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EVGA P55 Classified 200 Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Friday, April 09, 2010
Benchmarks Synthetic
The system as it was tested
EVGA P55 Classified 200 Intel P55 Chipset
Core i5 750 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 2.5GT/s DMI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
2x Corsair Dominator GT PC2000 6GB DDR3 (7-8-7-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150BG SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Corsair HX 850 Watt PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Core i5 750 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 2.5GT/s DMI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
2x Corsair Dominator GT PC2000 6GB DDR3 (7-8-7-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150BG SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Corsair HX 850 Watt PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Reference system
Foxconn Quantum Force Inferno Katana Intel P55 Chipset
Core i5 750 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 2.5GT/s DMI
Thermaltake SpinQ VT
2x Corsair Dominator GT PC2000 6GB DDR3 (7-8-7-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150BG SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Corsair HX 850 Watt PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Core i5 750 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 2.5GT/s DMI
Thermaltake SpinQ VT
2x Corsair Dominator GT PC2000 6GB DDR3 (7-8-7-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150BG SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Corsair HX 850 Watt PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Reference system
EVGA X58 LE Intel X58 Chipset
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x G.SKILL PI Black 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150BG SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
Core i7 920 (2.66Ghz) 4 x 256KB L2, 8MB L3 Cache 4.8GT/s QPI
Custom Watercooler - DangerDen TDX-MC 1/2" hose
3x G.SKILL PI Black 6GB DDR3 (8-8-8-21)
VisionTek 3870 PCI Express
Western Digital Raptor X 150BG SerialATA 10000RPM
LG 20x Super Multi GSA-H55L
Hiper HPU-4S730 730w power supply
Window Vista SP1
SiSoft Sandra
Sandra is a software collection of synthetic benchmarks that will give us a basic idea as to what a system is capable of. It should be noted that SiSoft's numbers change depending on which version you have installed. These were recordedusing Sandra Professional Business Version 2010.1.16.11
Synthetic performance never really tells the entire story, but is a good indication of what the system would probably be capable of doing under the right conditions. The P55 Classified is showing a slight gain in memory bandwidth over our reference P55 system but is otherwise right in line with what we are expecting to see.
