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(More customer reviews)this got paired with the following components for a client build:
* nzxt phantom case (white)
* intel i5-750 chip - stock 2.46 ghz - overclocked to 3.76ghz totally stable - temps mentioned later
(2x4gb) Gskill Ripjaws 1333mhz ram 7-7-7-21 timings (black heat sink)- overclocked to ~1580 mhz totally stable
model: F3-10666CL7D-4GBRH - had to manually set timings, was VERY easy compared to other BIOS systems i've encountered.
* Tuniq tower 120extreme cpu heatsink: replaced fan with gelid pwm fan(FN-FW12BPL-18) for MB temp management
* Coolermaster silent series 600watt PSU - RS-600-AMBA-D3
* samsung f3 500Gig main hard drive - personal favorite HDD
* EVGA superclocked Nvidia GTX460 1gb cardmotherboard installed easy, and has pwm fan pins all around the board either making for an easy or hard time of installing pin fans from around your case (as a lot of cases are going to fans on top, back, front and side. Only hiccup was the Ram timings were defaulted to slower than spec, easy to fix took 1 minute.
once installed, I noticed that the usual complaint of people about cpu coolers affecting ram DIMMS, does not seem to be the case with the tower 120 and even the ripjaws extended heat shrouds.
the included overclocking software is handy, saved me a little time, automatically stress testing and configuring the cpu to the new 3.7ghz clockspeed, as well as the ram. You can further push these, but the initial step was more than enough.
Would have liked to see the LCD error code display screen like a few other boards I have used feature, but the error LEDs can actually make for an easier time to diagnose.
The included probe software also reports a different temp for the cpu than the bios does, about 2-4*C in fact, BIOS reading higher than the windows software. it's good enough for a rough estimate however.
all in all a great board.
sidenote about sata3, usb3:
both of these being activated involve taking bandwidth away from the pci slot, dropping it down from x16... activating which is more important is a key choice you have to make when picking drive speed (sata), peripheral speed (usb3) or graphics speed (pci)... it's a downfall of the 1156 architecture, not of the board...
would certainly use this board again.
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ASUS P7P55D-E features Intel LGA1156 Platform/Intel P55 Express Chipset, True USB 3.0 or SATA 6Gb/s Support - Future Transfer Technology, ASUS Hybrid Technology ,ASUS 16 Hybrid Phase Design*, *16 Hybrid Phase = 12+2 Phase x T.Probe, TurboV EVO - Ultimate O.C. Processor and T.Probe - Leading Active Cooling Technology
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