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P55 boards are all over the show
CeBit 2009
New chipset for a new CPU
Monday, 2 March 2009, 21:54
IN CASE YOU DOUBTED, Intel P55 based boards are all over Cebit. We spotted them in many booths, and grabbed pictures of a few for your viewing enjoyment.
That said, the socket, 1156, is new. And it did lose those four pins, as we exclusively told you. Oh ye commenters of little faith.
So we bring you a couple of pictures of the new boards, an MSI G9P55-DC and a Biostar I55.
The MSI is a high end board with 3 16x PCI slots, the Biostar is a normal performance board.
Both have two memory channels of course, that is on the CPU now. In any case, this chipset should do pretty darn well, the last few Pxx ones sure have.
MSI G9P55-DC P55 board
Biostar I55 P55 board
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After 6 months of usage, due to the way the heat sink is mounted to the mobo, Intel boards are warped so bad that it can actually damage the layers.
I dare anyone to look at a 6 month old Intel mobo and look at the warp for your self.
You won't find this issue on an AMD mobo due to the plate used to mount the heat sink.
I used to work technical support for intel a year ago. I saw plenty of old socket 775 mobos and didnt see any with the damage you describe and NEVER had a single complaint about it from any intel customer.
So dont know if this is a recent thing but I would be surprised as I think the build quality on intel boards is pretty great.
When you say "Intel boards", what exactly do you mean? Do you mean motherboards manufactured by Intel? Or do you mean motherboards using an Intel chipset, a.k.a. P35, x48, etc.?
Anyway, I work a computer repair shop have seen nothing of the sort. We actually prefer Intel boards for our small business clients since the RMA's are so quick and painless.
Anyway, Intel does pre-flex their motherboards so that they will be ok when you insert the push-pin style heatsinks, but that doesn't mean they degrade or flex further afterwords.
noob.
So, just to be sure, you understand, the P55 will not crash if used in close proximity to a zebra?
;-)
Love your articles, Charlie.
PS. I agree that an LGA motherboard without a backplate looks rather frightening the first time you see one. But they've been on the market for years. Haven't we gotten beyond these issues by now?
Did anyone else notice the memory speed on the top picture?? 2300 MHZ DDR3? Wow... can I get me some of that?