With the P55 Classified 200 EVGA presents its flagship out of their P55 chipset series. With a lot of features it especially awaits PC-enthusiasts as well as overclockers who are looking for an exceptionally good motherboard for overclocking. 
After EVGA has shown an absolute masterpiece for overclocking based on the X58 chipset the manufacturer tries the same again using the P55 chipset. If they succeeded that's what we're going to show you on the following pages.
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Spezifikationen / Lieferumfang
| CPU | Intel Core i5 / i7 |
| Chipset | Nortbridge: Intel P55 Express |
| Memory | Dual Channel DDR3, 4 x DIMM, Max. 16 GB DDR3, 2600+/2200/1600/1333/1066/ Non-ECC,Un-buffered |
| Multi-GPU | ATI CrossFireX NVIDIA SLI |
| Slots | 6 x PCI-Express x16 (1x 16X or 5x 8X ) 1 x PCI-Express x1 |
| Sound | 8 Channel HD Audio |
| Storage | 10 x SATA 3 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, JBOD) |
| LAN | 2 x Gigabit LAN |
| Firewire | 1 x 1394a ports (1 via Backpanel, 0 via Mainboard Header) |
| USB | 13 x USB 2.0/1.1 Connectors (6 via Backpanel, 7 via Mainboard Header) |
| Fan connectors | 7 Connectors |
| Forfactor | ATX (30.5cm x 24.4cm) |
| BIOS | Bios (3 x 16 Mbit flash) |
- 1 x ATX I/O bezel
- 6 x SATA cable
- 1 x EVGA Control Panel
- 1 x Driver CD, 1 x User's Manual
- 3 x SLI/Crossfire Bridge
If we look at the delivery this motherboard the one which came with the most accessories added out of all the socket 1156 products we tested. This is the case even when we look at the board from an extreme-overclockers perspective.
Software
| EVGA E-Leet | Allows you to overclock on the fly with Windows running. |
| EVGA SPD Utility | Allows you to read all the voltages, temperatures as well as fan rotation speeds within windows. |
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Layout
EVGA provided the P55 Classified 200 with a black PCB. The memory slots as well as the expansion slots were painted red and the whole board itself just looks astonishingly good. In fact we think this motherboard belongs to the best looking pieces of hardware ever made. As you might have expected also the layout is almost perfect. Only the X-Cool jumper and the Start-, Reset- and CMOS buttons could have been positioned a bit better. The first one is very close to the heatpipe and the last ones are being covered if you run a multi-GPU setup.
EVGA equipped the P55 Classified 200 with a digital ten plus two phase power design. Because of this they didn't need to put big capacitors on the board and that's why there is a lot of space around the CPU socket. As a result of that installing a huge CPU cooler isn't problematic at all.
Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the EVGA P55 Classified 200. Officially supported are DDR3-2600+/2000/1800/1600/1333/1066 with up to 16 GByte capacity.
Southbridge as well as current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe cooling solution. Furthermore it also looks exceptionally good and it has been manufactured perfectly.
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Anschlüsse und I/O
Totally EVGA provided the P55 Classified 200 with six SATA ports of which all have been angled. You find them all located below the memory slots. If you set up a multi-GPU setup using the last slot it is still possible to use the connectors at the bottom edge of the board. Almost standard with motherboards these days are the Start, Reset, CLR-CMOS and MemOK! buttons which can be very useful, especially if you do overclocking. At this piont EVGA decided to even go a step further. The added a control panel using which you can give up to 0.2 Volt more on the CPU and 0.1 Volt more on the VTT-CPU. Furthermore there also is a BCD display that shows the status while the system is booting.
Totally you'll find seven fan header on the P55 Classified 200 which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped midrange or high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located around the CPU socket as well as at the bottom edge of the mainboard. A bit special with EVGA are the black fan headers. Another highlight is the X-Cool Jumper which is of use for extreme overclocking. What it actually does is moving the the cold bug or cold boot further down or best case there will be no more cold bug anymore.
Looking at the external connectors EVGA provided the P55 Classified 200 with one a PS2 mouse and keyboard connector, six USB 2.0/1.1 ports, a firewire port, an eSATA connector, two gigabit ethernet port as well as an analog audio panel.
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BIOS
Following you find BIOS-screens regarding basic configuration options as well as overclocking. Nearly standard these days is the possibility to save and load BIOS-Profiles.
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Testbedingungen
Hardware |
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| Motherboard |
- EVGA P55 Classified 200 - Gigabyte H57M-USB3 - Gigabyte H55-UD3H - Gigabyte P55A-UD7 - Asus Sabertooth 55i - Gigabyte P55 UD6 - Asus Maximus III Formula - Asus P7P55D-E Premium - Intel DP55KG - Gigabyte P55 UD5 - Asus Maximus III GENE - MSI P55-GD80 - Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 |
| Processor | Intel Core i7 870 |
| Memory | 2 GB Kingston PC3 16'000 9-9-9-27 |
| Graphic card | XFX GTX 280 |
| Hard disk | Samsung Spinpoint F1 320 GByte |
| Power supply | bequiet! Dark Power Pro 1000Watt |
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Futuremark
3DMark06
3DMark 06 is getting older these days. Therefore if you are using really powerful graphic cards you will hit CPU limitation which means that the graphic card isn't the bottleneck in the system. This is also the reason why in recent high-end desktop systems 3DMark 06 scales nicely with the CPU and the graphic card has much less influence on the scores.
Total
| 3DMark 06 Total | Percent | |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 17'823 | 102.43 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 17'802 | 102.32 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 17'802 | 102.32 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 17'759 | 102.06 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 17'757 | 102.06 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 17'719 | 101.84 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 17'699 | 101.72 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 17'680 | 101.62 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 17'676 | 101.59 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 17'670 | 101.55 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 17'625 | 101.30 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 17'399 | 100.00 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 17'208 | 98.90 % |
| more is better | ||
CPU
| 3DMark 06 CPU | Percent | |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 5'054 | 102.82 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 5'050 | 102.75 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 5'040 | 102.54 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 5'027 | 102.28 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 5'011 | 101.95 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 5'006 | 101.85 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 5'001 | 101.75 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 4'999 | 101.71 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 4'998 | 101.69 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 4'992 | 101.57 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 4'977 | 101.26 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 4'924 | 100.18 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 4'915 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is able to squeeze nearly everything out of a recent system. Therefore the feature liste is also pretty long: DirectX10, FP16-HDR, motion blur, parallax occlusion mapping, GPU-physics simulation and different shader effects are being used to even make recent high-end systems struggle.
Total
| 3DMark Vantage Total | Percent | |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 14'286 | 101.25 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 14'255 | 101.03 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 14'222 | 100.80 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 14'215 | 100.75 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 14'214 | 100.74 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 14'210 | 100.72 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 14'209 | 100.71 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 14'198 | 100.63 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 14'198 | 100.63 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 14'184 | 100.53 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 14'182 | 100.51 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 14'142 | 100.23 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 14'109 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
CPU
| 3DMark Vantage CPU | Percent | |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 45'039 | 105.80 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 44'950 | 105.59 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 44'749 | 105.12 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 44'574 | 104.71 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 44'512 | 104.56 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 44'389 | 104.19 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 44'327 | 104.13 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 43'938 | 103.21 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 43'727 | 102.72 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 43'479 | 102.13 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 43'272 | 101.65 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 43'227 | 101.54 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 42'570 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 1
SiSoft Sandra is a theoretical multi purpose benchmark suite which is able to show differences in CPU architectures. We split the tests with SiSoft Sandra into two parts. Therefore on this page you'll find Arithmetic-, Multimedia- and Cryptography-benchmarks.
Arithmetik
| SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetik - Drystone | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 77.07 GIPS | 104.18 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 75.38 GIPS | 101.89 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 75.37 GIPS | 101.88 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 75.37 GIPS | 101.88 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 75.34 GIPS | 101.84 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 75.08 GIPS | 101.49 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 74.91 GIPS | 101.26 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 74.84 GIPS | 101.16 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 74.32 GIPS | 100.46 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 73.98 GIPS | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 73.68 GIPS | 99.59 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 73.50 GIPS | 99.35 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 73.42 GIPS | 99.24 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetik - Whetstone | Percent | |
| Intel DP55KG | 66.46 GFLOPS | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 64.74 GFLOPS | 97.41 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 64.36 GFLOPS | 96.84 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 62.99 GFLOPS | 94.77 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 62.98 GFLOPS | 94.76 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 62.97 GFLOPS | 94.74 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 62.82 GFLOPS | 94.52 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 62.79 GFLOPS | 94.48 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 62.75 GFLOPS | 94.42 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 62.76 GFLOPS | 94.43 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 62.63 GFLOPS | 93.98 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 62.49 GFLOPS | 94.03 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 61.23 GFLOPS | 92.13 % |
| more is better | ||
Multimedia
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - Integer | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 134.31 MPixels/sec | 100.29 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 133.92 MPixels/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 132.13 MPixels/sec | 98.66 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 131.65 MPixels/sec | 98.30 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 131.56 MPixels/sec | 98.24 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 131.52 MPixels/sec | 98.20 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 131.49 MPixels/sec | 98.18 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 131.33 MPixels/sec | 98.07 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 130.96 MPixels/sec | 97.79 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 130.95 MPixels/sec | 97.78 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 130.89 MPixels/sec | 97.74 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 130.59 MPixels/sec | 97.51 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 130.56 MPixels/sec | 97.49 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - Fliesskomma | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 108.12 MPixels/sec | 102.34 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 105.64 MPixels/sec | 100.00 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 105.64 MPixels/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 105.53 MPixels/sec | 99.89 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 105.52 MPixels/sec | 99.89 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 105.51 MPixels/sec | 99.88 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 105.51 MPixels/sec | 99.87 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 105.48 MPixels/sec | 99.85 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 105.47 MPixels/sec | 99.84 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 105.33 MPixels/sec | 99.71 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 105.22 MPixels/sec | 99.60 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 105.14 MPixels/sec | 99.53 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 105.11 MPixels/sec | 99.50 % |
| more is better | ||
Crytography
| SiSoft Sandra - Kryptographie - AES 256 | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 377 MB/sec | 101.61 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 371 MB/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 370 MB/sec | 99.73 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 369 MB/sec | 99.46 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 369 MB/sec | 99.46 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 369 MB/sec | 99.46 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 368 MB/sec | 99.19 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 368 MB/sec | 99.19 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 368 MB/sec | 99.19 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 368 MB/sec | 99.19 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 367 MB/sec | 98.92 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 367 MB/sec | 98.92 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 366 MB/sec | 98.65 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Kryptographie - SHA 256 | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 497 MB/sec | 101.01 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 492 MB/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 487 MB/sec | 98.98 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 487 MB/sec | 98.98 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 487 MB/sec | 98.98 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 486 MB/sec | 98.78 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 485 MB/sec | 98.58 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 485 MB/sec | 98.58 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 485 MB/sec | 98.58 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 485 MB/sec | 98.58 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 484 MB/sec | 98.37 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 484 MB/sec | 98.37 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 482 MB/sec | 97.97 % |
| more is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 2
At this point we deliver the values regarding Memory Bandwidth, Memory Latency as well as Memory and Cache Access.
Memory bandwidth
| SiSoft Sandra - Speicherbandbreite - Integer | Percent | |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 15.98 GB/sec | 107.61 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 15.96 GB/sec | 107.47 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 15.91GB/sec | 107.14 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 15.77 GB/sec | 106.20 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 15.70 GB/sec | 105.72 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 15.69 GB/sec | 105.66 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 15.68 GB/sec | 105.59 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 15.52 GB/sec | 104.51 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 15.18 GB/sec | 102.22 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 14.99 GB/sec | 100.94 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 14.90 GB/sec | 100.33 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 14.88 GB/sec | 100.20 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 14.85 GB/sec | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Speicherbandbreite - Fliesskomma | Percent | |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 15.99 GB/sec | 108.70 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 15.96 GB/sec | 108.50 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 15.83 GB/sec | 107.61 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 15.83 GB/sec | 107.61 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 15.75 GB/sec | 107.07 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 15.66 GB/sec | 106.46 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 15.57 GB/sec | 105.85 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 15.50 GB/sec | 105.37 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 15.22 GB/sec | 103.46 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 14.81 GB/sec | 100.67 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 14.72 GB/sec | 100.06 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 14.71 GB/sec | 100.00 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 14.68 GB/sec | 99.79 % |
| more is better | ||
Memory latency
| SiSoft Sandra - Speicherlatenz | Percent | |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 68 ns | 87.18 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 68 ns | 87.18 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 68 ns | 87.18 % |
| GigabyteP55 UD5 | 73 ns | 93.58 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 74 ns | 94.87 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 74 ns | 94.87 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 74 ns | 94.87 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 75 ns | 96.15 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 76 ns | 97.44 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 76 ns | 97.43 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 77 ns | 98.72 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 78 ns | 100.00 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 80 ns | 102.56 % |
| less is better | ||
Memory and cache access
| SiSoft Sandra - Speicher und Cache Zugriff | Percent | |
| Intel DP55KG | 57.21 GB/sec | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 56.42 GB/sec | 98.62 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 56.17 GB/sec | 98.18 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 56.17 GB/sec | 98.18 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 56.06 GB/sec | 97.99 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 56.04 GB/sec | 97.95 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 55.96 GB/sec | 97.81 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 55.80 GB/sec | 97.54 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 55.79 GB/sec | 97.52 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 55.29 GB/sec | 96.64 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 54.30 GB/sec | 94.91 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 52.55 GB/sec | 91.85 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 52.51 GB/sec | 91.78 % |
| more is better | ||
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Super Pi 1M / 32M, wPrime
Meanwhile Super Pi even in its latest version has become pretty old. Never the less it is able to show scaling to the clock speed nicely.
Super Pi 1M
| Super Pi 1.5 XS - 1M | Percent | |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 14.134 sec | 99.34 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 14.165 sec | 99.56 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 14.196 sec | 99.78 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 14.196 sec | 99.78 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 14.23 sec | 100.05 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 14.23 sec | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 14.227 sec | 100.00 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 14.227 sec | 100.00 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 14 243 sec | 100.11 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 14.243 sec | 100.11 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 14.336 sec | 100.77 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 14.35 sec | 100.88 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 14.352 sec | 100.87 % |
| less is better | ||
wPrime 32M
wPrime is based on a multithreaded algorithm to calculate the square root to up to 32 billion digits. Therefore it is possible to put 100 percent load on every core or thread and to see differences between architectures.
| wPrime - 32M | Percent | |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 8.23 sec | 97.66 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 8.252 sec | 97.92 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 8.296 sec | 98.45 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 8.299 sec | 98.48 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 8.30 sec | 98.48 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 8.33 sec | 98.85 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 8.33 sec | 98.85 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 8.346 sec | 99.03 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 8.348 sec | 99.06 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 8.409 sec | 99.78 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 8.427 sec | 100.00 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 8.486 sec | 100.70 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 8.628 sec | 102.39 % |
| less is better | ||
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Games
Crysis 800 x 600, low details
Crysis is still one of the games which has very high system requirements. Therefore developer Crytek implemented Direct3D-10-API, High-Dynamic-Range-Rendering, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Soft Shadows, Motion Blur, Depth of Field as well as Soft Particles. We test Crysis by using DirectX9 as well as DirectX10 to show CPU-sacaling especially which low resolutions. If we look at the high resolutions we are able to spot that the CPUs influence compared to the graphic card becomes much less important.
| Crysis DirectX9 (800 x 600 low details) | Percent | |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 105.78 fps | 108.79 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 102.79 fps | 105.72 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 101.79 fps | 104.69 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 101.26 fps | 104.14 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 101.12 fps | 104.00 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 100.84 fps | 103.71 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 100.78 fps | 103.65 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 100.71 fps | 103.58 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 100.37 fps | 103.23 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 100.14 fps | 102.99 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 99.5 fps | 102.33 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 98.67 fps | 101.48 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 97.23 fps | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
Resident Evil 800 x 600, low details
Resident Evil uses nearly every modern rendering technology: HDR, Hemisphere Lighting, Soft Shadows, Soft Particles, Field- und Motion-Blur oder auch Alpha to Coverage and static Ambient Occlusion. Furthermore Resident Evil 5 has been optimized for multicore architectures and already comes DirectX11 ready. By using the DirectX9 as well as the DirectX10 benchmark we can again show you CPU-scaling with low resolutions and the compared to the CPU overproportional influence of the graphics card at high resolutions.
| Resident Evil DirectX9 (800 x 600 low details) | Percent | |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 140.5 fps | 116.88 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 139.7 fps | 116.22 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 138.4 fps | 115.14 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 137.9 fps | 114.72 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 137.8 fps | 114.64 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 137.7 fps | 114.56 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 137.5 fps | 114.39 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 137.2 fps | 114.14 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 135.6 fps | 112.81 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 130.3 fps | 108.40 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 129.3 fps | 107.57 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 122.5 fps | 101.91 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 120.2 fps | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
Street Fighter 4 800 x 600, low details
Street Fighter 4 comes with an extra benchmark version which makes testing you system childrens play. At low resolutions the system requirements are pretty low and we can see CPU-scaling in the results. At high resolution the graphic card becomes more important and the CPUs clock speed has less influence on the fps.
| Street Fighter 4 (800 x 600 low details) | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 | 370.77 fps | 104.61 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE | 363.49 fps | 102.56 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i | 363.13 fps | 102.45 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 | 362.06 fps | 102.15 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 | 360.90 fps | 101.83 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 360.34 fps | 101.66 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 | 359.36 fps | 101.39 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 | 359.10 fps | 101.32 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H | 358.97 fps | 101.28 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 | 358.55 fps | 101.16 % |
| Asus P7P55D-E Premium | 358.40 fps | 101.12 % |
| Intel DP55KG | 354.43 fps | 100.00 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 | 347.34 fps | 98.00 % |
| more is better | ||
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Overclocking
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| CPU-z | Percent | |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 4414 MHz | 150.49 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 Overclocked | 4400 MHz | 150.00 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 Overclocked | 4383 MHz | 149.44 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 Overclocked | 4380 MHz | 148.99 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i Overclocked | 4365 MHz | 148.82 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 Overclocked | 4365 MHz | 148.82 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE Overclocked | 4355 MHz | 148.48 % |
| ASRock P55 Extreme Overclocked | 4286 MHz | 146.00 % |
| Intel DP55KG Overclocked | 4009 MHz | 136.69 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i Standard | 2933 MHz | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 Overclocked | 4296 MHz | 146.47 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 Overclocked | 4365 MHz | 148.82 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H Overclocked | 4356 MHz | 148.52 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 Overclocked | 4356 MHz | 148.52 % |
| more is better | ||
| 3DMark06 | Percent | |
| Asus Maximus III Formula Overclocked | 20'585 Marks | 119.62 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 Overclocked | 20'536 Marks | 119.34 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE Overclocked | 20'511 Marks | 119.19 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 Overclocked | 20'464 Marks | 118.92 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 Overclocked | 20'451 Marks | 118.84 % |
| ASRock P55 Extreme Overclocked | 20'451 Marks | 118.85 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i Overclocked | 20'445 Marks | 118.81 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 Overclocked | 20'384 Marks | 118.46 % |
| Intel DP55KG Overclocked | 20'295 Marks | 117.94 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i Standard | 17'208 Marks | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 Overclocked | 20'580 Marks | 119.60 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H Overclocked | 20'552 Marks | 119.43 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 Overclocked | 20'648 Marks | 119.99 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 Overclocked | 20'580 Marks | 119.60 % |
| more is better | ||
| Super Pi 32M | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 Overclocked | 9 m 09.869 sec | 71.47 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H Overclocked | 9 m 22.961 sec | 71.59 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE Overclocked | 9 m 22.989 sec | 71.59 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 Overclocked | 9 m 23.113 sec | 71.61 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 Overclocked | 9 m 24.439 sec | 71.78 % |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 Overclocked | 9 m 24.675 sec | 71.81 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 Overclocked | 9 m 25.578 sec | 71.92 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 Overclocked | 9 m 26.062 sec | 71.95 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula Overclocked | 9 m 26.545 sec | 72.05 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i Overclocked | 9 m 30.086 sec | 72.50 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 Overclocked | 9 m 35.172 sec | 74.41 % |
| ASRock P55 Extreme Overclocked | 9 m 42.765 sec | 75.74 % |
| Intel DP55KG Overclocked | 10 m 10.319 sec | 79.32 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i Standard | 13 m 06.365 sec | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
| Max. BCLK | Percent | |
| EVGA P55 Classified 200 Overclocked | 244 MHz | 183.46 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula | 230 MHz | 172.93 % |
| Gigabyte P55A-UD7 Overclocked | 225 MHz | 169.17 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD6 Overclocked | 225 MHz | 169.17 % |
| Asus Maximus III GENE Overclocked | 225 MHz | 169.17 % |
| Gigabyte P55 UD5 Overclocked | 225 MHz | 169.17 % |
| MSI P55-GD80 Overclocked | 223 MHz | 167.67 % |
| ASRock P55 Extreme Overclocked | 223 MHz | 167.17 % |
| Gigabyte H57M-USB3 Overclocked | 220 MHz | 165.41 % |
| Asus Sabertooth 55i Overclocked | 220 MHz | 165.41 % |
| Gigabyte H55-UD3H Overclocked | 218 MHz | 163.91 % |
| Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 Overclocked | 215 MHz | 161.65 % |
| Intel DP55KG Overclocked | 181 MHz | 136.09 % |
| Asus Maximus III Formula Standard | 133 MHz | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
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Fazit
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| Out of EVGA's P55 series the Classified 200 represents the flagship model. It comes with a very large delivery and some new features we've never seen before. There are for example the X-Cool jumper and also the EVGA control panel with its unique functionality. Furthermore you can even decide which of the six PCI-e slots you would like to deactivate. And yes of course, these features definitely aim at overclockers or hardcore enthusiasts. | -
Digital power design - Design |
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| Layout | + | - | |
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Overall the layout leaves a well structured and organized impression. Also the colours generate a homogenous pictures of the board and for example the manufacturing quality of the heatpipe is one of the best we've ever seen. Comfortable are the angled SATA connectors which make putting new hardware in a lot easier. Last but not least, uinique is the possibility to shut down single PCI-e slots. |
- Attention to detail - Angled SATA connectors - Power- / Reset- / CLR CMOS-Button onboard |
- Connectors at the bottom edge | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| The EVGA P55 Classified 200's performance is average and not that bad at all. But you definitely have to overclock it to really see what this magnificent piece of hardware is capable of. During an extreme overclocking session using liquid nitrogend to keep the CPU cool we were able to reach a BCLK above 270 MHz which is an absolutely astonishing value. | - Multi threade applications | ||
| Overclocking | + | - | |
| If you plan on doing overclocking the EVGA P55 Classified 200 is definitely the motherboard you should choose regarding socket 1156. No other board runs that stable at ultra high BLCK clock rates. But finding the corresponding BIOS settings is a completely different story. Without professionally you might be lost quite quickly. For overclocking we recommend the board only to experienced users, all the others can try it, but we promise that you'll need nerves made of solid steel. Overclocking the P55 Classified 200 can be compared with driving a race car. | -
BCLK 240+ MHz - EVGA Control Panel |
- complex BIOS | |
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| Generally we recommend the EVGA P55 Classified 200 to PC-enthusiasts and extreme overclockers because there is no other board out the drive such high bus speeds. And because of its superb looks its also worth being put into a modding PC but in this case you'd definitely make an overclocker cry. | -
Gamer - PC-Enthusiasts - Extreme Overclocker |
- Desktop-PC |
The EVGA Classified 200 can be bought at PCP to a price of CHF 498.- (est. EUR 332.-).
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Author: m.salathe@ocaholic.ch Copy edited and translated: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch