ASUS to offer sub 99 USD P55 motherboard

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/30/2009 10:44 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

ASUS is preparing a new P55 motherboard that will address the 'budget' market. It is the P7P55 LX. Supporting socket LGA 1156 processors, the P7P55 LX is intended to be priced even lower than the P7P55D LE (under 100 EUR).

It's all a little basic like the 5 phase CPU power circuit. You do however gain the latest ASUS extra's like MemOK, ExpressGate, and TurboV.

You will spot one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (looks like two .. but the second one only is a x4 (!). Good enough for say PhysX or something else. Then two PCI-E x1, and three PCI. All six SATA 3 Gbps ports are assigned as internal ports. An additional controller provides an IDE connector. Integrated is also 8-channel audio with optical SPDIF output, and gigabit Ethernet make for the rest of the feature-set.

Paired with a Core i5 750 at 199 USD this might be a very sweet deal.

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