Previews - ASUS P7P55D motherboard preview: Intel Core i5 ready to go

[HEXUS]

The board you should buy this autumn?

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[aidanjt]

Ugh, different mounting holes now?.. Good grief. Intel is just going all out ridiculous with breaking sound engineering principles.

[Falanx]

For reference, that 2oz of copper doesn't mean there's 56g in there. It's plating standard which means the whole plated layer contains two ounces per square metre. A 2oz layer is about 65 microns thick. Even lead would have a hard time reaching 56g across an ATX PCB at that thickness...

[Terbinator]

This was on anandtech about a week a go, i like the new blue theme-ing though.

[shaithis]

Doesn't look like it will do SLi judging by the lack of a nVidia chip.

Will be interesting to see the price difference between those that support SLi and those that don't.

[pauldarkside]

Doesn't look like it will do SLi judging by the lack of a nVidia chip.

Will be interesting to see the price difference between those that support SLi and those that don't.

According to the AnandTech article, it does support SLi:

The layout of the PCI/PCIe slots is very good and allows for a single PCIe x1, PCIe x4, and PCI slot when running SLI or CrossFire

From what I've read on the tubes, you don't need an nVidia specific chip to support SLi since the licensing options changed. Those that do have the nForce 200 chip have the added ability to support true PCIe x16 3 way-SLi instead of x16x8x8, etc. That flexibility does come at a premium although current GPUs (200 series) don't appear to benefit from the extra lanes in 3 way-SLi as far as gaming goes.