EVGA P55 SLI 132-LF-E655-KR LGA1156 Intel P55 ATX Intel Motherboard

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SLI Help with a two way bridge included, lots of capabilities, Cool seeking decorative Evga LED, Really handy LED display on the board which shows CPU Temps and aids you troubleshoot issues, supports both LGA 775 and 1156 Heatsinks, two BIOS switchable working with a jumper assure youre not left crying if a BIOS flash/update goes horribly wrong; great buyer service and warranty, appears sleek and cool. Its not absolutely free, could have came with more accessories in the box, EVGA instruction manual isnt as major as other folks (but if youve noticed a single youve seen them all). Genuinely just nit-picking, its an awesome board. Upgraded from ASUS P5Q Pro and C2D E8400, this board is worth every single penny. Newegg delivered this to me very (and at this point unsurprisingly) rapidly!

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Extraordinary motherboard. Great overclocking capability, nice amount of SATA ports, PCIex16 ports are placed effectively so that they don't cover anything up, the lights are sweet, and the black PCB is even much better. Tons of space for ram, chipset runs cool, functions wonderful with my i7. Lots of USB and 2 ethernet ports are sweet. Drivers were painless to install. First 1 was DOA. With no this it would be five eggs! It's kind of just hit or miss with motherboards and CPU given that they are so delicate... The manual claims you must reinstall the operating system for it to work with a new motherboard. You don't _have_ to but make certain you can get either online (for downloading drivers) or CD drive operating.

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Fantastic motherboard. It is high top quality and has all the small extras. Want that it was crossfire compatible

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Good quantity of capabilities for the cost I got it at 鳟 after MIR). Probably the greatest hunting board I've ever owned. Comes from a company recognized for their buyer help and quality parts.Lots of fan headers None so far.Cost-point is a tiny high with out the rebate.The PCI-E slots could have been spaced further apart, like on their F T W flavor of this board, to enhance airflow in between numerous GPUs (considering it IS an SLI board therefor intended to run numerous VGAs). To those complaining that this board's PCI-E slots are as well close with each other and does not enable for SLI or crossfire on double slot cards: You are Wrong. I have 2x GTX 460s running happily in my machine as I kind this. It IS a tiny cramped, but absolutely nothing out of the ordinary (especially if you've noticed 3x or 4x SLI/CF setups).Because the VGAs ARE so close collectively airflow in the case does grow to be important, so keep that in thoughts when acquiring. If you have hot-operating GPUs and are really worried about your GPUs overheating then spend the extra 30-40 a lot more on the F T W edition which adds a couple additional slots involving the PCI-E lanes.

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This was my 1st develop, and everything began like it ought to. My only problem was an initial error, and the board LED told me that my DVI cable was attached to my PhysX card, and when I attached it to my main card the method has been operating wonderful. Excellent looking board with far more than enough features to meet my wants. None so far, and I have not attempted overclocking but. MY NEW Method:WINDOWS 7..............House Primium_64-bitINTEL.........................i5-750EVGA..........................P55 SLIEVGA..........................GTX 260_192 CoresXFX............................8600 GT (PhysX)ZIGMATEK..................HDT-S1283CORSAIR....................XMS3_2X2GB_1600CORSAIR....................TX750WWESTERN DIGITAL.....640GB_Black

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SLI.The main plus from this board is the capability to mount LGA 775 cooler to it. Very good not to have to obtain one more aftermarket cooler, to supplement Intel's junk cooler if you want to over clock.LED debug and energy/reset button on the mobo is awesome. evga makes you register the item to receive some of there software program. Its a tiny annoying. Make confident to create down your serial quantity prior to installing. its a bit more pricey then some, but less expensive than other individuals.What is the point of the EVGA logo that lights up?

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This is a excellent 1156 socket motherboard. Dual Gigabit NICs make it great for workstation use. Onboard CMOS reset and energy switch make troubleshooting straightforward. Also, onboard temperature indicator is excellent. LGA775 and LGA1156 heat-sink help is great, offers you many alternatives. Be careful with the CPU pins on the socket. One particular of mine accidentally bent and would not enable to detect full 8GB of Ram to be detected (even even though it was detected in Windows 7 64-bit, it would only use half of it). I checked out the EVGA boards which pointed to that situation. Gently fixed the bent pin, cleared CMOS, and rebooted only to see complete 8GB of DDR3 ram visible!

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Picked up this board for my first make. It fits nicely inside my HAF 932 case, and the power lights and glowing "E" look actually cool. I had no difficulty whatsoever installing my EVGA GTX 460 into one particular of the two.0X16 slots. The SLI support is great, making certain you'll be prepared for all current and upcoming demanding applications! There are lots of mounting holes for standoffs, so this need to match in any regular ATX case. Also, as far as cooling goes, EVGA supplied us with LGA 1156 AND LGA 775 mounting bracket holes. I'm at present working with the Corsair H50 water cooling technique on this board. Installed it with relative ease. Buy this board! Out of the box, the board had a weird "feature" where it would power down, and then back up again upon boot. That scared me at very first, but the most up-to-date BIOS updates from the EVGA web page addressed this issue, enabling you to turn this function off in BIOS. Also, the instruction manuals could have been a bit far better. Just make certain you update your BIOS from the EVGA site (not working with the disc provided) and look at on-line manuals if you encounter troubles. All round, this is a good board and I would recommend it to any person.

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Took my Intel Core i5 760 Lynnfield CPU right out of the box No troubles what so ever. No bio's update needed (thou did have to play with some BIO's settings however). Took each of my nVidia 250 GTS's in SLi mode no challenge appropriate out of the box. Every little thing was pretty uncomplicated and painless to set up. Took 30mins general with some cable management. Not seriously a con but where they stuck the LED at the bottom to display error codes and temps i cant see it with my Thermaltake V4 Black Edition. Not worth taking an egg off of it thou. Really like the E on the board that blinks.Comp Make:Intel Core i5 760 LynnfieldG.Talent 4GB DDR3 RamSeagate 1TB 7200.12 Really hard driveEVGA nVidia 250GTS x2XFX 850W Black Edition PSU

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Really nice i7 board, operates great. Have not had a single problem with it however. Appears really cool, but my case does not have a very good window, so I can not see it well. The "double start off" issue made me panic the 1st time it happened, thought the board was terrible. This can get annoying, but it barely increases commence time and is not a massive concern. Used for gaming, with an i7 860 and a Nvidia GTX 260.

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Beautifully laid out PCB, a wonderful deal of believed went into this motherboard design. The colors even match the rest of my program. Completely steady technique with out any troubles of compatibility with any component installed to a new construct.I've usually purchased ASUS boards in the past but I just could not allow myself to set up a board with the present P55 ASUS color scheme. I know it sounds actually vain to let the color scheme of a motherboard dictate whose solution to acquire............. Anyway my research showed EVGA to be one particular of the leading motherboard manufacturer's and they occurred to be US primarily based firm. So I bought and I'm incredibly delighted with my decision.I'm asking yourself why persons give lower ratings to goods due to the reality they did not correctly investigation their acquire with respect to RAM voltages, latency timings, etc. These are concerns that are completely covered in the solution specifications. Come on, be fair about this, don't price a great item low since you goofed. No Cons to speak of..............When I opened the packaging I saw the PCB was stuffed with a Foxconn processor socket. When I saw that I sighed but went ahead and very carefully installed the CPU. No difficulties so far, I think the Foxconn socket issue has been overblown tremendously anyway. Windows 7 64bitIntel Core i7-860XIGMATEK Dark KnightEVGA P55 SLI E655XFX Radeon HD 5850CORSAIR DOMINATOR 8GB DDR3 1600Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GBCORSAIR 750HX 750W Power ProvideCOOLER MASTER Storm Sniper

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Installation was simple and simple. Energy symbol above PCI-E x1 slowly pulsates red which was an added surprise. All round excellent hunting and working board. EVGA does it once more. none Just bear in mind to install all present drivers from the internet site. Ran into a tiny concern exactly where the sound would reduce out in my Windows 7 Pro x64 OS (Common problem) but the updated Bios Driver from the web site fixed that

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Method layout is quite affordable, complete of USB/eSata ports, even has onboard I1394 help (which I still use from time to time for my film scanner and HDV)On board LED makes the difficulty shooting a breeze.BIOS update is pretty easy the onboard SATA ports rather of facing upward, face to the front Difficult driver bay, which appears to be much more direct in theory. But because port and the HD bay physical distance is short, but we seldom have such brief sata cable, it always unnecessarily result in sata cable having to bend upward very first, messy and can very easily loose the plug would be good if this LGA 1156 board supports USB3.

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This was my initially construct and had not a issue with it. I have this running an i7, with a sparkle geforce gtx 460, 8gb or Ripjaw Ram, and it runs it all extremly effectively. Bios was very straightforward to fiure out. started my Ram out at 1333 as an alternative of 1600. dont know if this is for saftey or if it just always does this. uncomplicated to repair even though so not taking off an egg. It does turn on the off then on as a saftey function. I have not and will not alter this, If the maufacturer felt it needed to ahve this function I'm leaving it.

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Quite strong, effectively laid-out board. No difficulties so far. Works as expected. Effortless CMOS reset button on back panel. - Incredibly basic BIOS. No password security selections.- No IDE connector. SATA only, that's also only six.- Inadequate, poorly written user manual. This is the worst user manual book I have noticed for a MB so far. For instance, there are so numerous lights on the board, but I don't know what they indicate. I would advise this for somebody who is not new to developing systems. This is not fantastic if you are new to system developing.

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Excellent overclocker, built in fan controller operates effectively (when you set it manually),very good looking board when so several board these days look like one thing out of a Rainbow Vibrant episode. It has each 775 and 1156 LGA cooler mounting holes...really big Pro there and the 775 is tilted slightly, but it hardly noticable even with a water block that has a deffinate top and bottom.A incredibly properly made board. Like practically just about every other board in existance...the FRONT audio connectors are on the BACK of the board appropriate under the primary graphics card. There been so quite a few imporvements to board layouts (fromt he producers that care) to aid with cable management, but why has this not bee addressed. One particular of these days I'll get yet another sound card and it won't be an situation any far more though, but the onboard sound is decent so it hasn't been a priority.This board also has the 90° SATA ports...which prevents you from making use of a lot of good circumstances out there. Any case with side mounted tough drives will probably leave you significantly less than 1.5cm to plug in your SATA cables and circumstances with bottom mounted PSUs will probably have the identical dilemma but with the five.25" drive bay cages. I'd seriously enjoy to devote five minutes alone with the individual who believed this concept up...it doesn't assist that much with cable management due to the fact it is straightforward to bend a SATA cable. I've heard that documentation is poor...but if you are needing a motherboard manual to know that you will need standoffs to connect a mother board to a case you need to be undertaking far additional study ahead of you even come to Newegg to shop. Heck, that sort of documentation is far more to do with the case than the mother board. So don't be generating terrible testimonials due to you not receiving step by step directions when if you were to do even a single Web search on what ever machine you used to place your Newegg order you would have identified every thing you necessary and far more.

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In common it's a great mobo, quickly and steady. Uncomplicated BIOS setup. The only style that i don't like is the SATA connectors all facing to the side where u place ur tough drives. It is really difficult to insert the SATA cables to the connectors following u afix the mobo onto the case.

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..and offering ridiculous bang for the buck. What can I say. Installed in a flash, looks great, loads of features, steady so far. Yep, excellent board. The red lit EVGA symbol on the board gives me traumatic flashbacks to my 360 red ringing. Processed, packed and shipped on day 1, received on day two and packaged nicely. Newegg strikes once again.

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I got this motherboard due to looks as effectively as functionality and I was not disappointed. Extremely straightforward set up and overclocks like butter. I was capable to get an i7 860 from stock ƒ.8GHz) to 4.2GHz in significantly less than 3 hours of testing and stressing. Entirely stable and runs like a champ. I'm also using all 3 PCIe slots and the performance is good with all 3. Has test switches at the bottom of the board so I could test and bench the board way more quickly. The eight pin position is perfect; allows my hand to get back there to plug and unplug simply. No IDE connector. Red glowing E in the middle of the board is only red and no other colour. The bus speeds for SLI and PhysX are low, but nothing at all too undesirable. RAM dimms are type of close to the CPU, my Prolimatech Megashadow fan clips bump up against the 1st DIMM if you have a higher profile Corsair Dominator-like RAM module. Only six sata ports; fewer 3 pin fan connections than most boards. Overclocking on this board is very straightforward after you study a few guides on the internet. Verify out the EVGA forums for the P55 overclocking guide. SLI works in the initially 2 PCIe slots, I had to sit there for an hour wondering why my cards didn't pick up SLI mainly because I had it in the 1st and 3rd slot.

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Board seems pretty solid and steady.LED on board is good for showing current CPU temp.Have the EVGA 275 gtx hooked in, Intels i5 quad core 750Patriot Secor 5 Viper DDR3 ramall operating smooth...no complaints None I can think of Not actually a pro or con depending on your ability level, but the owners manual and mobo layout was kinda iffy. It all had the correct information, I guess I am just use to one thing distinct then a folded wall poster of my mother board and specs.