14 DAY TRIAL // Despite no official word from Santa Clara, California-based Intel, ASUS, one of the world's leading motherboard manufacturers, has been showcasing some of its upcoming designs at this year's Computex show in Taipei. Such is the case with one of the company's new P55-based chipsets, which will enable users with support for Intel's next-generation mainstream processors, codenamed Lynnfield. Dubbed P7P55 Pro, the upcoming motherboard from ASUS will be built on a full-ATX PCB and deliver all the necessary features for a next-generation Intel-based desktop computer system.
Pictures of the new board have just been made available in a recent news-article on hothardware, showcasing the board's layout and overall design. As you can see from the images below, ASUS went for a black PCB with blue connectors for the upcoming P7P55 Pro platform. Designed to deliver support for a new wave of mainstream Intel-based desktop rigs, this motherboard boasts four, dual-channel DDR3 memory DIMMs, two PCI Express x16 graphics slots and Intel's next-generation socket LGA 1156, specifically designed for all of the upcoming Lynnfield processors.
Due to the specific features of Intel's next-generation P55 chipset, motherboard builders won't be required to adopt an additional southbridge chipset, which is also the case with ASUS P7P55 Pro. With this design, ASUS has placed the P55 PCH in the same area that you would have traditionally found the southbridge.
Intel's next-generation 5-series of chipsets has been designed to provide computer users with support for an upcoming wave of Nehalem-based, next-generation processors. These new CPUs are said to be capable of delivering an impressive performance, while also packing some of the necessary energy-efficient features of a desktop PC.
Unfortunately, the specific details regarding the motherboard's release date and pricing are yet to be unveiled, but these new platforms should be out later this year.
