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so today on my video blog we'll be unboxing the Seuss P 7 p 55 D Evo now the Evo board is positioned a little bit above the pro level board I mean they've got a lot of p55 boards it took me a little while to figure out what the differences between this and the pro board so you've got a full + 2 phase power design SLI and crossfire 100% Japanese main capacitors okay so that's all fairly standard now one thing I noticed is in addition to the productivity and Trenton games they've got a little server logo here so that's not on the pro board okay so let's get this opened up we've got a pretty similar accessory package we've got a black IO shield then we've got your USB and eSATA then we've got four SATA cables to straight to right angle an IDE cable that cute connector there and then we've got an SLI bridge last but not least of course is your manual as well as your driver and utilities DVD ok so let's get this board out of the box if I could just yeah so it looks a lot like most of their other p55 board so you can see here let's start with the general layout we've got support for two PCI Express 16x slots at 8 X 8 X 4 SLI and crossfire operation this one runs at 4x electrical so then we've got the AR chipset here it's cooled by their stylish new heatsink then we've got 8 SATA ports so four of them are in the right ankle position for coming straight out of the board now I did notice that and I'm gonna get the camera camera lady today actually to have a look from more of a distance so you can see we've got an extra SATA port versus the pro board we've got extra power and reset switches on board versus the pro board and that seems to be for the most part a big part of the difference oh yeah we've got another Gigabit Ethernet on the back but we'll show that later ok so you've got your power connectors in there desirable places 24 pin on the right-hand edge and then your 8 pin connector with the little cover on it up here at the top left and then you've got your CPU socket right in the middle lots of room around it with the 12 + 2 phase power design support for dual channel ddr3 as with all p55 boards now let's have oh this is something that's really cool about this board actually is that you can see that almost all of your on board fan headers are not really old I'm okay well you've got a couple PWM ready on board fan headers so let's have a look at the back i/o see you can see here you got your ps2 you got a clear CMOS button Oh actually the pro board does not have a clear CMOS button awesome there's another difference so then you've got eight USB ports you've got your digital audio out two Gigabit Ethernet again the pro board that only has one you've got firewire eSATA and 7.1 audio so thank you for checking out my blog on the p7p 55 D Evo