We were surprised to see the P55 Extreme4’s SATA controller perform slightly better than the P67 Transformer’s in our read transfer diagram, especially after seeing the P67 Extreme6 perform so well. The Extreme4’s NEC USB 3.0 controller falls behind the newer EtronTech part used on both P67 boards, but neither solution is capable of exceeding the 2.5 Gb/s limit of the P55’s PCIe pathways.


Write performance is the C300 SSD’s weakness, yet we still see the P67 Extreme6 pushing over 220 MB/s. The P55 isn’t far behind however, and the mixed board again takes third place.
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Summary
- Bringing LGA 1156 Up To Speed
- LGA 1156 On P67? Meet The P67 Transformer
- The “Friendly Competition”
- Test System Configuration
- Storage Performance: Transfer Diagrams
- Storage Performance: Sustained, Repetitive, And Streaming Transfers
- Storage Performance: Access Time And IOPS
- Storage Performance: PCMark Vantage
- System Performance: DX11 Games
- System Performance: DX10 Games
- Power And Efficiency
- Conclusion
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Also most game engines aren't optimize yet to take advantage what I have. except for Dx11. I know frostbite engine 2.0 thats making Battlefield 3 will be optimize for multi core and Dx11.
All of my games plays well on 1680x1050 on medium settings. So I'm good. Don't need anything yet. Unless I want to game in 3D. then ill need to invest for a new complete build to play 3D comfortably; GPU (crossfire or SLI), 120Hz monitor, new CPU @ 4Ghz, Window 7, SSD (hopefully), x78 mobo, RAM, and wrap it up with a nice case with lots of air flow and wiring management. which i'm saving up money for in 2012 before the world ends
You mean like DVD/BD Combo drives? they work pretty damn well in my opinion.
Asrock has done pretty well for themselves, I'm going to keep a close eye on them as long as they provide, at the very least, AMD Bulldozer boards that support SLI.
You mean, like DVD drives, that support CDs as well???
Or DVD/CD/BD/BDXL/Litescribe as well?????
500-1k update for few measly fps, no thanks.
I know power is some concern but the new mobo+cpu will eat power too no matter how you look at it.
the "new" i5's and i7's arent revolutionary, there evolutionary - those of you with older i5's and i7's wont see much of a jump thats expected, there just newer models etc - why are you complaining?
agreed, even if it did, why bother?
asrock and MSI - i dont understand why people concider there products, MSI in perticular - there horrid rubbish, MSI should stand for "might start intermittently" and asrock at work we call assrock or ascock - bla.
Modding and unofficial support and all that isnt new, asus used to always beat everyone in those reguards, if you think about it, the socket 478 and 775 days - all those used the same GTL/FSB design, technically you can use the original 845 chipset with a Q9650 (aswell as the Intel Atom, Pentium M, Intel Core Duo, Xeon and so on) provided you have the right pin-out and vrm design (and bios obviously) and give it AGP, SDR ram, IDE etc but again WHY BOTHER?
I'm right with you on that hardware upgrade. With consoles calling the shots to how graphic intensive games are, upgrading just doesn't make sense at mid-level resolutions. The Q9550 really is an amazing chip that's going to last a good long while.
I tend to want to wait a bit to see if the quad drops in price a bit though.
I just hope Intel release some kind of bios flash to allow QS to run with a discrete card ... then I am there.
Im still chugging along with a Q6600 @ 3.5ghz :B
it might be time to upgrade.
my gaming is limited to counter strike source and half life 2