Asus Previews Latest P7P55D Evo Design
Asus' P7P55D Evo is shaping up to be quite an attractive P55-based motherboard (with support for Intel's Core i5 processors). Two new photos from Asus update the platform's looks from last week's early preview.
If you haven't yet seen our first-look preview at Asus' upcoming P55-based P7P55D Evo motherboard for Intel's Core i5, you can check it out right here.
In that preview, we mentioned that the board's design wasn't yet final, and that Asus would update us when the color/cooling was sorted out. That has happened, it seems, and we received a couple of shots of the new P55 heatsink and color scheme.
Of note is that these shots still show eight SATA ports, while we've heard from Asus that the Marvell controller's drivers are not ready and that Gigabyte is pulling the 6 Gb/s chips from its P55-based designs altogether.


But I do like the idea of going back to dual channel memory. Triple channel seemed excessive to me.
Still I am skeptic, I don't see how this is going to be much different from the C2 series aside from DDR3. Guess we will find out soon enough.
Crossfire will be supported no word on SLI.
Source?
Ummm OK. I hope your joking cause if you aren't that means you work for ASUS and you just let the cat out of the bag and will likely be fired when you show up to work today. Not flaming I just don't want anyone getting all excited over nothing.
Oh ok LOL, I didn't know that. If I had I probably wouldn't have sounded so serious. I just left work after being there since monday morning. So I'm a little cookoo.
Funny story: My client has a virtualy unlimited budget. He has processor intensive mission critical software that he runs, and is coming from an old P4.
Funny thing is, he couldn't get one. No built in parallel port. He needed an on-logic parallel interface for the software key to run that mission critical software. Had to 'settle' for a C2Q (I know, so sad).
So the loss of one of the bridge chips is great, except it has some drawbacks.
Such mobo would value at least 50$ more.
That is an innovative and interesting idea. Kudos.
Robot sex anyone?