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 Board  8-pin power  CPU area  Back of board ASUS uses a full-ATX motherboard size on their P7P55D –E Premium motherboard with a size of 12 inches by 9.6 inches. The board is a black color which is in keeping with the other ASUS Intel based motherboards. Starting at the top right of the board we find the PEM chip which works with the T.Probe chip to regulate phase power management. Next is the connector for the TurboV Remote, followed by the 8-pin power connector.  T.Probe  PEX chip  PEM chip  Chassis Fan The CPU Socket area is the most stunning I’ve ever seen on a motherboard to date. There are 35 chokes for the 32+3 phase power offered by the motherboard. The other phases of the 48 Phase Hybrid power come from the T.Probe chip. The MOSFETs are covered by heatsinks which also contain a heatpipe keeping them cool. The capacitors surround the LGA-1156 Socket are low-profile and are 100% Japanese solid capacitors.  TurboV Remote connector  DIMM Sockets  ICS chip  OV Switches ASUS includes four DIMM Sockets on this board which can take up to 16GB of Dual Channel DDR3 memory. The maximum memory clock speed supported officially by the Intel LGA-1156 CPUs is 1333MHz, but you can use XMP profiles and overclocking to get higher clocks. The CPU Fan header is below the memory slots. Below the CPU Fan headers are three switches which allow for over voltage of the DIMM, the Internal Memory Controller and the CPU.  Winbond  NEC chip  SATA ports  IDE Starting from the bottom of the motherboard we find a WInbond chip, followed by a legacy COM1 header. The MemOK memory compatibility button is next followed by a 24-pin power connector. The IDE and SATA ports are next. There are two white and four ports angled to allow the user to install long video cards without interfering with installation and two further SATA ports on the left side by the FP I/O headers. The white ports are the new SATA 6 Gb/second ports and the blue ports are the SATA 3Gb/second ports.  MemOK button  24-pin power  More SATA ports  FP I/O The left side of the motherboard starts off with the FP I/O ports. ASUS has a accessory called Q-Connector that can attach everything at one time to the board. Two USB headers brings the total supported by this motherboard to 10. A Power and Reset button is next, allowing the DIYer to install the motherboard without being inside a case. Next are a TPM header, a IEEE-1394 header, the SPDIF Out header and a AAFP header.  Expansion  Via chip  Power and Reset  TPM The board has expansion options for two full length dual slot PCI Express x16 cards with two PCI Express x16 slots. The LGA-1156 CPU splits the bandwidth provided to the two cards into x8/x8 mode, as it doesn’t have enough PCI Express lanes to provide full x16/x16 mode. Other expansion options include two PCI slots and two PCI Express x1 slots. If two dual slot cards are used, one adjacent PCI slot and an adjacent PCI Express x1 slot are occupied. Both NVIDIA’s SLI and ATI’s CrossfireX are supported.  Via VT2020  Expansion  P55 chipset  Marvell chip Onboard sound is provided by a Via VT2020 chip which is ASUS’s version of the Via VT1828S CODEC that is the latest on Via’s arsenal of High Definition Audio CODECs. This provides 7.1+2 channel multi-streaming and 24bit/192Hz DACs that are superior in my opinion to the standard Realtek ALC889 CODECs it replaces on ASUS’s motherboards. The CODEC provides support for Acoustic Echo Cancellation, Beam Forming, and Noise Suppression. It also provides support for Blu-ray and HD-DVD Audio Content protection.  AAFP  TurboV EVO chip  Q-DIMM  Rear I/O The rear I/O on the board consists of two USB 3.0 ports (in blue), six USB 2.0 ports, a Firewire port, two Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45 jacks, a coaxial out and TOS-Link SPDIF port, a PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse port, and six audio jacks for the onboard audio.. The onboard Gigabit LAN is controlled by two Realtek RTL8112L PHYs. The Marvell SE9123 chip controls the SATA 6 Gb/second ports and is supported by the PLX PEX bridge chip. Contents:
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