Intel P55 motherboards

jimmyj68

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Re: recent post by Derek Hanson (sp?).

Of the four new P55 Intel boards, three are designed and built to overclock The fourth board for $99 is not overclockable. Their high end and mid overclockable board goes for around $200. One of these is a high end micro-atx board that goes for $199.99 at the EGG and is a shrunk sibling of their highest end ATX board with overclockable bells and whistles like board mounted on/off switches and bios recovery switch (I think). They also have board mounted digital fault code readers.

I'm wondering, if I've no interest in overclocking, will the rather blingless $99 board serve my purposes with an i750 in it? As said before, the only "game" I play is Microsoft Flight Simulator which is a rather demanding software and could bring some mid to high end boards to their knees if set on high game resolutions.

For those of you that have an old world view of Intel made boards, you might want to look at Intel's P55 high and mid range offerings. There is a review of their board with the suffix WG on line but I forget where it was posted.
 

dmw16

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If you aren't going to be overclocking then the tangible benefits of the better boards are not very significant.

However, buying a better board from a better manufacture carries with it (probably) better drivers and support as well as better components (better cooling, solid caps, etc).

I wouldn't cheap out on a board.

I just did a P55 build using the eVGA Micro SLI and I am very happy with it.