The H55/H57 differentiation is analogous to the previous Intel Southbridges ICHx/ICHxR where both had AHCI but the ICHxR additionally supported Intel Matrix RAID. No, before the ICH10 the non-R ICHs didn't have official Intel AHCI support. A few motherboards had unofficial AHCI mode for ICH9. It wa...

1. Nothing wrong with vigorous debate. It is a good way to learn things. 2. What motherboard do you have? 3. Seems likely that the H55 doesn't have AHCI but that somre or maybe almost all, board manufacturers have just made sure to add that back in. Would that be consistent with what you are saying...

Then I would say that the above website, Techgage, is mistaken. According to Anandtech, http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3732 So where does this leave H57? The only thing it has to offer Clarkdale is a few extra PCI-E lanes, two extra USB ports, and RAID. If you're going to use the IGP, yo...

"The Intel 40GB drive is pretty competitively priced" Don't forget that Intel requires that you set your board to ACHI. Older boards can't do that. And I just discovered to my dismay that while an 1156 board with the H57 support chips will do ACHI, the boards that use the H55 support chips can only...

Use rosin core solder for electronics soldering. DO NOT use plumbing solder (also known as acid core solder). The plumbing solder has an acid core used to clean the oxidation off of copper pipes as the solder melts, this acid will eat away at your MB. Electronics solder uses rosin to clean electrica...

Thanks for the pointer to 80plus, Looks like the BFG is about 2% more efficient at low to mid loads and also carries a 5 year warranty vs 3years for the Corsair. I may exchange the Corsair for the BFG. The HardwareSecrets review indicates the build quality of the BFG to be at least on par with the C...

I was reading the review on HardwareSecrets about the above PS which is available locally for a pretty good price. According to the review, this supply has measured efficiencies of 88.6%, 89.8%, 88.6%, 86.4% and 84.4% at 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100% loads respectively. I find this hard to believe as this...

I would like to participate in the test, have used Artic Silver 5 and currently using OCZ Freeze Thank you -------------------------------------------------- These are my results for a new build. Q9400, Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 MBoard, Zalman 7000 AlCu stock fan, open air setup. OCCT 3.1.0 Run for 2 hou...