Asus P7P55D Deluxe mainboard has not just a good layout, but a really excellent one. I managed to find only one, currently very insignificant drawback – inconvenient location of the COM port, which is way too far up, to the right of the memory modules. The components layout from the mainboard manual will give you a bird’s eye view of the components location on the PCB:

The table summing up all technical specifications of Asus P7P55D Deluxe mainboard will wind up our discussion of the board’s layout and functionality:

First look at Asus P7P55D Deluxe mainboard leaves an extremely favorable impression. The board features an excellent well thought-through design, superior functionality, a bunch of nice trifles that make the entire experience extremely pleasing. We hope that the impressions from the BIOS Setup won’t spoil our high initial score that currently looks as “9 out of 10”. We decided to take one point not for some drawbacks, which are hardly even there, but just in case. It is the first Intel P55 Express mainboard that we review in detail and maybe tomorrow we manage to get our hands on something even more functional and easy to work with but also less expensive at the same time, who knows? However, at this point we can’t even wish anything better than Asus P7P55D Deluxe. So, let’s move on.