Gallery -  the ASUS P7P55D Deluxe  motherboard

So a lot of photo's you see here you might recognize, well .. if you read our preview that is. This article is of course the final feature and performance review.

Immediately after unboxing you will be impressed. That's a nifty looking feature rich motherboards alright. Nice black PCB, blue'ish coloring schema and the usual complementary products ... among them is actually a wired remote control.

Overclocking with a remote -- the remote controller is part of the Turbo V concept, basically it will allow you to utilize three presets to auto overclock your platform by a fairly conservative 3% to 7% or setup saved profiles that you have created. This feature gives you some extra performance on the fly.

What is nice is the fact that Bclk (base bus clock frequency) frequency can be changed in real time. Though it's a cool feature, unless you cool and overclock with Liquid Nitrogen on the fly, we think that most users will seek one overclock setting and stick to that (at BIOS level). So this is probably just a little bit of a gadget. But it's cool as overclocking made easy is always nice to see implemented.

So here we have the motherboard itself, it's an impressive looking motherboard alright. Though pricing on P55 motherboards will vary a lot we we have seen this motherboard already listed at 200 EUR/USD price range. Some of the more notable features:

• ASUS make use of a VIA VT6308P chipset for IEEE 1394a support
• Sound is managed by VIA VT2020 (BD192/24 ENVY HD) 10-channel HD audio codec (8+2 Streaming) with support for DTS Surround. We really like to see  something other than Realtek for audio, actually I love this choice.
• Realtek, which baffles me ... Why did ASUS not utilize the native Intel Gigabit LAN support in the P55 ?  Realtek 8112L/8110SC Gigabit LAN controllers are used for LAN Ethernet.

The board features 14 USB 2.0 ports (six headers/ eight ports on the I/O panel) and support for up to 16GB of dual-channel DDR3 memory with standard BIOS support up to .. and get this DDR3 at 2133 MHz (!). ASUS also included power-on/reset/clear CMOS switches for more convenient overclocking.