In a month or so (when sandy bridge causes i5 760 to drop in price I hope) I am building another rig for a friend.
Now, I always thought that there is pretty much no reason to get P55 instead of H55 unless you want sli. The budget is around £550 and I think it is best to get an i5 760 and a nice graphics card for the best gaming performance for the price. I know that an i3 will do a nice job, but I reckon over the next 4 years or so (lifetime I want the rig to be good for) developers will start actually caring about quad cores so I don't want to be putting a dual into a new gaming rig circa 2011.
I notice that p55 boards are about £30 more than h55 boards on average (even though intel sells h55 chips for more than p55...) so it would help the budget if there is no reason to get a p55 instead of a h55. The rig will certainly not be going dual gpu, but I may want to put a little overclock on it.
I did some googling and a lot of people seem to think that the h55 is "for integrated graphics on dual core i3s and i5s", I don't see why it would harm discreet gpu & i5 760 performance - so I come here to the best source for reliable information to settle the argument once and for all. Remember: i5 760, 1 nice gpu (6950 maby), non-ambitious overclock, one sensible HDD and one sensible ODD, normal number of usb devices.
Would p55 make a difference?
Now, I always thought that there is pretty much no reason to get P55 instead of H55 unless you want sli. The budget is around £550 and I think it is best to get an i5 760 and a nice graphics card for the best gaming performance for the price. I know that an i3 will do a nice job, but I reckon over the next 4 years or so (lifetime I want the rig to be good for) developers will start actually caring about quad cores so I don't want to be putting a dual into a new gaming rig circa 2011.
I notice that p55 boards are about £30 more than h55 boards on average (even though intel sells h55 chips for more than p55...) so it would help the budget if there is no reason to get a p55 instead of a h55. The rig will certainly not be going dual gpu, but I may want to put a little overclock on it.
I did some googling and a lot of people seem to think that the h55 is "for integrated graphics on dual core i3s and i5s", I don't see why it would harm discreet gpu & i5 760 performance - so I come here to the best source for reliable information to settle the argument once and for all. Remember: i5 760, 1 nice gpu (6950 maby), non-ambitious overclock, one sensible HDD and one sensible ODD, normal number of usb devices.
Would p55 make a difference?
