Gallery - the ASUS P7P55D Deluxe motherboard

ASUS also integrated a POWER ON/OFF and reset button. These have a LED and will show power status and HDD activity as well.

Above it we see Socket LGA 1156. ASUS makes use of an advanced 16-phase power system. The capacitors to the left I find to be positioned rather close to the socket. This might hinder the extreme cooling solutions out there. We spot solid capacitors and ferrite core chokes, that's nice.

Check it out,  two PCIe 2.0 x1 slots, two PCI slots, and three PCIe 2.0 physical x16 slots (can be arranged as x16/x4 or x8/x8/x4). The board is SLI and Crossfire compatibl,e but as you can see the PCIe lanes divide up towards two x8 lanes. The x4 slot you then can use for say a 3rd card for PhysX.

Also check out the new retention clips for graphics cards. So simple, but now you can easily remove your dual-slot graphics cards.