Any known issues with ASUS P7P55D PRO LGA 1156?

Before I click the buy button are there any known problems with the
ASUS P7P55D PRO LGA 1156?

Beckett wrote:
> Before I click the buy button are there any known problems with the
> ASUS P7P55D PRO LGA 1156?

Before you buy, you could read this article on Foxconn sockets.
This applies to people planning significant overclocks. It doesn't
help when all the power contacts aren't touching.

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3661

Then review the usual sources of info.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx...Language=en-us

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131404

Paul

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:14:16 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:


>Before you buy, you could read this article on Foxconn sockets.
>This applies to people planning significant overclocks. It doesn't
>help when all the power contacts aren't touching.
>
>http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3661
>
>Then review the usual sources of info.
>
>http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx...Language=en-us
>
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131404
>
> Paul

OK, thanks for the info. Am reading it all now. I did read one review
on the Asus P7P55D Pro and they gave it good marks.

I usually OC but not by a massive amount, was going to put in an i7860
but considering I already have a C2D@3.4GHZ I'm not so sure if i7860
it is a worthwhile upgrade even. I know it is faster clock for clock
but am not sure by how much.

Beckett wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:14:16 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Before you buy, you could read this article on Foxconn sockets.
>> This applies to people planning significant overclocks. It doesn't
>> help when all the power contacts aren't touching.
>>
>> http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3661
>>
>> Then review the usual sources of info.
>>
>> http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx...Language=en-us
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131404
>>
>> Paul
>
> OK, thanks for the info. Am reading it all now. I did read one review
> on the Asus P7P55D Pro and they gave it good marks.
>
> I usually OC but not by a massive amount, was going to put in an i7860
> but considering I already have a C2D@3.4GHZ I'm not so sure if i7860
> it is a worthwhile upgrade even. I know it is faster clock for clock
> but am not sure by how much.
>

It runs at 2.8GHz, and has Turbo Boost.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/det...px?sSpec=SLBJJ

"Maximum Intel Turbo Boost Technology frequency per core -
4 core: 2.93 GHz, 3 core: 2.93 GHz, 2 core: 3.33 GHz; 1 core: 3.46 GHz"

So if you were running SuperPI single core benchmark, and Turbo Boost was
enabled, then that single core on the processor could run at 3.46Ghz (as
long as the other three were idle). And that would still be considered to
be "stock" in a sense.

These are some SuperPI 32M results for i7-860. But none of them are
running stock.

http://hwbot.org/listResults.do?cpuM...true&limit=100

This one claims i7-860 operation at 4410MHz and a SuperPI 32M time of
8 min 40 sec 950ms on air cooling.

http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=911196

For comparison, I can try an E8600 C2D at 4400MHz. Completion time
is 12 minutes 36 seconds 927ms.

http://hwbot.org/signature.img?iid=182021&thumb=false

You can convert those two results to seconds and take the ratio,
to determine the clock for clock.

You can have a look around the hwbot.org site, for more results.

SuperPI 32M allocates 256MB of system memory, while it is working.
So that is bigger than the cache in either of those processors. It
means the benchmark fetches from memory while it is running, and
the memory subsystem makes some of the difference. SuperPI is a
single core benchmark, so doesn't measure how well the thing
works on multithreaded tasks. But I like it, as a means of
comparing processors from multiple generations.

You can get a copy of SuperPI here.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads..._Mod_v1.5.html

Paul