Compare ASUS Intel 440LX Chipset P2L97 Motherboard to ASUS (P7P55D) Motherboard

The ASUS P2L97-DS is a 440LX AGPset based main board with SCSI that supports Dual Intel Pentium II S.E.C. cartridge processors operating from 233MHz to 333MHz. The AL440LX AGPset provides support for AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) which is a dedicated slot for enhanced graphics cards. The AGP Port includes a new bus and port for the graphics controller, freeing system resources by moving the memory intensive graphical data in and out of system memory, providing better system performance. ??The included Slot 1 sockets support Pentium II S.E.C. cartridges operating from 233MHz to 333Mhz. There are four total DIMM slots, and the memory types supported are FPM, EDO, ECC, and SDRAM DIMM modules. The On-Board SCSI consist of an Adaptec AIC7880 UltraSCSI Controller with one 68-Pin High Density Wide SCSI Connector and one 50-Pin Fast SCSI Connector. The On-board PCI IDE controller has two UltraDMA/33 IDE ports that will support up to four IDE devices and the LS120MB Floppy drive. There is... Less

This motherboard supports the latest Intel Lynnfield processors in LGA1156 package which has memory and PCI Express controller integrated to support 2-channel (4 DIMMs) DDR3 memory and 16 PCI Express 2.0 lanes providing great graphics performance. Intel P55 providing improved performance by utilizing serial point-to-point links, allowing increased bandwidth and stability. P7P55D brings you the multi-GPU CrossFireX. The motherboard features the most powerful Intel P55 platform to optimize PCIe allocation in multiple GPU configurations. Less