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so here for a quick look today we have the EVGA p55 FTW for the win now you can see I've actually removed the shrink wrap because we did try to shoot this once before I am at home shooting this video today so someone was talking or something and that the shot was totally ruined but I've got everything still in here we didn't get very far basically we've got the flexible black SLI bridge inside for the for the accessories then we have the ECP v2 breakout board so to speak you've got your little pins on the back so you use a ribbon cable to connect this to your motherboard and then it gives you onboard power reset clear CMOS voltage adjustment buttons and then you've got an a debug post code readout and then you've got jumpers to turn on and off different PCIe lanes which is great for troubleshooting any sort of SLI graphics card difficulties you've got molex to SATA adapters then you've got four SATA cables here we've got two USB and one firewire PCI bracket then let's get down to the board oh not quite yet okay well there's their IO plate just like that and then here's the cable I was talking about this is your breakout cable for the for the ECP v2 okay then we've got our driver disk then we've got a QuickStart user guide so this is a this is the visual guide for the board so it labels all the different parts and gives you some basics about the board and we have the user's manual normal thing okay and now let's get down to the board itself so just having my very first look at this it looks like EVGA s changed their color scheme quite a bit with their p55 series motherboards I'm more used to seeing like a green and black or a red and black color scheme out of EVGA and yeah we've got something totally different here today so let's just put this box like this okay there we go so we've got a little thing a desiccant stuff a little plastic thing oh that's kind of nice so we've got a very shiny EVGA logo on what you can see is a very very weak looking sorry I can't sing sorry no looking thing that's very very cool looking then we have a warning Oh a step-by-step instruction guide this is kind of cute on how to install your CPU as you go so that's actually taped right down to the CPU socket so that you can't you can't get at the CPU socket without seeing it so let's have a look at the board itself now you've got a three PCIe can a 16 X connector so you have two PCI connectors and one PCIe 1x connector you can see here we've got support for the usual thing with any p55 motherboard we've got support for dual channel ddr3 RAM our power connectors are in the usual places along the right hand edge of the board and on the top-left corner of the board then for our chipset cooling you've got a little EVGA logo to heatsink down here now in terms of connectivity we've got six SATA two ports on the on the edge of the board here then we've got on the back on the i/o shield we've got looks like only six USB ports that's a little bit less than I was expecting ps2 on board seamos clear we've got digital audio eSATA then we've got firewire 2 Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio and thank you for oh wow no this is interesting ok up here on the top left which I actually didn't even notice before I'm just peeling the sticker off here you've actually got two eight pin EPS connector so it seems that one of them yeah if your power supply has an extra eight pin connector plug both in for extreme overclocking so it's optional to plug that in but it looks like you can deliver a lot of juice to your CPU with this board anyway thank you for checking out the p55 for the win