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StreetFighter IV Benchmark 800 X 600 => 34.31FPS The clock of Clarkdale GPU from 700Mhz to 933Mhz is to be some help on 3D performance. As for test results from previous two software, 3D performance leaves about 20% to be desired. But if you still need more 3D performance, I recommend that buying VGA to upgrade your system is a better choice. Temperature Test: System standby: - 38/33 OCCT full loading: - 68/62 In the test what I install is OEM cooler, and the above temperature values are low. If you install a higher-level cooler, the result which is less 10℃ ~ 20℃ than the above temperature values may appear. Power Consumption Test: System standby: - 63W OCCT full loading: - 105W Intel Burn Test v2.4，Stress Level High If you don’t install VGA or too many other computer peripherals, the power consumption of 32nm-Clarkdale normally doesn’t exceed 100W. Although overclocking results in a bit more power consumption, the range observed from the test is not high. DDR3 Bandwidth Test: DRAM DDR3 1337.6 CL8 8-8-24 1T Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 11169 MB/s EVEREST Memory Read - 8746 MB/s DDR3 1802.6 CL11 11-11-30 1T Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 14851 MB/s EVEREST Memory Read - 11310 MB/s DRAM DDR3 1602 CL8 8-8-24 1T Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 15509 MB/s EVEREST Memory Read - 12131 MB/s As far as DDR3 bandwidth is concerned, Clarkdale platform doesn’t show better performance than 45nm Core i5/i7. However compared with LAG 775 and AMD’s two platforms, Clarkdale is still better. And about voltage, Clarkdale is better than the previous platforms; DDR3 1800 can run steadily under only 1.60V. After the test of CORSAIR’s introductory DDR3 product, I find it has nice overclocking ability. With the limit no more than 1.308V, CPU still can be overclocked to 4.2GHz with OEM cooler. Hyper 4 X PI 1M=> 16.109s CPUMARK 99=> 647 Intel Core i3-530 CPU has very high C/P, and its performance, temperature, and power consumption are satisfactory. Especially overclocking, the clock raised to about 4GHz need not too high voltage and higher-level cooler. The process technology of 32nm makes Intel CPU products more competitive. I sincerely hope Intel releases quad-core CPU with 32nm soon. Most prices of H55 MB are about NT$3500 ~ 4200 (about US$110 ~ 113). If MB manufacturers can lower prices 10% ~ 20%, I believe H55 MB will be more popular and universal. BIOSTAR products mainly focus on parity and overclocking. This time the price of BIOSTAR H55 is also friendly, deserving much praise. Intel releases the latest structure IGP platform in 2010, and releases a series of many product lines so that consumers have more choices. At present the prices of H57 chipset and high-level i5 CPU are too high, but H55 and introductory Pentium G6950 or Core i3 530 still have very high C/P. After the appearance of Intel Clarkdale platform, one condition has changed in Micro ATX PC market for a few years: in the past if consumers wanted to choose IGP with higher 3D performance, they usually intended to choose AMD platforms. But now in 2010 Intel begins to focus more on this market, and also has excellent competitiveness. Besides some products I use in this test, you can buy HDD and case so as to build a nice small PC machine. Every consumer of course has his or her favourite brand or budget concerned, so building a PC can be adjustable according to marketing sale. Finally I hope this article can be a good reference to this kind of product information. Thank you!

OCCT full loading: - 82W Intel Burn Test v2.4，Stress Level High With 32nm new technology, Intel has an advantageous position in the aspect of power consumption. After overclocking, power consumption is 39W under stand by, and only 82W under full loading. Clarkdale structure’s low power consumption is satisfactory. Overclocking Performance Test: CPU 180.3 X 22 => 3966MHz DDR3 1802.6 CL11 11-11-30 1T VGA 945MHz BIOS Setup Utility: BIOSTAR H55 HD, like other mid-level H55 products, also has many options for user to overclock. However, as an introductory product, the range of voltage is not wide, 3~6 levels at most. But the product still shows great overclocking performance, in any case. CORSAIR DDR3 also has good performance with overclocking, and the setting 1.60V can run 1800 CL11 steadily. Hyper 4 X PI 32M=> 16m 10.000s CPUMARK 99=> 612 Nuclearus Multi Core => 15424 Fritz Chess Benchmark => 15.02/7207 CrystalMark 2004R3 => 169052 CINEBENCH R10 1 CPU=> 5448 x CPU=> 12447 PCMark Vantage => 7307 After CPU and GPU are overclocked, we can observe from previous software that performance improve 30% ~ 50%. Furthermore, with OEM Cooler, 3966Mhz can also be steady under 1.212V; 32nm-CPU also shows excellent overclocking ability. 3DMARK2006 => 2170

Default Performance: CPU 133.8 X 22 => 2942.9MHz DRAM DDR3 1337.6 CL8 8-8-24 1T GPU 733MHz 128mb Hyper 4 X PI 32M=> 20m 12.640s CPUMARK 99=> 452 Nuclearus Multi Core => 10881 Fritz Chess Benchmark => 11.18/5367 CrystalMark 2004R3 => 128706 CINEBENCH R10 1 CPU=> 3982 x CPU=> 9236 PCMark Vantage => 5541 The platform based upon Core i3 530 basically has great performance, so it can easily deal with most software making CPU high loading. It also has excellent performance to deal with HD 1080P films or file converting. 3DMARK2006 => 1751 StreetFighter IV Benchmark 800 X 600 => 27.80FPS 3D performance of Intel Clarkdale structure has been almost the same as that of 785G. Intel Clarkdale can easily deal with many introductory 3D games. 3D requirement of StreetFighter IV is more than mid-level, and the software can run nearly smoothly. As far as built-in GPU standard is concerned, 3D performance is good. To those who prefer small PC machine, they can consider buying Intel’s new structure if needing higher-performance 3D platform. Temperature Test: System standby: - 24/26 OCCT full loading: - 55/52 After all, the default clock of the dual-core CPU is near 3GHz, and the temperature is quite low with OEM thin Cooler. And, the temperature is also acceptable even if CPU is full loading. Power Consumption Test: System standby: -39W

In the past as far as built-in GPU platforms were concerned, Intel usually used “G Series” to name its products. G45 or G41 as Intel’s main chipset were commonly seen in the market in the last generation. At the beginning of 2010, Intel released new “All in one PC” structure, and firstly introduced the new technology that GPU was directly built in the CPU. Moreover, Intel improved its CPU to 32nm process, and also released a series of CPUs that support the platform. At present, there are 6 CPUs in the market: low-level Pentium G6950; mid-level Core i3 530/540; and high-level Core i5 650/660/661/670. As to MB chipset, Intel released H55/H57 to support new CPU design, and the main difference was with and without RAID function. Therefore, this time I am going to build a Micro ATX PC based upon Intel’s new structure. As to CPU: I choose Intel Core i3 530, with 73W and the latest 32nm process. The code name is Clarkdale, with clock 2.93GHz, L2 2 x 256KB and L3 4MB. The price was about USD about 120. The OEM coolers of Clarkdale series are all non-copper bottom design, so I infer that copper bottom is not definitely necessary for dual-core CPU with 32nm. The main difference between Core i3 530 and Pentium G6950 is that the former supports HT technology; higher-level Clarkdale i5 also supports TurboBoost auto-overclocking technology. As to DRAM: I choose American brand CORSAIR TWIN3X4G-1333C9A. Its capacity is 2GB X 2, and the clock 1333 CL9 9-9-24 1.50V. The price is about USD about 75. CORSAIR has unique DDR3 heat sink, and the appearance and quality are also good. As to MB: I use H55 chipset—BIOSTAR H55 HD, with higher C/P. There are no whole solid capacitors, no USB3, and no sumptuous material on this mothboard, but the price of the product is the lowest in H55 market, about USD 57. BIOSTAR has another TH55B HD, with 4 DIMM DDR3 and high C/P, and the price is only USD 90. Recently BIOSTAR seems to like using red as material colour, making products more impressive. If this H55 MB can adopt Japanese electrolytic capacitors, I think this product can be more perfect. As to Power Supply: Judging from Intel’s latest 32nm platform, because of built-in GPU, I observe the power consumption of the whole system is low. Antec’s latest Neo ECO 400W is chosen, so the power supply will be enough to add VGA card higher than mid-level. The price is about USD about 55. The power supply uses Japanese high-performance capacitors and quiet 12-centimetre fan with 2 Ball Bearing; this product is also 80 PLUS certified. Test Platform: CPU: Intel Core i3 530 ES MB: BIOSTAR H55 HD DRAM: CORSAIR TWIN3X4G-1333C9A VGA: Intel Clarkdale 733MHz HD: WD 6400AAKS 640GB POWER: Antec Neo ECO 400W Cooler: Intel OEM Cooler OS: Windows7 Ultimate 64bit

HD Tune Pro 4.01 Benchmark Average 170.1 MB/s Access Time 0.2ms HD Tune Pro 4.01 Random Access 1MB 201.404 MB/s AAM 0.1ms EVEREST Linear Read Ave. 213.3 MB/s and the max is 224.7 MB/s FDEBENCH Read is 214.9 Mb/s and Write is 177.1 MB/s ATTO DISK Benchmark above 128k benchmark can reach max reading 231.9 Mb/s and writing 185.9 MB/s CrystalDiskMark Read is 220.0 Mb/s and Write is 178.6 MB/s NoteBook transfer rate is not as fast as PC, but the difference is not big. Most benchmark can reach read 210~220 MB/s and write 177~178 MB/s Comparing to current 2.5” HDD, 5400/7200rpm transfer rate is around 60~90 MB/s. SSD really improve NoteBook transfer performance. It also makes system shorten the waiting time. For the power, I previous review used Battery Eater Pro V2.70 to test the standby time, SSD would have 15 more minutes. But after that, I just realized this benchmark software is for CPU full speed and 3D. According to my friend, since he changed to SSD, the standby time increase around 30 minutes. I think SSD power saving feature is also attractive for NoteBook users. The potential SSD buyers are most using NoteBook. Even though SSD price is higher, but the higher performance, lower power consumption and anti-shock ability are still very attractive. Many of my friends are considering to move to SSD for their NoteBook. For PC platform, 3.5” capacity is higher and performance is better than 2.5” HDD. PC platform also doesn’t concern the shock issue as it’s not moving often. That’s why SSD is less attractive for PC users. Some enthusiasts still buy SSD to make RAID to enhance their PC performance. CPRSAIR P128 SSD owns very high data transfer rate and uses pure SAMSUNG MLC Chips. Currently, CORSAIR also launches most hi-end Force series SSD. The read/write performance is 295/285 MB/s. Force series must be the fastest MLC SSD product. Of course, the price will be higher than P128. I am still looking forward for lower price SSD. It makes SSD be more affordable. This high performance SSD storage can benefit more users if it becomes more popular in the future. Recently, I bought some headset. SONY MDR-DS7100 headset is one of them. Finally, I still would like to Thanks for referring my article.

System performance HD Tune Pro 4.01 Benchmark Average 199.6 MB/s Access Time 0.1ms EVEREST Linear Read Ave. 235.9 MB/s and max is 247.9 MB/s HD Tune Pro 4.01 AAM 0.1ms ATTO DISK Benchmark above 128k benchmark can reach max reading 233 MB/s and writing 181 MB/s EVEREST Read Test Suite Randon Read 248.1 MB/s CrystalDiskMark Read is 236.7 Mb/s and Write is 180.1 MB/s FDEBENCH Read is 222 Mb/s and Write is 181 MB/s P128 internal is 8 channel design and writing performance is 180 MB/s. The reading performance in most benchmark is around 220 MB/s. P128 read/write benchmark is almost same as official spec. The seek time is only 0.1ms. It’s exclusive high performance by SSD and the seeking speed enhance the data search time. PC with P128 RAID 0 HD Tune Pro 4.01 Benchmark Average 414.7 MB/s Access Time 0.1ms EVEREST Linear Read Ave. 451.9 MB/s and max is 498.5 MB/s HD Tune Pro 4.01 AAM 0.1ms ATTO DISK Benchmark above 128k benchmark can reach max reading 422.2 Mb/s and writing is 384.3 MB/s EVEREST Read Test Suite Randon Read 426.0 MB/s CrystalDiskMark Read is 429.3 Mb/s and Write is 369.0 MB/s FDEBENCH Read is 396.8 Mb/s and Write is 363.1 MB/s Using MB built-in chipset, some condition cannot reach double performance in RAID0 as its theory. For P55 single chipset, its SB performance is quite good. Most benchmark reach x2 performance. P55 compares to X58 IC10R, the RAID transfer performance are almost the same. However, users need to fine tune some P55 BIOS to achieve the high performance. NoteBook I use DELL Latitude E series and the SB is ICH9M

New storage device, I believe most people will think of SSD first. SSD full name is Solid-State Drive. SSD is very popular in the past 2 years. It also breaks the performance barrier for NoteBook. Most SSD key features are light, power saving, higher performance and secure data protection. However, SSD price is much higher and less capacity than traditional HDD. I still remember that before 1H 2009, SSD focused on performance and capacity improvement. But the price was not big change. Mainstream 64GB SSD price was around 200USD. Also, the MLC performance was reading at 200~220 MB/s and writing at 150~180 MB/s. Recently, I saw some non-SAMSUNG SSD controller can enhance MLC performance. USA famous Memory manufacturer, CORSAIR, also announced many SSD products these 2 years. So far you can find 6 models CORSAIR SSD and the capacity are from 32 to 512GB. Also, there are Performance/Force/Reactor/Nova/Extreme/Legacy series for users to choose. This time I got is CMFSSD-128GBG2D. It belongs to Performance series and 128GB. 2 years warranty. CORSAIR P128 SSD packing It’s 2.5 inches. Product ID is P128. 2 years warranty. Official spec is 220/180 MB/s Built-in 128MB DRAM as buffer cache. The key differences between P128 and P64 are capacity and slower writing speed as 64GB spec is 220/120 MB/s. Metal case with hairline brushed finish. It makes look and texture being better. Official data shows the weight is 80g which is lighter than 2.5” HDD. Backside with SAMSUNG warranty sticker SATA connector supports SATAII and compatible with PC and NB. Weight by electronic scale/ CORSAIR CMFSSD-128GBG2D is 73g TOSHIBA 120GB 5400rpm is 112g Most 2.5” HDD are around 100~115g. It means the traditional HDD is heaver than P128 SSD around 51~57%. Someone think it’s just 27~39g lighter. However, for NoteBook users, you still can feel the weight difference. At least, my most using NoteBook are around 1.0~1.4kg. After changing to SSD, I can feel the NoteBook become lighter. PC platform is using GIGABYTE P55A-UD7. Last time, I used X58 and ICH10R to test. This time I change to latest P55 to test the performance. P55A-UD7 supports 3Way-SLI.USB 3.0 and latest SATA3.0 Configuration CPU: Intel Core i7-870 MB: GIGABYTE P55A-UD7 DRAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT CMG6GX3M3A2000C8 VGA: MSI N9600GT Diamond HD: CORSAIR CMFSSD-128GBG2D POWER: be quiet E7 Cable Management 480W Cooler: Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme OS: Windows7 Ultimate 64bit

While OCCT was operating at full speed, 12V was around 11.92~11.93V; 0,20V lower than it was in standby mode. With the application of the multimeter, the voltage fluctuation of 5V at full speed was only 0.02V and 12V was only 0.20V. Both of these two values were much better than those measured by M/B in OCCT operation. Though the fluctuation rate of 12V in OCCT operation was 3.6%, it was actually only 1.60% measured by multimeter, apparently a lot better. Conclusion: Advantages: 1, the color box of Straight Power E7’s latest version is a lot more attractive 2, special case coating and fan guard design 3, 80Plus Bronze certified; equipped with APFC circuit 4, all capacitors are Japanese, and noise level is only 17dBA 5, 5-year warranty, free to exchange for a new one within 540days if malfunction happens, and free NG PSU collection and delivery within 3 years. Disadvantages: 1, the fluctuation range of 12V still leaves room for improvement 2, it would be better if 12V is changed into single rail Efficiency ★★★★★★★★☆☆ Material ★★★★★★★★☆☆ Spec. ★★★★★★★★★☆ Appearance ★★★★★★★★★☆ C/P ★★★★★★★★☆☆ Upon my first glance at Straight Power E7, I could tell it was quite a special product. Its appearance and fan design both greatly differentiate it from other ordinary looking power supplies. Also, in other points you could also see how hard be quiet! has tried to differentiate it from other PSU, such as the external fan connectors that allows more silence for the system, honeycomb ventilation holes on both sides of the case, scratch-proof case, and the rounding of case sharp corners that could prevent users from being hurt, etc. During the system test, E7 CM 680W was very quiet in both standby and full-speed modes; hardly could you hear any noise. The temperature measured from its surface was around 45~50℃. The stability of 3.3V & 5V is relatively higher than that of 12V. Though after voltage fluctuation of 12V was more accurately measured by a multimeter, the fluctuation rate was proved 50% less than that measured by M/B, still there is room for improvement of 12V’s stability. The market price range of be quiet! Straight Power E7 680W is around 5990NTD, roughly equal to 186USD, making it neither an expensive nor an inexpensive PSU on the market. Though the quality is good and the materials used are of high quality, personally, I think if the price could be lowered a bit, it would be even better. At least, a lowered price would allow end users who are interested in this product more possibility to purchase this product. : )

Active PFC - 0.99~1.00 The measurement data outputted by Power Angel is only for reference, since its accuracy level is not that high. Though 3WAY SLI couldn’t be applied to reach an utmost 3D efficiency and hence put the system under a full loading condition during the test, still, I got an utmost consumption value, 727W, from this test, which could also be considered as a middle/high loading test for 680W. OCCT test result CPU temperature fluctuation System temperature fluctuation CPU voltage fluctuation While in standby mode, it was around 1.38V; during full-speed operation, it was around 1.38~1.41V. The fluctuation range of CPU’s voltage is majorly related to the voltage characteristic of M/B. 3.3V The utmost value measured was 3.34V; the fluctuation majorly lied in the range of 3.28~3.3V. The fluctuation rate was around 1.80%. 3.3V 5V It was around 4.95~5.03V. The fluctuation rate was around 1.59%. 12V The utmost value measured was 12.48V, majorly covering the rage of 12.03~12.10V. The fluctuation rate was around 3.6%. The voltage fluctuation rates of Straight Power E7 680W’s 3.3V & 12V were both under 1.8%, which is considered quite a satisfying number. The fluctuation of 12V started to become less stable after OCCT operated over 10 minutes. The rate was around 3.6%, a larger fluctuation rate than any other voltages tested. However, this fluctuation rate still lied inside the range of +-5% required by Intel. Also, the voltage measured for 12V was not actually the real voltage value. Here, we used a multimeter for a more accurate result. While in standby mode, 5Vwas around 5.07V, still a bit higher than that measured by M/B. While OCCT was operating at full-speed, 5V was around 5.07~5.0V, making almost no difference from that measured in standby mode. While in standby mode, 12 was around 12.13V, a bit lower than 12.43V measured by M/B.

Spec of Straight Power E7 CM 680W; Model Name: BQT E7-CM-680W +12V*4, with a combined current of 52A and a combined output wattage of 624W Silient Wings, a FDB fan designed by be quiet!, is also specially integrated into E7 series. The M/B used in this test is GIGABYTE P55A-UD5, a middle-high spec among LGA 1156 sockets. Through my recent experience, I found out when LGA 1156 was under overclocking mode, it would demand quite a high consumption of +12V. UD5 is integrated with USB3.0 and the latest MB technology. Test Platform CPU: Intel Core i7-870 MB: GIGABYTE P55A-UD5 DRAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT CMG4GX3M2A2000C8 VGA: GIGABYTE GTX260 OC SLI HD: CORSAIR CMFSSD-128GBG2D RAID0 POWER: be quiet! Straight Power E7 CM 680W Cooler: Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme OS: Windows7 Ultimate 64bit OS system defaults CPU 200 X 20 => 4000Mhz DARM DDR3 2000 CL8 8-8-24 1T OCCT V3.1.0 POWER SUPPLY mode, Shader Complexity 8 What above is the test platform used in this test. In order to display the status of power consumption during the test, the consumption data would be obtained from the measurement made by “Power Angle”. Upon entering the desktop screen of OS system- 225~226W Active PFC - 0.97~0.98 The test items for the Power Supply in OCCT i7-870 OC 4GHz, a 4-core CPU with simulated full-loading 4-core HT and a physical speeding up from GTX260 - 681~727W。 Running power supply test item in OCCT i7-870 OC 4GHz, quad physical cores and quad HT virtual cores run in full speed plus GTX260 SLI 2WAY and GTX260 PhysX - 681~727W

be quiet! has made 2 revisions out of its own product line for the past 6 months, respectively upgrading Straight Power Series into “Deluxe” version (coded as E6/non CM), and upgrading Straight Power Series recently into CM version (coded as E7). Therefore, you’ll find E6 and E7 versions of Straight Power series on the market. The major difference between these two versions is whether it has CM or not. be quiet! Straight Power E7 CM (Cable Management) has 3 wattages for you to choose from, 480, 580 and 680W. This wattage range covers the wattage commonly required by most of the users. In addition, all of them are 80Plus Bronze certified. The efficiency test result of E7 680W’s 20/50/100% loading listed in 80Plus website is 85.84/86.86/83.05% respectively. The test result looks quite satisfying. 80+ Bronze could be considered as an index of middle-high level power supplies. Here is our start - Straight Power E7 CM 680W There is no jaguar image as be quiet! usually would put on their color box this time. Through the simpler color combination, the color box looks of even more quality. Accessories Multi-language User Manual, CM Cable Kit, Cable Tie, Screws, Power Cord Straight Power E7 680W Dimensions 160mm X 150mm X 86mm The case is coated in titanium gray, making it quite different from black cases commonly seen. The sand texture surface of the case is finger-print proof and the appearance of the heat sink is also a great feature of the product. CM Cables 1 X 12V P8 2 X 6 Pin VGA 2 X 6+2 Pin VGA 8 X HDD 7 X SATA 2 X FDD Connectors from inside of E7 680W 1 X 24/20 Pin 1 X 12V P4 2 X Fan connectors 12cm FDB fan with black symmetric grill-like fan guard is adopted into this series. The fan guard does look like BBQ grill, ……anyway, quite a special design. E7 series is integrated with a FDB fan, developed by be quiet!, which has a MTBF of 300,000 Hrs and a super low noise level down to 17dBA. The rear end of the PSU is equipped with the commonly seen ventilation holes in honeycomb shape. Active PFC, applicable in 110~240Vac CM connection sockets A sticker is pasted stating the name/function of each socket so that end users could avoid mistaken connections. There are also 3 rows of ventilations holes beneath for enhancing overall cooling mechanism.

AMD platform is high C/P value in the market and also for budget concerned users. Also, X2/X3 CPU is cheaper and probably able to enable extra cores and L3 cache to enhance performance. This is another selling point. X4 product is mid end CPU line. It’s also can be considered by higher budget users. If it plus 785G products, most MB brands provide fair price products. For All in one, AMD CPU and MB are the most cost effective one. This article is focus on AMD mid-end products. The products here are not the cheapest one, but the good quality and performance. If you have the same demand, you can refer to this review configuration. If the budget is lower or have favorite brands, you also can pick up your own combination. AMD CPU performance is still 10-20% behind the competitor. However, their price control policy is quite well. Most AMD CPU is for entry and mid-end market. It does attract many users who concern about C/P value. In the future, AMD will launch 890GX. I hope the performance can be even better. AMD 45nm CPU yield rate can be improved to achieve 4G in lower voltage. It will help AMD to gain more market share in 2010. These continuous AMD Athlon II Unlock Core and Phenom II X4 reviews are for AMD fans. Wish all of you can find your perfect match system this year.

CINEBENCH R11.5 OpenGL => 5.08 fps CPU => 4.57 pts CPU(Single Core) => 1.17 pts PCMark Vantage => 6141 DDR3 1600 CL8 8-8-20 1T Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 9177 MB/s EVEREST Memory Read - 13340 MB/s Pulling CPU clock from 2600MHz to 3900MHZ, you can see CPU performance increases 40~50%. CPU C2 version in 1.4~1.45V can reach around 3.75GHz. C3 version makes CPU clock be higher.。 AMD C3 version is not popular in the market now. I do hope it can be more and more popular. I think it’s also can enhance their core competition ability. 3DMARK2006 => 2209 StreetFighter IV Benchmark 800 X 600 => 33.55 FPS Biohazard5 Benchmark 800 X 600 => 14.4 fps Call of Juarez 1024 X 768 => Avg 21.1 Pulling IGP clock from 500MHz to 770MHz, the 3D performance is even higher. StreetFighter IV Benchmark almost reaches 30FPS. Call of Juarez 3D performance is doubled after OC. As my personal experience, 785G IGP at least can achieve 700~750MHz. Power Consumption Standby - 83W OCCT Full Speed - 226W POWER SUPPLY mode，Shader Complexity 8 After OC, the standby consumption is similar. However, it’s 75W difference in full speed. The main reason is CPU and IGP all OC over 50%. It really increases the power. Using be quiet! 350W Power Supply is enough. You even can use high end VGA card with this PSU. Phenom II X4 910e OC to 4GHz is stable. The voltage is 1.504V Hyper 4 X PI 32M=> 18m 55.588s CPUMARK 99=> 549 Previous AMD CPU C2 stepping needs 1.52~1.6V to achieve 4GHz. Also, there are still many C2 cannot reach 4G even with higher voltage. However, I think AMD still can improve their manufacturing to lower voltage to 1.4~1.45V.

PCMark Vantage => 5514 DDR3 1339.2 CL9 9-9-24 1T Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 7915 MB/s EVEREST Memory Read - 12019 MB/s Due to use Phenom II X4 CPU, the multi-core benchmark is good. This AMD platform is capable for graphic design, file transformation, multimedia and multi-tasking. 3DMARK2006 => 1687 StreetFighter IV Benchmark 800 X 600 => 24.37FPS Biohazard5 Benchmark 800 X 600 => 10.4 fps Call of Juarez 1024 X 768 => Avg 11.5 AMD 785G is almost the best performance IGP chipset in the market. For mid to high end 3D Game, it’s still far away for smooth running. But for entry 3D Game or software, 785G is enough. Power Consumption Standby - 69W OCCT Full Speed - 141W POWER SUPPLY mode，Shader Complexity 8 The whole system power consumption is very good, especially for quad core CPU plus 785G. It is good performance and green. I hope AMD can launch more low voltage and power CPU. OC Performance CPU 300 X 13 => 3900MHz DDR3 1600 CL8 8-8-20 1T VGA 770MHz Nuclearus Multi Core => 17145 Fritz Chess Benchmark => 19.64/9426 CrystalMark 2004R3 => 193687 CINEBENCH R10 1 CPU => 4506 x CPU => 16379

Cooler Thermaltake contac 29 price is 990NTD, around 31USD. Three cooper thermal pipes, the trouble is AM3 installation direction is not so good. If you don’t OC over 3.4GHz, the original cooler is acceptable. 3.5 HDD product is only 2 brands in the market now. User can choose that by the capacity and own favorite. HDD is not the key concerned part for building new PC. Also, 785G BIOS OC guide is complete in last review. If you need it, please check it out. Test Configuration CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 910e MB: GIGABYTE GA-785GMT-USB3 DRAM: CORSAIR XMS3 TR3X6G1600C8 VGA: ATI Radeon HD 4200 HD: WD 6400AAKS 640GB POWER: be quiet! power4 350W Cooler: Thermaltake contac 29 OS: Windows7 Ultimate 64bit AMD exclusive software-OverDrive Utility. You can see all system information. Diagram shows user configuration. System Information shows voltage, temperature, fan speed and chipset clock. Default System Performance CPU 200.9 X 13 => 2611.6MHz DDR3 1339.2 CL9 9-9-24 1T VGA 500MHz Nuclearus Multi Core => 10989 Fritz Chess Benchmark => 13.40/6431 CrystalMark 2004R3 => 140677 CINEBENCH R10 1 CPU => 3062 x CPU => 11265 CINEBENCH R11.5 OpenGL => 3.51 fps CPU => 3.13 pts CPU(Single Core) => 0.79 pts

Since AMD 45nm CPU was more popular in 2009, AMD is more aggressive in CPU, Chipset and VGA products this year. You can see AMD launched more new product lines to ramp up their market share. In VGA, ATI has been in market for long time and good market share. For CPU, it cannot implement 45nm for long time. It caused CPU power consumption, temperature and clock is in bad performance. These factors make AMD CPU was failed in 2008. Finally, they only could drop price to maintain the CPU market share. However, AMD 45nm production technology was more stable in 2009, they started to launch more CPU SKUs. Phenom II X4/Athlon II product lines are defined by 2~4 CPU cores, L3cache and frequency. Besides, there is some official way that users have chance to enable extra cores and L3 cache of low end AMD CPU. It makes AMD X3/X4CPU price be lower. It’s a good news for CPU market. Previous review, I shared "AMD 3x 785G models Unlock Cores and OC Guide " to show the higher C/P value. If users can get the capable one, it’s really super value. However, it’s not 100% guaranteed. As the users who don’t rely on luck, I suggest you can pick AMD Phenom II X4 CPU is better. AMD launched several CPUs to compete with Intel Core i3/Core i5 recently. This review is about new Phenom II X4, quad core CPU, structure to assembly a performance and style mid-end AMD PC. CPU AMD Phenom II X4 910e, power consumption 65W which is lower than the other Phenom II X4 95W. Core name is Deneb. The voltage range is 0.85-1.25V, clock is 2.60GHz with L2 2MB and L3 6MB The price is around 169USD. The Taiwan market popular one is 905e so far. DRAM I use my most favorite CORSAIR XMS3 DDR3. The clock is 1600 CL8 8-8-24 1.65V. In USA internet shop, you can see CMX4GX3M2A1600C7, 2GBX2 1600 CL7, price is only 125USD. CL7 version is more suitable for AMD platform and the price is cheaper. Due to AMD DDR3 high clock is not so well, I recommend users can just purchase 1333 or 1600. This review is using ORSAIR DDR3 2GBX3 three-channel version to test 2GBX2. As budget concerned users, you can choose lower clock or higher CL one. MB I use the most popular All in one 785G chipset. GIGABYTE GA-785GMT-USB3 is with the latest USB3. The price is around 3100NTD, 97USD. The pity is 785GMT-USB3 has no SidePort Memory. If you need better 3D performance, SidePort Memory does help 785G product. Power Supply For this AMD platform, all in one MB power consumption is not high. I pick be quiet! power4 350W. It’s capable to supply this platform. The price is 1690NTD, around 53USD. It passed 80Plus certificate. 100% Japanese made solid capacitors and 5 years warranty. The spec is quite good. Chassis Normally, I don’t use chassis to write this kind of review. However, my friend’s experience show me that the good chassis is also key factor of building a PC. This time, I choose Antec Performance One Mini P18, a high end Micro-ATX chassis. The price dropped to 3900NTD recently, around 122USD. This chassis is also a good option for high end users. Suddenly the pic turns to outdoor scene. I am not used to it yet, but everything needs the first time. For 2010 articles, windwithme will show the review in varied way. The back is 12cm fan, above is 20cm fan and both with rpm control and in 3 steps. In front is 2x USB 2.0, 1x eSATA and audio output/input. Although the size is similar with normal ATX Chassis, 43.5 cm(H) x 21.2 cm(W) x 43.6 cm (D). However the quality and extendibility is very good. 5x 3.5/3x 5.25 and it’s able to install the VGA long cards.

Default settings, CPU voltage is reduced to 1.0875V CPUZ at 3184.8MHz, single core used Idle mode - 50W CPUZ at 2786.7MHz, 4 cores used Full loading mode-115W CPU voltage establishes in 1.0875V, there is no much difference on power consumption under idle mode that is because; AUTO CPU Vcore is the dynamic control from 0.9V to 1.25 which depends on CPU utilization, and at idle mode, it’s real working Vcore will be lower than 1.0875V. But we can find out that 1.25V and 1.0875V power consumption are 19W difference at full speed. Over clocking status CPUZ at 3230.2MHz, single core used Idle mode - 80W CPUZ at 3230.2MHz, 4 cores used Full loading mode-142W This power consumption is higher after OC obviously, especially in full-speed operation; power consumption will reach peaking value. I have tried OC up to about 3.3.~ 4GHz too, the power consumption reaches 170~185W, though PSU of the150W is still strong enough to support, but because temperature has already reached more than 90C degrees. Hence, I do not recommend making an extreme OC on ITX platform if there is not built with a high-end cooler. DFI LANPARTY MI P55-T36 Advantage: 1. Packaging and color theme of box are looking good 2. Seldom OC BIOS for ITX platform which provided a range voltage and CPU base clock and setting items are plentiful. 3. Though BIOS is range limited on BCLK, but its OC ability is quite good enough for the ITX platform. 4. Digit PWM designed for CPU power source. 5. Base on the Intel P55 Chipset which increased performance a lot of ITX platform Shortcoming 1. Less market agents of DFI, users are not easy to buy the products of DFI 2. Less ITX Case/PSU that can be matched with ITX boards now. Performance ★★★★★★★★★★ Materials ★★★★★★★★★☆ Specification ★★★★★★★★★☆ Appearance ★★★★★★★★☆☆ Cost / Performance ★★★★★★★★★☆ I have contrasted the ITX platform products on the market at the same time too. Most of ITX boards are base on Intel Atom series or required Notebook CPU/DRAM additionally. Except, performance is not enough as we expected, moreover users need to spend more money to build their own ITX platform. Products price is we take notice of most that is what I believed. DFI LANPARTY MI P55-T36 market price about 141 U.S. dollars. The price is almost similar or even cheaper if we compared with other maker’s ITX products which based on 945, 965, AMD or VIA chipset, so C/P is worth getting higher in my review. MI P55 ITX board is one of highest performance and worth choice for user who likes to build a ITX PC to use at car or to be a Media -Center at living room. DFI combines consume design and industrial size again to create new MI product line of LANPARTY series. It is really put into a shake and light in consumer market; let most users have chance to build their own machine smaller than Micro-ATX. And it equips LANPARTY Genie BIOS and OC style, MI P55 gets rid of the traditional impression that ITX can only be used steadily under the default speed. DFI LANPARTY MI P55-T36 market's prices that make people surprised. In the past, even an elementary ITX MB which base on a chip group is very old, it was sold to high price. For newer ITX industrial specification of G45 chip boards are often about 40000 dollars as well. A par price, high-level materials and design of MI P55, really benefit for users who loved small machine a lot and performance required. There is a little bit regrettable that DFI promoted ATX and MINI-ITX two P55 platforms only, lack Micro-ATX one. If DFI can promote the edition of H55 again in the future, I believed DFI can make a plentiful and completed for MI product line, moreover user gains more opportunities to choice smaller size boards.

Over-clocking performance CPU 170 X 19 =>3230.2MHz DRAM DDR3 1700 CL7 7-7-21 1T TurboBoost.C1E function is closed Hyper 4 X PI 32M=> 11m 58.719s CPUMARK 99 =>499 Nuclearus Multi Core =>19902 Fritz Chess Benchmark =>19.81/9510 CrystalMark 2004R3 =>188265 CINEBENCH R10 1 CPU =>4559 x CPU =>16392 PCMark Vantage =>6968 If I put high to 3189MHz from 2654MHz at the CPU speed, CPU efficiency has 10~15% increasing about around. But, CPUMARK just add 1 from 488 become to 499, that is because original design of CPUMARK has required a single core to perform test only, the score of CPUMARK is not big difference. Due to I use Box’s cooler of Intel, I can't over clocking too higher either. Otherwise, if under full-speed operation, it is very possible to gain a CPU temperature more than 90C degrees. DRAM performance test DRAM DDR3 1328.4 CL7 7-7-21 1T Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 15552 MB/s EVEREST Memory Read - 16598 MB/s DRAM DDR3 1700 CL7 7-7-21 1T Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 21325 MB/s EVEREST Memory Read - 16404 MB/s Intel newest Core i5/i7 CPU built in with DDR3 Memory Controller inside; it has a lot of times on memory performance even higher more than other 945 and G45 ITX platform. MI P55 is not needed like most ITX platforms which needs to match DRAM of SO-DIMM either. SO-DIMM has higher price and lower performance if compare to DIMM. Power consumption test Default settings: CPUZ at 3184.8MHz, single core used Idle mode - 50W CPUZ at 2786.7MHz, 4 cores used Full loading mode-134W

If CPU/DRAMCOMP selects open, it cans higher about 1~5 MHz stability in accordance with physique of CPU. DDR3 detail parameters page BIOS items of ITX MB should be less as like as Notebook. Without too much selecting, only a few basic items can be chosen. DFI combines own LANPARTY style, let BIOS selections as edition of DK P55 ATX abundantly. But, due to it is a ITX platform, DFI limit 1.25V maximum for CPU Vcore and 170MHz maximum for BCLK. Such adjustment is for preventing if system was damaged by over-heat or too much power consumption is occurred to against PWM design when over-clocking too much. Test platform CPU: Intel Core i5-750 ES MB: -DFI LANPARTY MI P55-T36 DRAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT CMG6GX3M3A2000C8 VGA: Nvidia Geforce 6200 HD: Seagate 7200.10 320GB POWER: SEED ITX 150W Cooler: Intel Cooler OS: Windows7 Ultimate 64bit OS application software of DFI The top of picture is EZ-Flash and it is for upgrading BIOS use Below is EZ-Tuner, DFI combines many applications to mix together in function. Dynamic PWM page can be detected CPU output / input the voltage, electric current and watt dynamically. It can see every phase current of Mosfet array and working temperature too. EZ-Tuner has other three functions. Clock Generator; Adjust CPU BCLK and PCIE working speed easily. Smart Guardian; It is the monitoring tool which DFI use for a long time Profile Setting; it has three kinds of settlement value to offer users use. Default efficiency CPU 132.7 X 20 =>2654MHz DRAM DDR3 1329.4 CL7 7-7-21 1T If “TurboBoost technology” is opened, the multiplier will be changed by CPU utilization, For example, if rate of utilization is 1~2 CPU cores, maximum is BCLK X 24 times =>3184.8MHz if rate of utilization is 3~4 CPU cores, maximum is BCLK X 21 times=>2786.7MHz Hyper 4 X PI 32M=> 14m 07.766s CPUMARK 99 =>488 Nuclearus Multi Core =>17398 Fritz Chess Benchmark =>17.05/8184 CrystalMark 2004R3 =>158257 CINEBENCH R10 1 CPU =>4380 x CPU =>14049 PCMark Vantage =>6096 The default performance of MI ITX is outstanding and other ITX platform can not approach it in now. Especially, Core i5-750 has 4 Cores and pushes the performance of ITX to new field. I have tested DTX platform before, it needs to use CPU and DRAM of Notebook. In general, if you like to build on a ITX/DTX platform which equipped a 4 Cores CPU, you must spend a lot of money and more than 5 times of MI P55.

Realtek ALC885 Audio chip supports 7.1 channels and High Definition Audio technology. The software engineering that has contained Creative X-Fi technology. User has more difficult to choose, should be some of matching of case. Most of ITX case have equipped with a PSU, user should not need to look for PSU again in addition. But, due to this is the platform of P55, it will be more steady to choose PSU above 150~200W to match with. The one that I used is SEED ITX Case product, the market price is about around 1400 of Taiwan dollars; comparatively belong to the choice of the par. The model name of SEED product is SQUARE Above is a 3.5 inch DVD-ROM and below for Power button, earphone hole, Mic and 2 x USB 2.0 port. Inside the ITX Case, there is a systematic fan which encloses a 8 X 8cm that is increased scattered heat for system. Appearance of finishing installing the whole platform I have not put PC for a long time either ...I did out case test that used to. Regarding the design for VGA card area, length that can be installed an entry level, and high is quite enough for all kind of display cards use. Seems I am not installing IO shelf board in the photo. Yes, there is no fault! I finished the DVD RW mounting and just find that I omit installing here ...Please give a strong imagination by oneself.  BIOS picture Main adjusted page of Over-Clocking and timing items. CPU feature items Voltage page DFI own “O.C. Shut Down Free” technology, it needn't cut out AC power to start the machine again when setup a reasonable range for OC. CPU Voltage 1.0000~1.2500V “Power Saving” at “Standard” that is turn off “CPU Vdroop”, if at”Advance” that it will match Intel requirement to low down Vcore generally. Super VID at “ON” whether EIST/C1E can lock Vcore when starting, it will keep voltage level which selected in BIOS. CPU VTT Voltage +0.05~+0.697V DRAM Voltage 1.20~2.60V

Over these several years, seem in my impression that seldom having products of ITX specification appeared on the general consumer market. The only more sources of ITX product information are probably all from the industrial market or other special use. But this kind of market situation with ATX/Micro-ATX, has begun to have many changes in the past two years More and more users begin to be interested in the small-scale computer, and can be found out a clue too; more and more Micro-ATX products existed in the current market. A lot of users hope the volume of computer can be smaller and smaller to avoid waste on a limited space; in addition, people are aware of environmental protection and saving energy in recent years. We can see more ITX platforms or boards in market recently, but they are base on low chip group product comparatively. As like Atom or ION, etc., they are selling in the majority by CPU +MB integrated or whole platform of ITX size. If the user hopes to have a high expanding or a high-end ITX board, to match CPU with high capacity and efficiency, it is very difficult to go to look for. DFI is a brand taking industrial products, but it often sees the listing competition of high-end products on consuming type board at the same time. DFI begin to put out first waves of Micro-ATX P45 products, they broke past Micro-ATX impression with entry level or low-end chip two years ago. They make Micro-ATX become to support to LGA 775 CPU of the latest specification on the general market, this new product route of DFI that is broken through for one of market really. Three major board makers follow up the concept of the small size products to design their own high-end Micro-ATX P45 platform after DFI successively. Hence more Micro-ATX X58/P55 boards and a lot of brands can be chosen on the market. DFI begins to develop and launch more into high capacity and efficiency of smaller size too after guiding out the trend of Micro-ATX high-end boards. IP55 products of MINI-ITX specification, it called DFI LANPARTY MI P55-T36 and belong to LANPARTY series, I believe DFI makes it has outstanding OC ability too. Let’s see the packaging of the products at first; it is using the brief blue color theme. Accessories enclosed inside: User’s manual, Creative X-FI software, CPU cover , MB drive disc , IO shield and cables. Outward of DFI LANPARTY MI P55-T36 Board size has 17 X 17cm only 1 X PCI-E X16 P55 has no GPU integrated, user must install VGA additionally. But beneficial like this, even Intel newest 32 nm Clarkdale CPU was matched H55 for integrating GPU, opposite; sharing usage on memory controller will decrease the performance efficiency. 2 X DIMM DDR3, supports the 1066/1333/1600 (OC), maximum DDR3 capacity can be supported to 8GB I5 750 is used to 133/1333 ratio, if change into CPU of i7 860 or higher, can establish to 133/1600 ratio. 3X Black SATAII, supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5 (P55 chip is offered) Debug code LED build, make user easy Debug systematic state On left of the mother-board Near to LGA 1156 CPU socket area MI P55 uses 4 phase PWM design for CPU Vcore, each1 phase standalone power supply VTT and GPU. Design of Mosfet and IC materials nearly. Installing Intel Core i5-750 and CORSAIR DDR3 2000 2GBX2 IO 5 X USB 2.0 1 X eSATA/USB 2.0 (Pwer eSATA) 1 X S/PDIF fiber/ coaxial output 1 X RJ-45 1 X Clear CMOS button MI P55 solder-side, we can see the words of LANPARTY

5V It’s between 5.05~5.08V, about 0.59% range. 12V It’s between 12.42~12.55V, about 1.04% range. HX750W 3V and 5V voltage vibration range is very low. It’s really impressive. You have to pay attention to that 12V consumption is much higher as OC LGA 1156 to 4GHz. 12V voltage drop is only 1.04%. HX750W is the best in my past experience in using power supply. The whole platform full speed loading is over 700W. HX750W body temperature is still low, around 40 degree C by hand-touch feeling. Also, power supply back temperature is around 55 degree C. It’s acceptable range. 12cm fan speed acoustic is hard to hear. It’s rare performance for such high power consumption as HX750W. The last part is using accurate power meter to measure. Standby 5V measurement is 5.14V. It’s a little higher than MB value, 5.08V. OCCT full speed Voltage range is between 5.14~5.15V. Voltage rise 0.01V comparing to standby. Standby 12V measurement is 12.12V It’s a little lower than MB value, 12.55V. OCCT full speed Voltage range is between 12.12~12.13V. Voltage rise 0.01V comparing to standby As using meter, 5V and 12V are very still during standby and full speed. Even the voltage change is only 0.01V. According to this measurement result, HX750W voltage stabilization is very high level. Especially the 12V vibration range, very few power supplies can be as stay still as HX750W. CORSAIR HX750W Conclusion Good 1.CORSAIR package and accessories are good quality and also provides 7 years warranty. 2.Modulized design and 100% Japanese solid capacitors usage. 3.Passed 80PLUS Silver certificate and transfer efficiency is 90.02% 4. Temperature-controlled fan is very silent in normal usage. Even it’s hard to hear noise in full load condition. 5.Voltage vibration range is very low in high load. Especially the 12V is really impressive. Weak 1.4 X PCI-E 6+2 Pin connectors are too less. 2.Matte paint outlook is easy to be scratched. Performance ★★★★★★★★★★ Components ★★★★★★★★★☆ Specification ★★★★★★★★★☆ Outlook ★★★★★★★★☆☆ C/P Value ★★★★★★★★★☆ Someone think why I don’t use professional equipments to test power supply. Maybe instrument test make readers feel more professional and credibility. However, I think many brands power supply have made many test before selling. If I use the same configuration as users real usage and test it in full load condition, it will be close to reality. I used to suffer that a power supply passed professional instrument test, but has stability issue as installing to computer. There is one more mystical thing. CORSAIR HX750W package shows 80 Plus Silver Certificate. When I check in 80 Plus website, HX750W is Gold certificate and the power transfer efficiency is 90.02%. CORSAIR designed it by Silver level, but some items have achieved Gold level. It caused HX750W got Gold in 80 Plus, but still advertise it as Silver certificate. This way is different as some brands only care about 80 Plus certificate but not product design and components. CORSAIR HX750W owns high quality and high performance. Also, its package and components are good as well. Plus above Silver level power efficiency, even though it’s 750W, but the power consumption is not much higher than low watt PSU during usage. CORSAIR also provides 7 years warranty. You can see the vendor is very high confident with HX750W quality. The CORSAIR HX750W price is around 150 USD. But for middle high power supply, I think CORSAIR HX750W is still a very good C/P value product. It’s in your must buy list if you are looking for same segment PSU.

HX750W product spec +12V only 1 loop and total is 62A. The max is 744W. The test configuration is GIGABYTE P55A-UD6, the very high end spec in LGA 1156 products. In the beginning, I planned to use LGA 1336 with Gulftown CPU to do the power consumption test. However, base on my recent experience, when OC LGA 1156 to full speed, the 12V consumption is extremely high. UD6 has USB 3.0 and SATA3, latest MB spec. Configuration CPU: Intel Core i7-870 MB: GIGABYTE P55A-UD6 DRAM: CORSAIR DOMINATOR-GT CMG4GX3M2A2000C8 VGA: GIGABYTE GTX260 OC SLI HD: Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB POWER: CORSAIR HX750W Cooler: Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme OS: Windows7 Ultimate 64bit OS system set up CPU 200 X 20 => 4000.6Mhz DARM DDR3 2000 CL8 8-8-24 1T OCCT V3.1.0 POWER SUPPLY mode, Shader Complexity 8 Above spec is the configuration for this review. It shows the power consumption status during test. I use Power Angle measure number to the reference. Enter to OS desktop - 230~231W Running power supply test item in OCCT i7-870 OC 4GHz, quad physical cores and quad HT virtual cores run in full speed plus GTX260 SLI 2WAY and GTX260 PhysX - 707~730W Power Angle measure data is only for reference. It only measures the approximate power consumption value. It’s not very accurate. Even I didn’t use 3WAY SLI to reach the max 3D performance by full system load. However, install one more GTX260 for PhysX also can increase some power consumption. It’s also some help for high loading test. OCCT test result CPU voltage variation Standby is around 1.36V and full speed is always stay at 1.38V CPU voltage vibration range is related to MB voltage quality. 3.3V Max is 3.34V and it’s between 3.3~3.31V during test, about 1.20% range.

Past few years, power supply products had big change. Users can see more and more power supply brands in the market and spec is going higher and higher. Few years ago, the manufacturers started to promote APFC and after then the high end power supply uses modulized design. These two years, power saving becomes the power supply new spec. 80 Plus is the most popular one to count power efficiency of power supply. CORSAIR is long history memory brand. His DRAM product has very good reputation in the market. Even though CORSAIR just enters power supply market for few years, its products are good quality and stability. COASAIR divides his power supply into 3 series. HX series is the highest. It’s in modulized design. High quality also means high performance. TX series has non modulized design, bigger watt and fair price. VX series watt is smaller than TX. It’s suitable for users who have budget concern. Last year you could see many CORSAIR power supply discussion and most strings are HX750W. Recently, CORSAIR announced HX850W, but this review is still HX750W. 750W in watt combination and market price will be more acceptable for users. Let’s look at the package first. It’s a bigger paper box. Currently, most power supply provides 3~5 years warranty. HX750W has 7 year warranty. It shows COSAIR’s confidence with their quality system. HX750w also passed 80 Plus Silver certificate. Now the most common spec is Bronze certificate. Accessories High quality cables pack, multi lingual manual, cable ties, screws and power cables. Modulized cables 4 X PCI-E 6+2 Pin 12 X SATA 8 X 4 Pin 2 X Floppy Power supply packed by flannelette bag CMPSU-750HX body Cables extended from power supply 1 X ATX 24/20 Pin 1 X EPS/ATX12V 8/4 Pin Back side deign is common cellular holes. Active PFC in 110~240V Modulized cable connectors If they have some instruction stickers, that will be easier for users to understand clearly. 12 X 12 cm silent fan. The rotation rate is controlled by watt utilization. Noise level, below 525W is 25dBA and 525~750W is 26~34dBA

Full speed - 171W CPUZ shows 4600MHz and 2 physical cores + 2 HT virtual cores utilize status. After installing 9600GT, it increases 30W in standby mode. It’s still very green. When using built-in GPU, 4.5GHz full speed power consumption is 135W and default clock, 3.33GHz full speed power consumption is 83W. You can see the power consumption rise up obviously after OC. Especially for CPU with HT technology, full speed will make temperature and voltage be much higher. GIGABYTE H55M-USB3 Good 1.With GIGABYTE 2oz, USB 3.0 2.One of few H55 products that supports dual PCI-E CrossFire 3.Wide BIOS voltage range, frequency range and rich BIOS features. 4.CPU OC range is good. 200/1600 ratio can rise CPU to 218MHz 5.External SATA chip to make up H55 without RAID 6.H55 overall power consumption is low Weak 1.There are only two 4Pin FAN connectors. 2.During OC DDR3, the compatibility needs to improve 3.As Intel design structure, built-in GPU in i3/i5 CPU, the DDR3 performance is not outstanding. Performance ★★★★★★★★☆☆ Components ★★★★★★★★★☆ Specification ★★★★★★★★★☆ Outlook ★★★★★★★★★☆ C/P Value ★★★★★★★★☆☆ Still remember several surreptitious prerelease H55 products by 8th Jan? The price are all above 4000NTD, around 125USD. After official launch, many models in the market and the price drops to 3300~4300NTD, around 103~135USD. For CPU price, most acceptable SKU are Pentium G6950 and i3-530. Through the market price adjustment, users can accept this price range. Not just see higher CPU and H55 MB price. It will make many users who look for Intel Clarkdale platform hang back. GIGABYTE H55M-USB3 market price is around 4100NTD, 128USD. The lower version is GIGABYTE H55M-UD2H and price is 3700NTD, around 115USD. Two H55 boards price gap is not big. The main difference is NEC USB 3.0 chip. You can pick up the suitable one after consideration. The latest Intel All in one platform supports new manufacturing CPU + GPU design, and also make the price be higher. Even though H55 MB price is reasonable now, CPU price still need to be lower to reach mainstream segment. GIGABYTE H55M-USB 3.0 has good spec, OC ability and acceptable price segment. This is my 5th P55+2nd H55 review in LGA1156 platform. I hope it can help the users who would like to purchase H55 board can refer to my review. Thanks:) 