Stephen Preview of Gigabyte P55A Mobos @ TweakTown
“Marvel has since fixed and improved its single disk and RAID 0 supporting SATA3 controller and now we see one of the first motherboards on the market to support the next generation storage system. At the moment, there is no RAID 1 support, but a GIGABYTE product manager mentioned in our meeting that Marvell may come out with a new firmware a little later adding that ability.”
Gigabyte P55 UD5 Motherboard @ Guru3D
“Today we’ll look at Gigabyte’s offering with their P55 UD5 motherboard. The UD5 features Gigabyte’s UD3 suite of features, which include 2oz of copper throughout the PCB, Japanese solid capacitors, low RDS MOSFETs, high-quality ferrite core chokes, and more. The UD5 comes equipped with a modest 12 phase power design. s standard the board has ten USB 2.0 ports and additional USB headers to add another 14 USB ports should you want to.”
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 Review @ Overclockers Club
“The Smart Quick Boost utility delivered a 3.84GHz clock speed with the click of the icon or just over 900MHz worth of increase, just by choosing the Twin Turbo option. The Turbo and Faster options delivered clock speed increases, but, as you can imagine, they were not as dramatic as the Twin Turbo option. The 3.84GHz clock speed is about 100Mhz higher than the utilities on the Maximus III Formula and MSI P55-GD65 delivered (at 3.7GHz), but the OC Genie is still by far the easiest to use option with the Gigabyte running a close second.”
ASRock P55 Extreme Motherboard @ PCShopTalk
“In this review I will test the P55 Extreme motherboard from ASRock, a much better equipped motherboard from their P55 series, will present its features, applications, BIOS and ultimately will compare it with the other motherboards I have tested in the past ( not only 1156 but also 1366 ).”
AMD Athlon 2 X3 435 @ Bjorn3D
“We’re going to take a look at the new AMD Athlon 2 X3 435 triple core CPU and see if we can’t unlock it’s potential, then we’re going to try and unlock that disabled core. You should know that unlocking that disabled core is a crap shoot and not every Triple core CPU can handle it.”
AMD Athlon II X3 435 CPU @ X-Bit Labs
“The launch of triple-core Athlon II X3 CPUs can hardly be called a big surprise. Being an exclusive manufacturer of processors like that, AMD pays special attention to these solutions. They are great from marketing as well as technical standpoints. On the one hand, Phenom II X3 and Athlon II X3 CPU series provide the company with an extra way of putting partially defective quad-core dies (with the defects in one of the cores) to good use.”
AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.80 GHz @ TechPowerUp!
“AMD’s Athlon II X2 240 is set out to deliver a best-in-class experience for less than $60. Even though it has only two cores it can deliver in many benchmarks including gaming. Its attractive price point and undervolting capabilities also make it an interesting choice for a budget oriented media PC setup.”
G.Skill Ripjaws 4GB DDR3-1600 @ PureOC
“We’re looking at a set of G.Skill Ripjaws 4GB DDR3-1600 modules that are designed for use in the LGA1156 socket Core i5/i7 platform. We’ve seen in the past that G.Skill modules typically great performance at excellent prices, particularly in the more “mainstream” market, so let’s find out if G.Skill has produced another winner with these Ripjaws sticks.”
ASUS Maximus III Gene @ Elite Bastards
“Of course, this motherboard sports an LGA 1156 socket, while memory support is offered up via four DDR3 slots which can take a 4GB module each, with the Maximus III Gene supporting speeds of up to 1333MHz at stock clocks and up to 2133MHz in an overclocked configuration.”
ASUS Sabertooth 55i – Military Grade @ HardwareZone
“ASUS’ new series of motherboards, ‘The Ultimate Force’ or TUF, gets its first member with the SABERTOOTH 55i. Featuring military grade components and an unique ceramic-based heatsink coating, this is a rugged premium board using the Intel P55 Express chipset. We find out just how tough it is.”