Benchmark Results: Crysis And Far Cry 2
Crysis might be an old game, but its continued ability to make even the latest hardware choke makes it a solid benchmark.
Only at its highest settings do any noticeable performance differences between platforms reveal themselves in Crysis, but these GPU-dependent differences could be due to a great number of factors beyond motherboard capability.
Far Cry 2 shows a more realistic spread, as the boards with the highest "133.3 MHz" base clock (133.7 MHz for Asus and MSI) take the top position.
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And if you're going to spend this much money on an extreme-capable system, why even bother with P55? If you have the cash to burn surely you'd go X58...
X58 will be more pricey compared to P55 system...for me P55 more reasonable...
@kilowattMalaya:
that's entirely my point - these P55 boards are as expensive, if not more, then X58 boards. So if you're going to splash this much cash around, my sell yourself short with "only" P55?
P7P55D and an i7 860 is much cheaper than i7 920 and ASUS P6T, or atleast in my country it is
I chose those boards because they're both ASUS' bottom of the range (compare apples to apples)
@Silverlight:
But we're not talking bottom of the range in this article, are we so your comparison's a little irrelevant. Yes, bottom-end P55 boards are a lot cheaper, but this article is about high-end P55 boards.
P7P55D Deluxe: £169.99
i7 860: £226.99
Rampage II Gene: £174.99
i7 920: £217.99
P55: £396.98
X58: £392.98
So, with the X58 combo actually a hair cheaper than the P55, the deal breaker here is the cost of dual-channel vs triple-channel RAM.
a P55 motherboard+ a i7 860-870 can give almost the same performance as the x58+i7 920.there's not much difference,for me it's a good deal.