EVGA P55 Classified 200 LGA1156 Motherboard Review

Included Software

Since we did not receive the full retail package from EVGA for this review, we will focus this section on the recently updated E-LEET software. It is no secret, here at Hardware Canucks, we like E-LEET. It is simple, helpful, and combines a lot of punch in a tiny little package. For those seeing E-LEET for the first time, you will not be dissapointed.

E-LEET is modeled after CPU-Z, the industry standard software for system reporting information. It is this main reason that makes E-LEET so incredible. The layout is identical to CPU-Z making it compact and full of information. The first two tabs shown above provide up to the second CPU and memory information. They both report real time information about each component including CPU identification and the main memory timings. There are no updates to these tabs with the latest release but there is something new in the second set of images below.

It is with the third tab that E-LEET separates itself from CPU-Z. The third tab is a monitoring tab that offers the exact same voltages we saw in the Hardware Monitoring section of the BIOS including vCORE, vDIMM, CPU VTT, and PCH voltage. In addition to voltages, the same temperatures reported in the BIOS are duplicated here alongside core temperatures on the right hand side. At the very bottom of this tab is where the three fan headers we could follow in the BIOS are also reported.

It is the second tab above that provides a small but telling update to E-LEET. In the Turbo Mode Control section, we can see an additional two sliders for a fifth and sixth core...E-LEET is already equipped to handle Gulftown, Intel's 32nm 6-core monster set for release late Q1 2010. This tab is where we can adjust BCLK and PCI-E frequency for overclocking within Windows. In addition to changing frequency, we can also enable and disable Turbo Mode of the processor. This section combined with the next makes E-LEET a very powerful overclocking tool.

The voltages tab is a one stop shop for adjusting all of the voltages that we have access to in the BIOS. The whole group is there including vCORE, vDIMM, VTT, PLL, even the NF200 voltage. We always encourage BIOS overclocking, but there are times when overclocking within Windows is not only helpful, but an absolute must. In our Extreme Overclocking section, we often boot at a lower BCLK and use E-LEET to reach some of the impressive frequencies we reach there.

The last tab of E-LEET is a place where we can save profiles that are hot key loadable as well as save validation files...just like CPU-Z. It is also here we see another small update that keen E-LEET users may have noticed, the addition of polling E-LEET information to the new EVBot. Unfortunately we don't have an EVBot just yet so we can't demonstrate its functionality, but one should be on the way shortly and we plan on providing a brief article outlining its uses. Essentially EVBot is a hardware controller that plugs into the motherboard capable of everything E-LEET is...without the software at a hardware level.

That will wrap things up for E-LEET software and again, despite its size and simplicity, it is still one of the best pieces of software included with a motherboard. This is especially true when it comes to overclocking and voltage adjustments, it just always works and really helps when doing sub-zero benching at the edge of stability.