Asus P7P55D Premium Motherboard

Analysis and Conclusion

Someone once told me that the P7P55D Premium was a board geared towards consumers, at the time I didn’t give this much thought but after reviewing this board I can certainly say that with the feature set available this board is most certainly a power user or enthusiast level board on par with a  Republic of Gamers board. The reason I put this board so high on my estimation is that given a good cooling setup beyond just the stock cooler this board would easily hit 4ghz and given exceptional cooling it could hit the 5 GHz level. The P7P55D Premium has all the precise tweaking ability and feature set required to achieve maximum performance.

On the other side of the advanced user is a user who knows little about motherboard settings making overclocking difficult to achieve successfully. Thankfully Asus implemented a OC Tuner utility which we tested and which makes getting a decent overclock effortless. Beyond the overclocking aspect of this board the performance and stability that I received from it was great and in a lot of cases was not far behind a “higher end” i7 board at a similar clock speed according to SiSoftware Sandra, while these tests are benchmarks and not real world usage I know you will find that this board lives up to the price range which its being marketed to. At the time of this writing the P7P55D Premium has an online price tag of approximately $250. This may be a little steep for some users but honestly the performance that you get from it is worth it.

Given the excellent performance of the Asus P7P55D Premium, the expansive feature set, awesome level of fine tuning in the Bios, and additional consideration for average users we are happy to award it the Approved Hardware Award.

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