Asus has additionally equipped the board with some neat features of its own, we mentioned it several times already in some previews. This is the MemOK! system. Say you are overclocking and your motherboard refuses to POST due to a memory timing error. Well, no longer do you need to worry about DIMM speeds and timings: you can install any modules you like and press an onboard button to have the P7P55D Deluxe automatically determine stable settings and bring the board back to life.

AND PLEASE you need to read STABLE here, not enthusiast settings.

We tried it out, PC was powered of. We press the MemOK button, then the PC powers on and our memory was configured at 1333 MHz at CAS 9:9:9:24 2T (!) yes, rather tame .. but it is an easy way to recover from a faulty memory overclock real fast without clearing CMOS and all related settings.

Overall board design is great by the way. Everything is positioned really well. But let's move onward to the left side where we stumble into a bunch of SATA connectors. In total we see as luxurious 9x SATA ports here (look to the left) + one IDE (Parallel ATA) port.

See the dark blue and white SATA connectors to the left side? They are powered by a JMicron JMB322 3Gb/s SATA controller. The black SATA 3Gb/s port and IDE port are powered by a JMicron JMB363 chipset.

We flip the board around again 90 degrees and stumble into low-level connectivity. Se spot front panel headers, three more USB headers, a Firewire header and audio connectors. You just can't deny that this is going to bee a very complete motherboard alright. But let's zoom in a little to the lower middle segment of the photo.