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Asus P7P55D EVO P55 Motherboard Preview
Asus P7P55D EVO P55 Motherboard Preview
OC3D Article: Asus P7P55D EVO P55 Motherboard Preview
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Personally, I'm very confident about the i5 platform. With LGA775 a soon to be discontinued socket, people like myself are less keen to take this route and with AMD offering comparable performance from Celeron 430 to Core 2 Quad Q9650 level and a range of motherboards at very good prices, it'd be great from a DIY customer perspective to see this platform appear asap.
To me, P55/LGA1156 has a lot of potential. By cutting Triple Channel Support, reducing PCI-Express lanes, presumably lower power regulation requirements and a single unified MCP style chipset, the build cost of these motherboards should be considerably lower than X58 and nearer to AMD's 790GX chipset. P55 motherboards ranging from £75 to £150 would hit the spot quite nicely. The i5 CPU's themselves are very much like i7 architecturally and I would expect performance to be quite similar. I'm sure that this will steal AMD's Phenom II thunder.
The P7P55D looks like a well thought out motherboard. The board layout appears very well spaced out and has a good combination of PCI and PCI-E slots. It's pricing that I'm keen to hear about
To me, P55/LGA1156 has a lot of potential. By cutting Triple Channel Support, reducing PCI-Express lanes, presumably lower power regulation requirements and a single unified MCP style chipset, the build cost of these motherboards should be considerably lower than X58 and nearer to AMD's 790GX chipset. P55 motherboards ranging from £75 to £150 would hit the spot quite nicely. The i5 CPU's themselves are very much like i7 architecturally and I would expect performance to be quite similar. I'm sure that this will steal AMD's Phenom II thunder.
The P7P55D looks like a well thought out motherboard. The board layout appears very well spaced out and has a good combination of PCI and PCI-E slots. It's pricing that I'm keen to hear about
hmmm...makes me think of waiting to buy a new board...looks really nice. I do hope they do some more work on the overall look, the heatsinks i suppose is the only thing that worries me. Especially with some overly large heatsinks.
Looks interesting, shall be nice to see some clocks...
Looks interesting, shall be nice to see some clocks...
Rastalovich
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Apart from feeling that Intel are eFFing us all with these socket differences..
We gonna get a different socket for i3 also ? They seeing people using the E pentium ranges in higher end 775 boards and getting close to fantastic results and seeing it as a reason they're not requiring to buy the more expensive core 2 cpus. Nipping that in the bud.
ASUS's memory slot with 1 clip will be seen as "something nice", ofc it sounds like u hook the memory in one end and rotate it down, the kinda thing u can do with existing 2 clips if ur being clever. What a load of rot, harping back to ASUS throwing their mobo designs together, they needed to move the slots up some mm - ?? I dunno. U reckon they've put a reinforcing slip of plastic behind the pins to prevent bending if used frequently ? mfm style connectors are ofc meant to be pushed in evenly.
VIA sound is interesting. Just as I'm appreciating Realtek's ALC889a being a very good audio set, it'd be interesting to see what VIA have to say.
Proof of this mobo's pudding is going to be the performance, or what the "P" used to stand for, perhaps we'll see.
New socket spacing for coolers ?
SATA-III will be nice, it's interesting that USB3 hasn't been rushed through, but even so, i7 SSD owners are gonna feel like they've been bent-over cos of this. Perhaps a new i7 range will come out. ASUS generally make 50 mobos for one range anyway
Personally nice to see that the mobo is warped almost as much as the one I was worried about previously. Kinda self satisfying.
Without a very good reason not to be, I still think Intel are eFFing us with this range - not performance wize or anything, but in terms of choice and financially in terms of what u may have to buy at have-to buy prices.
775 I feel still has a heck of a long time to serve, as long as u can source the cpus. Asrock mobos are out there, but they don't appear to be the solid types that come out right at the downturn of a chipset. But ofc the time will come, and still they could be coming with the x68 by then. Perhaps the x58 cpus will fit in them ??
What a mess, and well-done to AMD !
Looking forward to the DATA releases even so, as I have a strong feeling that, like the i7, all the mobos from the other manufacturers are going to relate in a very very similar way performance wize.
We gonna get a different socket for i3 also ? They seeing people using the E pentium ranges in higher end 775 boards and getting close to fantastic results and seeing it as a reason they're not requiring to buy the more expensive core 2 cpus. Nipping that in the bud.
ASUS's memory slot with 1 clip will be seen as "something nice", ofc it sounds like u hook the memory in one end and rotate it down, the kinda thing u can do with existing 2 clips if ur being clever. What a load of rot, harping back to ASUS throwing their mobo designs together, they needed to move the slots up some mm - ?? I dunno. U reckon they've put a reinforcing slip of plastic behind the pins to prevent bending if used frequently ? mfm style connectors are ofc meant to be pushed in evenly.
VIA sound is interesting. Just as I'm appreciating Realtek's ALC889a being a very good audio set, it'd be interesting to see what VIA have to say.
Proof of this mobo's pudding is going to be the performance, or what the "P" used to stand for, perhaps we'll see.
New socket spacing for coolers ?
SATA-III will be nice, it's interesting that USB3 hasn't been rushed through, but even so, i7 SSD owners are gonna feel like they've been bent-over cos of this. Perhaps a new i7 range will come out. ASUS generally make 50 mobos for one range anyway
Personally nice to see that the mobo is warped almost as much as the one I was worried about previously. Kinda self satisfying.
Without a very good reason not to be, I still think Intel are eFFing us with this range - not performance wize or anything, but in terms of choice and financially in terms of what u may have to buy at have-to buy prices.
775 I feel still has a heck of a long time to serve, as long as u can source the cpus. Asrock mobos are out there, but they don't appear to be the solid types that come out right at the downturn of a chipset. But ofc the time will come, and still they could be coming with the x68 by then. Perhaps the x58 cpus will fit in them ??
What a mess, and well-done to AMD !
Looking forward to the DATA releases even so, as I have a strong feeling that, like the i7, all the mobos from the other manufacturers are going to relate in a very very similar way performance wize.
Gotta say I agree with some of your points. I think it's a big nono to restrict the upgrade path (or downgrade as it were).
I''m quite happy I have i7. The only reason I would want i5 is for SATA3. Other than that I cannot see a reason why anyone would want to change. Obviously I cant go into performance details but I think it's safe to assume the bandwidth will favour the tripple channel i7 to the dual i5. Then there's the PCIe16x vs PCIe8x.
AFAIK both i5 and i3 CPU's will work with P55. i7 is more expensive to produce and as such may have prevented lot of people from upgrading. i5 is theoretically cheaper so should tempt more people away from skt775 but one has to wonder at the logic behind tempting people to upgrade but in a half assed manner as they are still restricted in upgrade path from there.
It remains to be seen if these cheaper to produce prices are passed down to the consumer. I fear if they are not then intel just blasted themselves in the foot with a 12bore shotgun.
I''m quite happy I have i7. The only reason I would want i5 is for SATA3. Other than that I cannot see a reason why anyone would want to change. Obviously I cant go into performance details but I think it's safe to assume the bandwidth will favour the tripple channel i7 to the dual i5. Then there's the PCIe16x vs PCIe8x.
AFAIK both i5 and i3 CPU's will work with P55. i7 is more expensive to produce and as such may have prevented lot of people from upgrading. i5 is theoretically cheaper so should tempt more people away from skt775 but one has to wonder at the logic behind tempting people to upgrade but in a half assed manner as they are still restricted in upgrade path from there.
It remains to be seen if these cheaper to produce prices are passed down to the consumer. I fear if they are not then intel just blasted themselves in the foot with a 12bore shotgun.
Rastalovich
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There's another thing I meant to mention.
X38/X48 have been produced in the past and not been on the shelves for a long time. I don't think even Asrock make a consolidatory version of these chipset, even tho they'll eventually make P45 I'm sure.
So.. u build an i7, mobo (of which prices are being massaged atm) - this is the X58, how long is it's life expectancy ? What does an i7 owner do when a few years only down the line their mobo craps the bed ? If it was an X38, u can blow ur horizons open with a mass of lovely X48/45 even get a P35 - but the X38s are now rare. X48 is going to be rare soon enough. X58 goes rare and then what ?
This is partially why I'm wondering if X68 becomes the same socket.
Let's say u've taken the jump into buying an expensive SSD arrangement with ur X58, even professionally. Ur m8 just buys a cheaper SSD drive and a P55 mobo and floors the speed comparison.
Now allegedly not even the SSD drives saturate SATA-1, but even so, under SATA-2 they still push that much more performance over a SATA-1 connection.
X38/X48 have been produced in the past and not been on the shelves for a long time. I don't think even Asrock make a consolidatory version of these chipset, even tho they'll eventually make P45 I'm sure.
So.. u build an i7, mobo (of which prices are being massaged atm) - this is the X58, how long is it's life expectancy ? What does an i7 owner do when a few years only down the line their mobo craps the bed ? If it was an X38, u can blow ur horizons open with a mass of lovely X48/45 even get a P35 - but the X38s are now rare. X48 is going to be rare soon enough. X58 goes rare and then what ?
This is partially why I'm wondering if X68 becomes the same socket.
name='w3bbo' said:
Let's say u've taken the jump into buying an expensive SSD arrangement with ur X58, even professionally. Ur m8 just buys a cheaper SSD drive and a P55 mobo and floors the speed comparison.
Now allegedly not even the SSD drives saturate SATA-1, but even so, under SATA-2 they still push that much more performance over a SATA-1 connection.
