Choosing the Best H55/H57 Motherboard - Part 1
by Rajinder Gill on January 31, 2010 11:30 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II
We are big fans of the Warhammer franchise, especially Dawn of War II. One of the latest RTS games in our library is also one of the more demanding titles on both the CPU and GPU. We crank all options to Ultra, enable AA, and then run the built-in performance benchmark for our result.
Far Cry 2
Featuring fantastic visuals courtesy of the Dunia Engine, this game also features one of the most impressive benchmark tools we have seen in a PC game. For single GPU results we set the performance feature set to Very High, graphics to High, and enable DX10 with 2xAA.
A surprising result, it seems the Clarkdale architecture is suited to Far Cry 2. Stock results surpass the i7-920 at 4GHz in this benchmark. We're not quite sure why this is the case, but the results are repeatable in this bench.
Resident Evil 5
For our final game benchmark we decided to add the Resident Evil 5's fixed time demo, running DX10, Ultra settings and 4xAA.
We're on a level playing field in this benchmark; there's a bit of scaling between 3~4GHz after which the Resident Evil engine is GPU bound.
In all three of these benchmarks, it's apparent that speeds higher than 4GHz on Clarkdale don't offer much in the way of frame rate scaling with an NVIDIA GTX 275 GPU. A more powerful GPU or an overclock of the graphics card would be required to see any gains from pushing the platform further.
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Nomale - Thursday, February 18, 2010 - link
Is there any difference with h57 and p55 regarding xeon support? I don't think it's supported officially since it's aimed at the server market, but since it's based on lynnfield there seem to be no problem with p55 at least.Mrkock - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - link
The first time I read this article, I got the impression that the H55/H57 boards don't support a Pci16x Video card.The second time I read this article, I was pretty sure about it.
So is that true, that the H55/H57 can't support additional Video cards (like a Nvidia or ATI graphics card)?
Rajinder Gill - Thursday, February 11, 2010 - link
Hi,H55/H57 will support a single GPU only for Clarkdale processors (so any 8x or 16x PCI/e GPU is fine).
If you want to run dual GPU configurations you have to use a Lynnfield series CPU.
regards
Raja
jtsh0ck3r - Friday, February 5, 2010 - link
Raja,For someone looking to upgrade an old system with an older PS with just the 4-pin 12V ATX connector, should they upgrade the PS as well?
Rajinder Gill - Friday, February 5, 2010 - link
Hi,You should be fine on 4 pin with Clarkdale, unless you plan on very heavy overclocking. Load power draw is under 100 watts in most scenarios when you run these CPU's at stock (around 8~10 amps from the 12V connector).
Hope the helps
Raja