Stephen ASUS P7P55D Deluxe Preview @ PC Per
“Though we did not have a motherboard here to do extensive hands-on testing, I did find some interesting overclocking information about the Lynnfield CPU and the ASUS motherboards that I thought I would share. First up is in regards to memory speeds: apparently Lynnfield CPUs that run at 2.8 GHz and 2.93 GHz will be able to run memory at 1600 MHz at stock settings while the 2.66 GHz parts will only be able to push 1333 MHz.”
ASRock A790GXH/128M @ OCInside
“The ASRock A790GXH/128M motherboard with the AMD 790GX chipset and the SB750 southbridge is not only designed for Socket AM2, but it is also an excellent board for newer AMD Socket AM2+ and AM3 processors with support for DDR2 memory modules.”
MSI P55-GD65 Preview @ Hexus
“Much like London buses, you wait a while for the first Intel P55 chipset-based motherboards to appear and then three turn up at once. The ASUS P7P55D EVO was the first to hit the labs, followed by the microATX-sized Gigabyte P55M-UD4. Both layouts were generally clean, helped in no small part by the single-chip core-logic on P55 boards.”
MSI AMD 785GM-E65 @ PC Per
“Perhaps the most interesting little feature about this board is the inclusion of a dipswitch which controls FSB overclocking. There are four settings which can take the FSB from stock speed, up through 10%, 15%, and 20% overclock. While the FSB can be controlled in the BIOS as well, it is interesting to see a motherboard manufacturer go back to dipswitch overclocking. I thought we got over that after the K6 and Athlon days?”
Gigabyte GA-EP55-UD4P Preview @ OC Club
“Starting with the left side of the PCB, we have the I/O panel that includes much of the board’s connectivity. This board’s I/O panel is pretty stacked, with 10 USB ports, 2 eSATA ports, 2 IEEE 1394 ports, 1 PS2 port that can be used for a keyboard or mouse, 8-channel HD audio, 2 Gigabit LAN ports that support teaming, and both Optical and Coaxial digital audio outputs.”
ASRock X58 Extreme @ Future Looks
“With Core i7 being the hot platform of the moment, pricing makes budget platforms appealing as well as profitable. That’s an area ASRock has repeatedly found to be a great place to market since we can’t all afford $250 plus motherboards to go with our Core i7 processors. That’s why the under $200 price of the ASRock X58 Extreme is such an attractive proposition.”
Intel Core i7 LGA1366 Processors @ Digit-Life
“This family includes five models so far. Two of them are leaving soon. Another one will probably be discontinued later. We’ve heard some rumors that Core i7 950 won’t live through the end of the year either: it may be replaced with the 960. But we decided to test all five processors using our new test method in order to evaluate performance gains of the new models versus old ones.”
MSI P55-GD80 Preview @ Guru3D
“We have a nice preview to offer you guys on the upcoming MSI P55-GD80 Lynnfield Motherboard. This board has a lot of overclocker-friendly features, such as on-board controls for clock-speeds, clear-CMOS, OC-Genie, a DIP switch to control voltages, and voltage-sensing points that make measuring voltages convenient.”
ASUS M4A79T Deluxe @ PureOC
“The ASUS M4A79T Deluxe is a premium AM3 motherboard for discerning consumers that want to push their AMD system. How stable is this board? How high can I push my overclock? How well does the BIOS function with the latest in the Phenom II line-up? These are questions we hope to answer as we push this board to find out.”
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4 @ Hexus
“LGA1,156 chips differ from their LGA1,366 brethren by integrating the PCI-Express lanes directly from the CPU. That, then, removes the need for an IOH and QPI link to the processor but reduces the total number of lanes to 16. The chipset, P55 for example, connects to the CPU via DMI, just as the X58’s IOH does. In effect, the integration on LGA1156 (Lynnfield) is such that it integrates a complete northbridge to the execution cores. Say goodbye to the IOH.”