More P55: Gigabyte's MicroATX Board And Asus' Flagship
More P55: Gigabyte's MicroATX Board And Asus' Flagship
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Your Next Small Form Factor Platform?
Gigabyte's P55M-UD4 manages to incorporate much of the functionality found on the company's ATX designs. Will this become the platform of choice for space-conscious gamers gunning for an affordable system with SLI and CrossFire support? That question will likely be answered as we start to actually review P55-based boards. But given its twin PCI Express x16 slots (which of course run at x8 when two cards are installed), it's not hard to imagine. Given the preliminary gaming benchmarks we've run with other P55-based configurations, you really won't be losing much performance to the twin x8 links unless you push into 2560x1600 with lots of eye candy enabled.
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but that's me. i believe gigabyte has better understanding of the cuntemporary expansion card assortment than me.
Unless these are much cheaper, I still don't see why one should just avoid x58 and an i7 920 given how cheap 920's can be found now (as low as $200)
Anyone else notice that all of these models have a huge amount of voltage regulators......so far much more than is common on x58 boards
I always check your site before upgrading my computers. Very informative.
I love these two boards from two of my favorite manufacturers. When I can finally afford a second video card, I will look into these boards further.