i3 530 Motherboard, P55 or H55?

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lundrog

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I am looking for recommendations for a i3 530 motherboard. Not sure if I should do a P55 or H55.

I am looking for somthing that I can overclock, and that I do not need to do a bios update to use with the i3 530, as I do not have any other CPU's that would work in the board.

I am looking for a motherboard with room for a LARGE CPU cooler,, and I need to put in my GTX 285 in the computer.

I have yet to decide if I should put 8 gb of 1600 and do a mild overclock, or put in 4GB of 2000 or 2200 memory and get a larger OC.

If possible, like it to be under $200.

Thanks
 
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lundrog said:
Maybe I miss understand, but don't you have to have a different cpu to update the bios, if the bios doesn't support your cpu?
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afaik you should be fine with any p55 or h55 board. Just check the manufactures website for the cpu compatibility list for whatever mobo you wanna get
 
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hans007

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well any h55 will support the i3 seeing as it came out for that chip.

i'd tell you to get an h55 with 8gb ram. 4gb of ram that is higher rated, and most likely just very overvolted and tested is a rip off. i'd get honestly the cheapest and lowest rated ram i could afford and just more of it. ddr3-1333 is fine especially sinc emost of that doesnt have the jacked up voltages the "overclockin ram" always has.

get the h55 since it costs the same, but you will always have the option of an igp. 2 good reasons for that.

if your video card is dead you can limp along and still use your computer. and the other is, someday you may want to sell your computer but not video card, and itll always help that the board has built in video for someone who just needs a "basic" system (say your mom in like 3 years)
 
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lundrog

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I e-mailed gigabit support, they said this

"Dear Customer,

I am unable to answer your question. It will depend on the age of inventory from your place of purchase. The i3-530 processor has been validated with BIOS F4. If your motherboard GA-P55A-UD3 has BIOS F4, it will work out of the box. Depending your place of purchase, some retailers offer free upgrading of motherboard BIOSes.

Thank you for choosing Gigabyte products"

so helpful.....
 
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lundrog said:
I e-mailed gigabit support, they said this

"Dear Customer,

I am unable to answer your question. It will depend on the age of inventory from your place of purchase. The i3-530 processor has been validated with BIOS F4. If your motherboard GA-P55A-UD3 has BIOS F4, it will work out of the box. Depending your place of purchase, some retailers offer free upgrading of motherboard BIOSes.

Thank you for choosing Gigabyte products"

so helpful.....
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They can't know when your chosen place or purchase got their mobos into stock.
The only hope you have is asking wherever you are buying from when they got their shipment and hope it's relatively new stock which likely came with the new BIOS.
If they have a board from launch with an old BIOS and send you that, then it's a problem, but Gigabyte won't know what the retailer has to hand.

Either pick a different board, or ask the retailer how recent their stock is.
 
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Again the processor will run with an old bios. It might just not be identified right. My I3 ran fine with the original bios released in September by EVGA. Buy it and stop worrying
 
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Hey Zeus said:
Again the processor will run with an old bios. It might just not be identified right. My I3 ran fine with the original bios released in September by EVGA. Buy it and stop worrying
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:D. yea it should be fine man. If anything like Zeus said it just wont be recognized. Which is fine, just update the bios asap via flash drive.
 
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lundrog

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Thanks, I was hopping for some manufacture dates, shipment dates, recommended stores for exact model's, etc. Then I can contact a reseller, requesting specific information.

Thanks for your input, I wanted to gather all the info I could, and couldn't find much on mobo's and the i3 530 because of it being so new.
 
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yea better to be safe than sorry. Any good reputable seller like Newegg will work with you and if it doesnt work you could RMA it.
 
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my asrock p55 extreme from ewiz had bios 1.80 on it and it fired up with the 530 i also got from ewiz a week later on launch day.
 
JMapleton

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I thought the i3 was only compatible with the h55 motherboard?

Btw, I just built a i3 530 system with an h55 mobo. Posting from it right now.
 
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betasub said:
Isn't the H55 required to make use of the on-die graphics? Other 1156 boards should work fine, but without making use of Clarkdale's on-die GMA.
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Ahhh, if that's true that would make sense. Here I was trying to figure out what the point of h55 if p55 would boot the chips.
 
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h55 allows for the igp graphics yes. If you dont ever plan to use that stick with p55
 
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