The Deluxe nature of the Asus P7P55D Deluxe motherboard is obvious from the shiny plug-in TurboV remote control that comes bundled with it. Designed to offload the overclocking demands from the BIOS, it enables both on-the-fly and profile-based overclocks at the press of a few buttons.
All the motherboard manufacturers are trying to make overclocking a key part of the P55 experience. You'll still have better results getting down and dirty with the BIOS settings, but it's a great start for the novice or the mainstream user.
Asus' Deluxe P55 board is itself a demon overclocker, enabling us to push our 2.93GHz Core i7 870 up by just over 1GHz. And that's an astounding result. Its memory bandwidth isn't the best in high-end terms, but as we've seen, bandwidth doesn't maketh the benchmark.
Overall, the Deluxe is quite similar to the regular P7P55D EVO but one change lies at the foot of the board where the SATA connections have been reorganised. This has created slightly more space around the P55 chipset and has allowed Asus to employ a large low profile aluminium heatsink. The heatsink is covered in turn by a plastic plate that carries an Asus logo that is illuminated by blue LEDs. Thankfully you can disable the LEDs in the BIOS and we did so, rapidly, although this had a strange consequence. It seems that the LEDs are configured to be on by default. When you turn your PC on the LEDs also come on then after POST they go off, provided you have disabled the setting in the BIOS, but oddly when you turn off your PC the LEDs will briefly flash into life again.
Another change in the layout of the Deluxe lies up by the CPU socket where the power regulation hardware has been upgraded from the 12+2 set-up on the basic model that we previewed and has become 16+3 on the Deluxe. Asus has used tiny chokes and capacitors and has managed to fit the hardware in very neatly without any need to locate components on the back of the board.
| CPU | LGA 1156 Socket for Intel Core I7/Core i5 Processors |
| Chipset | Intel P55 Express Chipset |
| Memory | 4x Dimm, Max 16GB, DDR3 2133(OC)/1600(OC)/1333/1066 Unbuffered Memory Dual Channel Memory Hyper Dimm Memory Support is subject to physical characteristics of the CPU |
| Expansion Slots | 2x PCI-E 2.0 Slots x16 (One at 16x or Two at 8x8x) 1x PCI-E 2.0 Slot x16 (At 4x, 2.5GT/s) 2x PCI-E 2.0 Slots 1x (2.5GT/s) |
| Multi GPU Support | Nvidia Quad-GPUSLI ATI Quad-GPU CrossfireX |
| Storage | Southbridge 6x Sata 3Gb/s Ports (Intel Matrix, RAID 1,0,5 and 10) JMicron JMB363 Sata & Pata Controller 1x UltraDMA 133/100 Pata (up to two drives) 1x Sata 3Gb/s (Black Port) JMicron JMB322 (Drive Xpert Technology) 2x Sata 3Gb/s (Navy Blue & Grey) Supports EZ Backup and Super Speed Functions* *Drive Xpert functions only available if drives are designated as Data Drives.
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| LAN | Dual Gigabit Lan Controllers Realtek 8112L/8110SC Gigabit Lan Controller featuring AI Net 2 |
| Audio | VIA VT2020 10-Channel Hi Def Audio CODEC Absolute Pitch BD192/24 featuring ENVY HD DTS Surround Sensation UltraPC Supports Jack Detection, Multi Streaming, Front Panel Jack Retasking Coaxial/Optical S/PDIF at back I/O |
| IEE1394 (Firewire) | VIA 6308P Supports 2 ports one Rear I/O one Midboard |
| USB | 14 Ports 8 Back Panel 6 Midboard |
| Form Factor | ATX Form Factor 12x9.6 Inch (30.5cm x 24.4cm) |
TechFind Says:
It isn't cheap but the Asus P7P55D Deluxe is a perfect match for the new Intel Lynnfield processors and we just hope the competition can match this superb motherboard.
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