Just as I'm appreciating Realtek's ALC889a being a very good audio set, it'd be interesting to see what VIA have to say. U reckon they've put a reinforcing slip of plastic behind the pins to prevent bending if used frequently ? mfm style connectors are ofc meant to be pushed in evenly. What a load of rot, harping back to ASUS throwing their mobo designs together, they needed to move the slots up some mm - ? I dunno. Nipping that in the bud.ĪSUS's memory slot with 1 clip will be seen as 'something nice', ofc it sounds like u hook the memory in one end and rotate it down, the kinda thing u can do with existing 2 clips if ur being clever. We gonna get a different socket for i3 also ? They seeing people using the E pentium ranges in higher end 775 boards and getting close to fantastic results and seeing it as a reason they're not requiring to buy the more expensive core 2 cpus. It's pricing that I'm keen to hear about QuoteĪpart from feeling that Intel are eFFing us all with these socket differences. The board layout appears very well spaced out and has a good combination of PCI and PCI-E slots. The P7P55D looks like a well thought out motherboard. I'm sure that this will steal AMD's Phenom II thunder. The i5 CPU's themselves are very much like i7 architecturally and I would expect performance to be quite similar. P55 motherboards ranging from £75 to £150 would hit the spot quite nicely. By cutting Triple Channel Support, reducing PCI-Express lanes, presumably lower power regulation requirements and a single unified MCP style chipset, the build cost of these motherboards should be considerably lower than X58 and nearer to AMD's 790GX chipset. To me, P55/LGA1156 has a lot of potential. With LGA775 a soon to be discontinued socket, people like myself are less keen to take this route and with AMD offering comparable performance from Celeron 430 to Core 2 Quad Q9650 level and a range of motherboards at very good prices, it'd be great from a DIY customer perspective to see this platform appear asap. Personally, I'm very confident about the i5 platform.

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