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We have collected 2 reviews of the Asus P7P55D-E Pro. Experts rate Asus P7P55D-E Pro 10/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Asus P7P55D-E Pro and Asus Motherboards.
When we published our comprehensive P55 motherboard roundup back in early April, one of the boards we discussed and really liked was the Asus P7P55D Deluxe. At $220, that particular board was priced significantly higher than some of the other LGA1156 options we considered. Fast forward a few months and we've got the LGA1156-based P7P55D-E Pro on the table. Its MSRP is considerably lower than the P7P55D Deluxe's ($179.99 vs. $219), and it offers features like USB 3.0 and SATA 6G, both of which aren't available on the other board. The P7P55D-E Pro's features and price make it an attractive option, but does it stand up against the newer LGA1156 boards from other manufacturers? Let's find out... Asus' bundle contains the company's documentation, a single USB2 external backplate, two SATA cables, a CrossFire connector, the motherboard's I/O plate, and a pair of headers that simplify attaching the various activity lights and power switches. There's nothing extraordinary here, but all of the basics are included with the P7P55D-E Pro to help users get the board set up and running easily and without the need to purchase additional cabling.
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?
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