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okay well I think we finally made our way to our last a soos p55 board to unbox we've got the P 7 P 55 D deluxe board so what's the difference between this and all the other boards well it's got 16 plus plus 3 phase power for the CPU so that's better than any of the other a seuss boards now you've also got support now the Evo has this - but you've got support for drive expert which is an automatic Drive backup solution so there's that other relevant stuff there not really much of anything in there but let's get this board open okay so all right you've got the turbo V remote so this is a hardware level overclocking button so you can actually increase decrease your bus speed and you've got a few different presets turbo key can turn it on so that plugs into the back of your i/o shield speaking of i/o shields here's the i/o shield so there's the turbo connector spot there we go pretty cool so then you've got your manual your drivers and applications DVD then we've got okay six SATA cables three right angle three straight then we've got USB and eSATA IO bracket then we've got an SLI bridge the Q connector things for USG and for your front case connectors then we've got an IDE cable let's get this board out so you will notice that it looks very similar to all of us uses other p55 boards they've gone with a fairly unified looking theme and let's see if we can find the difference between this and their other boards so first thing let's have a look at the general layout here's your two slots for crossfire and SLI so it's 8 X 8 X if you're running two cards and then this one will run at 4x electrical off of the chipset which has a different looking cooler on it this is actually pretty looking it's very very shiny and nice yeah I kind of like that anyway so then we've got one two three four five six seven eight nine SATA ports so we've got six on a right angle here and then three down at the bottom of the board you've got your onboard power and reset switches and then you've got your memo okay switch and then up here you've got little toggle switches for over volting the RAM the IMC that's the memory controller or the uncor and then the CPU so you probably won't be playing around with those unless you and extreme overclocker you've got your power connectors in the usual places 24-pin on the right-hand edge and a pin up at the top left and they're using they're actually there's a heat pipe in between they're cool like ice fortress looking PWM coolers so there you can see there's your 16 phase power around your CPU socket here's the connector for that turbo turbo connector thingamajiggy and then that I guess comes out a little place at the back and then here we go let's have a look at the back i/o so you've got your ps2 keyboard and mouse there's your clear CMOS switch then you've got 8 USB ports digital audio out 2 Gigabit Ethernet 1 firewire and 7.1 audio conspicuously missing is eSATA support very strange for a premium board like this anyway thank you for checking out my video blog on the p7 p55 D deluxe