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bjorn3d reviewed the Gigabyte P55A-UD4Pbjorn3d dedicated a full page the the new 333 design. 'SATA III Enabling' is reviewed in detail with lots of remarks and BIOS screens. Conclusion: SATA3 reduces the x16x PCI-E lane to a single x8 PCI-E, most people with a single video card won't even notice it, multi GPU users might loose some bandwidth. Overclocking: A core i5750 was OCed @4.2GHz with a 200 BCLK x 21 multiplier. Bechmarks: Sisoft, Everest, Wprime, Blender, POVray, Excel, Auto MKV, Unigine Heaven, World in conflict, Far Cry 2, 3D mark Vantage. 
legitreviews reviewed the ASUS P7P55D PremiumPackage, bundle, chipset, board and bios are photographed and reviewed. The ASUS P7P55D Premium was compared to ASUS P7P55D Deluxe and the MSI GD65. Conclusion: The ASUS P7P55D is a very good overclocker and has SATA3 connectors but no USB 3.0. Its high price might be a reason to have a look at competative boards in the P55 as well as in the X58 domain. Overclocking: There was a thermal limit at around 4GHz, With a base clock of 210MHz legitreviews reached 3791.8MHz with a Core i5 750. Bechmarks: Sandra, Everest, Cinebench 10, Stalker Call of the Prypiat, Dirt 2, 3D and PCmark Vantage. 
iXBT Labs reviewed the Gigabyte EP45-UD3LRA few photographs of the board illustrate this short review that gives a description of the board's features and a few benchmarks are tested. This mobo was compared to the ASUS P5Q Pro (P45 chipset) and the ASUS P5Q-VM (G45 chipset). Conclusion: The board significantly outperformed in non-game tests and in CPU-intensive games. The usual gap is 2-3% between motherboards, but this time it was in some cases over 10%, this did not change after updating the BIOS. The 4-phase voltage regulator and the cooling are not designed for overclockers, on the other hand it has the minimum necessary features and it's affordable. Overclocking: iXBT Labs did not perform any overclocking. Bechmarks: RightMark Audio Analyzer 6.0, 7-Zip, MPEG4 (XviD), Far Cry 2, Doom III. 
pureoverclock reviewed the ASUS Maximus III FormulaThis review focuses almost entirely on overclocking, besides that there are lots of photogaphs of the package, bundle, board and bios. The ASUS Maximus III Formula was not compared to any other board. Conclusion: The Maximus III Formula is a rock solid board, extremely stable and with easy to use OC tools. Auto Tuning was amazing and manual OCing resulted in the highest numbers pureoverclock ever achieved. Overclocking: Auto Tuning with the ASUS TurboV EVO overclocking utility resulted in an overclock of 3.83GHz for a Core i7 870 with a BCLK of 174 and 22x multipler. The TurboV EVO takes a fair bit of time, it could take 20-30 minutes to finish. The BIOS OC tuner resulted in a 195 BCLK with a 20x multiplier ending up with a speed of 3.9GHz. Manually they reached 4.62GHz !! 24(multiplier) X 193(BaseClock) and tested it by running Prime95 for 15 minutes. Bechmarks: No benchmarks were tested. 
overclockersclub reviewed the ECS A785GM-MA Black series board with a lot of connectors on the back panel: VGA, DVI, HDMI, USB 2.0, FireWire, eSATA, LAN, optical S/PDIF out and analog audio ports, another extra of this mobo is a maximum of 32GB of memory. The BIOS and the bundled software are reviewed in detail. Conclusion: System builders will love this mobo, it has built-in power, clear CMOS and reset buttons, besides that it has a debug LED, the overclock however was still very limited. Overclocking: A Phenom II X4 965BE was OCed @3.735GHz whith 208(BCLK) x 18(multiplier) at 1.5 volts vCore. Bechmarks: Apophysis, WinRAR, Office 2007, POV Ray 3.7, PcMark Vantage, Sandra 2009 Professional, ScienceMark, CineBench 10, HD Tune, Far Cry 2, Crysis Warhead, BioShock, Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, 3DMark 06 and vantage Professional. 
overclock3d reviewed the Asus M4A79XTD EVOA review with photos of the package and board, some bios screens are reviewed in detail. The Asus M4A79XTD EVO was not compared to another board. Conclusion: This mobo has a very good layout and a great performance. Especially the 8+2 Phase architecture with a consequent lack of Vdroop has to be mentioned here. The board hardly produces any noise and its price is competative. The only downside perhaps is the Lack of a CPU Northbridge Multiplier. Overclocking: The maximum base clock for this mobo was 245MHz. With the upwards unlocked CPU Multiplier the final overclock result was 3.870GHz for a Phenom II X4 965BE. Bechmarks: Cinebench, Everest, Winrar, Sandra, 3d mark 06 and Vantage, MS flight simulator, Crysis Warhead, Call of Duty 4.
Intel DP55WG and DP55KG reviewed by legitreviewsThe DP55WG is about $60.- cheaper than the DP55KG because it has two power phases less and it misses the eSATA port, Bluetooth, the LED skull and a few SATA ports. Perhaps more important is the fact that it has less overclocking features. Conclusion: The boards have a good layout and a fantastic performance. They both overclocked well, getting a retail(not supplied by Intel) Core i5 above the 4GHz barrier is quite an achievement for the DP55KG. The bundles of both boards were pretty plain and simple. Overclocking: With the DP55WG legitreviews reached 3725.0MHz CPU-Z vCore indicated 1.306v. The KG was a far better overclocker and reached 4087.2MHz with a vCore of 1.408v. Bechmarks: Sandra, Everest, POVray and realtime, Cinebench, HDtach, 3Dmark 06 and vantage, Lightsmark, Fear, company of Heroes, Call of duty 4, Dirt 2. 
hardocp reviewed the Biostar TPower i55Photographs of the box, bundle, (details of the) board, bios and the Toverclocker utility. The Overclocking Navigator Engine bios settings are also reviewed in detail. Conclusion: A board with a well planned layout and a great performance. It's almost impossible to remove the battery when you have a large graphics card installed, besides that hardocp considers this mobo overpriced in today's market. Overclocking: This mobo is unrivaled in overclocking according to hardocp. They reached an incredible 4.2GHz (210MHz bclk) with a Core i5 750 and a mem speed of 1680MHz. With the bundled software hardocp reached 3.4GHz with a vCore of 1.4 v. Bechmarks: Hagel Technologies' DU Meter, IOmeter,Sandra, HyperPi, wPrime, DivX Converter, Lame, Videora IPod Converter, winrar, TMPGEnc 4.0 XPRESS, Call of Juarez, Quacke, Lost Planet, Crysis, Far Cry 2.
ASUS P7P55D Deluxe tested by legitreviewsThe boards design and layout are reviewed in detail, and there is a large BIOS section with the Ai Tweaker and the OC Tuner Utility. There's also a dedicated page for the TurboV Remote controller and software. Conclusion: An extremely stable overclocker with a great design and lots of features. The TurboV remote header is difficult to install when you have a large CPU cooler. Overclocking: Manually: An i5 750 reached 4GHz with a 200MHz. Automatically: With the OC tuner, an easy overclocking utility with three choices: Good, Better and Turbo Performance. Using OC Tuner in the 'Better' OC mode the vCore was set to 1.28v and the baseclock X multiplier to 195X17, with a final result of 3.3GHz. 'Turbo' OC mode resulted in a 3.7GHz overclock with a vCore of 1.35v and 195(BCLK)X19(multiplier). Bechmarks: Sandra, Everest, Stalker Call of the Prypiat, Dirt 2, 3D and PCmark Vantage. 
bjorn3d reviewed the ASUS M4A785TD-M EVOA review with a photographs of the box, bundle and details of the board, there are no images from the BIOS. Conclusion: A great motherboard that's value for money. With the integrated graphics for 1080p video playback and eight channel audio it makes a perfect HTPC. The M4A785TD-M EVO was the best overclocker in this test, and was the winner in most benchmarks.. Overclocking: An Athlon II X4 620 was OCed @ 3.32GHz, CPU-Z indicates a Core Voltage of 1.472v and the bus speed was 245.1MHz. Bechmarks: Everest, Cinebench, Winrar, POV ray, SiSoft Sandra, 3Dmark Vantage.
MSI Big Bang Trinergy tested by EXPreviewA review dedicated to CrossfireX and SLi. The MSI Big Bang Trinergy (with the nForce 200 SLI chip from nVidia, that can handle more PCI express lanes than the standard Intel chip [x16+x16 or x16+x8+x8 modes]) is compared to the MSI P55-GD65 (with a standard Intel P55 chipset). Conclusion: The results of the Trinergy in CrossfireX were a bit better than the GD65, on average there was 1.73% increase of speed. With SLi the Trinergy showed an improvement of 2.79%, about 3FPS faster in games. The NF200 chip is hardly an improvement for 2-way CrossFireX/SLI. Overclocking: No overclocking was performed by EXPreview. Bechmarks: 3DMark Vantage, DiRT 2, Crysis Warhead, FraCry 2, Unigine Heaven.
iXBT Labs reviewed the MSI P55M-GD45A short review with a few photographs of the box, board and backpanel. The only benchmark that was tested was the The integrated audio quality. Conclusion: Some components on the PCB interfere with other components, like the graphics card in the PCIEx16 slot that crosses the latches on the DIMM slots and the IDE connector at the bottom of the board is far away from the upper optical drive. iXBT Labs would have rather seen a better cooling for the MOSFETs from the PWM voltage regulator. A good thing is LEDs for APS. There was no support for EIST in the BIOS. Overclocking: iXBT labs did not perform any overclocing. There's only one remark about the MSI OC Genie, that allows automatic overclocking. Bechmarks: RightMark Audio Analyzer 6.0.
ASUS P7P55D-E PRO reviewed by techgageA while ago techgage tested the ASUS P7P55D Pro, the additional 'E' for the ASUS P7P55D-E Pro means that this mobo has USB3 and SATA3 connectors. The P7P55D-E PRO was compared to the ASUS P7P55D Pro, ASUS P7P55D-E Pro, Gigabyte P55-UD5, Gigabyte P55A-UD4P, Intel DP55WG. Conclusion: The P7P55D-E PRO is a great performer and has many features. In some cases, it performed better than the other boards except for SYSmark VideoCreation. The PLX chip takes care ...more 
PCShopTalk reviewed the Jetway BI-700Detailed images from the chips and board. Photographs from box and bundle and bios screens with many comments. This board was compared to the P55-A, ASRock P55 Extreme and PRO, Foxconn Bloodrage. Conclusion: Good placement of components on the PCB, a button for 3D Audio on the board and a feature rich BIOS are PROS. The board had a high VDrop, stabilizing the CPU was not possible, no matter how the voltages were set. In the non-overclocking environment the VDrop was also present and on top of that the board had a lower in performance in the benchmarks. Overclocking: It was not possible to OC a core i7 750 above 4GHz. There are OCCT v 3.1.0 screenshots and the 7 voltage increments in the BIOS are shown. Bechmarks: 3DMARK: 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006 and Vantage -- PCmark: 2005 and Vantage -- Furmark, Cinebench, SuperPi -- Games: Street Fighter 4, Left 4 Dead, Crysis, Counterstrike : Source, WiC, Unreal Tournament 3, Farcry 2, Devil May Cry 4.
ASUS P7P55D-E Premium & Gigabtye GA-P55A-UD6 reviewed by hardwarezone This review also focuses on USB 3 and SATA 3. Intel is not going to integrate USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0 into the P55 chipset before 2011. Motherboard manufacturers on the other hand have allready launched this technology in their latest boards. Both manufacturers use different Marvell controllers for SATA3, but both have the same USB3 controller from NEC onboard. Conclusion: The role of the processor CPU architecture is increasing, motherboard vendors can hardly differentiate their products. With USB3 and SATA3 not being integrated in the chipsets yet, manufacturers can still add new features to their boards in order to be competative. These two motherboards are definitely ahead and are made for early adopters, the prices however are high and USB3 and SATA3 devices are scarce. The ASUS P7P55D-E Premium was hardwarezone's favorite, and was given a 4.5 star award. Overclocking the ASUS P7P55D-E Premium: Using the TurboV EVO Auto Tuning utility (the bundled auto-overclocking utility) this board reached 3.91GHz (195[BCLK] x 20[Multiplier]). This utility uses a 'rinse and repeat' routine, which takes some time before it reaches its maximum. Bechmarks: SYSmark 2007, PCMark05 Pro, SPECviewperf 9.0, AquaMark3, 3d mark Vantage, Far Cry 2 - Ranch. 
PC Perspective reviewed the ECS P55H-ALots of detailed images from the board, bundle and bios with many comments. This board was compared to the Intel DP55KG, ASUS P7P55D Deluxe, Gigabyte P55-UD6 and the Gigabyte GA-X58-UD3R. Conclusion:
Overclocking: A core i7 860 was OCed @3.652GHz with a BCLK of 174 MHz. PC perspective encountered a lot of memory stability issues. Bechmarks: Sandra, CineBench 10, Handbrake DVD compression, PC and 3DMark Vantage, Crysis Warhead, Far Cry 2 
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO & M4A785TD-M EVOreviewed by hardwarecanucks Everything you wanted to know about the AMD 785G chipset is covered in this review, most chips on the boards are commented and there are special pages for AMD software, voltage and thermal testing, GPU/CPU overclocking and AMD deneb core unlocking. Amazingly enough hardwarecanucks was able to unlock 4 cores on a Phenom II X2 550 and as a Quadcore it reached 3919MHz on the M4A785TD-V EVO! Conclusion: The M4A785TD-V EVO is a great mobo at a competitive price. With the M4A785TD-M EVO you get value for money, overclocks allmost as good as the 'V' and has on top of that 1394 (FireWire), HDMI 1.3, DVI and even optical digital video output. Overclocking the M4A785TD-V: A Phenom II X2 550 was clocked @4036MHz thanks to ASUS' great LLC implementation. The CPU-Z vCORE value indicates 1.552v. 'Bus overclocking' had the high end result of 352MHz. Overclocking the M4A785TD-M: The X2 550 reached 3995.4 MHz just below the 4GHz. The M4A785TD-M has a 4+1 PWM while the M4A785TD-V has 8+2 phase power, so a 40MHz difference with the 'V' is quite an achievement. Both boards used a Noctua NH-U12P tower heatsink. GPU Overclocking: A 104%(1024MHz) overclock was reached for the Radeon HD4200. Hardware canuck used a fan for the IGP heatsink and sideport memory in order to reach this result. Bechmarks: Everest, SuperPi Mod v1.5, PCMark Vantage X64, Cinebench, Half Life 2, Lost Planet, WIC, 3dMark06. 
ixbtlabs reviewed the Intel DP55KGA review that digs deep into the PCIexpress (lanes) and investigates how several chipset (sata) controllers (ICH10R, marvell, silicon image and PCH P55) handle sata, esata and USB. There's also a large section on the the ALC889 integrated audio device. Conclusion:
Overclocking: ixbitlabs did not do any overclocking. Bechmarks: RightMark Audio Analyzer 6.0.5, Intel IOmeter 
EVGA P55 FTW reviewed by ninjalaneLots of detailed images with photos of bundle and BIOS, there is a dedicated page for the E-Leet overclocking tool. This mobo was compared to the EVGA X58 LE and Foxconn Flaming Blade. Conclusion: A solid set of BIOS controls, E-Leet OC software and a 12-phase PMW make this board a graet overclocker, even with miimal tweaking 4+Ghz was reached easily. This mobo has 3 16x PCI Express slots, but you can only use dual SLI, in the third slot you can use a(n older) graphics card as PhysX processor. Overclocking: A core i5 was OCed @4.2Ghz with a BCLK of 210Mhz, without increasing the vCore voltage, the CPU cooler was a Cooler Master V10. Bechmarks: Sandra, Unreal Tournamanet 3, Crysis, Quake 4, Xvid Encoding. 
guru3d reviewed the MSI P55 GD80 TrinergyA review with many images from the board and bundle. A HD video is showing you around in the BIOS. guru3d also included a video that shows the OC Dashboard control pod, an on-the-fly overclocking device. This board was compared to many other mobos and processors. Conclusion: An impressive board with an astonishing feature set and besides that it can be considered as an overclocking heaven especially with the new OC Genie function. Great extras are the Quantum Wave add-on audio board and 3-way SLI capability thanks to the onboard NF200 which adds thirty-two PCIe lanes. Overclocking: guru3d tested the OC Genie with a core i7 870. With one-touch OC Genie will overclock your CPU automatically and also save the settings. It adjusted the BCLK and QPI link and a stable overclock @4GHz was the result ! Manually guru3d reached 4125 MHz with 22(multipler)x187.5(BaseClock) and the vCore was set to 1.42 Volts. Bechmarks:Sandra, Everest, 3DMark 06 and Vantage, Handbrake, Cyberlink Espresso, Crysis WarHEAD, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, Resident Evil 5, Far Cry 2 
Gigabyte P55A-UD6 reviewed by bjorn3dA review that really focuses on USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0, a Buffalo USB 3.0 External hard disk drive was tested, and a there is a full dedicated page with lots of benchmarks from this test. HDtune Pro showed an average load of 114.1MB/s which is a lot better than any USB 2.0 device. Conclusion: With 24 Phase power, SATA3, USB3 and good overclocking results the Gigabyte P55A-UD6 is a great motherboard. There wasn't much speed increase from the new SATA3 Seagate Barracuda XT drive, for real SATA3 performance you'll have to wait for SATA3 SSD drives. When using SATA3 or USB3 devices the graphics will slow down to a single GPU running at 8x. Bjorn3d gave it a Golden Bear with 9.5 out of 10. Overclocking: CPU-Z results for a core i7 870 show 4046MHz with a 213MHz Baseclock, without increasing the vCore voltage, bjorn3d thinks that everyting beyond 3.8GHz on 'air' is 'insane'. Bechmarks: ATTO, HDTach, Crystal DiskMark, HD Tune Pro, AS SSD Benchmark, Sisoft Sandra, Everest Ultimate, Excel 2007, Blender, SiSoft SANDRA XII Professional SP2, Everest Ultimate Edition v. 5.0, AutoMKV, Cinebench R10 64 bit, WinRar v. 3.71, POVRay, Pro Show Gold 
tbreak.com reviewed the MSI 785GM-E65This board was compared to the MSI 790GX-G65, ECS A790GXM-AD3 and the ECS A780GM-A Ultra. Conclusion: Capable of supporting 140w CPUs, which makes it easier to upgrade the CPU in future. The ATi HD 4200 IGP has its own dedicated 1Gbit 1333MHz boost memory for enhanced graphics performance. The MSI 785GM-E65 also had a better performance in most benchmarks. Overclocking: tbreak.com did not do any overclocking. Bechmarks:3Dmark06, PCmark05, PCmark and 3Dmark Vantage, Cinebench, Company of Heroes, Crysis CPU, ET: Quake Wars, HalfLife 2, ATALKER, SupremeCommander, Office 2003, Photoshap CS3, Winrar, Firefix 2.
MSI P55-GD65 reviewed by hardocpA review with detailed info about the boards features, layout and BIOS. The MSI Control Center, the bundled overclocking, monitoring and Green Power 'centre' is also reviewed. Conclusion: The MSI P55-GD65 is a fantastic overclocker. The P55 chipset is passively cooled, which seems to be barely adequate even under stock settings. With a minimum of air blowing over the chipset sink the system got more stable. The features on this mobo are a lot less than the GD80, but on the other hand it's a lot cheaper. hardocp still gave this motherboard the Gold Editor's Choice. Overclocking: hardocp used a Swiftech Apogee GTZ water block for cooling to overclock a Core i5 750 @4.1GHz with 225MHz BCLK and a vcore of 1.526V. The memory speed was 1720MHz and the memory voltage was set to 1.723V. Bechmarks: IOmeter, Sandra, Hyperpi,wPrime, DivX Converter, LAME, Videora IPod Converter, Winrar, TMPGEnc 4.0 XPRESS,LostPlanet, Call of Juarez, Quake 4 v1.4.2, Crysis, Far Cry 2. 
techgage reviewed the Gigabyte P55A-UD4PGigabyte's newly-launched "333" branding, each three in "333" represents a new technology 1. S-ATA 3.0 (6Gbit/s) 2. USB 3.0 (4.8Gbit/s) and 3. 3x USB power (there's no need for an AC adapter anymore). Since there are hardly any USB3 and SATA3 devices on the market, this review doesn't cover them. Conclusion: The P55A-UD4P includes many features and has a smart design, besides that it has an incredible overclocking potential. SATA3 and USB3 share the PCI-E bus, this will lower the PCI-E slot from 16x to 8x and will thus affect graphics performance if used at the same time. If you are mainly looking for S-ATA 3.0 and/or USB 3.0 Gigabyte's P55A-UD3 is perhaps a better choice since it is a lot cheaper. Overclocking: For stress-testing techgage uses Lynx that manages to get the CPU about 20°C hotter than other CPU testing applications. The CPU was OCed @4400MHZ, with a 22x multiplier and CPU-Z Core Voltage indicated 1.36v. techgage advises to let (the bundled Gigabyte OC software) EasyTune 6 overclock the CPU using the extreme profile, stress test the system to see if it's stable and continue manually to squeeze out some more. Bechmarks: ATTO, 7-Zip, Sandra, Adobe Lightroom, 3ds Max 2010, TMPGEnc XPress, World at War, Crysis Warhead, PCmark and 3DMark Vantage, SYSmark.
ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO reviewed by pcstatsThere is a description of the board and the AMD 785G chipset and next to that Stream GPU Acceleration is explained. A large section is dedicated to Blu-Ray Disc HD Playback and Hard Drive HD 720p/1080i Playback with lots of benchmarks from other chipsets/mobos. Conclusion: The AMD 785 chipset isn't a revolutionary new product, but it brings high-end features for a low price. The Radeon HD4200 is not much faster than the Radeon HD3200, it's strenghth is better support for HD video decoding and a faster ATI Stream. Overclocking: pcstats lowered the multiplier of an AMD Phenom II 955 BE to 8x and reached a bus speed of 265MHz, we couldn't figure out if they raised the multiplier again and there was no information about the final speed of the CPU. The GPU was OCed @775MHz, and subsequently 3Dmark 06 benchmark results went from 1686 to 2098 3DMarks. Bechmarks: SYSMark 2007, Sisift Sandra, PC and 3D mark vantage, FEAR, Call of Juarez, Crysis. 
anandtech reviewed the Biostar TPower i55A large review with many benchmarks, and lots of ram tested. The Biostar TPower i55 was compared to: Asus Rampage II GENE(socket 775), MSI 790FX-GD70(socket AM3), Asus P7P55D Deluxe, MSI P55-GD65, Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2, ASRock P55M pro and the Foxconn P55MX. Conclusion: An extremely solid board when it comes to stability and compatibility, BIOS recovery was very good, Against mid-range boards, the BIOSTAR appears to be a little better suited. Cons: lack of on-board fan headers, the PCI/e retention latches are very difficult to unlock. Overclocking: A Core i5/750 was OCed @4.1GHz with a 215MHz baseclock and tested with several 8GB 2000MHZ+ kits, the VCore was set to 1.3625v. A Core i7/860 was clocked @4.3GHz with 20(multiplier)x215(BCLK) and a VCore of 1.425v. The CPU cooler was a Thermalright Ultra 120 xTreme. Two on-the-fly overclocking tools TPower and TOVERCLOCK are reviewed on the boards features page. Bechmarks: Lightwave, Cinema4D, Atocad, 3dsMAX, Blender, MainConcept Reference, Sorenson Squeeze, CyberLink MediaShow Espresso, Sony Vegas, Sonar Producer, iTunes 9, Excel 2007, Winrar, Adobe Lightroom, Windows Live Movie Maker, Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II, Far Cry 2, Crysis Warhead, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X., Left 4 Dead.
EVGA P55 FTW reviewed by hitechlegionLots ans lots of images from the bundle, board (including many details) and BIOS, there is a page that deals with new Technologies and Efficiency and a dedicated page for the real time overclocking E-LEET Tuning Utility. The board was compared to the MSI P55-CD53, OC'ed values from both boards are added. Conclusion: This board is an excellent performer at stock speed as well as overclocked. Voltage adjustments were minimal before reaching the final OC speed. The triple BIOS is also a nice feature. The boards layout has been well designed and older LGA 775 coolers can still be used because there is a second set of mounting holes. Overclocking: With a Core i5 750 hitechlegion reached @4.24 GHz (limited by temperature, with a better cooler the end result could have been higher), the CPU core voltage was 1.45 volts and thev RAM voltage was set to 1.7v. Bechmarks: World Bench, SiSandra, Everest, Cinebench, 3D and PC Mark Vantage, Call of Duty: World at War, Crysis, World in Conflict, Left 4 Dead. 
ixbtlabs reviewed the ECS A785GM-Mixbitlabs eleborates on the design, layout and the voltage regulator. They also tested the performance of the integrated audio system, a large part of the article deals with memory stability issues. Conclusion: PROS: excellent peripheral interfaces, high-quality components and nice options. CONS: The BIOS seems to be buggy (Smart Fan and memory compatibility issues) if you are not interested in overclocking and try to find compatible memory you might consider this mobo. Overclocking: A Phenom II X3 720 BE was overclocked @3600MHZ with a 13x multiplier and a vCore of 1.45v, ixbtlabs also overclocked a Phenom II X4 810 @3380, multiplier was 13x and the vCore set to 1.42v. You cannot save an OC profile with this board, so after resetting the BIOS parameters you will have to have to restore them manually. Bechmarks: 7Zip, WinRAR 3.80, XviD 1.2.1, x264, FarCry 2, Crysis, Devil May Cry 4, World in Conlict.
DFI LANPARTY DK P55-T3eH9 reviewed by xbitlabsThis board was compared to the ASRock P55 deluxe, Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 and UD3R, Biostar TPower I55 and the ASUS P7P55D Deluxe. The DFI LANPARTY DK P55-T3eH9 was in the lower regions of the benchmark tests, with stock speed as well as with maximum overclock. There is a page that deals with the buldled software, especially the DFI Ez-Flash utility caused a lot of problems. Conclusion: DFI BIOSecure is a truly unique and innovative technology, it revives your mobo after a failed BIOS reflashing, xbitlabs gave it the Ultimate Innovation award. There were no serious issues, but instead there were A LOT of minor problems. Xbitlabs wouldn't recommend the DK P55-T3eH9 over similar solutions from ASRock or Biostar. Overclocking:With a baseclock of 177 MHz and a 22x multiplier they reached 3906.1MHz with a Core i7 860. The board did not show the correct memory frequency during overclocking, besides that the fan rotation speed wouldn't speed up to the maximum 2200 RPM and stopped at 1850 RPM. Bechmarks tested: Cinebench, Fritz Chess, SuperPi 8m, PC and 3d mark Vantage, Custom PCBench, Far Cry 2, Resident Evil 5. Images from the ASRock H55DE3, H55M and H55M Pro 
 
The new ASRock mobos for the 32nm (clarckdale cpu) Core i5, Core i3 and Pentium g6950 processors with the codename Westmere, which will have an integrated grapics core. The IGP supports DirectX 10 and the all boards will have an HDMI, DVI and VGA connector. Older coolers for socket 775 can be still be used because of the combo cooler option which provides extra holes in the mobo. There are two PCI-E x16 slots on all three boards which will probably support CrossfireX (8x/8x). |
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