***EVGA P55 thread***

Firing Squad have just done a review on the board, can be found here it's the top review, I cannot believe that I am unable to link straight to the actual review because it has F.T.W in the link :mad:

EVGA’s got another winner on their hands with the P55 F.T.W. If you’re a hardcore enthusiast looking to push your CPU to its limits, this board will let you do just that.
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Nothing wrong with the Intel retail fan. I don`t think the i5 needs that much cooling clocked normally so the fan is quite efficient.Anything more than that stock fan is overkill on a non-overclocked system and most people don`t intend to overclock.

My i5 idles at 21-23deg C with the Intel cooler
 
DarrenM343 said:
Nothing wrong with the Intel retail fan. I don`t think the i5 needs that much cooling clocked normally so the fan is quite efficient.Anything more than that stock fan is overkill on a non-overclocked system and most people don`t intend to overclock.

My i5 idles at 21-23deg C with the Intel cooler
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Yep very true, the retail fan will be fine for non overclockers, however you have obviously lost your way on the interwebz as this is a forum mainly dedicated to wait for it.......... overclocking :p

There is no way I'd want to be putting some serious voltage through any chip without adequate cooling, and to get to 4GHz+ the retail fan just doesn't cut it :)
 
coupe69 said:
Yep very true, the retail fan will be fine for non overclockers, however you have obviously lost your way on the interwebz as this is a forum mainly dedicated to wait for it.......... overclocking :p

There is no way I'd want to be putting some serious voltage through any chip without adequate cooling, and to get to 4GHz+ the retail fan just doesn't cut it :)
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You don't want to be pushing serious voltage through socket 1156 processors anyway as the onbroad PCI-E controller might not be able to take it for long.
I think I read something on xtremesystems forums about it.
 
I was merely trying to explain to DarrenM343 that I thought he was in the wrong forum, in a jovial maybe slightly sarcastic sort of fashion :p I know all about the dangers of ocing on the 1156 platform ;)
 
EVGA P55 F.T.W Win!! AnandTech put some top end P55 boards through their paces.

Final Words

We are going to keep this simple. Hold our feet to the fire and we’ll tell you that of all the boards we tested, the most consistent performer was the $230 EVGA P55 F.T.W SLI E657 (using a Tyco AMP Socket).
At its price point, there’s nothing available on the P55 platform that truly beats it for raw overclocking capabilities
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Full Article here
 
DavyBoy said:
That is a lovely looking mobo mate!!
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It is isn't it, just a pity OcUK haven't had it in stock for weeks now :( More people need to buy this board and bask in the glow of the pulsating red E

C64 said:
Do evga boards come with that lifetime warranty like the graphics cards ?
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This board comes with a three year warranty providing you register within 30 days.

C64 said:
How comes you didn't use the tuniq tower then ? it doesn't fit ?
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Granted I could have used the Tuniq Tower, but I wanted a 1156 specific heatsink for it really, rather than have a slightly off centre bracket on my board.
It has to be said though that the scythe has performed brilliantly, even with its push pin fitting.

I guess I'm just a bit of a hardware whore as well, I like to check the new shiny stuff out :D
At the time of purchase the Scythe was one of only a handfull of half decent heatsinks that came with an 1156 bracket.
 
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Just a quick update:

Have recently got 2 x 260 GTXs for a bit of sli action, this has caused a few issues on this board to say the least.
Sli does not appear to work correctly on the A29 bios using win 7 64bit. It will POST and start to boot, but after the windows 7 splash screen it just hangs on a black screen with the cpu doing something as the temperature goes up quite significantly. To start with I thought this was a driver issue but after spending hours on this problem I have finally found the solution.

So I updated to the A39 bios and sli was then working fine, however this bios seemed to effect my usb wireless N card in that it would not connect to my wireless network no matter what I tried. I could get the driver to install properly but it just wouldn't function correctly. Had a quick look on the EVGA forum and somebody else has had EXACTLY the same problem. The same issue occurs on the A35 bios too!

The fix? well I've had to flash my bios to the original A19 bios which the board came with. I'm hoping EVGA come up with some sort of solution soon, as it seems a lot of people are having some very strange USB related problems with the current bios.

So if you're planning on running 2 cards with this board with I'd probably suggest not to go with the A29 bios, however A29 was rock solid with a single card. Any of the bioss since A29 seem to introduce various USB issues which hopefully EVGA are working on right now.

EDIT: Now working fine on the A39 bios after changing my Netgear WN111v2 usb wireless dongle for a Netgear WG111T usb dongle. However I have had to use the modified Raf1uk drivers found here, seems like Netgears driver development team need a good kick up the backside.

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New beta BIOS released

A48 Updates:

Improved USB compatibility.

Download here

Hopefully this will cure some small annoyances concerning some USB devices for a few people including myself :)
 
Hi
I'm getting one of these boards with an i5 750 but not sure what ram to get any ideas.
Also 4gb or 8gb.
With the i5 750 do you have to look out for special ones .

Thanx
 
aceuk007 said:
Hi
I'm getting one of these boards with an i5 750 but not sure what ram to get any ideas.
Also 4gb or 8gb.
With the i5 750 do you have to look out for special ones .

Thanx
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Well the G-Skill Ripjaws work well for me, although they obviously interfere a little with my heatsink. The Geil 2133MHz stuf would probably be better as they don't have the big heatsinks on and they're cheap too.

You can't go wrong with Corsair and OCZ either, just make sure you get the 1.65 volt stuff.


New BIOS out

A51 Updates:

Improves USB Compatibility

New CPU Support

Improves Memory Compatibility

ClockGen Switch Mode Disable Option to not power up twice.


Linky
 
I have the same setup, EVGA P55 ***, i5 750 and 2 x 260 GTX SLI.
I am running the latest EVGA bios A51, 12/29/2009.
I though that you weren't supposed to go over 1.21v CPU VTT?
I am running at 3.8 GHz.
VCore = 1.27 (without vdroop)
PCH Voltage = 1.10
CPU PLL = 1.85
CPU VTT = 1.15 (1.21v max recommended by Intel)
DRAM = 1.52v

I have Corsair XMS3 1600 MHz RAM, however it is running at 570 MHz (2:6) ratio with the following timings 8-9-9-22 1T

3D Mark 06 = 23214
3D Mark Vantage = P23533

I would like to get to 4.0 GHz, however I am struggling to do so without going over recommended settings.
 
I have just changed my memory settings to:

761 MHz
2:8
9-9-9-24
1t
@ 1.55v

3.8 GHz does seem to be the sweetspot. (42.8% overclock)

I would like to thank the staff at OCUK for my new mobo :D RAM and i5 chip.

3D Mark benchmarks to follow.
 
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