ASUS P7P55D Deluxe - Pictorial Preview

by Gary Key on 7/28/2009 12:00 PM EST
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  • davin - Friday, August 28, 2009 - link

    I want to know detail of 10 channel audio and what is 10 channel mean and how it work? thank you for all answer to me
  • Hrel - Thursday, August 20, 2009 - link

    I'm really sick of seeing so many PCI-E 16 slots. I can understand having two on boards that cost like 140+, but personally I'll NEVER use more than one. Pretty much always better to just get a better single card than to get two ok cards.

    I'd MUCH rather see that space used on another PCI, or PCIEx1 or PCIx4 slot; depending on how many of each is already on the board.
  • Randol - Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - link

    Is this motherboard avaliable now? How about CPU?
  • Randol - Thursday, August 13, 2009 - link

    I have found it online.

    http://www.3qstore.com/p7p55ddeluxe.html">http://www.3qstore.com/p7p55ddeluxe.html
  • Razer2911 - Thursday, July 30, 2009 - link

    Where is the northbridge??? I know the Core i3/5/7 processors have inbuilt memory controller but then why do X58 boards have one? And as far as i know they get pretty toasty too..
  • yuhong - Friday, July 31, 2009 - link

    Well, Core i7 only integrated the memory controller like all K8 and later CPUs does, while Core i5 integrate the entire northbridge. Get it now?
  • chhuonchandy - Saturday, August 8, 2009 - link

    What is a firewire?how it work?what interest?
  • chhuonchandy - Sunday, August 9, 2009 - link

    what is a firewire?
  • chhuonchandy - Sunday, August 9, 2009 - link

    what is a firewire?
  • Peroxyde - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link

    Hi,

    I have noticed that the mobo now often have blue plastic colors. Is it a standard or temporary fashion?
  • Postoasted - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link

    I'm going to wait until I see MBs with SATA 6gb, USB3 and eSATA all in the same package. Until then articles such as this is all noise to me.
  • vol7ron - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link

    agreed.
  • n7 - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    This board looks pretty much perfect to me, other than the missing eSATA?

    Is there a good reason why i'm not seeing any eSATA on the Asus P55 mobos you've previewed thus far?
  • chhuonchandy - Saturday, August 8, 2009 - link

    what is a wirefire?how wirefire work? interest?
  • chhuonchandy - Saturday, August 8, 2009 - link

    what is a wirefire?how wirefire work? interest?
  • rolodomo - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link

    No eSATA? That's bad. I use eSATA frequently. I don't know how many hours I've saved over the past year backing up to my external HD enclosure via eSATA, but it is a LOT. USB 2.0 will simply not cut it.


  • taltamir - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    eSATA is basically SATA... that is, for every eSATA plug on a mobo, it has one less internal SATA. count them up... so if they put 1 eSATA, they would only have 5 internal SATA plugs, if they put 2 eSATA only 4 internal SATA plugs... the problem is that intel is skimping on SATA capability of their southbridge. nvidia has had 8 and even 10 SATA2 years ago, but they were cut out of the equasion.
  • mcphailvdoulton - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    possible reasons-
    1) esata devices not widespread enough in the global market to justify the effort needed to route sata lines all the way across the board to the rear panel (and take up space n connector/ there)

    2) no suitable chipset - if they use jmicron the user complains, if they use marvell their tech support dept complains, if they use silicon image their finance/purchasing dept complains :P
  • chhuonchandy - Saturday, August 8, 2009 - link

    esata
  • rolodomo - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link

    Marvell provides esata on my ASUS P5Q-E and it runs great. I have to jumper the external HD to Sata I in order to compensate for signal attenuation, but that's still a good, solid transfer rate, much better than USB.
  • DigitalFreak - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    I really wish the P57 chipset was being released now along with/instead of the P55. The Braidwood flash controller on the P57 should be interesting.
  • dingetje - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    the remote control is pure BS and only makes the board more expensive....yuck!
  • DigitalFreak - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    They have to do something to justify the high price of these boards.
  • blyndy - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    features such as 'Turbo V, Turbo Key, Xtreme Phase, Anti-EMI, and StackCool 3+' are fine as long as:

    a) I can disable them
    b) They don't require anything to be installed in the OS.

    Please include these details in your reviews.

    P.S. I totally agree that low quality network controllers reduce the appeal of a motherboard.
  • mcphailvdoulton - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    uh...... i think stackcool 3, anti-emi and xtreme phase are design features that have no on/off switch :) at most, only phase-throttling under the EPU moniker involves software installation.
  • Einy0 - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    I do as well... Who wants to plop down that kinda cash on a board to get realtek garbage. What happened to using at least mediocre Gigabit LAN like the Marvell Yukon?
  • Cr0nJ0b - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    I have a board (A8N-e) that uses drive expert and it's crap. The software has memory leaks, and is extremely unreliable. I wish they would just turn those ports into standard SATA with no drivexpert.
  • CK804 - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    Choosing VIA as the provider for the audio codec is a step in the right direction, but I wish these motherboard companies would wake up and stop giving us 2 (or 4 in some cases) garbage Realtek ethernet controllers on high end boards and instead give us one, high quality Intel controller.
  • chhuonchandy - Saturday, August 8, 2009 - link

    p55
  • chhuonchandy - Saturday, August 8, 2009 - link

    eight USB 2.0 ports
  • Googer - Friday, July 31, 2009 - link

    IF you want a better network solution on your motherboard, then consider buying Intel branded Motherboards which usually feature high quality Intel networking hardware. I know Intel does not make the flashiest of boards. Instead you get higher quality components for your networking, audio, and I/O needs.
  • gwolfman - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link

    I'd prefer one top-of-the-line opposed to four junk/middle-of-the-line controllers. People are now loosing out on 24/96 decoding with PowerDVD 9 since the ALC889 isn't onboard. Hmmm....
  • HollyDOL - Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - link

    I wouldn't wonder if they put Realtek wannabe NIC in low end boards, but they put this junk everywhere... from the worst board all way up to the i7 flagship boards. This is my major point not going to i7/5 yet. Really, if you buy >$300 motherboard, you expect better. Even Gigabyte EX58 Extreme runs on those garbage Realteks. Damn hell, with such s board designers should have never even considered Realtek as NIC...
  • mcphailvdoulton - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    oh this post too~ i'm also curious if anyone's tried benchmarking the ICH NIC? correct me if i'm wrong but iirc only intel boards use it though...


    "p.s. Here's something interesting from the ICH10 family datasheet:

    "The Gigabit Ethernet controller has a PCI interface to the host processor and host memory" (section 5.3.1, p.102, doc.319973-003)

    I wonder if that statement means what it seems to... any reviews of network performance for motherboards using the ICH MAC? If it's true, then so much for all the hue and cry when motherboard manufacturers use PCI GbE controllers instead of PCIe ones - which might well be easier to source and cost less than the requisite Intel LCI/GLCI PHY. :P "
  • mcphailvdoulton - Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - link

    Great work on the pictorial preview, though it seems to just make the wait more agonizing :P

    On the intel MAC, it's an issue tat's been complained of often. I think there was a post from a previous preview on the asus p55 EVO, imho worth QFT here:

    "Along with what Gary Key remarked:

    "Why manufacturers will not utilize the native Intel Gigabit LAN support in the P55 is beyond us."

    Actually I suspect that the Intel ones may have better performance and/or stability. Nevertheless, it's very likely due to one word: cost.

    Intel being Intel, iirc the integrated MAC cannot interface with any Tom, Dick and Harry of a PHY, but requires the proprietary LCI/GLCI interface which is used by only certain Intel PHYs - "Gigabit LAN Connects" in Intel's parlance, such as the i82567 found on Intel's own motherboards.

    The cost factor extends beyond just these proprietary PHYs required. Due to the proprietary interface used, these PHYs can only be used on Intel chipset boards. What of the non-Intel chipset ones? Nvidia, AMD etc... purchasing, control and inventory costs would go up if motherboard manufacturers had to keep separate inventories of PHYs and/or NICs for each platform.

    Or they could just use external NICs all the way for all their products, as they do now. That would also ease design costs in terms of resources, time and effort since they've lots of experience with the external NICs and can practically design them in with their eyes closed.

    So all in all, it was likely a business decision to go with external NICs than to tap the ICH MAC on Intel chipsets.""

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