module
ASUS Q-Shield
2 in 1 Q-connector
1 x ASUS SLI bridge connector
Let's look at what ASUS P7P55D Premium has to offer.
As you can see, the board sports a dark PCB, with some aggressive looking heatsinks on the VRM and chipset, the VRM is made up of low RDS (on) MOSFETs, Ferrite core chokes, and 100% Japanese-made, high quality conductive polymer caps.
For quiet thermal solution, the board uses a fanless design with heat pipe, Fan Xpert also help to cool down by adjusting both CPU and chassis fan speed according to different ambient temperature, the board also uses Stack Cool 3+ effective heat dissipation.
There is even a heat-plate on the underside.
The four holes around the CPU socket area are spaced differently to the socket 775 and socket 1366 mounting brackets so your old heat sink won't fit.
Easy access to the power and reset buttons which are nicely illuminated.
The ASUS P7P55D Premium has two PCI Express 2.0 x16 video card slots for multi-graphic card's that supports both ATI Quad-GPU CrossfireX and nVidia Quad-GPU SLI, but if duel cards are used this will drop down to x8 Mode, further expansion comes via two PCI Express x1 and 2 x PCI slots, the first two slots are controlled directly by the CPU, which will help to removing some system latency.
There are four dual channel DDR3-1333/1066 memory slots which can accommodate up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM. Memory and can be overclocked to run at DDR3-2133/1600 speeds with compatible module, The memory slots has retention clips on the DIMM slots at one end, Previously we have seen clip's at either end but now there is just one at the top of the motherboard with a small retention clip at the bottom which makes things easy when removing memory modules when large graphics cards are installed.
The ASUS P7P55D Premium motherboard is well equipped with six 3.0Gb/s SATA connectors that can be
Paired up to make an Intel® Matrix Storage SATA RAID 0,1.5 and 10 on at least six of these SATA connectors.
The P7P55D Premium is the world’s first motherboard to support SATA 6 Gb/second drives (two white)
The SATA ports are set at 90 degrees on the side of the board so as not to interfere with larger PCI-e cards; there are 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (Blue) and 2 x 6.0Gb/s (White) ports next to the IDE Socket.
The VIA VT6308S controller supports 2 x 1394a
There are three switches at the top of the board that can provide extra power to the memory, integrated memory controller and the CPU that allow for over voltages to become available in the BIOS.
The default values are CPU 0.85 - 1.75v, IMC max 1.7v, Dram max 2.0v
Switched OV Values are CPU 1.25 - 2.1v, IMC max 1.9v, Dram max 2.5v
MemOK is a feature that is pretty neat; it is a little red button with the purpose to allow the system to boot through running a number of algorithms in order to ensure the memory is stable enough to boot the system at the set values
On the rear of the motherboard we have the I/O section which has 1 x PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Combo port , 1 x S/PDIF Out (Coaxial + Optical), 1 x IEEE 1394a, 2 x LAN(RJ45) port, 8 x USB 2.0/1.1, 10 -Channel Audio
The IEEE 1394a interface provides a high speed digital interface for audio/video appliances such as digital television, digital video camcorders, storage peripherals & other PC portable devices.
T.Probe is a leading Active Cooling Technology
The P7P55D Premium include an integrated Asus T.Probe chip which detects and balances power phase loads and temperatures in real-time
There are four sets of LED on the board that illuminate in the boot process to let you know if there are any problems as they will remain illuminated on the device with the problem.
CPU.
Dram
VGA.
Final boot device.
The bios is very nicely laid out with plenty of features' and is not too complicated but offer's full functionality.
Here are some overclocked Bios settings, users are reminded though that overclocking in anyway will invalidate you warranty and I sacha35 will not be responsible for any problems that may arise or happen, so please be aware of the risks involved with overclocking.
