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- Dec 26, 2006
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- Land of Long Horns
Picked up the new P55 LE from EVGA today. A few reasons why I'm starting with this board...mainly 'cause I liked the X58 LE from EVGA quite a lot so I'd like to see how it compares with it's P55 brother. Also we have quite a few Giga boards here under review and Asus boards over at XS. As this is a midrange board it would be good to see how it fairs against the Giga UD4P and Asus P7P55D Pro which falls in the same price class.
From a practical point of view what caught my eye when I browsed the shelves at Frys is that the board has mounting holes for BOTH the LGA 1156 as well as for 775, so no need to buy a new bracket set
The egg and Frys have put a price tag of $169 to this board, you save shipping at the egg and have to pay tax at Frys off course.
Hardware for this review:
Motherboard - EVGA P55 LE
CPU - Intel i7-860
Cooling - TRUE 120 (ambient at around 15 C)
GPU - GTX 216 (later with 4890 CF)
RAM - G.Skill 2 x 2GB DDR3-1600 CL8
HDD - WD Raptor 74 GB 16mb
Note - None of the above hardware is sponsored by any manufactuerer or donated for this review.
From a practical point of view what caught my eye when I browsed the shelves at Frys is that the board has mounting holes for BOTH the LGA 1156 as well as for 775, so no need to buy a new bracket set
The egg and Frys have put a price tag of $169 to this board, you save shipping at the egg and have to pay tax at Frys off course.
Hardware for this review:
Motherboard - EVGA P55 LE
CPU - Intel i7-860
Cooling - TRUE 120 (ambient at around 15 C)
GPU - GTX 216 (later with 4890 CF)
RAM - G.Skill 2 x 2GB DDR3-1600 CL8
HDD - WD Raptor 74 GB 16mb
Note - None of the above hardware is sponsored by any manufactuerer or donated for this review.
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