Choosing the Best H55/H57 Motherboard, Part 2
by Rajinder Gill on February 22, 2010 2:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
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.
AutoCAD 2010 x64—Cadalyst 2008
We utilize AutoCAD 2010 x64 and the Cadalyst Labs 5 benchmark.
The Cadalyst benchmark is sensitive towards HDD performance, showing a fair amount of swing between boards. We're not sure on the exact cause of variance between boards of the same chipset, but MSI clearly have an advantage (using the H55 chipset). As expected, there is a small boost using ASUS' SATA 6G ports with our OCZ Vertex SSD.
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ltcommanderdata - Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - link
I don't know if you are still monitoring this article's comments, but I was wondering if you have any idea if the latest Gigabyte H57M-USB3 F5 BIOS fixes the AHCI problems you were reporting? I am looking for a mATX motherboard with USB 3.0 and this motherboard with it's PCIe x4 slot that could be useful for a future USB 3.0/6Gps SATA expansion card seems like a good option if it's niggling issues have been worked out.RadMos - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - link
The ECS H55H-V1.0, convince me. It has the best price and everything I need. A PC for my wife, is economic and profitable MB. It is not behind the other more expensive solutions. I just have to choose the correct CPU.hq5 - Friday, April 30, 2010 - link
How to modify the registry after installation to enable AHCI drivers on Gigabyte H57M-USB3 ?thx
taipeidman - Monday, June 14, 2010 - link
Hi Rajinder,Do you know the difference between the two fabrication revisions?
As a solution provider, I'm in direct contact with Gigabyte sales in my region.
They tell me:
"We have an unique power design of USB port to charge iphone/ipad from S1 to S5 mode. Rev. 2.0 one improves the convenience. But I ensure there is no difference of functions.
Please consider this a running change."
however, as a hardware Engineer, I see 1.0 -> 2.0 as a major revision increment, as opposed of 1.0 ->1.1.
If you look at the pictures of the GA-H57-USB3 rev1 and rev2 you can see a different IC (upper left of picture) installed on the boards between the revisions.
rev1 - http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/product-page.a...
- http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/fileupload/product/2/33...
rev2 - http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/product-page.a...
- http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/fileupload/product/2/34...
I'm asking here, if anyone knows...
I don't have the board in hand yet and the sales tells me he will supply a rev1 board.
This is why I'm asking
any thoughts?
if you still have the GA-H57M-USB3 on hand what revision do you have and can you tell me the
chip part number (just under the "Designed in Taiwan" on the upper left of the picture)
Taipeidman...
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willsonjone - Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - link
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