EVGA P55 LE motherboard main features are:

• Socket: 1156.
• Chipset: Intel P55 Express.
• Super I/O: Fintek F71889F
• Clock generator: ICS 9LPRS139AKLF
• Parallel IDE: None.
• Serial IDE: Six SATA-300 ports controlled by the chipset.
• USB: 14 USB 2.0 ports (eight soldered on the motherboard and six available thru headers on the motherboard; the board comes with one I/O bracket containing two USB ports and one Firewire port).
• Firewire (IEEE 1394): Two ports controlled by a Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A chip (the board comes with one I/O bracket containing two USB ports and one standard-sized Firewire  port).
• On-board audio: Produced by the chipset together with a Realtek ALC889 codec (eight channels, 24-bit resolution, up to 192 KHz sampling rate for both the inputs and outputs, 104 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the inputs and 108 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the outputs). On-board coaxial and optical SPDIF outputs.
• On-board LAN: One Gigabit Ethernet port controlled by a Marvell 88E8057 chip, which is connected to the system thru one PCI Express x1 lane.
• Buzzer: Yes.
• Power supply: EPS12V.
• Slots: Two PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (working at x8/x8 when two video cards are installed) supporting CrossFire, one PCI Express x1 slot and three standard PCI slots.
• Memory: Four DDR3-DIMM sockets (up to 16 GB up to DDR3-1333/PC3-10600 officially or up to DDR3-2000 non-officially).
• Number of CDs/DVDs that come with this motherboard: One.
• Programs that come with this motherboard: motherboard drivers and utilities.
• Extra features: Aluminum solid capacitors on the voltage regulator circuit, ferrite chokes on the voltage regulator circuit, Japanese capacitors on the rest of the motherboard, external clear CMOS button, POST diagnostics display, holes for socket 775 CPU cooler.
• More Information: http://www.evga.com
• Average price in the US*: USD 169.99

* Researched at Newegg.com on the day we published this First Look article.