What's the difference?
- Thread starter Sleekit
- Start date
Rastalovich
New member
In really simple terms and a gross generalization...
U can start an Intel chipset at the enthusiast top with Xxx, X58 for example. 58 being the key. X being...... pfft eXtreme ??
P .... Performance ? Gah. There are probably official terms for them.
U'll then eventually get:
58, 55, 53, 51 - each with a feature taken away from the former. In some cases something added in it's place. U could lose some slot abilities on a 55 over a 58, but gain on perhaps a revision of the 5 series, lessons learnt since the 58 was rushed out (or something not finished in time, a memory or bus/bios tweak). In some series, it has been the other way around.
By the time the enthusiasts have snapped up the 55(s), Intel mostly look forward to 6 series development, but will continue to produce lesser, 53, 51, with sometimes only minor abilities removed. Sometimes the 53 can turn out to be an absolute bargain of a clocking mobo. Not expected to be a performer by the maker, it'll usually have little or no onboard cooling.
The G often dictates some kind of onboard graphic, although I have seen some manufacturers create a mobo without. I would only assume here that whilst Intel intended the release to be for onboard graphic mobos, the manufacture saw the chance to grab the cheaper chip and make one without graphics anyway. Costing and performance dependent I would expect.
U can start an Intel chipset at the enthusiast top with Xxx, X58 for example. 58 being the key. X being...... pfft eXtreme ??
P .... Performance ? Gah. There are probably official terms for them.
U'll then eventually get:
58, 55, 53, 51 - each with a feature taken away from the former. In some cases something added in it's place. U could lose some slot abilities on a 55 over a 58, but gain on perhaps a revision of the 5 series, lessons learnt since the 58 was rushed out (or something not finished in time, a memory or bus/bios tweak). In some series, it has been the other way around.
By the time the enthusiasts have snapped up the 55(s), Intel mostly look forward to 6 series development, but will continue to produce lesser, 53, 51, with sometimes only minor abilities removed. Sometimes the 53 can turn out to be an absolute bargain of a clocking mobo. Not expected to be a performer by the maker, it'll usually have little or no onboard cooling.
The G often dictates some kind of onboard graphic, although I have seen some manufacturers create a mobo without. I would only assume here that whilst Intel intended the release to be for onboard graphic mobos, the manufacture saw the chance to grab the cheaper chip and make one without graphics anyway. Costing and performance dependent I would expect.
DeMoB
New member
Something else to add to that, is that if you are looking for good overclocking motherboards (and assuming you dont want to spend the money for the X58 etc boards), then the P45 mobo's are usually the best overclocking ones, as although the 43's and 41's are often the same northbridge chip as the P45's, they use the ones that didn't work as well as full speed and fully featured P45 chips, and slow them down and drop features from them till they work properly again.
Dan
Dan
Rastalovich
New member
It's true enough. The P35 chipset was so good it still beat most P45s.
P.... Performance ??
P.... Performance ??
