Intel H55 and P55 chipset differences?

fish99 · 13 Aug 2010 at 20:30

Hi,

I'm likely to be upgrading my PC to an I5-760 in the next few weeks and looking for a suitable mobo.

Firstly what I don't need - I don't need SLI or XFire and never will, so I'm looking for something with a single PCI-E 2.0 slot, and I also don't need anything but modest overclocking.

What I really want to know is what the differences between P55 and H55 chipsets are. Asus seem to have a nice budget board sporting each chipset - the P7P55-M and the P7H55-M. Are there likely to be any performance or power consumption differences between these two boards, or indeed any other differences I should be aware of? If not then I'll just go with the cheaper H55 board.

Thanks in advance,
Simon.

RJC · 13 Aug 2010 at 20:50

I not sure on the overclocking features of the H55 but the main difference is the H55 can utilise the on board gpu on some of the cpu's.

franco_22 · 13 Aug 2010 at 21:04

I thought the H55 chipsets support i3 processors and the p55 don't.

reflux · 13 Aug 2010 at 21:07

H55 has a graphics output onboard so you can use the integrated graphics chip some Core i3 and i5 chips have. All socket 1156 Core i3, i5 or i7 CPUs will work in either P55 or H55 motherboards.

fish99 · 13 Aug 2010 at 21:49

Cheers guys I'll just go with the cheaper H55 board (Asus P7H55-M).

RJC · 13 Aug 2010 at 21:52

franco_22 said:
I thought the H55 chipsets support i3 processors and the p55 don't.

You use the all the cpu's on both boards, but obviously you may need to use a external gpu depending cpu used.