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Starbuck5000 · 2 Weeks Ago

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EVGA P55 FTW SLI E657

Our favorite board of the bunch for extreme benchmarking is the EVGA E657. In terms of ease of use and 'overclockability' this board wins on all counts. Our retail sample came with a TYCO AMP socket and survived everything we threw at it over the last six weeks of near 24/7 testing. At cold temperatures, this board boots up better than any other we’ve tested to date. You don’t have to boot up in safe mode or wait for temperatures to increase, it’s that simple.

Heavy load benchmarking stability is this board’s strength and at its price point there is no other P55 board that delivers on as many levels for the overclocking professional. EVGA is using TCYO AMP and LOTES sockets exclusively for all their P55 boards at this point, although there may be some early stock around still using Foxconn sockets.

ASUS ROG Maximus III Formula

While it worked our ASUS Maximus III Formula board was a pleasure to use. In terms of overall features, BIOS design, and general desktop performance this board is rated at the top of our list. Unfortunately, the board did not respond as well as the EVGA or Gigabyte boards in extreme overclocking conditions. Our experience with the large cascade was not trouble free as it refused to post once the evaporator head temperature was below -110 degrees.

The ROG Connect software is a novel design that we see a lot of promise in and a pleasure to use as a side bonus. The board was proving itself to be the all around choice (gaming/desktop/overclocking) until we experienced the now infamous socket burn syndrome.

As of press time for this article, ASUS is still investigating the socket burnout problems and has not told us if they will be following the lead of other vendors in moving over to other socket vendors for their high end boards.

Gigabyte GA-P55- UD6

The GA-P55-UD6 from Gigabyte was on a level playing field with the ASUS ROG for the most part in general performance and extreme overclocking results. It did trail the other boards in the 8-thread CPU tests, but showed second place performance everywhere else. The UD6 handled cold temperatures as well as the E657, but required us to shut the PSU off periodically between reboots in order for the board to properly repost.

Our test sample arrived with the revised Foxconn socket and managed to survive the onslaught of benchmarks without a problem. We understand that Gigabyte has moved production over to LOTES based sockets for their higher end boards, so expect to see these showing up in the retail channels shortly.

EVGA P55 Classified 200

When this board arrived in the labs we were intrigued to see what it brought to the table in comparison to less expensive P55 boards. At a $340 price point, there’s no room whatsoever for failure. Unfortunately, the only real strength that extra monetary outlay will buy you is the ability to run non-memory intensive 8-thread loads a few MHz higher than the superlative EVGA E657.

The other side bonus is for multi-GPU setups as you get true dual x16 capabilities, though we wonder why you would even pick a P55 board at this price point is beyond us. While the board responded well in most cases, we had problems with higher memory speeds (over 2200MHz) as they were just not as stable on this board in comparison to the other boards in our tests, no matter what we tried. We’re not sure if this can be fixed without some kind of hardware change, as we tried every BIOS tweak the board has in order to try and squeeze a little more stability above DDR3-2200, but alas, no improvement.

Gigabyte won't be so pleased that their "super overclock" 24phase pwm bs has come to light. All those extra phases and it clocks just as well as the one's without.

vicious_fishes · 2 Weeks Ago

i5 750 is still best bang for buck processor IMO.

followed by the quad core athlons.

BULLATTACK · 2 Weeks Ago

I love my P55 FTW, overclocking has truly been an ease on it.

lardo5150 · 2 Weeks Ago

Its threads like this that make we think I should go for the 1156 socket.

Satans_Hell · 2 Weeks Ago

Love my i5 750 as well.

My Gigabyte board may be the cheapest one but it still allowed my to oc to 4.2Ghz with ease

Rampage Jackson · 2 Weeks Ago

I would like to see these compared to the MSI p55 boards. Hit 4ghz on my i5 750 with ease. Headroom to spare even.

Perry · 2 Weeks Ago

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Gigabyte won't be so pleased that their "super overclock" 24phase pwm bs has come to light. All those extra phases and it clocks just as well as the one's without.

I have been saying that all of these phases are a complete waste of time and resources and here is more proof. Asus may be cranky as well because they are just as bad.

sLowEnd · 2 Weeks Ago

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Gigabyte won't be so pleased that their "super overclock" 24phase pwm bs has come to light. All those extra phases and it clocks just as well as the one's without.

Hasn't that always been clear? A lot of DFI boards have less phases than competitor boards but they still OC well

raisethe3 · 2 Weeks Ago

MSI isn't competing in this category? There are several P55 boards they have.

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Starbuck5000 · 2 Weeks Ago

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Hasn't that always been clear? A lot of DFI boards have less phases than competitor boards but they still OC well

Its always been clear to those in the know but to a lot of people no.

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