Gadgetory

so today we'll be unboxing the EVGA p55 L II and I have to confess this is actually the second time I've attempted to unbox it I have my memory card full so I have to restart here so anyway this is EVGA s lowest end p55 board so far it's an le or light Edition board you can see that on the front we've got logos for the core i7 and the core i5 but conspicuously missing are logos for SLI or crossfire so we do not have support for those on this board you can see on the back they call out EVGA is 90-day step up program their elite overclocking utility and let's get this word out of the box because that's what we all are here to see so it comes in a black glossy box like all of their other p55 boards so here we go we didn't actually get very far last time so I'm gonna be adventuring along with you here so we've got a molex to 2 SATA power adapter and then we've actually got 2 SATA cables only that's the fewest I've seen in the accessory package for any p55 board so far here we've got firewire and two USB PCI bracket that's pretty useful and then here this I really like actually this has been included in all of the EVGA p55 boards that we've unboxed so far so here you've got an over a visual guide sorry your motherboard so shows you all of the important features and it gives you a quick installation guide for how to get your system set up I really like the way that they illustrate it here although it's a little bit clumsy to use here we've got the installation for drivers and utilities and we have a black divider inside the box and down here we will find the i/o shield which they're a little foamy back on it then we've got the motherboard manual so you probably won't need this if you've gone and use the installation guide anyway and let's get this board out so you can see they've used a similar color scheme to their other p55 series boards and if I could just get this yeah there we go okay so let's get this thing open this actually I I'm a total sucker for this feature I'll take the desiccant powder out please read before CPU installation this is so cool step one step two step three step four and there you go it's your step by step guide for how to install your CPU I really like that it's very cool so we can pull off this which protects your memory so okay like all p55 boards we've got support for dual channel ddr3 RAM and then let's have a look at the power connector so up here we've got our eight pin power connector only one eight pin power connector just like the regular p55 SLI not like before the wind then over on the right-hand edge we've got our 24 pin power connector so those are both in their desirable spots we've got kind of a slick looking chipset heatsink but you can definitely tell that this is a more bare-bones board because there isn't just there's not as much on it you've only got one PCI Express 16x slot this one down here is going to run at 4x and is not suitable for graphics card use so that's really important to bear in mind now in terms of expansion for storage even though they've only included two SATA cables you can get your own cables and run up to six drives off this board so that's pretty good to see and I really like seeing even on a lower end board like this their debug code post little readout here so that gives you any of the pertinent information you need to know if your board isn't posting for whatever reason now let's have a look at the back and they've actually included a pretty good feature set back here so we've got a ps2 keyboard port eight USB ports clear CMOS which really cool to see that on like I said a lower and board we've got digital audio in both different formats we've got Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio on the back there so thank you for checking out the EVGA p55 LE