Stephen ASRock P55 Extreme4 @ HardwareSecrets
“ASRock right now has eight different socket 1156 motherboards based on the Intel P55 chipset. Let’s take a look at their latest release, the P55 Extreme4, a mainstream model with four USB 3.0 and four SATA-600 ports.”
ASRock 870 Extreme3 @ TweakTown
“When AMD brought out the new 8xx series chipset they did things in an odd way. Their first release was the 890GX. This was a high-end version of the chipset, but it had an IGP (internal graphics processor) which is not normally how things work. For some reason, this has been the path that AMD has taken. Not that long after the release of the 890GX (and the later the 890FX) we are down to the 870 flavor of the chipset.”
ASUS Rampage III Extreme @ OC Club
“Overclocking the Rampage III Extreme was an exciting affair. With the stellar BIOS that ASUS bundled with the board, the process was familiar to every other X58 board on the market, but easier after all of little tweaks and improvements are factored in.”
ASUS Z8NA-D6C @ TweakTown
“Now, while these have been lots of fun and have shown that the WS team can certainly hold their own against even the ROG desktop team, we have not really gotten deep into the ASUS WS offerings. Today that all gets to change as we tear the box off of a Dual Socket 1366 board from ASUS. The ASUS Z8NA-D6C is something; you get two Nehalem CPUs and six slots of RAM all stuffed into an ATX package.”
ASRock 890GX Extreme3 @ iXBT Labs
“Without a doubt, this is a worthy representative of the AMD 890GX family. It has everything you need for an all-round configuration. And it’s actually quite hard to name a specific target audience that could be more interested in ASRock 890GX Extreme3, especially considering its attractive price.”
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula @ iXBT Labs
“ASUS Crosshair IV Formula is undoubtedly an original and interesting product. Its features, like GameFirst and ROG Connect, are actually useful and may come in handy. The bundle includes everything you need, and then a bit more.”
Gigabyte H55N-USB3 @ TweakTown
“Not all that long ago VIA introduced a new form factor called Mini-ITX. It was a great idea; a small yet powerful board layout that allowed a decent amount of flexibility. Unfortunately VIA did not have the marketing muscle to get wide acceptance and the idea fell into obscurity. It was not until Intel launched the Atom CPU that we saw a return of the Mini-ITX.”
Gigabyte X58A-UD9 @ TBreak
“The X58A-UD9 is definitely big, measuring in at 13.58″ x 10.31″ (34.5cm x 25.35cm), this XL ATX motherboard won’t even fit in most of the cases currently available in the market. However, Gigabyte was kind enough to provide a list of compatible cases from various vendors that can swallow this behemoth. Despite its size, the UD9 is still jam packed with circuits, transistors, controller chips, heatsinks and, of course, the 7 PCI-Express slots.”
MSI P55A-GD65 @ HardwareSecrets
“Right now MSI has 14 different motherboard models based on the Intel P55 chipset. Let’s take a look at the P55A-GD65 (a.k.a. MS-7585), a stripped-down version of their P55-GD85.”
AMD 890GX – Gigabyte vs. ASRock @ Metku
“To give you an idea of the HD4290 performance we also ran the X3: Terran Conflict-game test with the integrated graphics. As a benchmark here we used the HD 5450 graphics card, which is the slowest card in Ati’s current 5-range of cards. Even compared to this the integrated HD4290 just doesn’t cut it.”