http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/mot...-motherboard/1Although we've spent a lot of time benchmarking and overclocking the Asus P7P55D Evo, we promised Intel that we wouldn't reveal any performance results just yet. However, we can say that the Asus P7P55D Evo and the (non early Engineering Sample) LGA1156 Core i7 CPU perform extremely well and are very easy to overclock well beyond their stock frequencies. Having seen what the LGA1156 platform is capable in terms of performance it's clear that both LGA1366, but more importantly Socket AM3, will have a real fight on their hands later this year.
In terms of overclocking, LGA1156 CPUs behave in the same way as LGA1366 CPUs - to overclock the CPU, you need to increase the QPI/baseclock from its default of 133MHz. Once again we can't got into specifics, but with the aforementioned Cooler Master Hyper 212 cooler and a not unreasonable amount of extra voltage we could stably benchmark our test CPU with at least a 1.2GHz overclock on all cores.
In conclusion, the Asus P7P55D Evo shows a lot of promise, and while Asus was unable to confirm the price, given the positioning of the Evo brand beneath Deluxe, it's likely that the first LGA1156 motherboard will be competitively priced.
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