H55 and H57 motherboards

qpc · Post by **qpc** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:35 pm

What do you think about new H55 and H57 motherboards?

From silence perspective, they have integrated video, one thing less to worry about.
They seem to be cheaper then P bros.

Do you think that the integrated video will be sufficient for an average user?
I'm excluding gamers here certainly.

ilovejedd · Post by **ilovejedd** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:17 pm

qpc wrote:What do you think about new H55 and H57 motherboards?

From silence perspective, they have integrated video, one thing less to worry about.
They seem to be cheaper then P bros.

Do you think that the integrated video will be sufficient for an average user?
I'm excluding gamers here certainly.

Technically, they don't have integrated video. They can link to the GPU on the Clarkdale CPU's, though.

Assuming you can live with the processor choices (currently Pentium G6950, Core i3 530/540, Core i5 650/660/661/670), I'd say yes, the IGP would be more than sufficient. Heck, a lot of the computers I've repaired for friends and family only have integrated 865G or 945GC chipsets. The IGP on the Clarkdales is a definite improvement over those. I'm actually planning on a mini-itx H55+Core i3 530 set-up for use as HTPC and PSX/SNES/NES emulator.

Check out SPCR's Core i5 661 review.

autobulb · Post by **autobulb** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:01 am

The integrated GPU on the new chips have be shown to be an improvement over the 4500HD. And from what I am seeing on Newegg, the new chipsets can get by with passive cooling so the boards won't make any noise. Plus the new chips seem to be super efficient and will get by with low speed fans.

In other words: WANT!

But I just bought a budget AM3 system >_<

qpc · Post by **qpc** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:08 pm

Assuming you can live with the processor choices

They take i7, too.

smilingcrow · Post by **smilingcrow** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:57 pm

qpc wrote:
Assuming you can live with the processor choices
They take i7, too.

and the i5-750.

qpc · Post by **qpc** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:10 pm

What makes H55 and H57 be cheaper then P55?

ilovejedd · Post by **ilovejedd** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 5:55 pm

smilingcrow wrote:
qpc wrote:
Assuming you can live with the processor choices
They take i7, too.
and the i5-750.

Sure, but then, you'd have to buy a discrete graphics card.

yuu · Post by **yuu** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:59 pm

qpc wrote:What makes H55 and H57 be cheaper then P55?

The board uses lower quality vrm design, that costs 10$ less.

H55, P55 cost exactly the same 40$, that's overpriced for a south bridge. like 2 or 3 times, yes it is normal for MCH+ICH, but it seems you pay for the chipset part of the cpu that you may have not bought yet. and the chip could be a lot smaller if pci gets removed already.

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Legacy pci, additional chips and slots supporting lpt, floppy, ide and all, we don't need that, why should we pay for that.

And why are the mosfets pointing up on intel boards, isn't that dangerously worsening their cooling. at least it does draw all the power from the 12v 4pin, other boards weren't that lucky, the mess is complete, the chipset part, and cpu partially uses the 24pin as power source and there is no telling exactly what is going to happen if you overclock and use 2x Video cards that also draw power from the 24 pin, wich has only 2pin 12v, is all that supposed to be ok, no by me.

qpc · Post by **qpc** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:37 am

If the money is not the problem, is it P or H then?

smilingcrow · Post by **smilingcrow** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:40 pm

yuu wrote:the chipset part, and cpu partially uses the 24pin as power source and there is no telling exactly what is going to happen if you overclock and use 2x Video cards that also draw power from the 24 pin, wich has only 2pin 12v, is all that supposed to be ok, no by me.

According to Xbitlabs only the GPU uses the 24 pin connector so if you're using discrete graphics it shouldn't be any different than a normal setup.

MtnHermit · Post by **MtnHermit** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:47 am

qpc wrote:If the money is not the problem, is it P or H then?

I'd say H. For the P you must use a discrete VGA card, with H you can use the on chip IGP or discrete VGA. I believe P can do SLI/CF at full x16 bandwidth, H series cannot.

smilingcrow · Post by **smilingcrow** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:36 am

qpc wrote:If the money is not the problem, is it P or H then?

H55 doesn't support RAID but H57 does.

jtcb · Post by **jtcb** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:56 pm

I don't game, zero. All I do is watch online streaming videos, dvd movie, surf the web, work on MS Office and ACCPAC, burn disks. Will H a better choice for me than P? What is the difference between H55 and H57?

What is the fastest cpu I can get and able to handle the mentioned tasks? Do I need HT and 4 core Which brand of motherboard is the best? There isn't a lot of selections on H55/57 at the moment.

hans007 · Post by **hans007** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 2:37 am

MtnHermit wrote:
qpc wrote:If the money is not the problem, is it P or H then?
I'd say H. For the P you must use a discrete VGA card, with H you can use the on chip IGP or discrete VGA. I believe P can do SLI/CF at full x16 bandwidth, H series cannot.

actually P can do 2 x8 2.0 slots.

H cannot do 2 slots at all.

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