Stephen Next Gen. P55 Motherboards @ HardwareZone
“The next evolution in storage technologies and interfaces are upon us! SATA has now reached 6Gbit/s transfer rate while USB 3.0 brings a tenfold increase in speed. These two new features are the highlights of a new breed of P55 motherboards, including the two from ASUS and Gigabyte that we’ll be looking at.”
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R @ X-Bit Labs
“The recommended retail price for this mainboard is set at $140, but what is it really capable of? Can it meet our needs and expectations fully? Won’t it turn out having limited functionality and being priced too high for what it can offer? Or it has all the potential for successful competition against its more pricy rivals and is worth every penny?”
MSI NF980-E65 @ PC Perspective
“Overall the MSI NF980-E65 is a good board. It does everything it promises, it does not waste the consumers’ hard earned dollars by including a lot of superfluous extras that may or may not be used, and the build quality should allow it to run for years in even the most sweltering of cases imagined. MSI essentially has the high end AMD/SLI market to itself with this product.”
ASUS’ P7P55D Pro @ TechGage
“On the lookout for a P55 motherboard to match that shiny new Lynnfield CPU? Given the sheer selection available, deciding on one can be a hassle. ASUS’ P7P55D Pro looks to appeal to a large crowd, though, by offering a slew of useful options, impressive overclocking abilities and a great design for an easy-to-stomach $170.”
Gigabyte P55M-UD4 Motherboard Review @ HardOCP
“GIGABYTE is well known in the computer component space for their high performance products that boast some of the best stability records in the sector. While not embraced by the enthusiast crowd overwhelmingly in the motherboard space till recently, GIGABYTE caters to the enthusiasts with its innovative BIOS and cooling designs. Their latest addition to their Intel P55 chipset line does a fine job of illustrating this trend.”
Intel P55 Motherboard Roundup @ Hartware.de
“We have tested three motherboards in this review for Socket LGA1156 Lynnfield processors or compared. In the next few days, a second review follows three other motherboards of its kind. Specifically, these are in this part, at the Intel DP55KG, which we have presented already in the CPU review, the ASUS and the ASUS Maximus Formula III P7P55D Deluxe. In the second part will follow ASUS Maximus III genes, Gigabyte P55-UD6 and MSI P55-GD65.”
ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO Review @ HardOCP
“The ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard supports the AM3 line of AMD processors through the use of the AMD 785G Northbridge chipset. This chipset supports the following technologies innately: AMD socket AM3 type processors, DDR3 memory operating in Dual Channel mode up to 1333MHz officially, integrated graphics support via the ATI Radeon HD 4200 GPU, and single card PCI-E x16 based graphics support.”
Elitegroup P55H-A @ Phoronix
“The ECS P55H-A arrived in a package that was colorful and covered with fancy graphics on the front to attract gamers and enthusiasts. Like most ECS products, on the inside are a limited number of accessories for the Intel motherboard. Included with the P55H-A were four Serial ATA data cables, one IDE ribbon cable, I/O panel, ECS user’s guide, quick install guide, an ECS driver CD, and a CD for ECS eJIFFY. “
Zotac ION ITX-A @ Technic3D (Deutsche)
“As mentioned above comes from our Ion-A is a pre-assembled ITX Intel Atom 330 Dual-Core processor is used, which is next to HyperThreading and 64-compatible. For memory expansion, the ION ITX A two DDR2 memory slots is available, can be equipped with up to 4GB of memory, according to XFX and the dual-channel mode control. For hard drives and optical drives, the motherboard provides three SATA-II interfaces, which are also still capable of RAID.”
7-Way Intel P55 Motherboard Round-Up @ TechSpot
“As we learned back in September, Intel effectively ripped out Hyper-Threading and dropped a memory channel with the Core i5. However, after completing extensive testing we found that in most situations the lack of HT technology is not an issue, while the dual-channel memory controller provides ample bandwidth. Furthermore, when comparing clock for clock performance between the Core i5 and Core i7 processors there was very little in it, which was surprising.”