ASUS P7P55D Premium Motherboard
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ASUS P7P55D Premium has some other smaller but not less important features. All capacitors used on this motherboard are Japanese and solid and it uses an impressive 32-phase voltage regulator (plus three phases for the memory controller) using ferrite chokes, with the transistors using the passive heatsinks already shown on the first page. Read our Everything You Need to Know About the Motherboard Voltage Regulator Circuit to understand why this is a terrific configuration.
Figure 10: Ultra high-end voltage regulator.
Figure 11: Additional heatsink for the voltage regulator on the solder side from the motherboard.
Like other motherboards from ASUS, this one features Express Gate, an operating system stored inside the motherboard read-only memory that allows you to access the Internet without needing to load the operating system or even without having a hard disk drive installed.
This board comes with interesting overclocking-related hardware features that we will explore in the next page.
In Figure 12, you can see all the accessories that come with ASUS P7P55D Premium.
Figure 12: Accessories.