Gigabyte H55N-USB3 : Mini-ITX done the Gigabyte way...
by Rajinder Gill on June 15, 2010 7:49 AM EST- Posted in
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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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Rajinder Gill - Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - link
Hi,Have you tried doing things without XMP? The trouble with XMP profiles is that they assume a certain voltage will work with all processors, unfortunately, this is not the case. I would set the timings and voltage up manually if you can, which should help.
Failing that, pop me a mail at (remove the brackets) rajinder.gill(@)anandtech.com with your BIOS settings and I'll help out where I can.
Regards
Raja
staryoshi - Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - link
Yeah, I've tried it without as well. Turns out it won't let me alter voltage or timings for the memory. I've sent an email to Gigabyte to see if that'll get me anywhere... I'll keep playing with it today and I'll send you an e-mail if I have any questions. I'll e-mail you a picture of the back of the board to show you what I did, too. It's not pretty, but no one can see it :)Rajinder Gill - Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - link
No worries, I've got a good idea of what you did to mount it. It's fine if you only ever intend to use it with socket 1156. Pop me a mail on the memory stuff if need be.Regards
Raja
fr500 - Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - link
Just as a heads up, the Corsair H50 works fine with a pair of washers on each hole.The Thermalright AXP-140 works too but I dunno if it will be enough for a 1156 lynnfield. It would be great if there could be an 1156 ITX roundup here testing:
- ECS H55I
- H55N-USB3
- Zotac H55-A-E
- DH57JG
- DFI MI P55-T36
More than performance which should be pretty close on any of these boards, a test of compatibility with some heatsinks (using discrete GPUs and not) and overclocking limits :p
pectin232 - Monday, September 20, 2010 - link
Can you help with BIOS settings for this board. I truly appreciate. I have the same board with the i7 860 instead of the 865. I got 8GB DDR3 1333 memory from G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL. Any help is truly appreciate. For memory I probably might just put all as auto instead of messing with those TRas settings.Phillip
pectin232 - Thursday, November 18, 2010 - link
and ATI 5770. Memory is 1666ghz ddr3. Anyone knows of what can be done to bump higher... I have water cooled/ I only spend 10 mins to raise the SPD only nothing else... and got 3.2ghz or 3.18 or so... to be more accurate.It is good enough but I though if I can raise higher why not...rrplay - Saturday, January 1, 2011 - link
Thanks for the nice review i should be getting this soon for an upcoming build.Don't ya can go wrong with this one for a mini-atx build.