ASUS P7H55D-M EVO @ Motherboards.org
“In terms of target market, the ASUS P7H55D-M EVO board fits the bill as the cornerstone of a digital home theater PC. The integrated graphics are good enough to run Blu-ray discs when paired with a powerful processor like the Core i5-661 CPU used in the testing. The board has the HDMI outputs that most HDTVs have on the market today and also has a DVI-D and VGA for monitor connections.”
ASRock H55M Pro (H55 Express) @ TweakTown
“As we have shown you with their X58 and P55 boards, ASRock has some excellent engineers behind the scenes developing boards that are able to give great performance and overclocking. With the launch of the 32nm Clarkdale Core i5 661, ASRock has come forward with their own H55 based motherboard.”
MSI Eclipse Plus @ PCStats
“As MSI Computer knows, sometimes overkill is a good thing. This seems to be the philosophy behind the MSI X58 Eclipse Plus motherboard – a jet black beauty built around Intel’s X58 Express and ICH10R chipsets for the Intel Core i7 family of socket 1366 processors. MSI’s X58 Eclipse Plus motherboard supports DDR3 memory exclusively, and triple channel kits at that.”
Well, the time has finally come to unveil the performance of Intel’s “Westmere” core with the combination of an Intel HD Graphics enabled Core i5-661, and Intel’s DH55TC “Tom Cove” motherboard. The Core i5-661 features Intel’s first processor with an integrated graphics die in a multi-chip package. It also adds several new AES instructions to boost encryption / decryption performance for AES applications. How does this chip compare against the i5-750 Lynnfield and i7-870?