P55 Overclocking Showdown - ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte

Sat 2009-11-07 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

Anandtech have tested the extreme overclocking capabilities of four high-end P55 motherboards from the likes of ASUS, EVGA, and Gigabyte.

Here's what they had to say:

"We are going to keep this simple. Hold our feet to the fire and we’ll tell you that of all the boards we tested, the most consistent performer was the $230 EVGA P55 FTW SLI E657 (using a Tyco AMP Socket). At its price point, there’s nothing available on the P55 platform that truly beats it for raw overclocking capabilities. Otherwise, the ASUS Maximus III Formula was high on our list in early testing as a great overall choice until we started experiencing the socket burn problems that really plagued our review samples. We have a retail board with the revised Foxconn socket in testing now and will provide updates shortly."

This articles really only concerns those who use extreme cooling methods. For air or liquid cooling, even the mainstream (not budget!) P55 models should overclock to roughly the same levels.

Click here to read the full article.

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