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Transferring your cooler from your old PC to your new one will Asrock H55 Pro to reduce the cost of upgrading, so it's an instant plus for ASRock. The ports are located in what at first seems an odd place — halfway up the leading edge of the board next to the pin ATX power connector. The ports stand perpendicular to the board, which might make fastidiously neat cable routeing tricky, but most cases will have cable-routeing holes close to the SATA ports, so you should be able to manage a tidy build. The H55M Pro is neatly laid out too, helping to keep a media PC in a cramped case neat and free of airflow obstructions.

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The pin ATX and 8-pin Asrock H55 Pro power connectors are located on the edges of the board, and the chipset heatsink is small and unobtrusive. Of more use is the vdrop compensation, although in testing it wasn't entirely clear whether this seeks to address vdrop or vdroop specifically. Let me get off the soapbox and get to the review. Asrock is known to make an affordable motherboards for the masses. What I like about Asrock now is that we don't have to wait for them to produce a motherboard on current chip sets.

They are releasing them on launch, so that if you are on a budget, you don't have to wait to build. The H55 is the newest thing to come from Intel. Asrock put a lot into this motherboard to make it media friendly. Asrock is no longer taking a backseat to the "higher tier" motherboard manufacturers. Asrock H55 Pro

Asrock H55 Pro say little things come in big packages and that saying holds true for this new motherboard. The H55 falls in line with all the other early released Hbased motherboard with its size: This new chip set was aimed at the media buff as well as the consumer that is not looking to game a lot.

But if you do you can always add a GPU later. The Asrock H55 Pro size does not take away from the fact that this is a complete motherboard. The layout is about as perfect as you can get when trying to pack all the connectors, slot and plugs onto such a small surface area. This color is far more attractive than the teal color of their older boards.

We begin our tour in the upper right hand corner where the DIMM slots dominate. Many of the mATX produced at limited to just two memory slots.

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Asrock packed four on this board. This gives the board a maximum of 16GB of ram support. What is even better the slots support up Asrock H55 Pro DDR3 and beyond. So this should be a decent ram overclocking board.

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To the right of the ram slots are five SATA 2 plugs. Unfortunately Asrock elected to skip Raid on this model. And there is no IDE connector.

H55 Pro. ASRock DuraCap ( x longer life time), % Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors; Advanced V8 + 2 Power Phase Design. ASRock DuraCap ( x longer life time), % Japan made high quality conductive polymer capacitors; Supports Dual Channel DDR3 +(OC); Supports.