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so today on my video blog we'll be unboxing the P 7 P 55 D so this is the vanilla board they've got a lot of different suffixes but this one has a full +2 phase power design crossfire but no SLI support and it uses 100% Japanese capacitors it's Windows 7 ready like every p55 board and let's get this thing opened up and have a look at the accessory package so we've got a pretty bare-bones accessory package you can see we've got an i/o shield we've got the motherboard manual along with the drivers and applications DVD we've got an IDE cable then we've got their their little connector thingamajig ease we have four SATA cables to right angle and two straight and then let's get to the board itself so pull out there green a hundred percent non styrofoam packaging here let's get this oh here we go so give me two seconds here let's have a look so Michael p55 boards well it's the usual thing we've got support for dual channel ddr3 memory right here we've got a Seuss's mem okay technology which sets your memory to the bone stock default so you can post the board with pretty much any ram in it we've got seven SATA ports down at the bottom here there's your USB now let's have a look at the slots here so we've got a 16 X PCI Express slot and then another one these will run in 8 X 8 X mode if you're using crossfire we've got a couple PCIe 1x slots three PCI now they're using these cool I really like these they remind me of like you know Superman's fortress of solitude or whatever you got like your icicle looking coolers on the MOSFETs as I mentioned before we've gotten twelve plus two phase power design here's your 1156 socket let's have a look at the back of the board here and what we've got for i/o so here's your ps2 keyboard and mouse then we've got eight USB ports right there there and there we've got digital audio but only optical not coaxial we've got firewire eSATA a Gigabit Ethernet and then 7.1 audio so thank you for checking out my video log on the p7p 55d