Asus P7H55-Thousand Pro - Blueprint

In terms of pattern the P7H55-M Pro is certainly non the about carefully idea-out motherboard that Asus has always churned out, but for the most function it works rather well. Some quirky design aspects on this board see the SATA ports split up and the majority of them jammed behind the DIMM slots.

Asus made this less of an issue past including clips only at one stop of the DIMM slots opposite to the SATA ports. The DIMM slots are besides well articulate of the PCIe x16 port and the majority of the SATA ports will fit behind long graphics cards.

Asus was quite clever placing the single PCIe x1 slot backside the PCIe x16 slot rather than in front of it. This means that those using a dual slot graphics bill of fare such as the Radeon Hd 5770 still have the choice of using the single PCIe x1 slot. Beneath the PCIe x16 is a pair of old PCI slots for legacy devices.

The P7H55-M Pro features a basic 4+2 power phase blueprint which is mutual amid Intel H55 motherboards. Interestingly, only 9 out of the twelve MOSFETs used to deliver power to the processor are cooled by the long rectangular passive heatsink yous encounter running aslope the LGA1156 processor socket. This suggests the heatsink is more or less hither just to expect pretty -- and every bit far as heatsinks go we gauge information technology is quite pretty.

Another heatsink that is actually required tin be found on top of the Intel H55 chipset itself measuring just four cm ten 4 cm and 1cm alpine. This tiny passive heatsink is just large enough to keep the chip absurd.

Things look very standard at the I/O panel equally in that location is nothing hither that cannot exist institute on your typical H55 motherboard. The connections include a unmarried PS/two port, 6 USB two.0 ports, HDMI, VGA, DVI, S/PDIF output, 6 audio jacks and a single Ethernet port. These should provide more than enough connectivity for the average user.