An In-depth Evaluation: ASUS P7P55D Deluxe

ASUS is a maker of just about every type of hardware product you can find. They make everything from Network Switches, to phones and GPS Devices. Still at their core - they are a computer enthusiast company. They make some of the best performing motherboards that you can find. These often have features that trickle out to the rest of the market after first being introduced by an ASUS product.

Their motherboards are considered some of the fastest and most stable [with a few troubled exceptions]. Their engineers spend quite a bit of time building these to perform. Today we have one of their P55 based boards, the P7P55D Deluxe, in the labs and are going to put it through the course with our Core i7 870.
Let’s see if the Asus can maintain its reputation for quality and performance with the new Lynnfield line.

Packaging
The box a product comes in used to be the front line in sales. Today this is less and less the case. Very few people bother with the box and instead head to their favorite Internet site and read all about the product there. Still it is important to take a quick look at the packaging; not for what it shows but for what it contains and how well it protects the goodies inside.

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The P7P55D Deluxe comes in a good looking package.  The front has the name of the product in large letters so that you cannot mistake what is in the box. There is also the usual number of logos that let you know exactly what standards the board supports and what extra features you are getting. Under the front flap there is a little more information and some of the typical hard-sell pictures.

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The back of the box is more of the same.

Getting past the appearance of the box, we find that it is made of sturdy cardboard. We performed our drop and kick test on it and found that the box can certainly take a few bumps and kicks during shipping.

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Inside the box we find that ASUS has stocked you up with a nice lot of goodies, including a wired remote for easy overclocking. We will cover this in more detail later.