Asus LGA1156 P7P55D-E Pro Motherboard Review
Layout and Features
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ASUS P7P55D-E Pro Overview
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Above you can see the area around the CPU socket in more detail, as well as the position of the RAM slots and what Asus refers to as the "MemOk!" button. We'll discuss MemOk! a bit farther on. Note the two SATA ports immediately adjacent to the RAM slots. This is an odd place for ports, and it's not an ideal location. While the SATA cables won't interfere directly with a video card, their proximity to the 24-pin ATX power plug, the video card's power cables (both of which loop over and connect in this area), and the RAM itself means that this particular section of the board could get busy very quickly. These ports are connected to the Intel P55 chipset.
If you look just above the last DIMM slot, you'll see a small toggle switch. This is the DRAM overvoltage switch. When it's toggled on, a nearby LED glows red and the board's maximum RAM voltage increases from 2.0V to 2.5V. This is not a switch that anyone but a hardcore overclocker should ever need to touch. Intel's maximum recommended RAM voltage is just 1.65v for Core iX processors; the P7P55D-E Pro offers plenty of additional headroom for overclocking even at 'stock' speed. If you flip the switch by accident, there's no need for a heart attack, doing so makes the higher voltages available but doesn't actually change the motherboard's settings.
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