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Benchmark Results: Synthetics

Extreme P55: Four LGA 1156 Motherboards Over $250
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EVGA’s lead in 3DMark is far smaller than the difference between consecutive runs, so we can consider this gaming-oriented motherboard essentially matched with Asus’ more broadly-focused part.

EVGA takes a more noteworthy lead in PCMark Vantage.

Only clock speed differences could differentiate motherboards in Sandra’s CPU tests, so it’s no surprise that the three boards with a 133.7 MHz base clock edge out the one with a 133.2 MHz base clock. Overclockers can disregard these results, since clock-for-clock performance is unaffected.

Asus appears to use slightly more aggressive advanced memory timings than MSI. We only set the basic four (tCAS-tRP-tRCD-tRAS), plus the DRAM-command rate manually.

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    Raptorial , 21 January 2010 16:25
    The only thing for me is: why did you not test 2 VGA cards? Two of the boards use a NF200 chip, now you won't see the results from this...

    Whyle this is why the EVGA and MSI are expensive.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the MSI P55-GD80 performs better with 1 VGA card then its expensive brother.
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    LePhuronn , 22 January 2010 04:18
    I'm still going 1366 simply because for what I do I prefer 12GB RAM over 8GB - that's honestly the only reason now.
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    Anonymous , 23 January 2010 20:26
    You should have tested this against a 150$ board and a 50$ board. That would have been interesting.
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    Redsnake77 , 28 January 2010 20:20
    When are you gonna do the three card crossfire / SLI review comparing the msi and evga P55 boards with X58? There's seems little relevance to reviewing these cards at all without including a 3 card metric, as that is their primary function. You wouldn't spend double the amount on either of these two boards otherwise.