Recent content by Rakurai

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    P7P55D Multiplier problem

    I am having a strange problem while testing the limits of my components. I have an Asus P7P55D with an i5 750. Whenever I stress test, CPU-Z reads the cpu frequency correctly, whether I have all cores enabled or not, and the correct multiplier with turbo enabled. It boosts up to 24x with one...
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    Athlon XP still legit?

    I have an XP 3200+ and I can play Farmtown like nobody's business.
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    low end mb for i5-750?

    Well, somehow I missed the post one page down that asked *almost* the exact same question, sorry to be redundant. But, the replies in the other post didn't answer exactly what I wanted to know: How does the H55 compare to the P55, disregarding the options for dual GPUs and rapid storage? Is...
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    Old motherboards still doing you proud :)

    My 9 year old son is using my very first high performance build: Epox 8RDA3+ with a lapped northbridge and Zalman cooler mobile 2600+ with a huge copper heatsink/92mm fan (i forget brand) radeon 9500 pro with a sandwich heatsink 1 gig of Geil ddr all in a monstrous Xaser III case that...
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    low end mb for i5-750?

    I am building my next rig with an i5-750, and am trying to decide on a motherboard. After a while of reading reviews, I had decided on a p55 board, and the Gigabyte P55M-UD2 falls right into the price range and feature set I'm looking for. But, reading Anandtech's latest budget building...