Viewing page 8 of 8 pages.
Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
FINAL THOUGHTS
The Asus P7H55D-M EVO is a very solid board with a good layout and plenty
of features including eSATA, FireWire and USB 3.0, though it lacks RAID as the
chipset does not support it. Compared to the Intel DH55TC, it offers a lot more
features and uses higher quality components including better inductors, more
solid-state capacitors, and VRM heatsinks. The board also has a nice BIOS with
a more than healthy range of frequency and voltage options for all the major
components. You'll be happy with it whether you like to overclock to get free
performance increases or if you prefer to increase your system's energy efficiency
through undervolting. The board's fan control is okay, with customizable settings
available for the CPU fan, and a three-speed static setting for the secondary
fan header.
The only true weakness we could find was the board's mysterious extra power
draw compared to the DH55TC. Strangely, we measured an extra 5W DC draw from
the CPU and VRMs when idle which disappeared on load, even though the total
system difference remained almost constant at 12W DC regardless of the system
state. It does have extra controllers powering the IDE/eSATA, USB 3.0, and FireWire
ports, but this doesn't quite explain the measurements we recorded.
The P7H55D-M EVO carries a $135 price-tag, apparently making it the most expensive
H55 board on the market at the moment. Even with the extra features it's rather
high considering Gigabyte's GA-H55M-USB3 has similar specifications and only
costs $110. Gigabyte's board has only minor differences including the addition
of a DisplayPort connector, two PCI slots rather than one PCI and one PCI-E
1x slot, and a lack of VRM heatsinks.
|
Asus P7H55D-M EVO
|
PROS
* eSATA, FireWire, USB 3.0
* Liberal BIOS options for overclockers and undervolters |
CONS
* Higher power consumption than DH55TC
* Price |
Our thanks to ASUSTeK
for the P7H55D-M EVO sample.
* * *
Articles of Related Interest
Intel
Core i5-661: A 32nm CPU with Integrated Graphics
Intel D510M0 Motherboard: Atom 2.0
Gigabyte MA785GPMT-UD2H 785G Motherboard
AMD's 785G Chipset Boards: 780G Evolved
Intel DG41MJ: Affordable 775 Mini-ITX
DFI LanParty JR 790GX-M3H5 mATX
Motherboard
* * *
Discuss this article in the
SPCR forums.
| Help support this site, buy from one of our affiliate retailers! |
|
