With any chipset, all manufacturers always release different motherboards at different price points. To explain my question, let's use the P55 chipset as an example, and Asus as a sample manufacturer.
Arranged in increasing price order:
P7P55D LX
P7P55D-E LX
P7P55D
P7P55D-E
Sabertooth 55i
P7P55D-E Pro
P7P55D-E Evo
P7P55D-E Deluxe
Of course, if you've got the money to burn, you can just go get the top of the line P7P55D-E Deluxe and go your merry way and overclock your i5-750 to over 4 GHz easily.
But there are others, like me, who value every penny they spend and always look at the price/performance ratio. So given this example of a line of motherboards of the same chipset, how do I know which one can achieve decent, stable overclocks at the lowest price? I don't mean getting the highest overclocks because those generally require better hardware. I'm referring more towards the highest overclocks at stock voltages, say, 3.6 GHz for an i5-750. These are not what anyone would call extreme overclocking, and do present a substantial increase in computing power over stock clocks.
Back to the motherboard issue, can the LE/LX/UD2/other-budget-monicker boards overclock as well? Or does one have to spend on the mainstream stuff like the P7P55D/UD3H/etc? How much of an overclocking difference do the low end boards have over the high end boards? What about the mid-range boards over the high-end boards?
And lastly, as a general question not applying to any motherboard line, what features can an average value-oriented overclocker do without when looking for a motherboard? I've read it's got something to do with voltage regulation, but what exactly?
Sorry for the numerous questions, just a learning enthusiast wanting to expand knowledge
Arranged in increasing price order:
P7P55D LX
P7P55D-E LX
P7P55D
P7P55D-E
Sabertooth 55i
P7P55D-E Pro
P7P55D-E Evo
P7P55D-E Deluxe
Of course, if you've got the money to burn, you can just go get the top of the line P7P55D-E Deluxe and go your merry way and overclock your i5-750 to over 4 GHz easily.
But there are others, like me, who value every penny they spend and always look at the price/performance ratio. So given this example of a line of motherboards of the same chipset, how do I know which one can achieve decent, stable overclocks at the lowest price? I don't mean getting the highest overclocks because those generally require better hardware. I'm referring more towards the highest overclocks at stock voltages, say, 3.6 GHz for an i5-750. These are not what anyone would call extreme overclocking, and do present a substantial increase in computing power over stock clocks.
Back to the motherboard issue, can the LE/LX/UD2/other-budget-monicker boards overclock as well? Or does one have to spend on the mainstream stuff like the P7P55D/UD3H/etc? How much of an overclocking difference do the low end boards have over the high end boards? What about the mid-range boards over the high-end boards?
And lastly, as a general question not applying to any motherboard line, what features can an average value-oriented overclocker do without when looking for a motherboard? I've read it's got something to do with voltage regulation, but what exactly?
Sorry for the numerous questions, just a learning enthusiast wanting to expand knowledge
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