Gigabyte H55N-USB3 : Mini-ITX done the Gigabyte way...
by Rajinder Gill on June 15, 2010 7:49 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Intel
- Gigabyte
- Mini ITX
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.
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.
Nothing special to report on the frame rate front, these boards all perform to similar levels at a given clock frequency.
AutoCAD 2010 x64—Cadalyst 2008
We utilize AutoCAD 2010 x64 and the Cadalyst Labs 5 benchmark.
ECS holds an advantage in this benchmark over every other motherboard we've reviewed. We're still not sure on the cause, although we suspect it's related to C-States.
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ReaM - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - link
For Gods SAke do not overclock a mainboard that doesnt have MOSFET cooling. It will die after 20 minutes prime or lynx.Put a fat, bold DO NOT OVERCLOCK into overclock section.
Rajinder Gill - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - link
Heat is NOT the absolute killer of mosfet's on motherboards- it's current. Most mosfets will handle junction temperatures of 150~170 Celsius before they suffer a breakdown. What boards need are properly implemented OCP which on the face of it this board has.Later
Raja
play2learn - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - link
Did anyone find any information about Sound through HDMI ?Rajinder Gill - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - link
Sound through HDMI works fine into my Sony TV. As part of the power consumption test I run 1080P video and I did not get any glitches.just4U - Thursday, June 17, 2010 - link
It's a pricey board.. I was thinking it would be under $70 not over a $100.Faxfane - Friday, June 18, 2010 - link
Under 'Gaming and 3D Performance', section: AutoCAD, there is this part: 'ECS holds and advantage'. 'And' should be 'an', something easily auto-corrected by the brain, but is still unbecoming of such a professional site. Otherwise, this was a very informative and pleasurable article.shady28 - Saturday, June 19, 2010 - link
Lets get real. The main problem with ITX is the confined cases with poor cooling and small power supplies. This review is done without a case on a test bench, a high power high hea GTX 275, and with a 950W full size power supply.
What we really need to do know is what you can practically do with this ITX board. Some poor slob is going to run out and build an ITX box and high end GPU only to find his P/S keeps tripping or worse, something gets damaged and he's out a few hundred bucks.
Rajinder Gill - Sunday, June 20, 2010 - link
The Lian Li case listed in this review (PCQ08B) can hold a full sized ATX PSU and a full length graphics card. The PSU is only going to trip if you decide to buy an under-powered one.Regards
Raja
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staryoshi - Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - link
I am currently using this board with an i7 860 and a Corsair H50. I simply clipped off the bulk of the retention bracket such that only the studs and their surrounding plastic remain. It does not contact any of the vulnerable ICs and I get my precious H50 performance. It fits beautifully in the Sugo 05.I am superbly satisfied overall, but I have run into a problem:
I can't get any changes to memory timings (G.Skill ECO DDR3-1333 7-7-7-21) to stick. It tells me that their has been an overclocking failure and it defaults back to 9-9-9-24. It acknowledges the XMP profile but will not use the timings. Is there some setting I'm overlooking?