ASUS Readies P7P55 LX Motherboard

[btarunr]

ASUS is readying its most affordable ATX motherboard based on the Intel P55 chipset yet, 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). Everything about this board is thin and lite: narrower PCB, solid-state capacitors confined only to important VRM circuits, 5 phase CPU power circuit, and other basic features. The product however, doesn't leave out some ASUS exclusives such as MemOK, ExpressGate, and TurboV.

For expansion, there's one PCI-Express 2.0 x16, one PCI-E x16 (electrical x4), 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. 8-channel audio with optical SPDIF output, and gigabit Ethernet make for the rest of the feature-set. Expect the board to be out soon.



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[CharlO]

Aren't in the picture two PCI-E x16?

 

[[Ion]]

Aren't in the picture two PCI-E x16?

yes, the second one is only at x4 speed though

 

[ShadowFold]

With all these cheap P55 boards coming out, I'd sure wonder if Intel will ever release some affordable Core i5 stuff.. Haven't really been watching the news, but 200$ for the lowest end CPU is a bit silly when AMD has stuff in the 100-120$ range that are just as fast.

 

[Kitkat]

With all these cheap P55 boards coming out, I'd sure wonder if Intel will ever release some affordable Core i5 stuff.. Haven't really been watching the news, but 200$ for the lowest end CPU is a bit silly when AMD has stuff in the 100-120$ range that are just as fast.

yep and they needa try and sell those other boards too lol... They arent moving as fast as they anticipated when they can just get 920 I7 or Phenom II's yeah im sure core2 might leave but not soon.

 

[OnBoard]

With all these cheap P55 boards coming out, I'd sure wonder if Intel will ever release some affordable Core i5 stuff.. Haven't really been watching the news, but 200$ for the lowest end CPU is a bit silly when AMD has stuff in the 100-120$ range that are just as fast.

Duals will be out next year for P55s. In the mean time there is P45 Intel and cheap quads just don't exist.