"BIOSTAR TPOWER I55 - Intel LGA1156" ROCK

With the coming of September, the latest Intel LGA 1156 platform of high-intermediate level is also coming.
On this platform, Intel recently added the support of Core i7 processor, so in future both Core i5 and Core i7 processors can be used,
the successful development that can improve the efficiency more effectively.

At present, the sale of LGA 1156 platform is not available before September,
but, despite of the fact that the economic is still depressed,
there have been a lot of MB manufacturers planning promotion for more attractive products based on this new platform.
Currently, the price of X58 is at US$ 200~300; the price of P55 motherboard of LGA 1156 is expected to be sold at about US$ 100~300;
and the price of most products of P55, at about US$ 120~200, the same product level as P35 and P45 before.

Why is the price of P55 as almost high as that of X58? Actually, X58 is deemed as a high level product;
P55, higher than intermediate level and lower than high one.
Therefore, the price of P55 and of X58 is nearly the same; as for X58, for several months there have been many product series based on this chipset,
and they are priced at about US$ 200. At first, the price of P55 should be probably the same as that of P45,
with intermediate level at US$ 150~200, or with high level at nearly US$ 300.

We are going to introduce BIOSTAR P55 product, the highest level version, the price of which is at about US$ 200.
The most important feature of BIOSTAR products is easy to overclock, and supplies at reasonable prices.
The price of highest-level P55 is the same as that of elementary-level X58.

Full view of BIOSTAR TPOWER I55






BIOSTAR’s design and material are much better than ever. It is also one of the best MB manufacturers.
My favourite blue and big heat pipe make the quality excellent.

Down-left of the motherboard
2 X PCIE X16(support ATI CrossFireX and Nvidia SLI technology， X8+X8 bandwidth)
1 X PCI-E X4
2 X PCI-E X1
2 X PCI
Dual LAN Intel 82578/Realtek RTL8111DL, support 2Gb LAN Teaming
For multi VGAs, X series chipset uses X16+X16 bandwidth,
but P series chipset, limited X8+X8 bandwidth.


Down-right of the motherboard
6 X SATAII(ICH10R，support Raid0，1，5)
Power/Reset button and debug LEDs
1394a uses LSI chipset


Up-right of the motherboard
4 X DIMM DDR3，support 800/1066/1333/1600/2000+
1 X IDE
24PIN power input，DDR3 uses 2phase


Power supply uses 8 phase CPU Power，4 phase CPU NB


IO
8 X USB 2.0
2 X eSATA
2 X Gigabit LAN
1 X 1394a


Although north and south bridge are combined in P55, BIOSTAR still add a big heat sink on the traditional north bridge location,
the design that makes not only the appearance more attractive, but also cooler area bigger.


Picture of LGA 1156 with Core i7 870

The lacquered quality of heat pipe is great, with amazing design of finned plates and cooler area.


LGA 1156 platform is becoming available in the market in less two months. According to more and more news from the Internet,
Intel is going to categorise its products into three kinds of platforms— LGA 775, i3/i5/i7(LGA 1156), i5/i9(LGA 1366).
As customers, they may think there are too many product series and different sockets; hence, they easily feel confused and do not know how to choose. All in all,
the launch of new products can renew the old product series faster.

Since LGA 1366 is deemed as high-level products, it is inadequate for LGA775 for non high-level products.
So, the coming of LGA 1156 can make Intel platforms more complete, and customers, depending upon their budget, therefore have more choices.
Let’s look forward to waiting MB manufacturers’ products, and price of Intel LGA 1156 CPU.

There is going to be some bloody cut up hands methinks from trying to apply an aftermarket heatsink.

windwithme said:

With the coming of September, the latest Intel LGA 1156 platform of high-intermediate level is also coming.
On this platform, Intel recently added the support of Core i7 processor, so in future both Core i5 and Core i7 processors can be used,
the successful development that can improve the efficiency more effectively.

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Can you go into more detail? Core i5 proc's / boards don't support / have quickpath and the pin counts are different, what's up?

I get the feeling this is unfinished. windwithme usually puts up a very thorough thread when reviewing or previewing.

WonderingSoul said:

I get the feeling this is unfinished. windwithme usually puts up a very thorough thread when reviewing or previewing.

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Perhaps an 1156 Processor is not available to windwitme at this time and this is as much as we going to get ,nonetheless very nice tease. From what i understand 1156 is going to cost as much as 1366 if u were to get a board that you actually like , nice Intel

CharlieCS said:

Perhaps an 1156 Processor is not available to windwitme at this time and this is as much as we going to get ,nonetheless very nice tease. From what i understand 1156 is going to cost as much as 1366 if u were to get a board that you actually like , nice Intel

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I'm assuming he already has an 1156 to test as I see the i7 870 installed in one of the photos, theres a few testers who have some of the new 1156 cpu's to check out but aren't allowed to release actual performance figures just yet. For example Custom PC UK have benchmarked and overclocked an engineering sample on the Asus P55 Evo..quoted from memory "Although we spent a lot of time benchmarking and overclocking the i7 and Asus evo we promised Intel we wouldn't reveal performance results yet. However we can say that the LGA1156 Core i7 CPU performs very well and is easy to overclock well beyond their stock frequencys. In term's of overclocking, LGA 1156 behaves the same way as LGA 1366"

Man your pictures are incredible!!

Also i love the little animal keyrings....

Shiggity said:

Can you go into more detail? Core i5 proc's / boards don't support / have quickpath and the pin counts are different, what's up?

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from techpowerup:

Lynnfield in Core i5 and Core i7
This comes as no surprise since Intel's marketing heads had already made it clear that Lynnfield would span across two brand markers. The determining factors, seem to be HyperThreading technology, and perhaps clock speeds. The Core i7 Lynnfield chip has HyperThreading technology available as a feature, and may have higher clock-speeds. The first wave of Lynnfield chips that release in Q3 2009, will be only of the Core i5 kind, while the performance Core i7 ones will follow months later, in Q1 2010.

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