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okay so today we've got the p7 p55 D Pro we actually can't get over to our normal unboxing outside place because there's some junk there and so we're doing the unboxing on the hood of my car so here we go we got the IO shield and then let's keep going to the accessories here we've got the user's guide then we've got the DVD for your drivers and your utilities all that good stuff okay then we have an eSATA USB IO bracket then we've got an IDE cable then we've got their convenient you connect then we have four SATA ports it's got four SATA ports so four SATA cables and now let's get to the board itself here so a soos uses environmentally friendly no foam packaging so they have like no foam and no no packing peanuts nothing like that it's all sort of cardboard so let's get the board itself out it's kind of a sharp looking board I can't say the color scheme is my favorite but it all sort of matches so let's start with what we've got in terms of our ports so we've got three PCI Express 16x slot set 8 X 8 X + 4 X and please note that this one will run at 16 X if there's nothing installed here as with all p55 boards we've got support for dual channel ddr3 memory you've got a fairly beefy 12 + 2 phase power design which is really nice to see especially because this board is a relatively low-cost board compared to some of the more premium ones like the Maximus and all that kind of stuff over here we've got 7 SATA ports which seems like kind of a weird number of SATA ports except that if you look at the back which is right about here you can see that we've got a nice ADA so that would probably be where our other port is and also looking at the rest of the back we've got our ps2 keyboard mouse we have overall 8 USB ports digital audio firewire you give it Ethernet and 7.1 audio in terms of layout the board is quite quite well done you've got your 24 pin over here and then you've got your 8 pin up at the top of the board over here with the little cover and then you've got kind of a cool actually if I could yeah cameraman is checking out that heatsink and that's so that's your chipset heatsink and then I want you to check these out from the side these are actually kind of a unique design I really I really like that it's just sort of look feels kind of random and basically I don't know it seems like a trivial thing to like about a board but there you go anyway so that's the p7 p55 D Pro thanks for checking it out