i3 530 Motherboard, P55 or H55?

lundrog

lundrog

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I am looking for recommendations for a i3 530 motherboard. Not sure if I should do a P55 or H55.

I am looking for somthing that I can overclock, and that I do not need to do a bios update to use with the i3 530, as I do not have any other CPU's that would work in the board.

I am looking for a motherboard with room for a a LARGE CPU cooler, and I need to put in my GTX 285 in the computer.

I have yet to decide if I should put 8 gb of 1600 and do a mild overclock, or put in 4GB of 2000 or 2200 memory and get a larger OC.


If possible, like it to be under $200.

Thanks

And, yes I saw the other post with a question about these two Chipsets, but I didn't see many answers there yet.
 
Currently on the H55 and its lovely.

About all the P55 has over the H55 is Crossfire/SLi support with 2 x 8x PCI-E 2.0 slots.
 
I e-mailede gigabit support and got

"Dear Customer,

I am unable to answer your question. It will depend on the age of inventory from your place of purchase. The i3-530 processor has been validated with BIOS F4. If your motherboard GA-P55A-UD3 has BIOS F4, it will work out of the box. Depending your place of purchase, some retailers offer free upgrading of motherboard BIOSes.

Thank you for choosing Gigabyte products"

so much help...
 
When I bought my Sempron 140, the new asus board I bought didn't have the newest bios it needed, the computer posted and I could then use my usb stick to flash to the latest bios. Then the cpu model was reported properly.

I dunno if it would work with Gigabyte, do they support flashing by usb stick?
 
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