ASUS P7P55D-E Pro Intel P55 LGA 1156 Motherboard Review

ASUS P7P55D-E Pro Intel P55 LGA 1156 Motherboard Review
Author: Frank Stroupe
Pages:
  1. Introduction
  2. Specifications / Features
  3. A Closer Look
  4. Installation
  5. The BIOS
  6. SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3
  7. Overclocking / Testing
  8. Testing - Futuremark
  9. Testing - Gaming
  10. Conclusions

Right after CES, the Intel Core i5 600 Series processors, with their 32nm construction and onboard graphics processing, entered the market with a fair amount of hype and hoopla. Today’s building excitement is for the soon to be released six-core LGA 1366 Core i9, also built with the 32nm process.

But, if an enthusiast wants to build a gaming rig or workstation today, the Intel processor to consider is still the Core i7 with its massive power coming from four cores. The only real decision is whether to go the more expensive route with the LGA 1366 i7 900 series and its massive triple channel memory bandwidth, or the slightly more modern route with the Core i7 800 series and the many architectural advances found in LGA 1156 and the P55 chipset.

There are a couple of other decisions that will have to be made, mainly whether or not to get ready for the two other new technologies on the market…SATA 6gb/s, and USB 3. Many new P55 motherboards have onboard SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3, but were you aware that most of them actually use PCI-E lanes to compensate for the lack of buses to utilize these new methods of data transfer, taking those valuable lanes away from the video cards?

Today I will be looking at the Asus P7P55D-E Pro, a middle-of-the-road version of Asus’ new P55 motherboards that sport SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3 without PCI-E compensation. Yes, this board prepares you for the future while allowing you the full use of your PCI-E lanes for SLI or CrossfireX by using Asus’ new PLX implementation. Is the P7P55D-E Pro the P55 board to have? Read on to see!

Special thanks to ASUS for providing us with the P7P55D-E Pro Intel P55 LGA 1156 Motherboard to review.

Packaging
The P7P55D-E Pro uses Asus’ new sky blue color scheme. As usual, the box is covered in specs and features both front and back.

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Inside the board is protected from the accessories by a cardboard divider, and is protected from static electricity by Asus’ anti-static sleeve.

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  • MissJ

    Great review, but you forgot one important thing. You didn't mention anything about the bridge (PLX) chip and how it doesn’t provide extra DMI bus bandwidth, which can “potentially” bottleneck anything running off the P55 chipset, ie; anything running of X1's, your OS drive, etc.

    Gigabyte's USB 3.0/Sata III solution is really the only viable one, as every other USB 3.0/Sata III mobo maker uses the PLX chip.

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    Great review, i have same mobo, with I7 in Windows 2003 server 32 bits, i experiment a poor perfomance of this system, what can cause this?, i have a raid 0 with 2 sata of 1 Tera, and 8 Gb RAM. I have windows 2003 r2 32 bits for exchange server 2003 do not support 64 bits :(

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    Note that the P7P55D-E (non-pro) and lower boards in this family do NOT have the PLX chip solution for USB 3 and SATA 3. For those boards, USB 3 and SATA 3 share PCIE bandwidth.

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