P55 Motherboard Review Roundup - ASUS, EVGA, Intel, Gigabyte

• Guru3D: ASUS P7P55D Deluxe Motherboard Review:
  
  

  "So overall yeah, great motherboard, great performance, and heaps of features for any purpose. The one thing that might bother you is the price though, the motherboard returns a price of roughly 190 EUR / 210 USD which certainly is a lot of money in what should be the mainstream range. But if you can deal with a little less, the standard P7P55D starts at roughly 125 EUR. This board is designed for the hardcore enthusiast but is also overclocker friendly to the novice that just wants a little more performance without a lot of hassle.
  
  Either way, ASUS is trying to govern the competition with a feature-rich, yet considering all the features, reasonably priced product. For all objectives and functionality, the P7P55D Deluxe certainly is very impressive and was the fastest performing P55 motherboard we've tested to date."

  
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• Hardware Secrets: ASUS P7P55D PRO Motherboard Review:
  
  

  "ASUS P7P55D PRO has some advantages and some disadvantages over other P55-based socket 1156 motherboards on the same price range.
  
  The most obvious advantage is the support for SLI, the presence of three x16 PCI Express 2.0 slots (although they run at lower speeds when more than one video card is used) support for RAID, use of only solid capacitors and a high-end voltage regulator. It also brings the unique memory compatibility test (MemOK!) and way more overclocking options than other boards on the same price range, plus the interesting idea of adding a physical switch for limiting memory overvoltage and thus preventing users from frying their CPUs."

  
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• Hardware Secrets: EVGA P55 LE Motherboard Review:
  
  

  "Even though EVGA P55 LE is the simplest from the six P55 motherboards offered today by EVGA it is far from being an inexpensive product. Costing USD 169.99, there are surely cheaper products around like ECS P55H-A that costs USD 135.00.
  
  Compared to this cheaper model from ECS, P55 LE brings as advantages having RAID support, a professional-grade on-board audio, two Firewire ports and holes that allows you to use socket 775 CPU coolers with your socket 1156 processor. ECS P55H-A, on the other hand, brings as advantages having one ATA-133 port, which may still be useful for some, one eSATA port, only solid capacitors and price."

  
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• Hardware Secrets: Intel DP55KG "Kingsberg" Motherboard Review:
  
  

  "Intel DP55KG has lot of extra features compared to mainstream P55-based motherboards, especially the support for SLI configuration, support for three video cards, on-board Bluetooth controller, two additional SATA-300 ports, two eSATA-300 ports, on-board optical SPDIF input and output, Firewire ports and professional-grade on-board audio.
  
  Although it is more expensive than mainstream products, it is not badly priced if you really need the extra features it brings. Of course if the extras won’t make any difference for you, you should stick with a mainstream model and save some money."

  
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• Legit Reviews: Gigabyte P55-UD6 and P55M-UD4 Motherboard Reviews:
  
  

  "Considering how well the GA-P55M-UD4 performed today it is a great option at $150. The GA-P55-UD6 however at $239 is in dangerous waters with it's MSRP targeting low-end X58 motherboards with similar feature sets. The GA-P55-UD6 is feature laden with more options than you can shake a stick at but X58 boards in the UD6's bracket are equally loaded and accept LGA1366 processors with three memory channels and superior PCIe options. It's a tough call on the GA-P55-UD6 when considering price, we'll have to see how prices settle a week or two after launch. Something that might help the GA-P55-UD6's case would be the three year warranty offered by Gigabyte on all their motherboards. Considering how by the end of 3 years most hardware is rendered obsolete by fast pace of software development, 3 years is an acceptable warranty period and insures you'll have a replacement during the entire product cycle."

  
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