ECS P55H-A Review

tacohunter52 - October 21, 2009
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Testing:

From what we've seen so far the P55H-A isn't the best board in town. However, a judgment cannot be passed until it has gone through the entire OCC Benchmarking Suite. This includes a series of Synthetic and real world benches that will allow us to accurately size up the P55H-A. I will be testing the P55H-A at stock settings, and with the CPU overclocked. I will use the following hardware and comparison boards.

Testing Setup:

Processor(s): Intel Core i5 750
Motherboard: ECS P55H-A
Memory: Corsair Dominator 2x2 GB DDR3 1600 Cas 8
Video Card: Nvidia GTX 260 Core 216
Power Supply: Antec 1000W Modular Power Supply
Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 500GB 7200.11
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate

Comparison Motherboards:

Overclocking:

Overclocked Settings:

Processor: Intel Core i5 750 205x20 4100MHz
System Memory: Corsair Dominator 1640MHz 8-8-8-20

Overclocking on the P55H-A was a mixture of easy and irritating. It was irritating for two reasons, the main one being that I hated the way you adjust voltage. The second irritation was the lack of features. This is not to say that anything important was missing. On the contrary, everything needed to complete a successful overclock had been made available. I did, however, notice that there wasn't anything extra, like we might see on an Asus or MSI board. Other then that I had absolutely no problems until reaching 4GHz. At this point my memory was holding me back a bit. Adjusting the memory voltage would make the system stable, and allow me to go further. However, I eventually topped off at 4.3GHz. Running Prime95 for a few hours proved this to be unstable, so I reduced the clock speeds until I could run through all my benchmarks without any problems. This put me at 4.1GHz.