Intel P55 mainboards run amok at COMPUTEX '09: Core i5 still looming near

by Parm Mann on 1 June 2009, 13:14

Tags: Biostar, J&W Technology

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Biostar and MSI get in on the act

As with J&W, Biostar had two P55 boards lying around its under-construction booth. For the enthusiast there's the TPOWER I55, pictured below. We saw it back at CeBIT in March, but it's now packing a hefty amount of on-board cooling and should provide decent overclocking headroom, we reckon.

But again, Core i5's largely about lower-cost appeal and the non-overclocking types may prefer the look of the toned-down TP55 XE. 

Last but not least, there's MSI's P55-GD80.

Remember, also, that P55 boards will support Intel's 32nm Clarkdale - a CPU+IGP part that's expected in 2010.


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Isn't the nvram slot for the readyboost SSD cards you can get?
kalniel
Isn't the nvram slot for the readyboost SSD cards you can get?
Yes, but you can just as easily use it as an OS volume.
Not sure how much use ReadyBoost is anyway…..the benchmarks on Vista always showed it as near-useless unless you had very little RAM and so far Windows 7 hasn't let me turn it on because “I won't see any gains”


I wonder what use that slot will have TBH, it's not a SATA port so would need a special drive I guess……recovery partition? swap drive? EFI?…or just an empty port?
No its EPS- Empty port slot :P. Havent a clue, looks good though (the mobos).
The boards look good. For some reason I always get a charge when I see new motherboards as opposed to video cards.

I can't wait to see how these P55-powered motherboards and others benchmark.