Layout

EVGA provided the P55 Classified 200 with a black PCB. The memory slots as well as the expansion slots were painted red and the whole board itself just looks astonishingly good. In fact we think this motherboard belongs to the best looking pieces of hardware ever made. As you might have expected also the layout is almost perfect. Only the X-Cool jumper and the Start-, Reset- and CMOS buttons could have been positioned a bit better. The first one is very close to the heatpipe and the last ones are being covered if you run a multi-GPU setup.

EVGA equipped the P55 Classified 200 with a digital ten plus two phase power design. Because of this they didn't need to put big capacitors on the board and that's why there is a lot of space around the CPU socket. As a result of that installing a huge CPU cooler isn't problematic at all.

Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the EVGA P55 Classified 200. Officially supported are DDR3-2600+/2000/1800/1600/1333/1066 with up to 16 GByte capacity.

Southbridge as well as current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe cooling solution. Furthermore it also looks exceptionally good and it has been manufactured perfectly.